Nonsense Thread

Its not that different.

Gives referees more freedom to interpret what is "a play for the ball". More grey decisions for referees = worse quality officiating = more mistakes = worse quality game. Ref's have too much control over the outcome of a game IMO.

If arsenal can't beat liverpool then winning the premier league is a fantasy

The title is won against the teams in lower half of the table. If you can get extra points against the top teams - thats an extra chance of winning it. That being said... Arsenal has no chance. They are too inconsistent, and always have been over the past 10 years.

4 points from 3 games? Not good enough. Never mind how lucky they are liverpool didnt score (so they outcome could be even worse). Games like this remind me why i stopped watching the live games (and just read what happens)

Rumor has it benzema will cost 50mil, and i think wenger should take it. If he doesn't make another move this transfer window everybody will roast him.

omfg, when you're cooking chicken in the oven and it's like 90-degrees outside...

Taem wrote::microwave: omfg, when you're cooking chicken in the oven and it's like 90-degrees outside...

That steep ?

Taem wrote::microwave: omfg, when you're cooking chicken in the oven and it's like 90-degrees outside...

For non-Muricans, he means 32 C

Asteroth wrote:
Taem wrote::microwave: omfg, when you're cooking chicken in the oven and it's like 90-degrees outside...

For non-Muricans, he means 32 C

Lol, indeed. I forget sometimes the rest of the world uses Celsius instead of Fahrenheit.

Since we're on the subject in the nonsense thread, why are Americans (talking government officials here) so pigheaded sometimes? It was proven on Mythbusters round-a-bouts are over 100% more efficient than stop-lights, yet every city I know still chooses to use stop-lights. And of course the metric system (proven system that goes by 10's) versus America's absurd obsession with the Imperial system... makes no sense! And healthcare, hah! America fucked that up so badly, its laughable, like seriously, every country in the world is laughing at how greedy the politicians (Congressmen and women) who wrote that garbage into existence were to make sure their rich lobbyist backers (i.e. the health care insurance system) got a nice profit when many other countries have been doing it fine for years as a socialist system... wtf America?!? Most of it has to do with greed, plain and simple. Here's a quick read if you're interested on 11 Things Other Countries Do Better Than America, and you'll start seeing a trend... that it's always related to $$.

Cause freedom. Well not really, it's mostly money (as you pointed out).
You touched on a lot of things there, but in regards to traffic lights and metric system, the typical argument is "it would be too expensive to change to metric (think of all the signs we'd need to rebuild)".
Frankly, i think it's bullshit, but whatever, It's the least of my concern with the US.

As for healthcare, i really do believe there's more to it than money. A lot of people hate the idea that they HAVE to give government money that basically takes care of other people (leeches - as conservatives love to refer to them). I've never understood this mentality (i've pretty much always lived in cities), but in rural areas people have a vastly different mindset.

The thing that made me realize this was watching some series where people live on homesteads in alaska. They are 100% isolated from the world and COMPLETELY depend on themselves for survival. These people have no access to TVs or internet and pretty much the world, and they don't care. They love their lifestyles (depending on themselves and their families, living off the land, complete freedom). Then i think of the 10s of millions of people like this in the US and how they all view government as inherently intrusive. Since they get by on their own, they think everyone else SHOULD be able to as well. That is why there is so much resistance to things that seemingly make sense to the rest of us (taxes, universal healthcare, food stamps, education, whatever).
I really don't think the politicians are necessarily pigheaded, i think they are just accurately representing their constituents. The tragedy is the constituents are pigheaded and politicians learned that they can take advantage of them (lie, cheat, abuse the system for financial gain).

Then there are 'fiscally conservative' people who are educated and integrated in society and truly believe that less gov intrusion and complete capitalism is the best system. I don't have much to say about these people other than i think they're flat out wrong, but godspeed trying to convince them otherwise.