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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 95241 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Do you care about Gary Abblet and the stupid AFL ? Reply #60 - Oct 5^th, 2010 at 12:11pm Sir lastnail wrote on Oct 5^th, 2010 at 10:22am: Now the three alleged rapist collingwood players are getting lots of free air time !! Does it ever stop !! Makes for good newspaper circulation = $$$$$$$ If people will buy it - they will print it.
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Reply #61 - Oct 5^th, 2010 at 12:23pm

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Life - can you change your photo please?
You look like someone who is all washed up.

If that's a pic of himself, he's making an absolute fortune.

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That's rubbish.
Every footballer would carry life long injuries.
It's not that healthy to play sports.

Maybe so, and probably moreso with aussie rules than most other sports.
But it's less risky than being a couch potato.

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Reply #62 - Oct 5^th, 2010 at 2:56pm

Amadd wrote on Oct 5^th, 2010 at 12:23pm:

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Life - can you change your photo please?
You look like someone who is all washed up.

If that's a pic of himself, he's making an absolute fortune.

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That's rubbish.
Every footballer would carry life long injuries.
It's not that healthy to play sports.

Maybe so, and probably moreso with aussie rules than most other sports.
But it's less risky than being a couch potato.

How is he making a fortune?

Sports is more risky than being a coach potato.
The only safe exercise is walking - even then you
can sprain your ankle on an uneven surface.

What about swimming?
Now they find that you can develop an enlarged heart -
look at Dawn Frazer.
Also the chlorine in the water damages your lungs.
They used chlorine in WW1 as a chemical weapon to
destroy the lung lining - go figure that one out.

Let's take tennis as an example.
The winner has to be able to get to the ball faster than their opponent.
That means putting enormous strain on the knees as the body pushes
off in strange directions.
Eventually the knees give out leaving life long injury.

Also - I have a stupid brother who ran marathons.
Now his hips click every time he walks.
All the cartilages are worn out.
The body is not like a machine with replaceable parts.

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Reply #63 - Oct 5^th, 2010 at 3:10pm

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How is he making a fortune?

That's Frank from the "Shameless" series.

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Sports is more risky than being a coach potato.
The only safe exercise is walking - even then you
can sprain your ankle on an uneven surface..etc.

You need to take into account that a lack of exercise will cause many more health problems that are not as easy to correct as a dodgy knee.
In fact, it's more likely that a fat ass couch potato will do themselves an injury from reaching for the peanut butter at the back of the cupboard because of their weakened state.

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Reply #64 - Oct 5^th, 2010 at 3:18pm

Bobby. wrote on Oct 5^th, 2010 at 2:56pm:

Amadd wrote on Oct 5^th, 2010 at 12:23pm:

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Life - can you change your photo please?
You look like someone who is all washed up.

If that's a pic of himself, he's making an absolute fortune.

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That's rubbish.
Every footballer would carry life long injuries.
It's not that healthy to play sports.

Maybe so, and probably moreso with aussie rules than most other sports.
But it's less risky than being a couch potato.

How is he making a fortune?

Sports is more risky than being a coach potato.
The only safe exercise is walking - even then you
can sprain your ankle on an uneven surface.

What about swimming?
Now they find that you can develop an enlarged heart -
look at Dawn Frazer.
Also the chlorine in the water damages your lungs.
They used chlorine in WW1 as a chemical weapon to
destroy the lung lining - go figure that one out.

Let's take tennis as an example.
The winner has to be able to get to the ball faster than their opponent.
That means putting enormous strain on the knees as the body pushes
off in strange directions.
Eventually the knees give out leaving life long injury.

Also - I have a stupid brother who ran marathons.
Now his hips click every time he walks.
All the cartilages are worn out.
The body is not like a machine with replaceable parts.

Strewth!!! you certainly are going all out to justify being a lazy bastard.

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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 95241 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Do you care about Gary Abblet and the stupid AFL ? Reply #65 - Oct 5^th, 2010 at 3:56pm Wesley. Quote: Strewth!!! you certainly are going all out to justify being a lazy bastard. I'm not lazy. I carry my own sports injuries from the past. I am telling people the truth.
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Reply #66 - Oct 5^th, 2010 at 6:13pm

I totally agree with Bobbythe Bat1

'Excessive' participation in Sports can result in 'long term' damage.

Sports is there to become 'fit' more than anything else it offers in the world. How it is done is subject to variety and enjoyment. I'm currently in Daniel Geales gym once a week to get my 40 year old body 'fit' again ...the perk is tow 'learn a few boxing tricks' along the way (if needed Wink

) - but there is now way I will push myself 'beyond my limits'. what for? I have all the time to take it 'easy' without pushing the envelope and punishing my body for damage. I 'enjoy' my sports.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is still up in the air, but most likely due to over excessive fitness regimes and taking on characteristics of Sports that cause more damage than good.
Australian Sports are 'BACKWARDS' in that they do offer 'injury' upon fitness, rather than the more orthodox of growth and fitness.

Personally, I always played sport for the fun of it - if it got too serious, it wasn't sport. I recommend Tai Chi to anyone and I think Lawn Bowls is great. Go for a jog, but don't 'push it' and punish your body.

Fitness is NOT about a Gold Medal. Roll Eyes

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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 95241 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Do you care about Gary Abblet and the stupid AFL ? Reply #67 - Oct 5^th, 2010 at 7:37pm Thanks Jas - finally someone agrees with me.
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Reply #68 - Oct 5^th, 2010 at 8:02pm

Totally agree with you Batty. Having worked many years in 'surgical wards', I've seen the damage done by 'burning the steak' as we say.
Sport is there to get "FIT", but people tend to take it further and become 'competative' against others and their own bodies. It is no longer about getting fit, its all about getting a Gold Medal, Sponsorships and more money than what its worth.
I did an Art Course with a former Aust High Diving Champ. she was a little pocket dynamo and she enjoyed the High Diving ...but soon as 'others' wanted to take over her soul and TELL HER how to run her life, etc so 'Australia' can win a gold Medal ...she used drugs to scare them away, because she wanted to 'enjoy' her sport more than anything.

Its like driving along a country highway late at night. I always let some speeding bozo get in front and then I find it far easier to just sit back 20-50 metres and follow his reds and let him concentrate on using the HighBeams, let alone take out a Wombat/Roo/pothole/etc upon the road ahead.

Australian Football Codes have become their own worst enemies in that they have had to restructure their rules considerably in an attempt to prevent injuries and other dangerous circumstances. These Codes are backwards in their 'duty of care' you could say.
Reckon Ray Price of Parramatta is no longer walking like Perpetual Motion these days.

Why ruin a lifetime for 10 years of punishment and for what ...selling FujiFilm, NIB Health Insurance, etc.

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Reply #69 - Oct 5^th, 2010 at 8:14pm

It_is_the_Darkness wrote on Oct 5^th, 2010 at 6:13pm:

I totally agree with Bobbythe Bat1

Sports is there to become 'fit' more than anything else it offers in the world.

Fitness is NOT about a Gold Medal. Roll Eyes

Exercise is there to become 'fit', sport is there to test that fitness - mental and physical.

Speaking only for myself, I love team sports. I've played a lot of football (real football i.e. soccer) and the feeling that comes prior to kickoff never EVER gets boring. Being able to test my fitness, skill and ability amongst team mates and opposition is fantastic - it's one of the things that drives athletes.

Conversely, that which comes from viewing sport is best explained in the following by Michael Parkinson:

"It is living human theatre. In the brief instant of a match, whether it be football, cricket or anything else, it tells us more about life and human behaviour than just about anything else."

