Re:Why Sports Are A Sad and Dangerous Waste of Time
by CocaKoala on Sunday March 30, 2014 @08:43PM
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Your list is incomplete; it should read "nation, religion, and sometimes politics, and also justin bieber, twilight, harry potter, the hunger games, jennifer lawrence, and whichever celebrity does something crazy in the next week".
Re:Why Sports Are A Sad and Dangerous Waste of Time
by robitor on Sunday March 30, 2014 @10:50PM
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I don't understand hacker news' dislike of politics... do most programmers not find it exciting?
Re:Why Sports Are A Sad and Dangerous Waste of Time
by ahomescu1 on Monday March 31, 2014 @12:15AM
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Actually, I'd say that HN has too much politics. Almost every week or every other week someone brings up Basic Income (for the 500th time) and that spawns a 500-comment thread. Personally, I'd prefer it if Hacker News stayed purely technical (there are other forums where people can bash each other over politics all they want).
Well, some do. But we consider those people to be nutcases.
No, the only other things that people get as worked up about as they do sports are nation, religion, and sometimes politics. Which, now i come to think about it, are subjects that are even more ridiculous than sports.