The grinds my gears thread

[Kingdom]

If you don't even know what exactly it is you'd be arguing against it's obvsious you're looking to argue it for the sake of argument and not because you actually disagree.Therefore I will ignore any response you make to the above post.

the typo for obvious was awesome though, I feel like you should make that the first name of a foreign guy next season. Obvsious Carlo Gonzales.

[HollywoodLeo]

Facebook fads

With the latest one, apparently if you remember an old store or location of a city you grew up in that makes you more of that city.

[HollywoodLeo]

It's funny how it typically takes me all of 3 seconds to debunk just about any scare-tactic share on facebook that most people just blindly share.

[HollywoodLeo]

Slanted polls that push one side of the opinion.

Here's the example that prompted me to make this addition. A CBSSportsline poll coinciding with their current cover-story opinion piece of Danny Knobler whining about Interleague play.



So, my three options are "It's time has passed", "It's a nice diversion", or "it ruins the season". At best, I can describe it as a diversion from the part of the season I actually care about. My other two options both say it's bad for the game.

Where's the option that says it's not a big deal? Or one that says that I like interleague? Or one that says that interleague is fine but the format sucks?

Yeah, I'm bickering about nonsensical matters here....but that's what this thread is for

Here's another gem over at Sportsline.com on the NFL side


The question is "Will Los Angeles get an NFL team within the next five years?"

The poll options are

"Yes, and it'll be about time" and "No, too many obsticles"

So, I can't predict that there will be a team there without agreeing with the narcisitic asshole who wrote the poll options that LA should have a team.

[Mach]

the diversion option doesn't say it's bad for the game, just pointless.

I hate those shit awful polls though. ESPN runs shit like that too.

[HollywoodLeo]

the diversion option doesn't say it's bad for the game, just pointless.

Right. I didn't say it said that.

So, my three options are "It's time has passed", "It's a nice diversion", or "it ruins the season". At best, I can describe it as a diversion from the part of the season I actually care about. My other two options both say it's bad for the game.

[Mach]

oh, so you were refering to the time has passed.

Also doesn't say it's bad for the game, just that it's no longer useful. Like a VCR. Not bad, just not useful.

[HollywoodLeo]

Now you're just nitpicking my choice of words.

The bottom line is, one calls it a "nice diversion" like as though it's ok but not what I really care about and the other two say we don't need it anymore. (One just makes it sound worse than the other)

[NYgiantsfan5689]

It grinds my gears when Trendy doesnt do contract extensions :P

[Trendy Bastard]

It grinds my gears when people bug me about it.

In all seriousness, there will be plenty of time for extensions.

[Mach]

Now you're just nitpicking my choice of words.

The bottom line is, one calls it a "nice diversion" like as though it's ok but not what I really care about and the other two say we don't need it anymore. (One just makes it sound worse than the other)

The last one makes it sound like it's a harmful negative.

[HollywoodLeo]

People who don't know how an analogy is supposed to work.

First off, please nobody jump on the religious connotation of what I'm about to post. This isn't about that, it's about the dumb analogy and Christianity just happens to be the content.

Anyway, I often see some of my Christian friends post on facebook the analogy of "going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going to a garage makes you a car".

This analogy, which I see A LOT makes absolutely no sense. Going to church alone does not make you a Christian but you can still feasibly become a Christian. No matter what you do, unless you warp into an alternate universe where you can become a transformer, you can never become a car.

The analogy should be "going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going to a garage makes you a mechanic" or "...going to the kitchen makes you a cook" or any other number of comparisons that actually do make sense.

[Mach]

I guess it'd depend on one's viewpoint of going to church having an effect on making someone a Christian. If the belief is that no matter how much someone goes to church, that wouldn't make them a Christian, the car analogy would be apt.

Of course that would mean a certain way of defining the word "makes". It is assumed that the most common connotation would be "accurately represents" the tenets of Christianity as opposed to "transforms" someone into being a Christian, the latter being the usage for my above statements.

[HollywoodLeo]

Do you make it a point to argue against everything I post in here?

The analogy makes no sense whatsoever. You cannot become a car. You can be a proper Christian. The entire purpose of people making that faulty analogy is to tell people they're not being Christian just by attending church, but that they have to actually BE a Christian.

[Mach]

Do you make it a point to argue against everything I post in here?

No.

The analogy makes no sense whatsoever. You cannot become a car. You can be a proper Christian.

By just attending church? No, no you cannot.

The entire purpose of people making that faulty analogy is to tell people they're not being Christian just by attending church, but that they have to actually BE a Christian.

Sure, but going to church has no impact on one becoming a Christian. Just like going to a garage has no impact on one becoming a car.

You can become a Christian but it has nothing to do with going to church, which church was the main focus here.