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Shardik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 08:03 PM
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Don't ya just love it that beating the shit out of each other on TV is called an "Art?"
I don't watch this crap, but apparently, there are enough fans that makes this an economically viable source of entertainment for a large segment of our society.

Hey, I enjoy movies where I know it's a movie, but when I get to see two guys trying to beat the shit out of each other for money, it makes me ill.

Anyone else? Or am I a "prude?"
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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 08:04 PM
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1. What exactly are you talking about?
:shrug:
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Shardik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 08:08 PM
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2. The mixed martial arts, the tough man competitions and the like. n/t
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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 08:14 PM
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6. Gotta agree then. I don't get the appeal either. n/t
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 08:11 PM
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3. puke
:puke:
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 08:12 PM
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4. Funny, when they do it in the boxing ring, they call it a Sweet Science!
http://www.thesweetscience.com/
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blues90 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 08:14 PM
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5. I've only seen it advertized
But I think it does nothing good and it shows me what type of crap people willfully watch , talk about a dumbed down society.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 08:16 PM
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7. I hate that UFC shit.
The fact that it's so popular...I don't know. Lust for violence is kind of creepy.
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 08:19 PM
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8. The vast majority of DUers who vote in polls lust for violence.
Additionally, pay attention to threads where someone committed a terrible crime, you will see calls for torture and death.
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 08:20 PM
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9. The people that create weapons to kill consider the creation of those
weapons an art. To feel that art you must die. The world is fugging crazy!
:dem:
:freak:
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 08:22 PM
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12. Actually, gunsmithing is an art and so is knife making.
:P
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 08:22 PM
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10. pssst...
we can't see your t.v.
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 08:22 PM
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11. Jeez..I thought you were talking about the media..
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hughee99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 08:27 PM
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13. They say prostitution is the oldest profession...
but fighting for the entertainment of others is damn close.
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Township75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 09:01 PM
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14. If 2 adults want to engage in a lawful activity, who are we to stop them?
?
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WoodyM Donating Member (127 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 09:28 PM
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15. Perhaps it is just me
but I cannot conceive of the thought that someone beating someone else senseless, with his fists or any other part of his body, can be thought of as art or sport.
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 09:29 PM
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16. Well, unlike Monster Truck rallies . . .
. . . at least the audience doesn't usually have to die.

So, that's a plus.
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 09:39 PM
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17. Hardly any worse than the other garbage on television. It's junk food for the brain
sometimes people like junk food, some like chips some like candy. To each their own.
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Shardik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 10:44 PM
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18. No... brain candy is reruns of Three's Company or Die Hard.
This crap is reminiscent of the Roman Coliseum.
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AndrewP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 11:19 PM
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19. It's not disimilar to any sports, really
People watching laundry throw a ball around and putting their whole self esteem on the line over it.

So it goes. To each their own.
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Shardik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 11:27 PM
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20. Sorry, Andrew. Two people beating each other senseless is not the same
as team sports, tennis, golf or any number of other sports.
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AndrewP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-09 08:47 AM
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22. Yeah. It pretty much is, actually.
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Shardik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-09 09:00 AM
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24. How so?
While the fighting sports concentrate on the complete domination of another physically, mentally and basically rendering your opponent unable to respond, other sports do not go to that extreme.
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-09 11:31 PM
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21. Call it whatever you want, it's excellent.
I love MMA, Boxing, Muay-Thai and all the martial arts. It's very exciting and entertaining.
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Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-09 08:53 AM
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23. I don't see anything wrong with it.
If that's what they like to do.

My son studies Kempo and MMA fighting, he is 16.

He loves it, they do it to burn off some steam, some of that young male testosterone.

He won't be doing it professionally since he is hoping to become an aerospace engineer.

If he gets into Air ROTC or NROTC his training should help him get through boot camp with ease.
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Godhumor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-09 09:13 AM
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25. MMA is one of the only things I consistently watch on TV anymore
I like the competition aspect. I also like that fighters who are put into an impossible situation with regards to submissions almost always quit rather than risk damage. I think it is actually an important lesson about knowing when to "live to fight another day".

Admittedly some of the fighters are unrelenting, arrogant jerks but that's common in pretty much every sport.
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