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Offline rachmaninoff_forever

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I'd like to make an announcement
on: July 12, 2017, 09:09:27 PM
Outin is the GOAT

That is all
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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #1 on: July 13, 2017, 04:07:46 AM

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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #2 on: July 13, 2017, 04:19:07 PM
You know the acronym for it right?  A lot of people think it's an ilsult but it's really not
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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
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Offline mjames

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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #4 on: July 13, 2017, 05:05:26 PM
GOAT at what tho?
Football?
NBA?
Piano?

Can't be football because Messi is GOAT.
Can't be piano because Chopin is GOAT.
How good are you at basketball...?

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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #5 on: July 13, 2017, 05:09:38 PM
GOAT at what tho?
Football?
NBA?
Piano?

Can't be football because Messi is GOAT.
Can't be piano because Chopin is GOAT.
How good are you at basketball...?

Are you serious???

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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #6 on: July 13, 2017, 06:12:46 PM
Sports are great, why would you hate it?

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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #7 on: July 13, 2017, 06:47:23 PM
Sports are great, why would you hate it?

Is there anything more useless for people to do with their time? I hate watching it because it's stupid and I hate doing it because it's boring and unpleasant!

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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #8 on: July 13, 2017, 09:52:36 PM
Is there anything more useless for people to do with their time? I hate watching it because it's stupid and I hate doing it because it's boring and unpleasant!

IT'S THE SAME THING AS MUSIC!!!

mjames Jordan is the GOAT for basketball but I hate him he's such a sellout
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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #9 on: July 13, 2017, 10:13:06 PM
IT'S THE SAME THING AS MUSIC!!!

NO IT'S NOT!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!!







Oh dear....I'm starting to sound like r-4  :o

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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #10 on: July 13, 2017, 11:06:38 PM
NO IT'S NOT!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!!







Oh dear....I'm starting to sound like r-4  :o

OF COURSE IT IS ITS ENTERTAINMENT!!!

But in all honesty though I approach sports and piano the same way
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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #11 on: July 14, 2017, 04:21:06 AM
OF COURSE IT IS ITS ENTERTAINMENT!!!

There's nothing entertaining in sports  ::)

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Reply #12 on: July 14, 2017, 04:45:19 AM
I was joking, I wasn't actually suggesting that a Finnish woman is the GOAT for basketball...lol

Sports are great, especially team sports. The adrenaline rush, exhausting your body, and teamwork makes sports an awesome activity.

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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #13 on: July 14, 2017, 05:02:29 AM
I was joking, I wasn't actually suggesting that a Finnish woman is the GOAT for basketball...lol

Sports are great, especially team sports. The adrenaline rush, exhausting your body, and teamwork makes sports an awesome activity.

I especially hate team sports  >:(

There's some merit to exercise I guess, but the rest of it is just stupid. Who cares if the other guy runs faster than me unless he's chasing me with an ax...

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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #14 on: July 14, 2017, 05:16:32 AM
Competition man!
Sports are fun, the "keeps you fit" is just an extra. That way I don't have to gym or weight lift to keep my body toned.

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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #15 on: July 14, 2017, 05:54:13 AM
Competition man!

I have zero competitive spirit...that's for people who need outside valuation...

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Reply #16 on: July 14, 2017, 06:24:20 AM
I have zero competitive spirit...that's for people who need outside valuation...

We are just different spirits then. For me competition isn't about validation, it's about the thrill of fighting against someone else. It's JUST FUN!!!
Dribbling and scoring goals against people is way better than doing it by yourself.

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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #17 on: July 14, 2017, 09:10:46 AM
I used to really enjoy my twenty-five years or so of hard, competitive tennis. Admittedly though, it was the physical activity itself which drove me, not diehard competitive spirit, and when I improved and was placed in serious teams I found all the analysis and arguments unpleasant and stopped. Nonetheless, at seventy, it seems to me that those among my contemporaries who played no sport are now the poorer for it in several ways. There is the obvious quality of residual fitness, which I have come to believe does actually exist, but there is also the mental aspect of sportsmanship, which is difficult to define but instantly recognisable in someone. Not all sportspeople possess sportsmanship, especially these days, but those who do have a valuable mental attribute in all fields of endeavour. It is the ability to have an intense battle with somebody within a harmless, controlled framework and emerge the best of mates afterwards regardless of who wins.

