[QUOTE="TheGrat1"][QUOTE="percech"] Short attention span? A big problem for American viewers. Which is why the Super Bowl has a break after EVERY play.monkeytoes61

I disagree. Football requires much more tactical analysis than American Football from the simple fact that you have to manage your team's plays for fourty five minutes, twice, and not every couple of minutes. That, and you're also limited to only three field changes that can actually promote a change at the pace of the game, so you really have to ponder what to do.

Football also has a considerably larger amount of tactical praise given from the team as a whole: you don't have a single mind (in the field, disgregarding the coach) defining how something will play out -- it's a seamless interaction between the player's capacities and the game itself, where players have to decide on-the-fly which approach is most likely to succeed against the way they're oponent is playing. Proof of this is the relative lack of defined "plays" or "moves" in Football -- it depends on your adversary and on your team --, something very much present in A. Football.

[QUOTE="one_plum"]

People always talk about IQ and not so much about EQ. Fact is, EQ will get you further in life than IQ.

HailedJohnDman

what is EQ?

EverQuest. Much more important than IQ.

I'd give preference to your mechanic instead of someone on the internet. Also, iirc, tires don't deteriorate naturally -- being petroleum derivates, that would take too long.

[QUOTE="TehOverkill"]

Courtesy. I'd rather think I'm good in bed than know I'm not (this is not a real life example).

Adrianstalker

If you never know you will never be good. If someone is for once sincere you can at least try to make it better.

Ignorance is bliss heh?

You must be very limited in all sorts of activities and not just your fake example if you think like this.

I'd be a happier man if you had just smiled and not replied to that. Besides, I have no input on whether someone is sincere to me or not, so I get the same results as you do.

Also, I'm always improving, regardless of someone telling me I need to or not.

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[QUOTE="AFBrat77"]

Honestly, I liked his statements, nothing wrong with them, he's proud to be American, nothing wrong with that either.

But we tend to be free-thinking, personally I prefer soccer over our own football.

you, on the other hand, are coming off as the arrogant one with the last part of your second sentence.

But honestly, the more I think about it, there is no best country, and those statistics you gave earlier don't amount to a hill of beans to the millions who enjoy living in the U.S.A. over living elsewhere.

AFBrat77

I never said I'm not arrogant. There's a difference between being arrogant and preposterous: claiming that people from a certain nationality are superior to others has given reason to many genocides and wars, from north-americans and other nationalities.

There is, truly, no best country. But TC stated there is a best country and that it is the USA, so I proved him wrong with as many facts and objective data I could muster. Considerably better than just saying "It's not the best because I don't like it.", hm?

ok fair enough, but you could just disagree with his first premise and answer the crux of his real question....but I understand you are from Brazil and wouldn't be able to answer that accurately. I don't mean that in a bad way, its just that you haven't been there. hell i've only been to a few states in the middle of the country for any length of time, but i tried to give some input.

I lived most of my life and youth in North Andover, Massachussets. I know the US, trust me.

Chemistry. Little to no use of reason, and lots of phormulae and characteristics to memorize.

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[QUOTE="Ravensmash"] Ultimately all he's spouting is opinion. AFBrat77

He's sure shaping his opinion to look like a fact, though. He also has some inconsistencies regarding his nation that even I, not born in the U.S.A, know about.

Honestly, I liked his statements, nothing wrong with them, he's proud to be American, nothing wrong with that either.

But we tend to be free-thinking, personally I prefer soccer over our own football.

you, on the other hand, are coming off as the arrogant one with the last part of your second sentence.

But honestly, the more I think about it, there is no best country, and those statistics you gave earlier don't amount to a hill of beans to the millions who enjoy living in the U.S.A. over living elsewhere.

I never said I'm not arrogant. There's a difference between being arrogant and preposterous: claiming that people from a certain nationality are superior to others has given reason to many genocides and wars, from north-americans and other nationalities.

There is, truly, no best country. But TC stated there is a best country and that it is the USA, so I proved him wrong with as many facts and objective data I could muster. Considerably better than just saying "It's not the best because I don't like it.", hm?

[QUOTE="TehOverkill"]

[QUOTE="PernicioEnigma"] That's not fair. In this day and age, very few people need to hunt for survival. People that do hunt do it for pleasure just as much as they do it for food, and like I mentioned in my previous post, animals hunted in the wild suffer a lot less (if they even suffer at all!) then animals that are farmed do. PernicioEnigma

And, as I said, "if you hunt to eat, alright". If you're hunting an animal for your own subsistence (you need clothes, materials or food), it's fine -- specially if you're not mass murdering them.

That doesn't matter. An animal who eats another animal did so because he needed to be fed, not because he likes the thrill of the hunt. It's kind of pointless to waste time, effort and money in a hunt that will render no benefit to the hunter other than a sense of accomplishment.

I'll probably be in a bus, heading back to my city, given that my classes start this Monday. That, and I've no interest in the Oscars.

Courtesy. I'd rather think I'm good in bed than know I'm not (this is not a real life example).