*** Official Politics Shitposting Thread ***

[OngBonga]

For our our racial sensetivity here in the UK, we still find it funny to run around like a child pretending to be a plane when we hear the Dambusters theme. It's like a reflex to a British person, it could be the most British thing there is. The Germans and Russians would find this highly offensive, considering the operation it refers to killed 600 Germans and 1000 Soviet labourers when the dams flooded.

But, pretending to be a plane is fun, and it's an awesome piece of music.

[Poopadoop]

For our our racial sensetivity here in the UK, we still find it funny to run around like a child pretending to be a plane when we hear the Dambusters theme. It's like a reflex to a British person, it could be the most British thing there is. The Germans and Russians would find this highly offensive, considering the operation it refers to killed 600 Germans and 1000 Soviet labourers when the dams flooded.

But, pretending to be a plane is fun, and it's an awesome piece of music.

I don't see how that is remotely racist...

[Savy]

I feel like the vast majority of topics that come up in life can be answered by "didn't south park already deal with that".

[BananaStand]

Of course it matters. .

nah man, the way I read the article, the shirt doesn't even contain the second line.

I'm a Birmingham City fan, a crappy football team in England.

Am I racist if I cringe because you referred to 'soccer' as 'football'? Or are you being jingoist by not recognizing that America stole your sport's name fair and square?

[Poopadoop]

America stole your sport's name fair and square?

Indeed. And that's why the whole world outside of the US and Canada associates the world 'football' with a game where you kick a ball around meaninglessly for 90 minutes, with the occasional incident of someone brushing against someone else and the other person then rolling around on the ground like they'd been hit with a sledgehammer.

[BananaStand]

the whole world outside of the US and Canada associates the world 'football' with a game where you kick a ball around meaninglessly for 90 minutes

They all need an updated vocabulary lesson. "Football" is an American game where 99% of ball contact occurs in the hands, and foot contact is illegal on 99% of the plays. I'm not saying it makes sense. I'm not saying we aren't being pricks about it.

But your game is called "soccer" now. Learn it. Love it.

[OngBonga]

Your silly game is gridiron, or eggball, or perhaps even throwball.

[OngBonga]

Honestly, if I wanted to watch a bunch of men chuck and egg about, I'd watch a game of rugby. No pads. Proper.

[OngBonga]

Even Australian throwball is better than your crappy game.

[OngBonga]

While we're at it, cricket is tons better than baseball. Cricket takes five fucking days, at least a proper game of cricket does. And even then, it's best of five games, so that's up to 25 long days of cricket. You have no idea how much weed I get through during the Ashes series.

[OngBonga]

Question... what does FIFA stand for? How about UEFA? How about AFC? CAF? CONCACAF? OFC? There's a common letter in all of those acronyms, and it's not S.

Time to adopt MLF, or continue to be awkward.

[Poopadoop]

While we're at it, cricket is tons better than baseball. Cricket takes five fucking days, at least a proper game of cricket does. And even then, it's best of five games, so that's up to 25 long days of cricket. You have no idea how much weed I get through during the Ashes series.

Sometimes more is not better. Both baseball and cricket suck turkey nuts.

[Poopadoop]

Your silly game is gridiron, or eggball, or perhaps even throwball.

Haha, eggball. I'm gonna start using that.

[OngBonga]

Sometimes more is not better. Both baseball and cricket suck turkey nuts.

More is better when it comes to England vs Australia in test cricket.

[Poopadoop]

Even Australian throwball is better than your crappy game.

I'm from Canada mate, our game is hockey - by which I mean the game played on skates, not a bunch of butch girls running around in skirts whacking each other in the ankles cause their sticks aren't made properly to hit a ball with.

[Poopadoop]

More is better when it comes to England vs Australia in test cricket.

I beg to differ.

The issue I have is with any game that has so little action. Those are barely sports. I mean if you call baseball and cricket a sport you are only one step from calling darts and snooker sports.

[OngBonga]

Again, I'll be honest... I'd rather watch a bunch of girls in skirts running around with sticks than watch a bunch of dudes skating round a rink trying to fight each other while pretending to care about what the score is in their girlie game made manly.

[Poopadoop]

girlie game made manly.

More like you've taken a manly game and made it girly because you're all too busy sipping tea and watching cricket, you fancy boys.

[OngBonga]

I beg to differ.

The issue I have is with any game that has so little action. Those are barely sports. I mean if you call baseball and cricket a sport you are only one step from calling darts and snooker sports.

Snooker is great. Definitely a sport. I'll begrudingly accept darts is a sport, even though it's crap.

