On Dec 18, 2010, at 2:12 PM, ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
Oh, don't get ms started...
How many hundreds of years will it be before
we, as a society,
outgrow the whole "sports" thing?
Far too many years, that's alL I can say :=-( I am convicned such things
cause brain damage.
This is not in dispute. There's been a lot of media coverage here recently about
(in particular) football players and concussions. And just two weeks ago, a youngish boy
was struck and killed by a baseball during practice. Tragic. He'd still be alive if
his parents had encouraged the pursuit if something a little more...you know,
"evolved".
India and China are now eating our lunch in terms of technological development and
progress, due in part I'm convinced to our teaching of sports rather than science and
engineering (or really ANYTHING else) in our colleges.
And you know, India and China really have EARNED that lunch, and we deserve to have it
taken away.
It makes me sick.
FWIW, I have never taken part in any sporting activity
or anything
related. I have never watched any sporting activity or anything related.
And I never intend to do either.
Same here. "Playing ball" was fun when I was about five years old. After
that, well, not so much.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL