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Are you kidding? Boxing is a sport. MMA is blood-sport. (I hope you've been reading the Tank MacNamara series about MMA the past few days referencing Kimbo Slice, it's hilarious.)

no i haven't seen it, but I'll take a look around see what i can see... and call it what you want to call it (blood sport or whatever else) mma is still safer and less damaging to your body than boxing, lol and Kimbo talking about mma? he will be great i think at one point but to me he is still just a backyard brawler that's starting to learn some MMA...anyways... what about the
"Macs don't have software" not so common now but it was a while a go from what I hear...
 
Possibly the most persistent urban myth of all time: Somebody invented a way of converting water to gasoline, but the oil companies bought him out.

Every few years a new version of this story pops up.
 
no i haven't seen it, but I'll take a look around see what i can see... and call it what you want to call it (blood sport or whatever else) mma is still safer and less damaging to your body than boxing, lol and Kimbo talking about mma? he will be great i think at one point but to me he is still just a backyard brawler that's starting to learn some MMA...anyways... what about the
"Macs don't have software" not so common now but it was a while a go from what I hear...

though i am not a rabid mma fan, i used to think they were staged, or at the very least, there were some who were more "backyard brawlers" than true martial artists

but i now believe that mma is a true sport, and while dangerous, still safer than boxing

as much as i think boxing will remain far more respected in the sports world, no matter how popular or unpopular it gets in the next few decades, there is a lot of information on the internet and in print explaining that consistent trauma to the brain is far more dangerous that harder blows that are less frequent

another sport which has come into question is professional football and strong possibility of lasting brain damage is why great qb's like troy aikman and steve young retired before their time

sure, football players wear helmets, but the brain is still being slammed against the skull over and over, year after year, and helmets, as well as boxing gloves, can give the athlete a false sense of security that unfortunately allows the person to allow more hits to the head over a longer period of time
 
my dog never swears...i raised him right

my dog once said a dirty word while we were all in the kitchen... i don't know what kind of noise it really was, but it sounded like she was cursing... it was really funny.

also, my favorite myth... ROUS's... rodents of unusual size... i don't think they exist.
 
Possibly the most persistent urban myth of all time: Somebody invented a way of converting water to gasoline, but the oil companies bought him out.

Every few years a new version of this story pops up.
The modern day version of alchemy, if only it were true.
 
Possibly the most persistent urban myth of all time: Somebody invented a way of converting water to gasoline, but the oil companies bought him out.

Every few years a new version of this story pops up.
Was that the same chap who invented the light bulb that wouldn't short out, and the light bulb companies 'removed' him?

Shocking stuff, it really is.
 
..mma is still safer and less damaging to your body than boxing...

Even if true (do you have a study that shows this?) that's a remarkably low benchmark to clear. I would wager that the study (probably commissioned by an MMA association) choses one indicator, such as long-term brain damage, that boxing is particularly poor at. On the other hand, I'd wage MMA would have more shoulder or joint injuries, etc.

The fact is all competitive contact sports cause long-term damage to the body. The only reason it might seem like they don't is the "healthy worker effect." But they do.
 
i heard microsoft windows was actually better than mac os, in their huge xp launch

so i wonder what microsoft is saying these days of vista vs. osx? to date, i have not heard a peep from microsoft about how vista compares osx...gee, i wonder why?

i will give xp kudos for actually being very, very stable from the start, being on the NT kernal and all, but i don't know where ms dropped the ball on vista
 
Lightning doesn't strike the same place twice.

Lightning rods anyone? The Empire State Building has been struck by lightning at least 25 times in it's history.:eek:

I hear this from moms everywhere: Gum takes 7 years to digest if swallowed.:rolleyes:
 
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