Joe > Average

"Just a normal day in DayZ running around looking for food, weapons, and blow.

Until from afar comes a creepy European fellow who wanted

me to look into a corner. Shorty to the rescue!"

My friend Roberto aka Towelliee

being saved in Dayz from ass rape

Overall, children in our country waste way too much of their precious time on sports.

Hmmm are you sure? I mean, professional sports maybe-because sportsmen themselves say 'sport is health' only when done recreationally. In my opinion, sports should be more popular-look at the raising number of overweight people. If they were encouraged to sports more...

But but doing sports releases hormones of happiness :wub2:

Of course there are sports with 'bigger' people but I disagree with other points. Especially studying. 'Preparing for employment' is important but somehow from your post I read it as preparing for rats race

Then again, our different perspectives come from the fact we come from 2 different countries with different approaches to sport and financing it.

Both sport and education are important... I don't think Scandinavians have problems with putting one over another, in a way that their kids have one of the highest results in Maths and other subjects and they seem like a really healthy, fit societies. However my knowledge is limited so I can't really say how they achieved such high level of life they have.

But but doing sports releases hormones of happiness :wub2:

In moderation- and I'm saying half hour or an hour a day at most, it's fine. But people have finite strength and focus. Sports take too much away from that.

Of course there are sports with 'bigger' people but I disagree with other points. Especially studying. 'Preparing for employment' is important but somehow from your post I read it as preparing for rats race

That's the reality, though. If you want your child to become a physician, scientist, businessperson, artist, or an engineer, you need to start training them while they're still young so they won't grow up to be proles. But not just that- it is necessary to build their standards of culture and raise them as well. To build their grasp of the great world and themselves. And a sense of purpose, perspective, open-mindedness, and discipline. That's very important. A parent only has 17 years to succeed in this mission. And only the minority completely do.

Then again, our different perspectives come from the fact we come from 2 different countries with different approaches to sport and financing it.

Well sweetie, I'm drawing from my life experience as an American. Sports are just hobbies. The real world is business, politics, science, culture, knowledge, and war.

LOL !

I did start to say that the only thing I did like about the closing ceremony was to see that Scary Spice looks as good as she did when I was a kid . I agree about Jessie J and the Jlo and Beyonce thing too .

One could actually make a more solid argument that 'culture' is more of a hobby than sports. For example, I speak enough languages and know enough about other cultures to live in other societies, but it doesn't have any tangible value necessarily. One could make a much greater case to trivialize it as a waste of time and say that in the time it took me to learn another language, I could have done something more with my time.

The idea that sports is just a hobby and business is the real world is also naturally at conflict with itself seeing as how sports is a multi-billion dollar industry. That's big time business . On top of that, there's the old saying that the rich get richer ect. and it rings true for athletes in many cases. Many not only make tons of money playing sports, but that money turns into endorsements and that money puts their children in richer neighborhoods. Those richer neighborhoods have higher taxes. Those higher taxes pay for better schools which then cause some of them to succeed in other areas. Some even take advantage of both, taking advantage of their parent's money and benefiting from their athletic genes as well. On top of that, sometimes you have people that go in to interviews for these 'real jobs' and two guys both have the same degree and one has played for such and such on his resume and his naturally stands out more to the employer. Even though he wasn't good enough to be a professional, neither he nor that employer think it was a waste of time.

At the end of the day though, its a sick, sad, crappy world out there. Children are starving, the ozone is wasting away, the glaciers are melting, the sea level is rising, processed, pesticide and hormone filled foods are killing us slowly, its getting hotter, animals go extinct by the day, the rainforest is disappearing at a rate of 5% or more a year, we're overpopulated and so on. In light of that, nothing that can distract you from it, give you a good time that's not in violation of the law should be written off just because it doesn't take place at a desk or book. Also, a lot of those qualities that you say parent's should teach their children can be learned in sports ironically. I have friends who were only good enough to make college and now work professional jobs who credit sports with teaching them discipline and teamwork, all of which are principles that still benefit them in their current occupations. At the end of the day, wasting of time is relative. I've heard lawyers make partner and tycoons take over companies saying they've wasted their life because they only did it because it was the family business and they really wanted to be a teacher or something. No one can really set a standard for everyone, its how you define what you want to do with your own time that makes it a waste or not.

