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Race Hate
February 4th, 2006 at 18:23
I’m quite pleased that the race hated bill hasn’t gone through. Not only is it a draconian invasion of our freedom of speech, but it would have presumably prevented me from talking about how much I dislike athletics.
Don’t get me wrong- I think its great that Paula Radcliffe and Kelly Holmes can erm… run really fast, but its not a very useful talent to have, is it? Imagine if they’d studied rocket science and brain surgery respectively?
It’s not even like these so-called atheletes are good role models. People like Paula Radcliffe are influencing young, impressionable youths like Mark Oaten into doing career destroying things. I bet erm… that really good triple jumper, whoever he was, steals sweets from young children in his free time too. He looks the type.
I think athetlics would appeal to me more if I could relate to the challenges me easily- at what point in time am I ever going to need to run exactly 100m in under 12 seconds? If it was say a test of how many items can be scanned through a till in a set amount of time, or the number of valid lines of PHP that can be written to accomplish a task without consulting php.net, it might be a bit more believable.
And hurdles… arn’t they counter-intuitive? The althlete wants to run forwards- not be constantly held back.
Silly sport.
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