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It_is_the_Darkness Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4000 in a ReTardis Gender:	Re: Do you care about Gary Abblet and the stupid AFL ? Reply #70 - Oct 5^th, 2010 at 8:21pm Exercise is a Sport is an exercise. Sport you can say is the pretty display icing on the cake. Just a shame people guts the whole cake sometimes.
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Reply #71 - Oct 5^th, 2010 at 8:21pm

It_is_the_Darkness wrote on Oct 5^th, 2010 at 8:02pm:

It is no longer about getting fit, its all about getting a Gold Medal, Sponsorships and more money than what its worth.

Australian Football Codes have become their own worst enemies in that they have had to restructure their rules considerably in an attempt to prevent injuries and other dangerous circumstances. These Codes are backwards in their 'duty of care' you could say.

Kind of agree with you there. At the end of the day, I think it's fair to say that most professional athletes are driven by their passion for sport, whilst some are corrupted by money, fame etc.

Unfortunately, the leagues within which they operate are almost always corrupted - to a large degree - by business.

Which is acceptable to a point, but not when it impacts on those traditional values associated with sportsmanship - and even less so when it creates a divide between fans and athletes/sporting clubs (e.g. lack of accessibility due to ticket prices).

I also think it a shame that to some degree, sport in Australia is largely measured in terms of how much "biff" it brings - which is a shame, at least when it detracts from the genuine ability athletes might bring to their respective fields.

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It_is_the_Darkness Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4000 in a ReTardis Gender:	Re: Do you care about Gary Abblet and the stupid AFL ? Reply #72 - Oct 5^th, 2010 at 8:22pm Agree Jaykaye - Australian Sports have lost the plot.
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Reply #73 - Oct 5^th, 2010 at 8:49pm

It_is_the_Darkness wrote on Oct 5^th, 2010 at 8:02pm:

Totally agree with you Batty. Having worked many years in 'surgical wards', I've seen the damage done by 'burning the steak' as we say.
Sport is there to get "FIT", but people tend to take it further and become 'competative' against others and their own bodies. It is no longer about getting fit, its all about getting a Gold Medal, Sponsorships and more money than what its worth.
I did an Art Course with a former Aust High Diving Champ. she was a little pocket dynamo and she enjoyed the High Diving ...but soon as 'others' wanted to take over her soul and TELL HER how to run her life, etc so 'Australia' can win a gold Medal ...she used drugs to scare them away, because she wanted to 'enjoy' her sport more than anything.

Its like driving along a country highway late at night. I always let some speeding bozo get in front and then I find it far easier to just sit back 20-50 metres and follow his reds and let him concentrate on using the HighBeams, let alone take out a Wombat/Roo/pothole/etc upon the road ahead.

Australian Football Codes have become their own worst enemies in that they have had to restructure their rules considerably in an attempt to prevent injuries and other dangerous circumstances. These Codes are backwards in their 'duty of care' you could say.
Reckon Ray Price of Parramatta is no longer walking like Perpetual Motion these days.

Why ruin a lifetime for 10 years of punishment and for what ...selling FujiFilm, NIB Health Insurance, etc.

I'd prefer not to be called Batty but
I have to agree once again with what you've written.
Your body may have to last you till 80 years or more of age.
The best course is to look after it not punish it with insane sports demands.

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Reply #74 - Oct 5^th, 2010 at 8:56pm

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Thanks Jas - finally someone agrees with me.

I'm not disagreeing that constantly pushing your body to the limits (in any endeavor) can be harmful, however, what is predominantly on display in western societies is a whole lot of peope who take that philosophy to the enth degree.

Yes, if you want to be an elite athlete, you're probably going to need to possess the required genes for your chosen sport. You'll also require loads of discipline, and then you may also need to be prepared to risk serious and possibly lifelong injury to your body.
I haven't heard many sportspeople say that they'd trade a limp if it meant giving away their gold medal.

And I haven't seen much admiration for anyone who has said " I could've won a gold medal, but it required too much hard work, discipline and risk, so I chose to sit on the couch instead".

Most of us are realistic (and past it) enough to know that we're not going to set any sporting world records. A medium level of fitness for age is an accomplishment in itself in western societies these days.

..scuse me whilst I pour another glass of Dimple Cheesy

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