Ah the old inbox…

Here's a very pleasant e-mail from someone across the pond…

"From: Uk all the way

Regarding post: number=267

"ey look mate,i'm from the uk and i do not beleive your egocentric views
are correct. Football (american) is a flawed sport! you plan out your
moves before each play. sport is not a planned strategical plan, it is
a
thing of beauty such as "soccer". email me, i look forward to beating
you
in further arguements."

…who must actually not have caught on that I was actually refering to someone else's post about soccer, and part of my argument was that soccer wasn't about strategy. Late night in a pub, maybe?
Beauty of the web, innit? I don't really know if this guy's from the UK, it's almost like a cartoon version of a UK e-mail.
Next, like I give a shit about American Football. The original argument (that I responded to) went something like soccer is the greatest sport in the world because it's about strategy, downtime, and luck and that it was like chess. My argument was more or less that neither sport or chess for that matter were really objectively better than the the others, at least not on the criteria of strategy, luck, and downtime. I was neither bashing football nor football. Finally, making an unqualified assertion doesn't actually win you an argument. Unless your God, merely stating an opinion doesn't count for much.

Speaking of God, here's another sweet gem…

Regarding post: number=203

"Don't you know you sinner johnny pope is the man of God and When you
speak
aganist a man of God. God will repay you for what you say God does not
take it lightly!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Wow. Someone who uses that many exclamation points must be right! And look how he (or she) saved all his/her punctuation for the end. Of course, the point that I must have failed to make here is that divorce wouldn't happen quite so often if people entered into marriage with the seriousness that God aparently intends. Maybe it's not such an absolute good to keep two people together when they clearly and frivolously got married in the first place?

As far as God not taking what I say so lightly, I didn't realize that a being who can create and populate an entire planet in six days could be so insecure. It's funny all the weird little human quirks people like to ply on their deities. Of course God will get me. I mean, if he really likes the Pope and all. That is, Pope's (the whole office of) colossal arrogance isn't just pissing God off more.

And finally, Matthew, I didn't overlook anyone. In fact, you might want to include the mixers and studio techs and background musicians who get paid Nike's minimum wage (overseas included) who put in a ton of work, as well as the enormous costs of studio equipment which is all factored into the price of the cd. But my points for the last time are a)RIAA's goon squads are bad, and b)people who on the ramen diet make that sacrifice for their art, and the hurt in royalties caused by piracy isn't the determining factor.