Sports entertainment makes me angry
There is something about it that makes me unable to even tolerate it. When I go into a bar with some sports match on the tv, I get annoyed. Thinking about it, I wonder if it's not the fact that it feels like massive waste and absolute snobbism. Thinking that a government put millions into subsidising an arena to host games that have no meaning beyond the BS the athletes (scammers?) came up with, when that money could have been better spent on virtually anything else (art museums, poverty, climate change...) really gets me.
Or the ridiculous "explanations" about their performance in the game/race/event/what have you, that pretend to make it way deeper than it really is. Chill, you just kicked a ball on a field of grass for a few minutes. It doesn't mean anything. No need to make it seem like it was in any way significant to you, or to anyone watching.
Or swimming. Come on. That's just plain lazy and disrespectful to even call this a sport and put it on the same level as soccer or tennis. Your body literally floats in water without you having to do anything, how dare you call yourself an athlete?
The same goes for ice hockey. Come on, the skates take out all the friction and there's no effort required to glide forward! And don't even get me started on motor sports. I saw some dudes drive in circles in their cars and that was "sports".
Edit: typo
Thank you for the satire tag. For a minute I was thinking, “What is with all these grossly negative posts lately?” and then I realised that was (probably) your point. 😅
It was indeed. I wasn't sure whether it would be obvious so I tried to copy-paste as many full sentence structures as possible from the original post.
To clarify, this is not intended to pick on anyone and I hope it isn't taken the wrong way. It's just an attempt to illustrate what it looks like when someone unfamiliar with a subject makes an effort to dismiss it.
We've all been at the bottom of the competence hierarchy and most of us, when it comes to many areas of life, still are. And it's completely fine. Nobody can be well informed about everything. It would be awesome, though, if before expressing overly critical views we could spend a moment checking our level of professionalism/enthusiasm and if we find it to be low, maybe consider that professional/enthusiastic people in fact know more about it than we do. And that the statements we make as facts are most likely incorrect in some way.
In other words, when we couldn't care less about something and don't know much at all about it, our perception of its value is likely incorrect.
...I mean, a programmer just sits all day in front of a computer screen, staring at it, occasionally tapping the keyboard. How utterly lazy and meaningless. Who do these people think they are?
I don't really see how this can be taken any other way than "needlessly hostile". You just reworded the post from yesterday to belittle the person for their post. I don't feel that saying "it's satire" absolves this of just being bullying. That's the excuse of 2016 prank YouTube. If you wanted to make this point, surely commenting on the actual thread with this would have been better (this comment is a good contribution, why wrap it in the mean sub-tweet instead of engaging with the original post?).
A comment on the thread might've been good for discussion, but they still made it clear it was about the sentiment lately and seeing a satirical post when written with purpose feels like a worthy case for creative critique
~circlejerk is... no-a-way :(