In this thread, BrainGlutton responds to the question “why do we watch sports?” with this brilliant insight:
At first I mistakenly took this to be a self-depreciating comment. Ha ha. But I remembered another thread, and realized I was wrong; it’s meant to insult other people, because the sainted BrainGlutton does not generally watch sports, as noted in this thread:
So the message is clear: BrainGlutton is smarter than the dumb proles who watch sports. Except for professional wrestling, which he does watch. Which isn’t technically a sport, but okay.
Hey, BrainGlutton; you’re an elitist asshole. You’re also not all that bright yourself, from what I can gather. If you were actually smart, you would have read some of the thread you yourself started, which contains many good explanations and comparisons outlining why people enjoy watching sports, reasons that, incidentally, are quite a bit more logical and based on fact than your “huh huh everyone who likes things i dont like is a dumbass huh huh” approach to the subject.
You forgot this thread, where he states no, he didn’t need to read the thread to have an opinion, and when it was pointed out that his opinion was based on a lie, he refused to back down.
I’ve never understood the need some people have to post a message in a thread for the sole purpose of telling us they have no interest in the subject of the thread.
Seriously though, this does seem to be crossing the line from just having a sense of superiority that their taste is better, to flaunting that taste - “Look at me! I’m smarter than all you stupid people with your sport!”. Thinking sport is for dumbasses? Fine, that’s an opinion, you’re entitled to it. Walzting into a thread and showing off your own superiority, not even adding something worthwhile - seems a bit attention whorish.
Am I getting whooshed here, or are we actually taking seriously the concept of an avid professional wrestling spectator thinking he’s somehow smarter than the rest of us?
You know, I’ll give pro wrestling some moderate degree of “respect.” The storylines are hackneyed and overly dramatic. But there’s nothing wrong with cheap, lowest common denominator entertainment in my opinion. And the pro wrestlers in general are capable of pretty impressive feats of strength, choreography, and acrobatics.
But still, to say you like pro wrestling and say you couldn’t understand how some people could derive joy out of watching sportsmen compete in a sport is ridiculous. You enjoy watching people pretend to compete, and you don’t understand how real competition could be enjoyable for spectators?!?
Maybe it is an age thing, though since I don’t know BG’s age, I couldn’t say. I know at one point I believed this. I felt that those that watched sports were dumb or lacking in something. I learned otherwise though, and came to recognize that those feelings of distaste for others was spawned by the same feelings that cause racism and tribalism. That seemingly reflexive desire to portray “those that are not like me” as somehow inferior, because some minds just cannot grasp different isn’t worse or different isn’t better.
Hell, I am at the point in my life where I suspect the reason I don’t like sports is that unlike many others, I cannot devote the intellectual effort to memorize hundreds and thousands of facts, names, rules, etc, and remain somewhat competent in every other aspect of my life.
Yeah, I’ve never felt one sport was truly superior to another, or to anything else (or inferior either.) I think different sports match different tastes. I love baseball but many people hate it because they view it as slow, I kind of like that aspect. It is slow paced, but that just makes the moments of excitement more pronounced in my opinion.
I’ve noticed that people who weren’t popular in high school, or who were parts of the more nerdy cliques tend to hate sports and people who play sports. There’s an inability to separate what they disliked in high school from sports as a whole. In general in high schools sports are typically what the more popular crowd engages in, while less popular students don’t mess around with sports much.
Yeah, **BG **is an elitist snob. But I like him. I rarely agree with him, but he’s never above laughing at himself. I just wish he’d move to Europe and quit trying to turn the US into France.
That’s probably got a strong element of truth to it. I mean, I passionatly hate watching professional sports. When I was in High School, and mostly hung out with the freaks and losers, it was easy to say that I hated people who liked sports, too. But now, most of my friends are sports fans of one flavor or another. Heck, one of my best friends coaches high school football. How can I say that people who watch sports are stupid without insulting 75% of my social circle? Including the football coach, who is easily two-to-three times smarter than I am?
It’s actually a televised sport outside of the Olympics, but unfortunately they (Fox Sports Network) usually program the guys, not the ladies. (Dumbasses!)
And it may not technically be the name, but my buddy’s wife (I believe quoting Kelly Ripa) referred to it as Nude Women’s Beach Volleyball, which is as funny as it is apt.
Saying something incomprehensible or bizarrely stupid is not really “whooshing” others. A “whoosh” is when you post something brilliantly satyrical, and some poor soul doesn’t get the joke. The difference between what you did and a whoosh is that what you said isn’t funny, nor does it make some sort of satyrical point. In fact, it doesn’t make any sense at all.
The habit that some of our lesser lights here on the SDMB have of posting something that’s simply nonsensical and then proudly proclaiming that it’s a “whoosh” is missing the point, since that’s not really what the word “whoosh” refers to. And it’s not even remotely clever or funny. Sure, someone thought you were speaking seriously. That’s only because your comment wasn’t even potentially funny, so it seemed fair to assume it wasn’t a joke.
