Re: drsquare is a useless troll was Re: What does everyone reckon our chances are for the Euro 2004 qualifying?

Jonathan Ball wrote:

> Mark Kent wrote:
> 
>> Jonathan Ball <jon...@earthlink.NS.net> espoused:
>> 
>>>drsquare wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Sun, 03 Feb 2002 19:43:47 GMT, in alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian,
>>>> (Jonathan Ball <jon...@mindspring.NS.com>) 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 ￜ50,000 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.
> 
> What a fatuous comparison!  There is *no* comparison
> between the motor skills of a toddler, and those of a 5
> year old.
> 
> And what was the defect in your kid that it took him
> two years to walk?  I have a 15 month old boy at home,
> and he began walking a week before turning 9 months.
> He now walks, almost runs, with gusto.  And he can kick
> a ball, with a surprising degree of control.
> 
> You need to take your kid to a specialist.

Temper temper.  The normal age for a child to learn to walk is 9-16 months. 
 There is no association between early walking and any achievements at all 
later in life. 

The standard answer that pediatricians give to parents who are nervous that 
their 12-month old is not walking is:  They all walk and talk the same by 
kindergarten.


> 
> 
>> 
>> Football is an extremely skillful game - your own lack
>> of knowledge about it doesn't make it less so.
> 
> Your lack of reading comprehension makes you look
> rather stupid.  I didn't say or even suggest that
> soccer/football doesn't require skill.  I said I find
> it rather boring.  I do feel, however, that it requires
> far, far less skill than ice hockey.

-- 
Ken
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