Poll of the Day > Some coworker got mad at me because I don't watch basketball/football

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PK_Spam
08/23/22 6:55:27 AM
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I wasnt even rude about it, he basically asked which team are you doing watching? And when I said I havent seen a football game since college haha

he looked at me like I was a fucking idiot and said well I guess you have so much free time on your hands to do whatever you want with and then just walked away like I made some big social no no

Jesus dude, I dont want to be around you anymore either

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Far-Queue
08/23/22 7:02:25 AM
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Pffft hey everyone Shark doesn't watch football lmao let's all point and laugh

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hera
08/23/22 7:07:24 AM
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PK_Spam posted...
said well I guess you have so much free time on your hands to do whatever you want with

tf?

sports games are like 4 hours long

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JazzMasterZero
08/23/22 7:16:56 AM
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I wouldnt want to watch football either if I had went to Penn State.
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PK_Spam
08/23/22 7:22:56 AM
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Far-Queue posted...
Pffft hey everyone Shark doesn't watch football lmao let's all point and laugh
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/1/2/AAc2z0AADl70.jpg

JazzMasterZero posted...
I wouldnt want to watch football either if I had went to Penn State.
I never watched a football game sober back then so whos the real winner?

not me

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Straughan
08/23/22 7:31:06 AM
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I either play them or watch them in person. My favorite is baseball. If I could go see games from the mid 30s when they first brought in night games so the working class could go see them, I'd love to live in a never-ending loop of them where I could go out to a new ball game every night.

There was a time when baseball was my whole life. I used to go see baseball, play it, collect baseball cards. For some reason after I came back from military school I stopped. They didn't have baseball there.

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Metalsonic66
08/23/22 1:44:51 PM
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Ask him if he caught the Ping Pong championship last weekend

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Nichtcrawler-X
08/23/22 1:49:59 PM
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Sportsculture is weird yes.

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Vidyagamelover
08/23/22 2:11:22 PM
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I watched dodgeball yesterday morning while gaming for the first time.

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EvilMegas
08/23/22 2:14:09 PM
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This totally happened.

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Straughan
08/23/22 2:22:06 PM
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Nichtcrawler-X posted...
Sportsculture is weird yes.

My uncle used to say it was to control the masses while the government was left unimpeded. I would explain how lots of fans really get into it and know lots of stuff about it. He just piped back about how that's normal for anything we engage in all the time.

Same dude would yell and scream at the tv over Nascar. He was funny at times too though. We used to have this asshole in the meat department at Ingles (grocery store) and he confronted the dude politely and let it turn sour before chewing him out so the whole store could hear. It was fucking hilarious. You had to have been there. He had no chill and no fear.

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ParanoidObsessive
08/23/22 2:24:14 PM
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If I'm going to be honest, I feel like I know way more people who don't watch basketball or football than people who do.

Even my friends who actually care about sports at all don't really give a shit about basketball, and most of them barely care about football beyond the playoffs/Super Bowl.

The two friends I have who are really into sports mostly only care about baseball (and even then only their specific teams). But most people I associate with wouldn't even notice if all sporting events ceased to exist tomorrow.



Nichtcrawler-X posted...
Sportsculture is weird yes.

Let's be honest, most culture groups are weird and cliquish. It's a natural extension of the fact that humans kind of suck.

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ZangsBeard
08/23/22 2:25:47 PM
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Should have said you only watch pre and post season and try to guess where Tom Brady is cheating.

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GastroFan
08/23/22 7:28:21 PM
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You should've asked if he watched Battle Bots Championship Tournament. I hear it's a big thing with some people.
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ReturnOfFa
08/23/22 8:30:58 PM
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haha cucked by sports

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Metalsonic66
08/23/22 9:39:22 PM
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I only watch ESPN 8: the OCHO

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ZangsBeard
08/24/22 1:33:37 AM
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Metalsonic66 posted...
I only watch ESPN 8: the OCHO

Curious move, Cotton. Let's see how it plays out for them.

