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boo boo · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:36 pm **Posts:** 11103

You know Mitch, just because I know I suck at sports doesn't make me good at sports.

Timi · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:12 pm

It might make you entertaining though.

Yousha · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:58 pm

Timitzii wrote:

Meh, I've only recently learned to ignore songs like that. I heard the song, it wasn't good, but spreading the word for it is only going to make it more popular. If somebody likes it, he/she is free to do so. I don't really care.

nah man, dont agree. people need to listen to such stuff so that they think twice before calling some of the other music out there bad.

Mitch NZ · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:08 am

boo boo wrote:

You know Mitch, just because I know I suck at sports doesn't make me good at sports.

Actually, if you consider the aim of sports to entertain, and you know you are bad and enter a sporting event anyway, that makes you pretty good at sports.

Gray · **Joined:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 4:49 pm **Posts:** 3826

The aim of sports definitely isn't to entertain. The term "good at sports" has been used in the same way forever, there's no way it refers to how entertaining you are.

Timi · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:31 am

I think the aim of sports IS to entertain us. 'Being good at sports' differs from being 'entertaining at sports' though.

Yousha wrote:

Timitzii wrote:

Meh, I've only recently learned to ignore songs like that. I heard the song, it wasn't good, but spreading the word for it is only going to make it more popular. If somebody likes it, he/she is free to do so. I don't really care.

nah man, dont agree. people need to listen to such stuff so that they think twice before calling some of the other music out there bad.

I see your point, but I don't really care. If somebody likes them, he/she is allowed to do so.

Mitch NZ · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:57 pm

Gray wrote:

The aim of sports definitely isn't to entertain. The term "good at sports" has been used in the same way forever, there's no way it refers to how entertaining you are.

Well then for boo boo's analogy to work, the aim of music has to be to win, if not, it's irrelevant.

corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:11 pm **Posts:** 15301

Mitch NZ wrote:

boo boo wrote:

You know Mitch, just because I know I suck at sports doesn't make me good at sports.

Actually, if you consider the aim of sports to entertain, and you know you are bad and enter a sporting event anyway, that makes you pretty good at sports.

Except watching people who are bad at a sporting event is not entertaining (regardless of whether they know it or not) other than in a "haha what a dumbass" sort of way that is not fixed by someone doing it deliberately. In fact someone being deliberately bad is annoying.

corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:11 pm **Posts:** 15301

Mitch NZ wrote:

Gray wrote:

The aim of sports definitely isn't to entertain. The term "good at sports" has been used in the same way forever, there's no way it refers to how entertaining you are.

Well then for boo boo's analogy to work, the aim of music has to be to win, if not, it's irrelevant.

Sport has multiple aims. Are you suggesting that music's aim is to entertain?

pnoom · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:11 am **Posts:** 5132

I love the game where we try to reduce a complex and multifarious human activity involving innumerable people with wildly divergent aims to a single aim and then try to judge the people engaging in that activity by the light of that one aim and don't care that all such attempts inevitably lead us to tremendously stupid and patently contrary to fact evaluations.

Gray · **Joined:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 4:49 pm **Posts:** 3826

corrections wrote:

Mitch NZ wrote:

Gray wrote:

The aim of sports definitely isn't to entertain. The term "good at sports" has been used in the same way forever, there's no way it refers to how entertaining you are.

Well then for boo boo's analogy to work, the aim of music has to be to win, if not, it's irrelevant.

Sport has multiple aims. Are you suggesting that music's aim is to entertain?

I might say that the object of music can vary. There is music that is obviously geared to be appealing to the masses and other artists who use music more as a form of self expression.

Rudy Rules · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:08 pm

Mitch saying a lot of unsmart things.

joe c · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:35 am **Posts:** 3068

Is music's aim not to entertain?

Rudy Rules · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:55 pm

That's one of those discussions where nobody leaves understanding more than they started with.

joe c · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:35 am **Posts:** 3068

People wouldn't bother with music if it wasn't entertaining. Meh.

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