^It's always a similar argument when people talk about the price of art - that a Cezanne can go for near enough $250 million, yet the hospital next to the auction house needs a dialysis machine or similar... Of course economics is the driving force of society, but life is hardly worth living if the arts or sport is absent. We are not just tools - irrespective of religion we have souls that need more than discipline and constructive endeavour. I can't pretend to know what the balance is, and maybe you can argue that such frivolities are brought on by decadence - but yet you can still go to some corrupt African hellhole torn asunder by civil war and subsequent atrocities and yet on a patch of dirt in some refugee camp you'll find a bunch of kids playing football and smiling.

I did start to say that the only thing I did like about the closing ceremony was to see that Scary Spice looks as good as she did when I was a kid .

Also, a lot of those qualities that you say parent's should teach their children can be learned in sports ironically. I have friends who were only good enough to make college and now work professional jobs who credit sports with teaching them discipline and teamwork, all of which are principles that still benefit them in their current occupations.

I'm ready for Mist of Pandaria

^ Holy shit Can I come? I'll bring some In-N-Out burger goodness :brows:

Seriously, Mother Nature?: Spider With Claws Discovered (Should DIAF!)

So an entirely new family of spiders have been discovered in an Oregon cave system that have hooked, claw-like appendages on their front legs used for catching prey. It's a landmark find because it's the first new family of spiders to be discovered since 1870's. Hopefully it will be the last.

The genus name, Trogloraptor, means "cave robber."

It's an apt name for a spider with unique hooks, or claws, on its legs, which the researchers believe are used to snatch flying insects, like midges, out of the air. With its legs outstretched, the spider measures up to 3 inches (8 centimeters) long.

"They're biggish," Griswold said. "But when you're in a cave and it's dark and there's only the beam of your head lamp, they look much bigger. It's quite astonishing to see them hanging from a few threads."

Wandering around in a dark cave looking for spiders isn't exactly my idea of a good time. Drinking at home alone in the dark -- that's were it's at. Also, now might be a good time to make friends with an exterminator. Or anyone with a flamethrower really.

And while I'm at it... Let's add more fuel to the Nightmare Train:

Spider Crawls Into Woman's Ear While Sleeping, Lives There For Five Days

Peekaboo!

Because nobody should ever sleep again, a woman in China recently had a spider removed from her ear that had snuck in there while she was napping and took up residence for five days. No clue what it was eating, but my guess is wax. Or lice.

Fortunately for the woman, there was some good news - doctors told her the problem would have been far worse if she had tried to scratch it.

At first the medics planned to use tweezers to grab the spider and pull it out - but they were worried that creature might bite the patient.

Instead, Dr Liu Sheng and his colleagues poured a saline solution into the ear and waited for the spider to leave on its own.

Fingers crossed it didn't lay any eggs...

^ I love how they end it with "Fingers crossed it didn't lay any eggs"

/shudders

Have fun sleeping tonight!

Yeah, one could make a case for you doing something else in almost any case. People that work to save animals should be working to save the children instead, people that work long hours should be spending time with their children. If you're reading fiction, you could be reading philosophy or something. If you're reading philosophy, you could be holding up a protest sign somewhere ect. At the end of the day, we all need something to enjoy. Oh, speaking of that ceremony and enjoying life, there was also some song about think positive not on the negative or something that I strangely enjoyed . Its funny that Baby is your least favorite when she's probably my second favorite . She just always seems like she's having a good time although I wouldn't say I'm a fan necessarily. Maybe its because I find the chipper English blonde not as annoying as the chipper pagent woman blonde .

That gif, lol . I'm still tripping out about the one with the naked alien chasing the woman too . I find spoilers tempting, but I should probably stay awy . The spider looks tasty to me actually .

Click the spoilers!

That is a win on all kind of levels

Limer's fails/funny shit of the week:

Last but not least:

This is how dumb people are now... trying to say cologne:

Oh, by show I thought it meant like a TV show spoiler opposed to click show to see it . They do find interresting places to hang out though .

That Spiderman one had me laughing the hardest although I tried hard to think of a way that it could be out of context somehow .

Joe, you did not answer my question :persuazn:

I leave no question unanswered :persuazn: . I said I the link was broken unless you're referring to something else that I actually did miss somehow .