Favorite/ worse thing about sports
What is it the most that makes you love/hate sports!?
What sport is favorite/least favorite?
What sport is favorite/least favorite?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Why are so many things on SW so binary - [i]love[/i] or [i]hate[/i]?
I have no "favourite" sports but neither do I dislike any, with the exception of boxing.
Boxing to me is an absurd, dangerous activity whose sole aim is for one to batter the other into unconsciousness in the fight. For some, it leads to or encourages Alzheimer's developing in later years.
(That disease is also recognised as an effect among former professional footballers, from years of heading the ball, especially in the days of heavy leather balls. I think it is now banned or at least discouraged in school and youth-club football.)
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I do though utterly oppose the so-called "sports" or trophy shooting of wild animals that still happens in some countries, like Malta, France, Spain and Norway; for no reason other than killing them. Not to eat, or for genuine culls, just blood-lust. It, and hunting by dogs, has been outlawed in the UK for some decades now, but the informal, more brutal forms still occur.
I have no "favourite" sports but neither do I dislike any, with the exception of boxing.
Boxing to me is an absurd, dangerous activity whose sole aim is for one to batter the other into unconsciousness in the fight. For some, it leads to or encourages Alzheimer's developing in later years.
(That disease is also recognised as an effect among former professional footballers, from years of heading the ball, especially in the days of heavy leather balls. I think it is now banned or at least discouraged in school and youth-club football.)
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I do though utterly oppose the so-called "sports" or trophy shooting of wild animals that still happens in some countries, like Malta, France, Spain and Norway; for no reason other than killing them. Not to eat, or for genuine culls, just blood-lust. It, and hunting by dogs, has been outlawed in the UK for some decades now, but the informal, more brutal forms still occur.