Why are some people so friggin useless?

[bonj2]

There you go chum

right, what has cycle track racing got that , say, skiing hasn't got?
Both are a race. Skiing is in fact LESS pointless as you end up in a differnet place to where you start, and therefore could technically be used as a means of travel.

Even backgammon is a race, why is going endlessly round and round the same track NOT pointless but backgammon is ...??

unless you want to just admit now that your ratings are COMPLETELY and utterly irrational....

 

[mickeydrippin60]

Yes but Bonj, what is the point in smacking a little rubber ball at a wall?

If you eat more then 6 rabbits a day(or is it a week) you will die

its only if you eat nothin but rabbits you will die ie no veg or any thing like that

 

[Joe24]

right, what has cycle track racing got that , say, skiing hasn't got?
Both are a race. Skiing is in fact LESS pointless as you end up in a differnet place to where you start, and therefore could technically be used as a means of travel.

Even backgammon is a race, why is going endlessly round and round the same track NOT pointless but backgammon is ...??

unless you want to just admit now that your ratings are COMPLETELY and utterly irrational....

Skiing: Sliding down the side of a mountain with some sticks strapped to your feet, then you get pulled back up again.
Where is the point in that? Its like standing on an escalator down stairs, then just getting a lift up. The only effort you put in is when you start and you try your hardest not to fall over.
Its not a means of travel at all.
Backgammon? What do you get out of that? Nothing! And you know it Bonj. Although it isnt as pointless, you have to put abit of thought in, but still not much.

 

[Arch]

For god's sake. All sport is pointless, just as all art, film making, TV, theatre etc is pointless, unless you count the point of people enjoying watching, or doing, it. Classing one or other as more pointless is... pointless.

 

[Joe24]

For god's sake. All sport is pointless, just as all art, film making, TV, theatre etc is pointless, unless you count the point of people enjoying watching, or doing, it. Classing one or other as more pointless is... pointless.

Arch, your a hypocrit and you shall join the many others in the abyss in the courner of my shed!!!

 

[Arch]

Why am I a hypocrite? I'm just pointing out that since the only point of those things is that people enjoy them, any discussion on the relative pointlessness is really quite irrelevant. How is that hypocritical? I don't recall ever claiming that any sport had more point than any other?

 

[Joe24]

You said that classing one thing that someone enjoys as pointless is pointless.
So your saying that my classification list is pointless. Well i enjoy my classification list, its taken me many years of thought to come up with the classifications of many of the sports.
So, you saying what i do is pointless makes you a hypocrit. Face the facts Arch.
Is it because i offended one of your chosen 'sports'?
I suppose your posy of followers wil be along soon

 

[Hover Fly]

You've made me think of our postwoman again.

 

[bonj2]

Skiing: Sliding down the side of a mountain with some sticks strapped to your feet, then you get pulled back up again.

But: Downhill MTBing: Sliding down the side of a mountain with some sticks a bike strapped to your feet, then you get pulled back up again.
Skiing is essentially the same as downhill MTBing, except with a different accessory strapped to you in order to help you get down the mountain.
Why is one pointless, but the other not?
And think very carefully Joe before you say:
'because one can be ridden up again and the other can't'

Where is the point in that? Its like standing on an escalator down stairs, then just getting a lift up. The only effort you put in is when you start and you try your hardest not to fall over.

er... there are bends! in case you haven't noticed! Have you ever watched skiing on telly?

Its not a means of travel at all.

Tell that to James Bond.

Backgammon? What do you get out of that? Nothing! And you know it Bonj. Although it isnt as pointless, you have to put abit of thought in, but still not much.

It is a race. You have to get your pieces round to your side of the board quicker than the opponent can get theirs round to their side.

 

[Joe24]

Downhill mountainbiking is not just sliding down a mountain though is it? You have to put more effort in.
Skiing, you just turn slightly, theres not as much skill as there is in downhill mountainbiking.
Skiing is not transport, cross country skiing, thats a form of transport, like running.
Backgammon, stupid game. You know it is. Stop being an old fart

 

[Randochap]

Because they haven't got anything better to be?

 

[bonj2]

Downhill mountainbiking is not just sliding down a mountain though is it? You have to put more effort in.
Skiing, you just turn slightly, theres not as much skill as there is in downhill mountainbiking.

maybe not quite as much but there is skill in it.
If you think it's that easy go and do it, and come back with a gold medal from the winter olympics!

And why is how much point there is in it directly proportional to the skill in it?

 

[Joe24]

Going down the side of a mountain doing over 100kph?!

Yeh, just takes bottle.

 

[Joe24]

maybe not quite as much but there is skill in it.
If you think it's that easy go and do it, and come back with a gold medal from the winter olympics!

And why is how much point there is in it directly proportional to the skill in it?

Oh, lots.

 

[swee'pea99]

For god's sake. All sport is pointless

I hope you're not including water polo.