I was aiming partly at entertainment
but I am with you on this
now, pass me an ice cube please
L
On 23 July 2014 16:03, Tim Allen <
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> Too hot for ball games Lawrence and certainly too hot for arguing about
> them. Never said there was a similarity either - except they are both human
> activities. Mass idiocy is people killing each other, or worse, killing
> each other because the man above tells you to. Mass idiocy is a footballer
> getting 5000 a week or whatever, not someone playing football because they
> like it or someone watching them play football because they like it. Mass
> idiocy is anyone getting some ridiculous wage while others get next to
> nothing. And it may not be mass idiocy but it is definitely minor idiocy -
> someone who is able to manipulate language in an artful way thinking they
> are better than someone who can do amazing things with balls.
>
> I am not talking about someone personally liking or disliking any activity
> or not - I am talking about the way a personal preference for something is
> built up in the mind into something bigger - a value, a judgement etc.
>
> On 23 Jul 2014, at 13:58, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>
> > It's true that there are some whose approach to poetry is to chase round
> in
> > a narrow space trying to be more highly thought of than others; but apart
> > from that I cannot see a similarity between ball sports and poetry.
> >
> > (There was though a Punch cartoon of a grinning soldier running up and
> down
> > in no man's land, kicking a ball, watched by men from the trenches, one
> of
> > whom is saying to another "Lucky blighter's excused poetry"
> >
> > Not wishing to think my fellow bipeds idiots, I have been trying to see
> > something worth while in sport all my life and I am now in my seventh
> > decade. With such an accumulation of data, all negative to the
> proposition,
> > I think that proposition goes beyond prejudice.
> >
> > I charge mass idiocy
> >
> > L
> >
> >
> > On 23 July 2014 13:45, Tim Allen <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> What's wrong with balls? Nothing wrong with balls. Balls are good for
> >> playing with whatever age you are. Balls are great. The world is a ball.
> >> Sport is very very good for health and excitement and interest. Why this
> >> cliched arty opposition to anything sporty. It's a prejudice just the
> same
> >> as a prejudice against poetry, for example.
> >>
> >>
> >> Tim A.
> >
>
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