Many activities are sports but running & walking are also inborn.
Many activities are sports but running & walking are also inborn.
Hardloper wrote:
My relative says that running isn't a sport because there's no ball, or puck or whatever. But that's not the crazy part. The crazy part is, he says he can tell whether coffee is regular or decaf by TASTE and that decaf doesn't taste as good. What's up with that.
Personally I think your relative has it backwards. For me, a sport is something without rules contrivance or points. It's who jumps farthest, highest, who runs, swims, sails fastest.
Those which introduce a structure of rules as a framework for outcome, such as scoring runs or points or touchdowns, are for me games.
Lastly, those events which are judged for form and aesthetics, like gymnastics, I would consider art.
Most decaf is not very good. Try Starbuck's Sumatra and Decaf Sumatra to compare very similar roasts and there's not much difference.
Running is a sport technically in that it is a competition. Hell they even put Texas Hold 'Em on ESPN now.
Hardloper wrote:
My relative says that running isn't a sport because there's no ball, or puck or whatever.
By that logic, golf is a sport. And it's not. I will fight anyone on that. Golf is a game, not a sport.
Hardloper wrote:
My relative says that running isn't a sport because there's no ball, or puck or whatever. But that's not the crazy part. The crazy part is, he says he can tell whether coffee is regular or decaf by TASTE and that decaf doesn't taste as good. What's up with that.
damn, sounds like New Years party was wild at the Lopers. Wild AND CRAAZZZYY!
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PilluVittuKulli wrote:
That's rubbish. First of all you need balls to run hard. Secondly you can easily prove him/her wrong by setting up a blind tasting. Also you can make that twat drink something unpleasant if you want. Shooting some jizz in the mug will make a nice story for future holidays.
^ That is very, very creepy. I think that would be a sex crime in most countries. What the heck is wrong with you?
Why are you so concerned with what is a crime or not? Do you base your morality in the judicial system? What a tosser you are.
Besides if jizz isn't your cup of coffee you could also use shampoo or even better real poo.
cvoet55 wrote:
Hardloper wrote:
My relative says that running isn't a sport because there's no ball, or puck or whatever.
By that logic, golf is a sport. And it's not. I will fight anyone on that. Golf is a game, not a sport.
Wrong because the statement "all sports contain a ball" is NOT logically equivalent to "everything containing a ball is a sport" (converse fallacy)
On the one hand, by now there are probably genetically-engineered coffee beans that are identical except the caffeine-producing genes have been removed or switched off. On the other hand, caffeine itself definitely has a flavor. It also probably enters the bloodstream quickly through the nasal membranes, so a hard-core masochist drinker of that toxic sludge would notice if they don't get a little kick when they deeply inhale the smell before drinking it. Which they do!
Hardloper wrote:
My relative says that running isn't a sport because there's no ball, or puck or whatever. But that's not the crazy part. The crazy part is, he says he can tell whether coffee is regular or decaf by TASTE and that decaf doesn't taste as good. What's up with that.
1. Coffee. Prove him wrong by making two pots of real coffee and disguise with bag of decaf sitting there. Let him pick his pot based on his keen sense of decaf. Reveal after he speed nonsense about the decaf.
2. Sports. Arguing points:
-It's easy to acknowledge that running is a racing contest. Use "contest" instead of sport just to give him something to acknowledge. THEN it can be lumped with cycling, F1, nordic & alpine racing, NASCAR, etc which in sum cannot be denied as sports among a wise spectrum of fans.
-Lowest common denominator argument.
Strip all apparatus, pads, goals, balls, and support from required teammates of other sports, then the only true measure left to gauge athleticism is to contest the speed, endurance, leaping, throwing ability offered by track and field. Pure measuring of specific athleticism, period.
Yes. Your family is full of fools. You are the only intelligent person in your family. How fortunate...for us. We don't want to hear about the morans in your family. Keep your dirty laundry in the family.
You could tell the moran that sport was created in order to keep soldiers in shape when they weren't fighting their enemies. That's why the ancient Olympics was track and field sports. Therefore any sport that doesn't parallel with defeating your enemy isn't a true sport. Most sports with balls don't qualify because those skills don't translate to a true field of battle. Baseball would qualify but basketball, football and soccer not at all. Running is a very important skill to have during war whether on offense or defense. Any sport that incorporates a fire arm certainly qualifies.
Man hunting should be a sport.
Hardloper wrote:
My relative says that running isn't a sport because there's no ball, or puck or whatever...
Running isn't a sport, it is the only sport. All other "sports" are just perversions of running.
From 776-712 BCE running was the only Olympic sport.
Hardloper wrote:
.... The crazy part is, he says he can tell whether coffee is regular or decaf by TASTE and that decaf doesn't taste as good. What's up with that.
The washing process that removes the caffeine also removes desirable flavours leaving a lack of depth, similar to low quality over-roasted coffee in my opinion.
However, many people appear to not be able to distinguish between coffees of different qualities, or even seem to preference low quality coffee, such as the stuff that comes out of Nespresso machines. Why? We don't yet know.
Is it a sport if you can drink coffee during it?
If so, does decaf coffee negate the said status of the sport itself?
Who but God can answer the last question?
Does God exist?
If God exists only he knows if you can drink coffee while participating in the real sport.
Hardloper wrote:
cvoet55 wrote:
By that logic, golf is a sport. And it's not. I will fight anyone on that. Golf is a game, not a sport.
Wrong because the statement "all sports contain a ball" is NOT logically equivalent to "everything containing a ball is a sport" (converse fallacy)
You didn't write "all sports contain a ball," you wrote "running isn't a sport because there's no ball, or puck, or whatever."
Setting aside that it is false (all sports involve something that could be described as "whatever") it also doesn't imply that other things also aren't sports for the same reason. Your premise doesn't specify that any sport other than running must meet those criteria.
I always ask the real question, and the real question here is why argue whether running is a "sport" when the real glory is in being an "athlete." Saying you "play a sport" impresses nobody, saying you're an "athlete" does, if it's true.
Racing versus playing.
Running is legit, football is just a game.
Hardloper wrote:
My relative says that running isn't a sport because there's no ball, or puck or whatever.
So where does that leave Decathlon as the ultimate individual sport?