They are NOT fuckn' 'heroes'!

[Warren Dew]

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Those ain't sports, they are risking your life for kicks, which is stupid, ergo, not heroic

They may not be heroes, but stupidity and heroism do tend to go together. As my Marine instructor used to say, "I don't want any heroes. Your job is not to give your life for your country, your job is to make the other guy give his life for his country."

[mistermack]

Nobody don't use words right no more.
You're a hero if you run 100 meters one tenth of a second faster than the next man, who is a failure.
The EU gets the Nobel Peace Prize. For persuading people not to kill each other I guess. I don't want my share, as I didn't really earn it, although I haven't killed anybody lately.

Why can't humans just grow up?
When we were little kids, we used to try to beat each other running, and jumping, and climbing and swinging.
You would think we would grow out of it, and give respect to people who develop new operations, or vaccines.
But no. It's still the one who can reach the other end of the playground first, or jump over the highest fence, or pedal his bike the fastest, who gets all the kudos.

Why the fuck do we even bother to leave school?

[Tyrannical]

We spend far too much time idolizing athletes and artists.

[JimC]

We spend far too much time idolizing athletes and artists.

Exactly!

We should be idolising maths teachers! Blonde women with big tits should throw themselves at our feet pleading to be pleasured!

(the same is true for female maths teachers; they're all lesbians...)

[pErvinalia]

it's true.

[MrJonno]

Words do have multiple meanings, according to the dictionary one sportmens can be defined as heroes for just having 'super abilities', courage is optional

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hero

[Svartalf]

I thought that being a one trick pony qualified you as a zero, not a hero?