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Al couldn't remember if his name was "Al" or not. He knew that's what people kept referring to him as, especially the French girl. What was her name? Emile? Memory is fickle for a dreamer, a tide with many moons. Why didn't she make contact anymore? Where had she gone? Al decided to find a place in ...

Please share those drugs you're taking, Mr Ringmaster

You guys are real JERKS!

Yeah ... aggressive and competitive jerks at that!

Don't take it all so seriously, Mr Carroll. Neither of us wrote that both can't co-exist. We were playing around with a discussion with how behaviour comes about. The discussion highlighted the complexity. Sometimes its fun to theorize. Lighten up. BTW that is not why I became involved in the 'baa a...

Damn, I should check my grammar and punctuation before posting so I can be understood

Well, in some cultures and situations children do not have to be taught to share. Yes, visit a playground where children have been brought up under certain conditions and this may be the case, however there are others contexts where children don't have to be taught to share because the culture they ...

Alakaboo?

Of course, other activities will generate competition and aggression also. However, I suggest that competition and aggression may emerge from certain context or collectivism may etc. Competition and aggression do not take place in all circumstances and at all times. Aggression and competition are no...

Given the above, this means sport is not a "bleeding off of the excess of competitive instinct" but a mode of producing competitiveness and aggression.

Alternatively, you are overcoding readings of the past with an interpretation borne of a current ideology that emphasises competition and so see past behaviours as such. Nevertheless, defending one's territory and competing for mates does not by defacto mean the human condition is innately competiti...

That's a very general claim, Steve. Collectivism has had just as much influence as competitiveness, or more in certain parts of the world and in certain cultures. Competiveness is something learned under particular ideological conditions, rather than an inherent human trait.

"visionary" and "vision" = empty signifiers and they know it. PR words. Members didn't get a say because they were thought to be nothing more than window dressing? "Better contacts"? Media? Then that reflects badly on all those involved because if they can't put the tour out to tender for media cove...

"Most fans of sport would not tolerate this shit ...



I was on a rant and my fingers were going too fast on a dodgy keyboard

BULLSHIT Kelly didn't know about the deal and details. He's using the same tactics he uses in competition. "Oh, I'm may not surf this year's tour" "Oh, I'm not interested in another world title" blah blah. The whole deal is a fuck up of immense proportions. The ASP and asosciated corpos couldn't get...

I wouldn't think investors care about the influence the world tour has. Wouldn't it be a tiny influence anyway? Wouldn't the real percentages to pay attention to be in stock, payroll, space, shipping, etc?

in one of the most progressive, dynamic sports in the world

The vast majority of people seem to find it utterly boring and lame (not the activity but the sport).

no interest at all except a sometimes mild curiosity. most have never heard of Aus.

Had to move here for work. We sometimes go surfing. We have had some waves here. Not a lot of waves, but some. It's a big coast where we've found some nooks and crannies that serve salty delights. Been learning and been surfing some coasts in East Asia I never thought I would. There's a lot of coast...