04/25 - Maestro Monday!

[Bode "Emo Barry" Miller]

its a joke, because he's a notorious flake and alcoholic, but I guess it can be a soapbox

rude

 

[Roscoe E Goldchain]

This is a slap in the face of @Roscoe E Goldchain

exactly

 

[Bigbore]

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Says 10 min took me 1:45 but im a fast reader

 

[Kerek]

exactly

@Jaded mentioned ice cream sandwiches earlier. Should I buy some?

 

[Jaded]

@Jaded mentioned ice cream sandwiches earlier. Should I buy some?

Yes.

 

[Kerek]

Yes.

Okay.

 

[Peachy]

exactly

i'm sorry, brother

 

[Roscoe E Goldchain]

@Jaded mentioned ice cream sandwiches earlier. Should I buy some?

 

[jan]

The best scientist was the person who figured out that Diet Coke combined with Mentos makes a huge, frothy, explosive mess.

On a similar (?) note, I was just reading today about the Great Molasses Flood in Boston via Slate

2.3 million gallons (a two story wave) of molasses went down the street, picking up buildings and carrying them out to the harbor. (It was waist deep)

 

[Blue]

but sports are really insignificant in American history though. Jesse Owens and the 1980 US Olympic hockey team were both two huge worldwide influences, both with racism and the cold war.

and many colleges would not be what they were today without college athletics (mainly football)

*steps down from soapbox*

The functional word there is "ought"... although I could have added a "treated" at the end of that statement. Sports as a medium has all kinds of positive effects on humanity and are important... but the American prioritization of sports over pretty much everything else is a negative attribute of American society, not a positive one.

 

[loki3404]

Are sports important? Yes.

Should they be more important than the people who are keeping us alive, and growing ears on the back of rats? Probably not.

I think that's an important distinction though. The individual contributions are important, as opposed to just the general category they are in. The scientist who spends his career designing chemicals for use in a lipstick line that never makes it to market does play a role in society, but you can't say his contribute was bigger than Jackie Robinson.

 

[Krikket]

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[Wilma]

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[lobo925]

who's the best mturk athlete? ones who grind and sweat. @lobo925? @C to the J? @PeachyRider? amen to those people #turkfit

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[tricker]

but the American prioritization of sports over pretty much everything else is a negative attribute of American society, not a positive one.

^^^^ is why I stopped watching sports. I watched a lot as a younger kid, before it was what it is now.

I still watch soccer, though. And the Olympics. 'Cuz, for now, they're not that.

Not the same but I think a symptom: my kid stopped organized sports in the 4th grade even though he loved playing them. He hated the attitudes that came with it (from many parents and sometimes other teammates). He said once in the third grade (age 8), "Geeze, you mess up one kick and it's like you set off a nuclear bomb on the field, everyone freaks out and yells at you!"

 

[Peachy]

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not easy being turk fit

 

[Wolfheart]

I think that's an important distinction though. The individual contributions are important, as opposed to just the general category they are in. The scientist who spends his career designing chemicals for use in a lipstick line that never makes it to market does play a role in society, but you can't say his contribute was bigger than Jackie Robinson.

Quite true, and that scientist is just as unimportant as the guy who played sports in highschool/collage and made a minor team after, but was never really known.

I think the point of the commentary is that the fact that our culture puts up sports stars on the level of gods and near everyone knows their name, but the people who have found cures for formally deadly diseases or are the reason we can survive in our day to day are unknown, isn't quite right.

 

[Jaded]

Quite true, and that scientist is just as unimportant as the guy who played sports in highschool/collage and made a minor team after, but was never really known.

I think the point of the commentary is that the fact that our culture puts up sports stars on the level of gods and near everyone knows their name, but the people who have found cures for formally deadly diseases or are the reason we can survive in our day to day isn't quite right.

You could say the same thing about anything with famous people. More people know the Kardash-something or other I can't spell that and all of them than scientists too. It's all a distraction and those things are much more entertaining than who cured what.

 

[Krikket]

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[Wolfheart]

You could say the same thing about anything with famous people. More people know the Kardash-something or other I can't spell that and all of them than scientists too. It's all a distraction and those things are much more entertaining than who cured what.

Oh don't get me started on those ones.. The fact that sports stars and actors get paid more for one day than many teachers or the likes get paid in a year (Or several years in some cases) is beyond lunacy.