Comments on: Judo and Japanese http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2004/08/15/learn-japanese-through-judo/ Chemically-enhanced neural rewiring, on a semi-regular basis... Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:56:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: dr Dave http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2004/08/15/learn-japanese-through-judo/#comment-153 dr Dave Sun, 30 Nov 2003 00:00:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2004/08/15/learn-japanese-through-judo/#comment-153 Rest assured that, had I grown up in the US, baseball would have easily replaced cricket for me too. Actually, it eventually did when I moved there. As for NFL, well, it managed to make me <i>regret</i> soccer (or football, as the rest of the world likes to call it). I am convinced there is a very direct link between unusually bright and intelligent kids and an instinctive hatred and contempt for anything that requires pushing/throwing/catching/running after some kind of ball, especially when done along with a dozen other people... Rest assured that, had I grown up in the US, baseball would have easily replaced cricket for me too. Actually, it eventually did when I moved there. As for NFL, well, it managed to make me regret soccer (or football, as the rest of the world likes to call it).

I am convinced there is a very direct link between unusually bright and intelligent kids and an instinctive hatred and contempt for anything that requires pushing/throwing/catching/running after some kind of ball, especially when done along with a dozen other people…

]]> By: Grod http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2004/08/15/learn-japanese-through-judo/#comment-152 Grod Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2004/08/15/learn-japanese-through-judo/#comment-152 <blockquote>See, as a kid, little dr Dave could not be bothered much with sports… particularly the kind that required you to build some form of “team spirit” and where smashing your opponent’s head in the concrete was not considered the principal objective… if said sport involved the use of a ball, then I downright hated it. Don’t ask me why, I just couldn’t stand soccer, basketball, handball, to say nothing of hell-spawn cricket.</blockquote> substitute baseball for cricket and that could described me.

See, as a kid, little dr Dave could not be bothered much with sports… particularly the kind that required you to build some form of “team spirit” and where smashing your opponent’s head in the concrete was not considered the principal objective… if said sport involved the use of a ball, then I downright hated it. Don’t ask me why, I just couldn’t stand soccer, basketball, handball, to say nothing of hell-spawn cricket.

substitute baseball for cricket and that could described me.

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