Luckily, I never had the right build to participate in those sports which are clearly dangerous to health. For example, there is growing realisation that concussion from the contact varieties of football is producing dementia in alarming frequency among older, ex-footballers. Other examples of harm exist in other popular sports. The sentiments of the previous paragraph, therefore, do not apply to those sports having a high probability of serious injury.

So part of me agrees with outin, as sports are certainly neither necessary nor sufficient, (exercise might be necessary for health though) but another part agrees with mjames.   
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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #18 on: July 14, 2017, 12:30:05 PM
Music on the other hand is like food and water. There's no way I could have survived and kept my sanity through life without it in some form.

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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #19 on: July 14, 2017, 01:35:59 PM
The best part about beating someone in competition is knowing the other team or person is suffering as they basque in my radiance of victory
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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #20 on: July 14, 2017, 02:19:56 PM
Sport is for meatheads.
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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #21 on: July 14, 2017, 02:29:07 PM
Sport is for meatheads.

There's actually something we agree on  :)

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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #22 on: July 14, 2017, 02:36:30 PM
What about chess?

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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #23 on: July 14, 2017, 02:43:25 PM
Lol I'm skinny af how am I a meathead?

Actual meatheads are bad at sports because they're too big for the speed and agility required
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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #24 on: July 14, 2017, 03:02:59 PM
What about chess?
It's not a sport. Neither are card games. I love poker ;)

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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #25 on: July 14, 2017, 03:05:51 PM
Lol I'm skinny af how am I a meathead?

You are not. And sports are not for you, you are just using them as an excuse for not to do what you were born to do!

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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #26 on: July 14, 2017, 03:56:22 PM
Renowned jazz pianist Art Tatum was said to have listened (couldn't see) to basketball games while improvising.

I think we all have our own reasons for being into piano anyway.

When I listened to the "master" pianists there's a world always in my head about it. There are Two Towers devoted to learning two different kinds of virtuosity - the first was the Angel Tower and the other was called the Devil Tower.

These Towers were made as a result of a schism long ago. On the aftermath of Franz Liszt, there was a joint effort by the piano community to study and replicate the master's legendary technique. Unfortunately, a rift soon started known as the Great Schism over what "virtuoisty" truly is about; disciplined, perfectionistic art, or thrilling, explosive showmanship? Thus, the movement was split into two factions and they decided to build their own Tower schools.

In the latter Tower, you first had to endure countless taunting of the abusive guards in the first floor before the Master called you in. Then after a few grueling tests to prove your worth as you ascended the tower floors there came a test 95% of students quit afterwards humiliatingly. Basically it involved you being forced to watch a short performance by either Volodos or Berezovsky and it would be miraculous if you still decided to continue the course.

Of course in the first tower the staff are more professional, first you got to present your credentials to the doorman and then they'd let you in based on their assessment. These guys don't believe in egotistical demonstration unlike the other tower, they're more scientific and research-based. Hamelin is their primary researcher and there even have been a few decent non-classical pupils who partially studied there, notably Art Tatum who took a few disciplined courses there to refine his technique.

This is the Tale of the Two Towers.

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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #27 on: July 14, 2017, 07:58:36 PM
You are not. And sports are not for you, you are just using them as an excuse for not to do what you were born to do!

I've been playing basketball and boxing since I was 4 I QUIT PIANO >:(
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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #28 on: July 14, 2017, 08:03:45 PM
I've been playing basketball and boxing since I was 4 I QUIT PIANO >:(

No you won't. You sold your hands to the devil, remember  :-*

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Reply #29 on: July 15, 2017, 02:06:28 AM
Music on the other hand is like food and water. There's no way I could have survived and kept my sanity through life without it in some form.

Yes, that would certainly be true for me too.
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Re: I'd like to make an announcement
Reply #30 on: July 15, 2017, 08:00:01 AM
Jocks can frigg off!
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