Wall mode weakness found and repaired - at high cost. Aaron, wall mode comes at huge opportunity cost. I guess it can't be helped? Social misfits; raging contradictions; self concussion.

Well, watched football for the first time in 10 years tonight, it was a match between home united and sin chee or something .. yellow flimsy uniforms. I regret to say that after so many years, the game still holds no sway over me. Only reason why I watched it was, I was studying in the TV Room while waiting for my sis to finish her makeup course. Several things caught my attention though.

Scene 1: Case of the Apparating Girls

Wow, loud screams ensueing from the stadium, and the most audible being that coming from the XX gender. Fans? Why do some girls dig watching sports, instead of playing sports? Is it the sight of sweaty men? Or the sick perverseness in seeing alpha mode in action?

Also, there was this bunch of cheerleaders (well .. technically NOT cheerleaders. Cheering + leading. There ain't no crowd to lead in cheering, so those little pom-pom wielding girlies were pretty much shrouded in their own delusions I guess) that appeared out of nowhere.

Where do these girls come from? Hired?? Or fans that somehow got together to start professional cheerleading? Or wives/girlfriends of these football players?

You know what, I can't make any sense out of this.

Scene 2: Mystery of Human Nature

Yellow stumbles (and from what I see, stumbles from his own duck-footedness) and Red happens to jump over him. Yellow screams all the way for almost 30 seconds while Red's shot misses the goal. Then everyone crowds round Yellow (including Black) and he points to his shin while continuing screaming (do some guys not have any shame doing a soprano on national TV that would have made Mariah Carey blush?). Black says continue, stretchers were carried to the field, and Yellow gets up and WALKS - not HOBBLES - to the side. It's as normal a walk as any.

Games are so petty. Stalling for time; anabolic steroids; sabotage; bad-mouthing; bad press involving promiscuous sex with minors (OH! That's what the girls are for!! Nirvana ... )

What's strange is, why do MEN dig these sports? Right, I am no fan of football, but what irks me is that *everyone* seems to be into it, and uh oh .. here it comes. If you're of the XY type and you don't even watch it, something's dreadfully wrong with you. Congenital hermaphroditism perhaps, or undescended testes. I find it hard to believe that every male has this in-born affinity for the C60 sports. For one, it sure isn't encoded into our survival traits.

Perhaps SOME like the thrill of it, the "sports" of it, the competition that keeps their gonads churning out loads of dihydroxytestosterone.

And maybe, SOME like it since chicks dig men who play/watch football. Yeah ... fat man sitting on couch with a can of cold beer and bag of nachos - after countless real-life examples of how such men turn out, I have simply *no idea* why these girls are still so enthused over a ball-kicking XY.

Or, some like it simply so that there's some sort of mutual discussable topic? Well .. I shall say no more. It's like women going after a certain so-and-so movie star so that they and their girlfriends and sit around talking. Please .. get a life. And perhaps some depth of personality while you're at it.

What I figure is, it's the innoculation by culture that really does it. Each geographical location has its own core sports, and don't come fooling me with any crap about them being H.sapiens geographically-isolated subspecies that have evolved to like certain things. H. sapiens ssp. irritans more likely. There's nothing remotely "manly" about this - in fact, it's just ever so slightly moronic to see a group of men spending quality time chasing a ball around. And, just for the record, I've known many non-footballish people who are more manly in every respect.

Right, enough about this, I'm so exhausted.

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