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

Mark Kent wrote:

> Jonathan Ball <jon...@earthlink.NS.net> espoused:
> 
>>drsquare wrote:
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>>>On Sun, 03 Feb 2002 19:43:47 GMT, in alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian,
>>> (Jonathan Ball <jon...@mindspring.NS.com>) wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>drsquare wrote:
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>>>>>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.

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.


> 
> 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.