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Originally Posted by plaaynde
How do you know that? It's a game. You think football supporters, acting like idiots (who should care where that ball goes?), only have that side?
'Fan' is short for fanatic, right? You're supposed to yell and scream at some sports events (not tennis, apparently), it's tribalism and cathartic, a good release in an allowed form. Meanwhile, poker is a social game played for money in front of witnesses and some of the players are intelligent except when it comes to poker. I doubt that many of them would like it if their behavior were compiled into a 'best of' vid that their family, nm their professional associates, could see. A person's true inner self comes out at the table and that's why there are psych books and discussions about how to comport oneself during play, not that they help one bit.
The fact is is that the number of ppl that consider themselves 'garbage' and it's nbd if they and their children simply fade away, goodbye human race, time to hand it over to machines of all things, is very, very small. The rest of them are human and I'll bang the drum again: Humans can, and do, act very badly over much less than what's coming.