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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldDon't like the sound of that
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    54 minutes ago

    yeah, no, gas masks were carried in ww2. some poor bastards (depending on unit) carried them all the way through the war. promask carriers were a choice bit of storage room if you decided to lose the mask, but early on lots of folks worried that it would be used on the battlefield again.

    plenty of discussion on this with a quick search









  • Sports is arguably the most consumed thing on this rock mate.

    hmmm… I’d put it at #2 behind religion.

    Funny how both are predicated on the populace supporting the ‘players’, so they don’t have to work the fields and can concentrate on improving their silly games, while living off the work of the rest of society.




  • The whole “Sportsball hate” group is so full of fucking dweebs

    the sportsball types come to this conclusion after about two seconds of deep contemplation.

    it’s hardly mature to obsess over men in tight pants running around a field playing a children’s game but being paid millions of dollars.

    maturity would be to realize these games, and the associated billions wasted in gambling on them, are a drain on our society.

    I’m not anti-athletics, I’m anti-organzied pro sports.


  • Sports have been a critical part of human culture for longer than the language you use to dump on them. You do not have to like them, but belittling them just speaks to a kind of petty bias.

    You don’t see it as a kid’s game because you’re childish.

    Athletics have been part of human culture. SPORTS, especially over-paid pro-sports, is a very new thing. No one was paying gladiators millions of dollars (equivalent) in the roman empire. They might earn their freedom, and I think in a tiny tiny amount of exceptional cases, citizenship. Sports is not all encompassing athletics. Sports is the orchestration of athletics to sell shit. It’s the cancer that takes a good thing and makes it repugnant.