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I agree, but entertainment is usually valued more than forwarding the human race or saving lives etc.
Mostly because the saving lives you don't see until someone directly saves your life - until then it is easy to be oblivious or not value the service.
As for forwarding the human race, we don't get to see the results quickly enough and if we do, they are too complicated or bring change. That is the one thing that we fear a lot.
Also wars happen elsewhere so it's easy to ignore soldiers risking their lives.
To be clear I do not condone this, just acknowledge that this kind of mentality exists. I fully agree with what you meant here.
A lot of people are more interested in what celebrities eat for breakfast, rather than can someone who works an honest days work even eat breakfast.
EDIT: Oh and we love distractions - to be entertained, makes life easier.
modified 6-Feb-15 5:05am.
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No, they do not do any of those things. They just attract enough fools who pay those salaries plus some humble profit.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
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Keith Barrow wrote: KeithBarrow.net[^] - It might not be very good, but at least it is free!
Check URL
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Curious, the HTML in my both "My Settings" and "Click to edit signature" are both:
<a href="www.keithbarrow.net">KeithBarrow.net</a>[<a href="http://www.keithbarrow.net" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>] - It might not be very good, but at least it is free!
You might have spotted a featurette there. The open in a new window actually works though, perhaps it is a cunning plan by Chris to keep you here 
[Edit]
Forgot to say thanks, so errmm, thanks!
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Looks like bug to me.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Modify it like this:
<a href="http://www.keithbarrow.net">KeithBarrow.net</a>[<a href="http://www.keithbarrow.net" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>] - It might not be very good, but at least it is free!
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Yep, that's done it thanks.
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Panem et circenses
And circenses are cheaper than everything else 
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That's why I watch the rugger. 6 Nations kick off tonight with the Welsh trying to intimidate the English; a skill the England XV are capable of without the help of any opposition. Then tomorrow, Italy will lose at home and Scotland will capitulate in Paris.
As a side note, Biggle's geography teacher will be playing for the Welsh. In the ladies match on Sunday in Swansea.
veni bibi saltavi
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I've been saying that for years about footballers and other entertainers but no-one wants to listen.
Who is worth more to the world: a Christiaan Barnard, or a David Beckham? And who gets the better lifestyle?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Professional football is not harmfull. If it inspres people to play, it is even healthy. So why critize it?
Do you blame your local pub owner for selling something that is unhealthy, namely alcohol? As long as what we do for a living is legal it makes no sence to rate it. With suregeons on top and down to professional football players, if you want.
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Haakon S. wrote: Professional football is not harmfull. If it inspres people to play, it is even healthy
National Health Service figures show that almost twice as much is spent on sports injuries than is spent on everything that is attributed to drinking and smoking -- even the spurious rubbish about passive smoking, and what have you (European figures: 7,000 deaths and 30,000 disabilities caused by playing sports per year -- source[^]).
Exercise is good for you, sport is where you get hurt, and where you waste taxpayers' money.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: National Health Service figures show that almost twice as much is spent on sports injuries than is spent on everything that is attributed to drinking and smoking
I'm sorely temtped to troll FB, "these dangerous activities are too available and to cheap, costing the NHS - ban sport now!".
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I wrote a satirical something about it a while ago. When I get the chance, I'll clean it up and stick it on my site.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well played, I'd say 
You don't get anything for free 
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Haakon S. wrote: Professional football is not harmfull.
Isn't it? Young [mostly] boys look up to these turnips as an example of manhood. The footballers earn way too much for what they actually do and* have a massive sense of entitlement - they* behave very arrogantly on and off the pitch. It's commonplace to see these paragons absolutely hammered, having fights and, in a few high profile cases, committing acts of rape. I don't know about you, but I'd consider idolising such people harmful.
*mentally insert the word "often" here
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Especially when the F.A. recently appeared to be willing to let a convicted rapist resume his role as a role model for young impressionable males.
I was glad to see every club who considered it back down under public outcry.
I'm all for rehabilitation, but he could get that stacking shelves, or painting lines on the road.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Keith Barrow wrote: I don't know about you, but I'd consider idolising such people harmful.
Many young boys are dreaming of becoming professional players, and try so by playing football. Which is a good thing. What is your alternative? Computer games? The coach potatoes of our time are also a load on our health service, it is a fact that many sit themselves to death.
Certainly, I do recognise that there are many negative sides of professional sports. But all in all, if you look at the big picture it is positive.
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Haakon S. wrote: Many young boys are dreaming of becoming professional players
How many of them actually make it? Taking a look at this[^] we can work out a rough guesstimate of 20 clubs * ~35 in the squad: 700 players. Multiply that by 4 divisions (anything else and they might as well be doing something more lucrative) we're roughly talking about 2800 (lets say 3000) professional players, that's 0.005% of the population - bad odds. Where I went to school lots of kids who had no hope of ever getting signed for any professional team concentrated on football rather than something useful.
Haakon S. wrote: <layer>and try so by playing football. Which is a good thing
I'm not against sport: I'm against the amounts footballer are paid, and he way they are held up as heroic. If people want to kick a ball about & have fun, good on 'em, I just don't see why they have to be paid more in half an hour than a doctor is in a year.
Haakon S. wrote: What is your alternative? Computer games?
Whoa. False dichotomy much? Practically anything useful to the world would be better than a career in football (except financially). Especially given the way the football world gives false hope to so many.
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Haakon S. wrote: something that is unhealthy, namely alcohol?
assumes facts not in evidence. One example
There are strangers on the Plain, Croaker
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It's the media that's to blame really ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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I agree although it's not just football where the least intelligent rise to the top (especially in the UK) 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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It's no reason to hate the players. Hate us. We are the ones giving them that salary.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It has f all to do with some of us. I won't even go in a pub if it has sports channel playing, let alone watch it at home.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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