Chess is the iffy one. Is it a sport if there is no physical aspect whatsoever?

[OngBonga]

More like you've taken a manly game and made it girly because you're all too busy sipping tea and watching cricket, you fancy boys.

Sipping tea and smoking spliffs, I'll have you know.

The spliffs are important. Beer works too, which is the more popular anti-boredom agent when it comes to test cricket.

[Poopadoop]

Snooker is great. Definitely a sport.

Fun to play, not fun to watch.

I'll begrudingly accept darts is a sport, even though it's crap.

Lol, there is no way darts is a sport. You cannot play a sport with 75% body fat composition.

Chess is the iffy one. Is it a sport if there is no physical aspect whatsoever?

smh.

[Poopadoop]

Sipping tea and smoking spliffs, I'll have you know.

The spliffs are important. Beer works too, which is the more popular anti-boredom agent when it comes to test cricket.

A good spectator sport is one where getting loaded to watch it is optional, not obligatory.

[OngBonga]

Lol, there is no way darts is a sport. You cannot play a sport with 75% body fat composition.

Sorry, but it requires technical precision. Archery is a sport, so too is darts.

[OngBonga]

A good spectator sport is one where getting loaded to watch it is optional, not obligatory.

Perhaps. But it's kinda like going to a techno club without taking pills. You can still dance, and it's still a decent night out, but it's not the blinder it could've been.

[OngBonga]

Is it a sport? Ask this question... can Stephen Hawking play it? Yes/no.

If the answer is yes, it's not a sport.

[Poopadoop]

Is it a sport? Ask this question... can Stephen Hawking play it? Yes/no.

If the answer is yes, it's not a sport.

By that definition, wiping your own ass is a sport.

[OngBonga]

I can still watch cricket when I have no weed, but I'd generally be doing something else too, perhaps playing poker, or chess, or talking shit to people on the internet.

[OngBonga]

By that definition, wiping your own ass is a sport.

It probably is, somewhere in the world.

[Poopadoop]

Sorry, but it requires technical precision. Archery is a sport, so too is darts.

Just because someone spends all their free time at the pub throwing darts and gets good at it does not make them an athlete.

[OngBonga]

Who can wipe their asses clean the fastest after a ridiculously hot curry? Yeah that could be a sport. Probably in Australia.

[Poopadoop]

I can still watch cricket when I have no weed, but I'd generally be doing something else too, perhaps playing poker, or chess, or talking shit to people on the internet.

Don't tell me I'm missing a cricket match right now. Oh wait, I'll just check in on Sunday and see who's winning.

[OngBonga]

Just because someone spends all their free time at the pub throwing darts and gets good at it does not make them an athlete.

Yeah well the word "athlete" might not be appropriate for a fat twat who can throw tiny arrows accurately, but sadly "sportsman" is.

[Poopadoop]

Who can wipe their asses clean the fastest after a ridiculously hot curry? Yeah that could be a sport. Probably in Australia.

So basically any imaginable competition is a sport to you? How about a spelling bee?

[OngBonga]

So basically any imaginable competition is a sport to you? How about a spelling bee?

Hawking can play spelling bee. Nope.

[Poopadoop]

Yeah well the word "athlete" might not be appropriate for a fat twat who can throw tiny arrows accurately, but sadly "sportsman" is.

It strikes me as a funny use of the word. My sense is people only use it 'cause there is no other word for a fat twat who can throw tiny arrows accurately. 'Dartsman'?

It also gets used for people who do other non-active things like shooting or archery. Still don't see them as sports. To me a sport is something where you have to have some level of physical fitness to be good at it.

[Poopadoop]

Hawking can play spelling bee. Nope.

If there were a machine hooked up to Hawking's brain that allowed him to use his brain activity to control a machine that wiped his ass, would that then make him a sportsman? Or would we need a new definition of what a sport is?

[OngBonga]

It's not just physical fitness, it's phsycial technical ability. And that does require a certain level of fitness, I mean the fat twat needs to not get a tired arm. I would after probably twenty minutes of darts, because I never play darts.

Snooker certainly requires stamina. I've played it, and you can definitely start to get tired if you're playing for a few hours.

They are just about active activites. Just. I kinda see where you're coming from, but it's not like chess, in which all you need to do is to be able to visualise the position, and communicate your move.

[Poopadoop]

That said, these guys are prolly pretty fit. I don't know if this gets called a sport or not, but it's pretty impressive.

[OngBonga]

If there were a machine hooked up to Hawking's brain that allowed him to use his brain activity to control a machine that wiped his ass, would that then make him a sportsman? Or would we need a new definition of what a sport is?

