X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f4f17,1fea113a30411707 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4f17,public X-Google-Thread: fc9f9,1fea113a30411707 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc9f9,public X-Google-Thread: fe7ce,1fea113a30411707 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe7ce,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,1fea113a30411707 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,1fea113a30411707 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-08 10:02:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!opentransit.net!proxad.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!btnet-peer!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!mark From: mark@NOHAM.otford.kent.btinternet.co.uk (Mark Kent) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian,alt.politics.socialism,alt.seduction.fast,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: drsquare is a useless troll was Re: What does everyone reckon our chances are for the Euro 2004 qualifying? Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 18:01:47 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <3C5AC13B.9060609@mindspring.NS.com> <0lhl5ugo85pjshh3t861eimu9gq7n7tumk@4ax.com> <3C5ACEF7.1010005@earthlink.NS.net> <3C5D92E7.2070002@mindspring.NS.com> <3C5EBF1A.8070808@earthlink.NS.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.122.230.118 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: knossos.btinternet.com 1013191307 8058 213.122.230.118 (8 Feb 2002 18:01:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 18:01:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:14504 alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian:36103 alt.politics.socialism:15411 alt.seduction.fast:76175 comp.os.linux.advocacy:189835 Jonathan Ball espoused: >drsquare wrote: > >> On Sun, 03 Feb 2002 19:43:47 GMT, in alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, >> (Jonathan Ball ) wrote: >> >> >>>drsquare wrote: >>> >>> >>>>So what? All they have to do is smack it down the pitch with those sticks >>>>like in golf. The only thing stopping them from scoring from the other end >>>>of the pitch is all that padding. >>>> >>>You don't know what you're talking about. Any idiot >>>can run around on a field kicking at something; >>> >> >> Then why don't you take it up? You could make �50,000 a week. > >I didn't say I could do it well enough to make money at >it. But I can *basically* do it, with no training. >You couldn't skate down the ice if your life depended >on it. > > >> >> >>>even >>>you can probably do it. Let's see you even *stand* on >>>ice skates, let alone take a shot at the puck without >>>landing on your fat ass. >>> >> >> How could I, seeing as I have never ice-skated or played ice-hockey before? > >Well, there you go. Any human being capable of basic >jogging, for christ's sake, can dribble a soccer ball >down a field. Not with a skilled defender trying to >take it away from him, of course, but simply basic >kicking the ball down the goddamned field. Ice hockey >takes a whole extra set of skills, way beyond what Joe >Sixpack - you - have. > It took my 5 year old kid about 3 hours to learn how to stay up on skates and get around - it took about 2 years to learn how to walk, let alone kick a ball at the same time, or even control it in some way. Football is an extremely skillful game - your own lack of knowledge about it doesn't make it less so. -- Mark Kent Take out the ham to mail me.