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DrPrimemaster
08/24/22 2:25:26 AM
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PK_Spam posted...
I wasnt even rude about it, he basically asked which team are you doing watching? And when I said I havent seen a football game since college haha

he looked at me like I was a fucking idiot and said well I guess you have so much free time on your hands to do whatever you want with and then just walked away like I made some big social no no

Jesus dude, I dont want to be around you anymore either

I wasn't there, but I feel like you could interpret what you said as rude depending on the context.

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The_tall_midget
08/24/22 3:34:51 AM
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In my opinion, this clip of the Simpsons pretty much nails it about Baseball:

https://youtu.be/uMcfzTTKTaQ?t=14

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grimhilde00
08/24/22 4:38:03 AM
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that's weird

I've never been into sports. went to University of Texas, never saw a game, though slightly regret that cause could have been an experience at least.

thinking about learning more about rugby and getting into watching that since I'm seeing someone who plays and it's a new cultural experience that can be fun

but weird to be judged about that not being an interest of yours
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Revelation34
08/24/22 5:08:47 AM
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DrPrimemaster posted...


I wasn't there, but I feel like you could interpret what you said as rude depending on the context.


How?

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What_The_Chris
08/24/22 6:52:29 AM
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i'm absolutely sure that didn't happen but ok

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papercup
08/24/22 8:17:21 AM
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Yeah I really dont get people that make sports part of their identity. When I was a resident assistant at my university and I had to check in the football camps, the kids and the parents were just the rudest people. And if they asked you what your team is and you say you dont have one, yes they treat you like youre stupid, its the weirdest shit. Then the head coach of the university was the nicest guy and he couldnt care less if you like football or not.

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DrPrimemaster
08/24/22 8:47:24 AM
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Revelation34 posted...
How?

Like

"I havent had time to watch sports since college", or "Im beyond sports since college"

Some sort of passive insinuation that watching sports isnt something a full fledged adult does.

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ReturnOfFa
08/24/22 11:33:15 AM
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DrPrimemaster posted...
I wasn't there, but I feel like you could interpret what you said as rude depending on the context.
gonna go with it being more rude to assume that everyone has to kiss your ass about things you like

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DirtBasedSoap
08/24/22 11:44:09 AM
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JazzMasterZero posted...
I wouldnt want to watch football either if I had went to Penn State.
lmao

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Muscles
08/24/22 1:09:24 PM
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Sports are huge here, you can go up to a random guy and bring up the Bears/Cubs/Bulls and boom you have yourself a full conversation

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NickMullen
08/24/22 1:30:30 PM
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EvilMegas posted...
This totally happened.


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ReturnOfFa
08/24/22 1:31:40 PM
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EvilMegas posted...
This totally happened.
I mean, if you're doubting it, you obviously haven't dealt with objective existence.

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wwinterj25
08/24/22 2:24:13 PM
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I had this once when some fella asked me what football (soccer) team I support. I said I don't watch it so none and he kept pestering me why I don't watch it like every bloke from England MUST watch it. Eventually I just got bored of the conversation and walked away. Some folk are incapable of understanding people like different things. I'm sure if I talked to him about things that interest me he wouldn't be interested too. It's best to ignore those people.

EvilMegas posted...
This totally happened.

What's not to believe? Some folk are like this.

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PK_Spam
08/24/22 2:34:24 PM
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Sorry, I forgot to say that I whipped my glasses off and said that I used my spare time to read books instead of watching sports, and everyone around me clapped.

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ParanoidObsessive
08/24/22 2:46:12 PM
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papercup posted...
Yeah I really dont get people that make sports part of their identity.

Boring people always feel the need to define themselves by the things they like, because there's literally nothing else interesting about them to build a personality around.

It's the same logic as why you get fanatic console defenders on the Internet, or people who will shit on you for not liking the same shows they like, and so on. They incorporate the thing they love into their own sense of self-identity, to the point where if you tell them you don't like or don't care about that thing, it feels like a personal attack on them.



PK_Spam posted...
Sorry, I forgot to say that I whipped my glasses off and said that I used my spare time to read books instead of watching sports, and everyone around me clapped.

But it was a genteel golf clap, because the classy intelligentsia are respectful and polite, and don't hoot and holler and smash their hands together like the filthy plebs do.

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What_The_Chris
08/25/22 3:08:15 AM
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oh we knew that, that's always the followup, you didn't need to mention that

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