I'm gonna have to give this some careful consideration and get back to you on it, if onyl because it seems like a fun thing to ponder while getting stoned.

Also, I'm going afk to play a few rounds of battlefield.

[OngBonga]

Horseback archery is definitely a sport, if it indeed exists in a competetive manner. No problem with that.

[Poopadoop]

It's not just physical fitness, it's phsycial technical ability.

On that analysis, caligraphy is a sport. So is being a good barber. They both definitely have physical technical ability.

And that does require a certain level of fitness, I mean the fat twat needs to not get a tired arm.

Ok, but the fat twat also probably couldn't walk a half mile without needing a break to drink a beer. So calling him 'fit' would seem a bit of a stretch. Being more fit that someone who never does any exercise at all wouldn't be my definition of fit.

it's not like chess, in which all you need to do is to be able to visualise the position, and communicate your move.

True, but there is also mental stamina as well as physical. Don't a lot of those grandmasters find their matches exhausting?

[BananaStand]

While we're at it, cricket is tons better than baseball. Cricket takes five fucking days, at least a proper game of cricket does. And even then, it's best of five games, so that's up to 25 long days of cricket. You have no idea how much weed I get through during the Ashes series.

Huh? One of the biggest fan complaints about baseball is that it takes too long. 4 hours for a game is too friggen long. You're telling me 5 days is good? No sir.

Even Australian throwball is better than your crappy game.

After getting your asses handed to you in the Revolutionary War, and then subsequently needing your asses bailed out of WW2, I can see how brits might take offense over an American game whose premise is taking other people's land by force. I get it. It's also too bad. The name is ours!

I'll begrudingly accept darts is a sport, even though it's crap.

No, if there is an ashtray within 20 yards (or 18.3 meters for you soccer-lovers) then your game is not a sport.

[Savy]

Huh? One of the biggest fan complaints about baseball is that it takes too long. 4 hours for a game is too friggen long. You're telling me 5 days is good? No sir.

5 day baseball might be good. I can tell you 5 day cricket is a lot better than 1 day cricket.

[Jack Sawyer]

[Jack Sawyer]

Question... what does FIFA stand for? How about UEFA? How about AFC? CAF? CONCACAF? OFC? There's a common letter in all of those acronyms, and it's not S.

Time to adopt MLF, or continue to be awkward.

call it the Major International League of Football

BOOM, sales go up immediately

[Savy]

Ong if you could only pick one sport to watch for the rest of your life what are you picking?

edit - called ong wuf, sickest burn ever.

[OngBonga]

Probably cricket.

[OngBonga]

On that analysis, caligraphy is a sport. So is being a good barber. They both definitely have physical technical ability.

Ok, one more thing is necessary for it to be "sport"... it must be played in a competetive manner.

[OngBonga]

True, but there is also mental stamina as well as physical. Don't a lot of those grandmasters find their matches exhausting?

Indeed, and then there's the mental games that we sometimes see, such as Fischer vs Spassky in Iceland. At the highest level, I think it is just about a sport. But where I'm at... Hawking could probably beat me, so nah, can't accept it's a sport.

[Savy]

Indeed, and then there's the mental games that we sometimes see, such as Fischer vs Spassky in Iceland. At the highest level, I think it is just about a sport. But where I'm at... Hawking could probably beat me, so nah, can't accept it's a sport.

How's he moving the pieces?

[OngBonga]

All he needs to do is communicate his move. He doesn't need to physically move the piece. It can be done on his behalf.

Of course, I could insist that he moves his pieces himself, thus guaranteeing me a win, ableit a boring win on time after 1. e4.

[Poopadoop]

Of course, I could insist that he moves his pieces himself, thus guaranteeing me a win, ableit a boring win on time after 1. e4.

I wonder what 'You're a cunt' sounds like in an electronic voice.

[OngBonga]

I wonder if punching Hawking in the face is like punching a child in the face?

[Savy]

All he needs to do is communicate his move. He doesn't need to physically move the piece. It can be done on his behalf.

Of course, I could insist that he moves his pieces himself, thus guaranteeing me a win, ableit a boring win on time after 1. e4.

Moving the pieces is what makes it a sport then.

Also why would being smart make him good at chess? If you're rated 1800ish then I'd put money on you being much better than him.

[OngBonga]

Moving the pieces is what makes it a sport then.

Right, so it's a sport when it's face to face, but not online?

[Savy]

Right, so it's a sport when it's face to face, but not online?

That'd be an e-sport.

[Poopadoop]

I wonder if punching Hawking in the face is like punching a child in the face?

I wouldn't recommend it.

