Warbler said:
we forgot one diversion C3PX has(and we all have). How much time does he(and the rest us) spend in this forum, when instead we could be out "saving the world"? If we only did the things that were important and didn't have our diversions, the world and lives would be very boring. It would not be a world I'd want to live in.
Vaderisnothayden, may I remind you that the pro-sports people didn't start this discussion. I created a thread to discuss whether or not College football should have a playoff system. C3PX and Gaffer came into the thread and talked about their dislike of sports and asking what the big deal about it was. Then in order to separate the two subjects, Gaffer created this thread. If you are going to come in a thread discussing a subject you don't like, and say that you like it , say why you don't like it, and ask what the big deal about it is, you can expect to be told by those by those that do like the subject, why they like it and what the big deal is about. It would be one thing if the pro-sports people suddenly created a thread and lectured those that didn't like sports as to why they are wrong. It is another thing to simply reply to those who post anti-sports opinions. If you don't like sports that's fine. But don't come into a sports thread, post anti-sports opinions and expert to not get responded to.
It's not a sports thread (in the sense of a pro-sports thread). It's a thread for discussing whether you like or dislike sports and I just did as people are supposed to on this thread and posted my feelings on sports. I did no harm, but somebody got all defensive about it. And I didn't simply get responded to, I got this whole "there's nothing wrong with liking sports" defensive thing, as if I had said nobody else was allowed to like sports, which I didn't. Nothing in what was said to me in the other guy's post was necessary. All of it was obvious and just defensive defense of liking sports. It wasn't a case of anybody telling me anything insightful about their liking of sports. It was just the theme of "it's ok to like sports", which was a defense that wasn't necessary, because I never said it wasn't ok for them to like sports.