We had Christmas lights up for a span of half a decade or more when I was little. Probably a safe choice on your part…
Were they on, or just up? If it’s the latter, I could excuse it because Christmas lights are a bitch to put up and take down.
If they’re on, then yeah, you’re probably dealing with a psychopath.
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Watched some old roast videos from the '80’s last night and oh boy are they tough to watch. Don Rickles had no trouble using racist slurs or sexist slurs. There is still a long way to go but man there is no way that stuff could be on the air now… well, maybe a Trump rally, but still.
I watched about 6 hours of snooker last night from the late 80’s to 90’s to see the obvious differences and its a remarkable change in the standard of play in a sport that I’ve seen tbh.
When the new generation came on up in early 1990 they blew everyone else away with so much easy it was like watching old men wither and die on the spot.
I had trouble sleeping and it’s easy on the eye to watch. 
Tbh I’ve still to see an injury 
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That’s a good point but I wonder how many people view it that way.
idk much about gender issues in sports, but Little Miss Sumo is a pretty solid sports mini-documenatary:
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Note my point was professional sport for viewing. I agree sport in general is very important. I play several and have my whole life. I’ve just never gotten into the whole “my world revolves around the Flames winning” thing (thank god given how bad they are).
You think something would continue to be popular if we outlawed the best version of it? Kids wouldn’t like sport the same if they couldn’t have heroes.
Teaching kids how to lose appropriately is a fundamental part of youth sports, and it is most definitely reflected at the professional level in things such as ceremonial handshakes at the ends of games, losers being expected to give graceful press conferences after defeats, etc. Board games and such can teach good losing, too, but it’s also good to see one’s heroes come up short on enormous stages, too. Like, one of the most memorable press conferences in recent sports memory was from a loser and was itself a pretty good lesson in losing: “We’re on to Cincinnati.”
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Basically anything people enjoy, people will also enjoy watching the best of the best do it, too, whether it’s chess, cooking, sports, dance, whatever.
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Elite. Are you a shooter? My college days were spent tirelessly practicing every evening at the lesbian bar where tables were open for free from 5-9. I liked to shame people even worse at the game than me, at least until some old dude said hey bud, let’s put $1 on it. He cleaned up the table within about thirty seconds and that was that lol.
It’s like salty and sweet things imo. Earning respect and admiration for something, being useful in your own way, whether it’s storytelling that is actually an essential history and description of the world around you or being especially good and esteemed at throwing a spear were very adaptive at one point. Not that it meant perfect happiness for everyone, but it was something achievable in a world where only 100 people mattered. The same ambition in people today dooms 99.99% of people to a wild goose chanse and probably the .01% to some kind of ridiculous isolation and an incredible letdown.
I think I’ve said this before, but it’s sad and tragic when you look at something like playing a musical instrument and how the best musician in an average HS can be pretty amazingly good and it’s like a party trick after that.
I did I played from age 7 to about 14…then started again when my mates took to the game and never knew I played 
around 18.
My pool game is OKish but snooker is my passion and I usually take time off just to watch the world championship every year 
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Yeah, that’s probably worse. The party trick goes away and people may be left with permanent injuries or at least had a lot of risk that they faced as little children. I’ve also mentioned this, but I have close friends in the Bay Area who have a little girl who is insanely athletic and would be perfect for gymnastics, but they put her in soccer and some kind of dance thing swinging from like sashes that’s much less dangerous and competitive.
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Never taking down your Xmas lights is an elite life hack. Mine have been up for 5 years. It’s a subtle amount mind you.
I wish I could convince the girlfriend of that!
Yeah Cliffs maximum was good stuff with Big Bill webernick watching from the other table, my favourite 147 of all time was also a Canadians…?
Edit: My favourite Cliff Thorburn story was at the night club in London when he punched Jimmy White… 
To this day I don’t know who was higher on the coke scale than these 2 at the time. 
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Good News: RATM’s playing in Prague this September.
Bad News: Tickets sold out within a day
Not sure I would pay the equivalent of $100 for a standing room ticket but apparently a whole lot of people didn’t mind.
EDIT: Who am I kidding? I totally would’ve.