0:38 for Hawking vs. Ong in chess

[OngBonga]

Mental note... take small EMP device to chess game vs Hawking.

[wufwugy]

[wufwugy]

[wufwugy]

Seriously can't get enough of Dopey Mark Cuban.

Best. Branding. Ever. Linguistic kill shot? More like linguistic curb stomp from the heavens.

[Jack Sawyer]

Fox, Murdoch and Trump

[Jack Sawyer]

Bernie Sanders is a Moron vid. Can't have more than 1 vid in a post, dumb PHPBB

[wufwugy]

Jack, you're a natural Trump supporter. Because you're not a fan of bullshit.

[a500lbgorilla]

Holy shit, the market quadrupled? Trump works miracles.

[a500lbgorilla]

Jack, you're a natural Trump supporter. Because you're not a fan of bullshit.

hahaha

[bigred]

"Judging market results in the short term is the greatest strategy"

- The greatest, most respected economists

[bigred]

I was going to use optimal strategy but then I'm not a straight talker of the people

[Poopadoop]

Jack, you're a natural Trump supporter. Because you're not a fan of bullshit.

In b4 Jack returns with a long post about how great Trump is.

[Jack Sawyer]

In b4 Jack returns with a long post about how great Trump is.

Trump is amazing, you just have to let the MAGA mindset invade you. It's like assimilating into the Borg, you just can't resist.

[Jack Sawyer]

Jack, you're a natural Trump supporter. Because you're not a fan of bullshit.

Hahaha, as with everything, I'm afraid there is a lot more nuance to that.

I could support him if he'd stop lying, stopped with his xenophobic and extremely divisive rhetoric, stopped with his ironic draining the swamp statements, stop appointing the absolute worse possible candidates (kiss your net neutrality and internet as a utility goodbye, and say hello to the data meter everywhere) for every position he can (OMG Betsy), stop claiming credit for the work of others, stop shifting blame towards others, actually stopped war like he promised in his campaigns (and yet is somehow actually gearing for war, increased defense spending with record amounts), stopped nickle-and-diming education and research budgets, and more stuff like that.

I guess I could support grabbing pussies. As long as the pussy is willing to be grabbed by me.

[bigred]

Hahaha, as with everything, I'm afraid there is a lot more nuance to that.

I could support him if he'd stop lying, stopped with his xenophobic and extremely divisive rhetoric, stopped with his ironic draining the swamp statements, stop appointing the absolute worse possible candidates (kiss your net neutrality and internet as a utility goodbye, and say hello to the data meter everywhere) for every position he can (OMG Betsy), stop claiming credit for the work of others, stop shifting blame towards others, actually stopped war like he promised in his campaigns (and yet is somehow actually gearing for war, increased defense spending with record amounts), stopped nickle-and-diming education and research budgets, and more stuff like that.

I guess I could support grabbing pussies. As long as the pussy is willing to be grabbed by me.

TLDR: Jack would support trump if trump was a completely different person with positive values/principles.

[wufwugy]

I'm not arguing. If you disagree with me, cool. I just wanted to make sure you know these views. If you wish to respond, I'll let you have the last word.

I could support him if he'd stop lying, stopped with his xenophobic and extremely divisive rhetoric,

Lies from Fake News. When they do that, who is actually responsible for divisiveness?

stopped with his ironic draining the swamp statements,

Different definitions of "swamp" are being used. One is that the "swamp" is rich people while shitty corrupt politicians/bureaucrats are actually amazing; the other is that the "swamp" is shitty corrupt politicians/bureaucrats.

stop appointing the absolute worse possible candidates (kiss your net neutrality and internet as a utility goodbye, and say hello to the data meter everywhere)

Keep this view on record. Make predictions about what things would look like in either scenario. Revisit at later date.

stop claiming credit for the work of others,stop shifting blame towards others

Like what?

, actually stopped war like he promised in his campaigns (and yet is somehow actually gearing for war, increased defense spending with record amounts),

This decreases war. First-order logic and ignorance of history thinks pacifism works. Higher-order logic and understanding of history acknowledges that pacifism is incredibly destructive.

stopped nickle-and-diming education

You mean the beyond bloated, shit-tier results, propaganda institutions? How about we have less adoration for the government that brings us Vault 7, a populace that can't personal-finance its way out of a paper bag, and totally incorrect views on many important other things, and instead have more adoration for proven methods.

and research budgets, and more stuff like that.

Some research, sure, I guess. Crowds out, though. Probably results in lower positive results overall, but the loss isn't big enough to complain about. Other research, >50% of published results are bullshit.

[wufwugy]

[wufwugy]

The "experts": "But but but but but but..."