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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi
George Carlin on the American Dream
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^ That's good, thanks for sharing! I especially liked his points about education, and the last line about the American Dream.
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Everest is a good analogy because all they’re doing is taking a collective **** on a mountain that should be left alone. Waiting in lines like they’re at Disneyland.
Pro-sports are sad pyrrhic victories as well, actually.
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I'm kind of picky about the use of words, so like Janszoon, I was surprised at your use of pyrrhic.
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
They’re not worth the effort.
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^ Quite understandable if your first definition wasn't too precise: it's not always easy to come up with a good definition off the top of your head. The second one you posted was a big improvement.
Plenty of things are not worth the effort, but only winning at a huge cost is a pyrrhic victory. If you climb Everest and lose limbs because of frostbite, that's pyrrhic, but I don't imagine that many pro-sports victories are really pyrrhic. In most of them I imagine you come off unscathed and have a trophy to put on your mantlepiece. Even if the trophy wasn't worth the effort, it doesn't make it a pyrrhic victory imo - a better term for that circumstance might be "waste of time".