Social Science Unpopular Opinions you have (non-football) Part II

[Scotland]

The anthem is great in September because you know the anthem then the roar of the crowd then the siren means finals footy.

Would s**t me to tears if they played before every single game. Same as ANZAC "round". I don't need to hear The Last Post and the Ode of Remembrance 9 times over 4 days. If you have a game on 25th April, sure do a thing. Otherwise let it go and stick to bitching about Collingwood and Essendon.

 

[Kram]

The anthem is awesome.

 

[phantom13]

Can add Nutella to the list (along with cereal) of things any self respecting adult shouldn't be going near at all.

What's next with you lot? Roll-ups?

Grow up.

Roll ups are awesome. Do you think that at a certain age people should just stop enjoying food?

 

[Chief]

Roll ups are awesome. Do you think that at a certain age people should just stop enjoying food?

It's the weird virtue-signalling of crusty old dorks. They have RULES that MUST be conformed to or you're not a real man. Like them.

 

[Catfish Alley]

I like the anthem played before all games over here. Often it's both Canada and USA and the crowd usually still gets pumped for it. People definitely sing it more than back in Australia.

 

[Plugger35]

The Canadian anthem even got a run on South Park.

 

[revo333]

I like our anthem and compared to the others you hear at the soccer world cup I think it's one of the better ones.

 

[Gough]

I like that Australians view patriotism with the cynicism it deserves. Show me a self proclaimed patriot and I'll show you someone trying to hide something.

 

[Catfish Alley]

I like that Australians view patriotism with the cynicism it deserves. Show me a self proclaimed patriot and I'll show you someone trying to hide something.

You think? Aussies tend to be some of the loudest fans at international sporting events. Often draped in the flag or with some kind of Southern Cross tattoo.

 

[Gough]

You think? Aussies tend to be some of the loudest fans at international sporting events. Often draped in the flag or with some kind of Southern Cross tattoo.

Overseas Aussies as you know can be a bit of a different breed if they're so inclined.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Overseas Aussies as you know can be a bit of a different breed if they're so inclined.

As a cricket lover you must have seen in plenty of times on home soil.

 

[phantom13]

Personal opinion but support of a national sporting team is less about patriotism or nationalism and more about sport and competition.

I would absolutely throw on some green and gold and go support the boomers or whatever but I’m not putting a flag up in my front yard or getting a southern cross tattoo.

 

[Gough]

As a cricket lover you must have seen in plenty of times on home soil.

You're supporting a team not some esoteric concept.

 

[Catfish Alley]

True! Confusing it a little I guess.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Personal opinion but support of a national sporting team is less about patriotism or nationalism and more about sport and competition.

I would absolutely throw on some green and gold and go support the boomers or whatever but I’m not putting a flag up in my front yard or getting a southern cross tattoo.

Yeah, fair point. Always some idiots that take it too far but most are just supporting their home country.

We've got "Freedom Rally" idiots over here that have hijacked the flag.

 

[Gough]

Yeah, fair point. Always some idiots that take it too far but most are just supporting their home country.

We've got "Freedom Rally" idiots over here that have hijacked the flag.

Those who fly the flag loudest and proudest tend to represent the worst a country has to offer in my experience.

 

[phantom13]

Yeah, fair point. Always some idiots that take it too far but most are just supporting their home country.

We've got "Freedom Rally" idiots over here that have hijacked the flag.

Yeh, I’d happily go watch any national team and cheer loudly for them but * going to a rally.

I did go watch Lebanon v Aus in the rugby league World Cup a few years back. Lebanese fans went full soccer riot and somehow smuggled in a little barby and steel drums. They started cooking up these kofta things, safe to say I was 10000000% a Lebanon supporter that night.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Now I'm wondering what they're cheering at hockey games - their team or the country? Canadian's will clap/cheer almost as loudly for the US anthem. I think they're just happy to be watching hockey. Haha.

 

[FRUMPY]

The anthem is great in September because you know the anthem then the roar of the crowd then the siren means finals footy.

Would s**t me to tears if they played before every single game. Same as ANZAC "round". I don't need to hear The Last Post and the Ode of Remembrance 9 times over 4 days. If you have a game on 25th April, sure do a thing. Otherwise let it go and stick to bitching about Collingwood and Essendon.

Baseball in America do the anthem before every game and 'god bless america' in the middle of the 7th inning......

i would hate it if we did crap like that every game. Save it for big occasions. Less is more

 

[FRUMPY]

Roll ups are awesome. Do you think that at a certain age people should just stop enjoying food?

One of the best thing about having kids is the kids snacks in the pantry/fridge. I smash heaps of the food they take as snacks for school.

 

[Gough]

Now I'm wondering what they're cheering at hockey games - their team or the country? Canadian's will clap/cheer almost as loudly for the US anthem. I think they're just happy to be watching hockey. Haha.

It's absurd when you think about it, why do we ride the highs and lows of what's essentially just another for profit business every winter?

 

[phantom13]

It's absurd when you think about it, why do we ride the highs and lows of what's essentially just another for profit business every winter?

The concept of sport is pretty bizarre.

I think we had this discussion about the comm games but sports that evolved from survival stuff (running, wrestling etc) kind of make sense but sports that evolved for purely recreational purposes are truly just odd.

Chuck a ball through a hoop, but make sure you bounce it while you walk. Alternate to that you have to stop when you catch it.

Break down cricket and it makes absolutely no sense.

 

[the_interloper]

The concept of sport is pretty bizarre.

I think we had this discussion about the comm games but sports that evolved from survival stuff (running, wrestling etc) kind of make sense but sports that evolved for purely recreational purposes are truly just odd.

Chuck a ball through a hoop, but make sure you bounce it while you walk. Alternate to that you have to stop when you catch it.

Break down cricket and it makes absolutely no sense.

I think about this a lot too. My theory is that humans are kind of designed to battle in some way, and now we don't have to go and hunt for our dinner every day we find other ways to satisfy this urge. And one way is to support people who "go to war" in a sporting sense, we kind of get our fix in a vicarious way.

Of course competing is even moreso this, but even that is not actually over a real conflict or fighting for food (though it becomes that indirectly with the money at stake I guess at the pro level). Even actual professional fighting is not a fight over a beef of course, yeah it is odd though.

 

[Chief]

Tribal stuff. Mens testosterone shoots up when they watch their team winning which is a bit of an enjoyable jolt.

 

[FRUMPY]

Tribal stuff. Mens testosterone shoots up when they watch their team winning which is a bit of an enjoyable jolt.

goes up higher when they lose a game they should win