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

Jonathan Ball <jon...@mindspring.NS.com> espoused:
>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 �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.
>
>What a fatuous comparison!  There is *no* comparison 
>between the motor skills of a toddler, and those of a 5 
>year old.

Doh - the point I'm driving at is that in order to skate
you need /all/ the motor skills of walking plus a small
handful of extra stuff! 

If football were easy, then the tiny handful of the
worlds greatest players wouldn't command salaries in
excess of 100,000 /week, because there'd be a huge number
of them.

The problem you seem to have is a fundamental lack of understanding
about sport in general - all sports will be played to the limit
of the player's capabilities.  The more popular the sport, the
higher the standard will be because more people will have access
and will try it.

The world's most popular sport is football.  It is therefore most
likely to be played to the full limits of human capability.  It
is therefore not somehow easy.

I understand that Slovakia is considered the world's best ice-hockey
country.


-- 
Mark Kent
                                               Take out the ham to mail me.

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