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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People
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Boxing... no. I haven't watched it since Eubanks vs Watson, which was gladiatorial and overly violent. The role of Paul McKenna in that fight still disturbs me.
What I really don't understand though is why so many people are paying good money to see two little specks in the distance at Wembley Stadium. Mad. Why?Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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Why do people like football? I don't get it, grown people kicking a ball around the field, heading the ball causing them long term brain damage even worse than boxing and other people getting really excited to watch this - is there something wrong with me?:D
I guess the answer to me is...
Boxing isn't about violence, or half killing someone. It's just as much about pure skill, hard work, and hard thinking as any other sport. If you can't admire someone who's worked that hard to get that good at something despite all the human limitations - pain, fear, wanting to eat chocolate etc - then I'm not sure what you're going to be impressed with.
Most sport is the same to me. You enjoy watching people who have worked so hard, put so much effort in, that they are almost like gods coming so close to what it's possible for a human to do.
Same as when you watch a truly fine musician, or computer programmer, or cook, or chess player... Or one of those marching bands where they play difficult pieces of music, and then walk around, in difficult patterns, in time with the music. Just for the H-L of it.
Not that I enjoy doing boxing myself. I don't enjoy things that make me sweaty. At least, out of the bedroom:D
Sorry but I can't see it that way. I just feel it's such a waste of all that hard work and determination etc. Such a pity it wasn't directed at something less destructive.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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Sorry but I can't see it that way. I just feel it's such a waste of all that hard work and determination etc. Such a pity it wasn't directed at something less destructive.
Our local MP was a neurosurgeon who was dead against it and used to campaign aginst it. You can go on about its death rate being low which it spectacularly is, especially compared with the motorsports loads of people on this thread like; in fact three people died tonight on a motoring event in the borders.
Boxing has a bad association with neural damage. Our brains are the most complex things in the universe and we're paying to watch someone hitting them. It's not on. I feel like it harks back tio the pre-television days where everyone would go to the village square to watch them hanging miscreants for whistling on a Tuesday or whatever.:oThere is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
Definitely going to be a master criminal, in a nice way.PasturesNew wrote: »Wondering what went wrong "on the other side" ... he's sure when he filled in the form selecting his parents it wasn't youProbably also considering which of the Nice People should be propping up an bridge over Crossrail.
Have we all been watching to much Family Guy?:eek:There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
The Top of the Pops Christmas special from 1978 was on BBC2 tonight. Watched it with my parents, who met that year. We've not really watched anything as a family for a VERY long time. Could have give very wrong, but was actually quite a giggle
Today has been a good day.0 -
Today has been mostly spent in the car.....me and loverr took my parents to East Sussex for their holiday as dad can no longer drive and mum doesn't like driving on the motorway.
150 miles there, drop parents off and unload the car, have a quick cup of tea and then leave within 30 minutes of arriving and 150 miles back.
I'm blooming shattered!We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
Boxing, I don't get it, grown people causing each other short term physical damage and long term brain damage and other people gettign really excited to watch this - is there something wrong with me?
It's a primal alpha man thing .... I don't get it either. Getting paid to get beaten up ... and potentially/often to end up with brain damage.
Nuts.
And it's loud/boring.0 -
The Top of the Pops Christmas special from 1978 was on BBC2 tonight. Watched it with my parents, who met that year. We've not really watched anything as a family for a VERY long time. Could have give very wrong, but was actually quite a giggle
Today has been a good day.
Saw it.! Once saw a TOTP episode being filmed. It had this playing (but as a video feed). My favourite uncle sneaked me and my sister in although we were underage. Jimmy Saville was the DJ on the show, but he was a good uncle who never let him near us.
Now watching OGWT. Brill show with great acts! :beer:There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
Middle son's latest drum cover....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GX2T3LcNiU
Once you get past the cymbals at the beginning, it's actually pretty good.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
The Top of the Pops Christmas special from 1978 was on BBC2 tonight. .
I randomly found that .... and kept it on... and did my usual "wiki the people, see if they're dead" thing.
I was gobsmacked to discover that Father Abraham (old fella with the Smurfs) was only 43! The character he played looked 70!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Kartner0
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