"Gregory Morrow" > wrote in message
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> Sheldon wrote:
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> I'm sure plenty of yoose spend $200 on a seat at a ball game,
> I never have... I think yoose are just as nutz paying to see grown
> adult juvenile delinquents bat a ball around like so many retards as
> you think I am playing Jolly Green Giant with my patch of dirt
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> GM replies:
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> I'm always very amused by some of the people I know who sometimes chide
> myself and others for spending so much "time" on the internet. These are
> all big sports fans, some of them spend most all of their leisure time in
> a
> stinky bar, their butts cemented to a bar stool, screaming at a screen,
> spending all this money on booze and cigs and not inconsiderable amounts
> of
> dough on betting pools, etc...
>
> I gnerally loathe sports, don't see the point of *adults* sitting there
> watching some moron chasing a ball around. But if that's yer bag, hey,
> it's
> yer life and yer money, and DON'T be dissing other folks' interests.
> Yeah,
> I like my internet stuff but I get it all for $7.95 per month. My
> ancilliary expenses might include some cheep wodka as I'll have a toot or
> so
> sometimes in the evening whilst posting, but I've got the wodka anyways,
> it's no huge expense. Some of these sports fans I know have bet HUGE
> amounts of money on games, they put their bar tabs and cigs on credit
> cards
> and are so in hock at 21.95% interest for something that should be an
> enjoyable "hobby". Additionally, some of them get so wound up in the Big
> Game that when their teams lose they go into a funk and spend even more on
> their addictions, e.g. drinking, smoking, gambling...some have anger
> management problems as a result, they let some stupid game result
> literally
> run - and ruin - their lives. One d00d I know ditched work on a Friday
> afternoon *one* too many times to watch a Cubs game, he lost his job as a
> result...nice going!
>
> Some of these are the same nitwits who complain about never having money
> for
> this or that. NATCHERLY they don't, they are wasting it all on their
> sports
> jones...
>
> You have gardening and pen collecting, others restore old cars or radios,
> knit, do crosswords, can, bake, play the pianer, do genealogy, read
> mysteries, engage in video gaming, or wierd sex, ride horses, body build,
> build their own computers, etc. Interests and hobbies should be
> *pleasures*, not burdens...
>
> Food - wise I dabble a bit in baking, I know I'm not saving much time or
> money - wise but it's pleasurable, most especially when I see the smiles
> on
> the faces of the folks with which I've gifted my baked goods. I used to
> can
> years ago, but after awhiles it got to be a chore (and an expense), so I
> don't do that anymore...I can buy perfectly good canned tomatoes 'n stuff
> that is much cheapier and tastier than I could probably ever hope to put
> up.
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> Off my soapbox, but my internet/Usenet "hobby" is much cheaper, much more
> healthful, AND more entertaining, and anyways I've got characters like the
> cyberpussie and PeterBreathLucas and some others to mock, so my laffs come
> *very* cheap...
>
> :-)
>
>
> ===>>> thinking of a wodka and a Diet Squirt...


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