Past mistakes can’t be undone. Diferent time, diferent people, diferent way of thinking. I’m on that boat - pun intended - with you. My country started the trans-oceanic slave trade. A lot of bad juju on my ancestors tally, there.

What I do enjoy is joking with the way my country chose to settle on new lands. Most opted for iron and gunpowder, we opted for the go forth and multiply approach. The dutch were thwarted to invade Brazil because the people living there claimed Portuguese descent.

You guys could have chosen a different way to settle in those lands besides going all crazy for gold and wiping out the Aztecs in the process.

While you were doing that, my country was shipping off boats full of horny guys to fuck into existence our own settlements.

Make love, not war!

Shit… I’ve been a tech worker all this time? Because except for the gun part, that’s me. But I prefer heavy solid objects to deliver destruction onto appliances.

Copper nail or a little hole in a thicker wood and inject some bleach in there. It will kill it down to the root.

Going to risk garlic bread pre-dates sliced bread. And lost again!

Don’t know and don’t care; looks fluffy and cute.

Nonetheless, I must ask: who, where, when and how?

That alone is worthy of severe punishment.

I recognize that quote. And that one is a classic.

Original My Little Pony imagery! I see, I upvote.

Dumb shit but fun shit.

I’m doing my part!

Gratuitous and uncalled for?

Yes, I am an angry man; why, it is not relevant for the conversation at hand. Dealing with it is a life long commitment. Hate, it is not something I harbor; there is nothing worthy of such sentiment from me.

Any other remark you feel necessary to release, in order to relieve yourself?

Why the caustic attitude?

You can argue that sports play a role in building character. I’ll agree with that point to a degree. Character and values are built and taught at home, then sharpened outside.

I’m not a supporter of competitive sports in any kind or fashion and even less nowadays, as sports are poisoned with the overarching influence (meddling) of sponsors.

As someone who knows individuals connected to professional sports, both athletes and coaches, I loathe the overcompetitive mentality they pass down to their own children and the children they coach. This severely alters how these children relate to others, introducing a quasi darwinist mentality of survival of the fittest; our society has left behind those laws the moment we decided to change our surroundings to better fit us.

So, kicking down on sports even more on one that is known for being highly destructive of an individual’s health and mentality is really not on par of attacking an individual or group for being who or what they are.

p.s

And even then, that has nothing to do with why I posted that picture.

American footbal has no representation whatsoever in Europe (yes, apparently some games are played here, like some sort of tour). Given this, why the flying crocodile on a bycicle am I seeing anything relate to it on a supermarket? On a novelty story? Okay, fine, it is a novelty but in this context it makes no sense.

And if you think I’m being cruel, what other people were saying about that item on the shelf was several degree worst.

Give this person a medal! This is the best comment on the thread up to this point!

You want to conflate personal identity and affirmation with sports? Really?

Yes? As most americans already do? I wouldn’t feel insulted or aggravated.

Give me the apple pie, keep this trash.

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That is supposed to be a snack tray. The top of the helmet is an ice bucket and the face guard has two small trays for - I don’t know… - peanuts and salty snacks?