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I am guess 8 am old school. I have 3: HF, facebook, and AARP.
 
Reclamation Project said:
I really like Rousey based on the fact that she's a ****ing beast. It seems the more you shoot your mouth off, the more she'll kick your ass.

However, I can't believe UFC is even a sport. It's brutal. How do people watch this ****?
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It's a great sport, and the toughest (sorry hockey)
 
It's not a sport, it's basically an activity where you almost kill your opponent or break their appendages. It's heartless.

I practice MMA at a gym but I would never even think of fighting someone else unless it was for self defense.
 
In the sake of boredom and playing devil's advocate I'll ask why it's not a sport? That your own personal belief or you have a legit reason why it isn't a sport?
 
kingsfan said:
In the sake of boredom and playing devil's advocate I'll ask why it's not a sport? That your own personal belief or you have a legit reason why it isn't a sport?
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This reminds me of George Carlin's bit when he would say what is and what isn't a sport. He said hockey is not a sport. It is three activities going on at once: ice skating, playing with a puck, and beating the **** out of somebody.
 
When someone asks me if I play a sport, I don't say I beat someone to a pulp and I find that fun. I hate to call bowling, curling, golfing, and basketball a sport, but I think they are. It's a safe, fun exercise and most people can do it. The UFC and other broadcasted MMA organizations are one step away from Roman Gladiators. Also, anyone can be buff as ****, doesn't mean whatever they do equals a sport.

I guess those are my own beliefs, so they are necessarily correct or wrong. I'm sure the actual definition of a sport is debatable and every side has legit reasons. I also don't think MMA is useless, martial arts are a form of self defense, a much better option than a ***** using guns in fact.

Is it October yet?
 
The thirst is real...

A 31-YEAR-OLD woman has found love with a tree named Tim and says it’s the best sex she’s ever had.

Emma McCabe says she’s fallen head over heels with the sturdy poplar tree and she’s happy after a string of disastrous relationships.

She also says the sex with the tree is the best she has ever had with anyone.

McCabe, who has a serious of unlucky relationships with men, says she’s planning to marry the tree although her family won’t talk about it.

It’s believed Emma’s bizarre attraction to the tree may be a result of a condition called dendrophilia where a person is sexually attracted to a tree.
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I had a friend who was a big MMA fan. He started his conversation about it with the caveat, "Yeah, most of the fans are booger-eaters, but..."

I can't deny the trainwreck appeal of the violence. I get why people like it. But I can't help see it as one of those things that marks the erosion of civilized society. I mean, do we have to cater that much to the reptilian portion of our brain?
 
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No offense, but your friend don't seem too bright. Either that, or he's really out of touch.

From my experience, the people that speak of MMA violence/trainwreck are those who don't really follow the sport, or are casual fans. Personally, I think MMA has to do with more technique than it does violence.
 
HYORI 1963 said:
No offense, but your friend don't seem too bright. Either that, or he's really out of touch.

From my experience, the people that speak of MMA violence/trainwreck are those who don't really follow the sport, or are casual fans. Personally, I think MMA has to do with more technique than it does violence.
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Nah, he's a very bright guy. UCLA molecular biology grad. He was generalizing, sure, but I could see his point with my own anecdotal experience.

I went to a credit symposium about 10 years ago in Las Vegas at the time an MMA event was going on (I worked as a credit analyst at the time). A random MMA fan struck up a conversation with my boss, then wanted to fight him when he learned he was in the collections business (he was our director of credit and collections). That's right - the twenty-something-year-old dude wanted to fight a 55-year old silver-haired, chubby father he had just been having an amiable chat with because the guy had a bad experience with some random collector earlier in his life.
 
http://www.bu.edu/cte/about/what-is-cte/
http://www.webmd.com/brain/concussion-traumatic-brain-injury-symptoms-causes-treatments

Whether some people think it's violent or not, it's pretty shallow and barbaric to watch 2 people fighting each other. All martial arts is technique, and I have done it enough that I know a lot of skill is required. But putting people's lives at danger is certainly not what martial arts is all about. The truth of UFC is that people have become addicted and accustomed to violence, and it's something that is pervasive in our culture.
 
Choralone said:
Nah, he's a very bright guy. UCLA molecular biology grad. He was generalizing, sure, but I could see his point with my own anecdotal experience.

I went to a credit symposium about 10 years ago in Las Vegas at the time an MMA event was going on (I worked as a credit analyst at the time). A random MMA fan struck up a conversation with my boss, then wanted to fight him when he learned he was in the collections business (he was our director of credit and collections). That's right - the twenty-something-year-old dude wanted to fight a 55-year old silver-haired, chubby father he had just been having an amiable chat with because the guy had a bad experience with some random collector earlier in his life.
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I fail to see how you go from a one 20 something yr old MMA fighting idiot, to MMA being a violent sport. I'm pretty sure there are idiots in every sport.
 
Choralone said:
Nah, he's a very bright guy. UCLA molecular biology grad. He was generalizing, sure, but I could see his point with my own anecdotal experience.

I went to a credit symposium about 10 years ago in Las Vegas at the time an MMA event was going on (I worked as a credit analyst at the time). A random MMA fan struck up a conversation with my boss, then wanted to fight him when he learned he was in the collections business (he was our director of credit and collections). That's right - the twenty-something-year-old dude wanted to fight a 55-year old silver-haired, chubby father he had just been having an amiable chat with because the guy had a bad experience with some random collector earlier in his life.
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HYORI 1963 said:
I fail to see how you go from a one 20 something yr old MMA fighting idiot, to MMA being a violent sport. I'm pretty sure there are idiots in every sport.
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He was illustrating the typical mma fight fan.

But I am sure you are right. 99% of mma fans are Rhodes scholars and attend matches wearing bowties.

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Ron said:
He was illustrating the typical mma fight fan.

But I am sure you are right. 99% of mma fans are Rhodes scholars and attend matches wearing bowties.

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If you have to put wrong words in my mouth to make your point, then you've already lost the argument, sport.
 
Reclamation Project said:
The thirst is real...

A 31-YEAR-OLD woman has found love with a tree named Tim and says it’s the best sex she’s ever had.

Emma McCabe says she’s fallen head over heels with the sturdy poplar tree and she’s happy after a string of disastrous relationships.

She also says the sex with the tree is the best she has ever had with anyone.

McCabe, who has a serious of unlucky relationships with men, says she’s planning to marry the tree although her family won’t talk about it.

It’s believed Emma’s bizarre attraction to the tree may be a result of a condition called dendrophilia where a person is sexually attracted to a tree.
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Aww, Reclamation Project is implying he's a reverse trap (chick in real life) and imagines I have good wood.

Oh hey, at least it's not:

--necrophilia with zombies
--zoophilia with ponies
 
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