the point of school sport
QUOTE: "So, all of you that complain of having to take part, just so you know, it was as bad for people like me. We FUCKING HATED you for it. But you didn't care, you were too busy smoking, crying about being fat and then eating crisps to compensate."

i) the justification for school sport is that it makes people physically fit. school sport exists precisely for fat, unhealthy kids, just as school canteens aren't for kids who know all about food and love cooking, english as a second language isn't for kids who speak really good english etc.

ii) at least at my school, we were told we were 'competing against ourselves'.

iii) this was total sh1t, we were competing against each other, because it was set up that way. the equivalent of making everyone do English as a Second Language, then humiliating the Korean kid for not being very good at speaking English.

iv) thus, it was set up to reward the people who it wasn't for, and alienate the people who it was for.

v) like a lot of people who were 'bad at sport', I was actually pretty physically fit, but bad at the mindset of physical competition. The small, weedy, pie-eating and smoking but rough kids seemed to like sport, the tall, fit nerdy kids didn't.

vi) in short, fuck school sport.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 7:34, Reply)