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To: who_would_fardels_bear

If you think soccer is safe and dumb, you haven’t played it right. American Football players wouldn’t last 10 minutes in a REAL football match.


16 posted on 12/03/2012 11:44:22 PM PST by EscapedDutch ("Socialism is great until you run out of other people's money" - Lady Margaret Thatcher)
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To: EscapedDutch
It's neither safe nor dumb, and certainly requires a lot of cardiovascular excellence.

However, it is a sport played by most countries of the world, most of which are outright or pseudo socialist.

If we're all playing the same sport then there'll be even more calls for us "playing by the same economic or social rules", i.e. becoming more socialist.

The only hope then would be from the ranks of the soccer hooligans.

I'm an overweight wuss so I'd probably do better in a socialist bureaucracy, but I'm still sane enough to prefer anarchy to Kafkaesque futility.

And if there is a better metaphor for Kafkaesque futility than a Nil-Nil soccer match I haven't seen it.

17 posted on 12/03/2012 11:52:35 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: EscapedDutch

>> American Football players wouldn’t last 10 minutes in a REAL football match.

That really doesn’t make any sense.


19 posted on 12/04/2012 12:04:11 AM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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