I haven't seen an Arconic rant for some time, I thought he might be mellowing now he's not a "teenybopper" anymore j/k Will! Nice to see he hasn't lost his touch; no-one flames like Arcon flames..

weeeeeeeelllll..............I still say skaters are dumb.

Point: If I told you "Elephants are pink" you would never believe me.
Ditto: If you say "Skaters are not dumb" I'll never believe you.

Disagree? Bring me some evidence of a "clever" skater and i'll "review" my opinion.

I go to a selective school (ie you have to take an exam to get in). It turns out some of the best results in the country (Reading, in case other Brits were wondering). A good number of people in the school are skaters, but they're people who are going to go on and get excellent GCSE, A Level and Degree results and pursue good careers. Skaters are not dumb as a class of people.

"There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't"

lol, I kinda guessed Arcon would have something to say. I remember him saying he used to be a skater a little while ago.

@Krazy_Scout, I used to skate a lot when I was about 10 or 11. I wasn't a particularly good skater but there you go. These days I mountain bike a lot, I do muck around and pull tricks much like a skater would. I also attend a selective state grammar school, when I took the entrance exam I came 7th out of a couple of thousand. I was selected to attend Maths lectures at the Royal Institution. I can complete a Rubik's cube and a pyraminx(ok maybe those aren't very 'official' measures of intelligence but I'm pretty proud of the cube). I am studying Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Chemistry at A-level. I'm far from some sort of thicko.
Trying to do tricks on a board and getting an adrenaline rush while you do it is no different to many other sports. If you believe that every single skater is mentally impaired then so is every gymnast, every mountain biker, every skier and snowboarder, every surfer and every contact sport player. They all have tricks and things they practice one heck of a lot, they all know they might suffer an injury in the process and they all get an adrenaline kick when everything fits into place.

with any sport,once it is thought of as cool there may be a marked increase in the average iq of its participants due to the academics and techies trying to shed there geek image and be thought of as kewl among thier peers by involving themselves with the current trends
(probably followed by a sharp drop in the average iq once they land on thier heads a few times)

i stress this is not necessarily my viewpoint !
but whats the panel`s opinion of the theory?

You know, flames dont really bother me that much. Arcon your expressing your opinion about me as I did about skaters and thats a good thing. Especially since it shows that you can handle a keyboard instead of just a normal board. As far as skaters go, every skater around me, is a dumb, f*cknut little prick, who deserves nothing more than having his own board shoved up his ass. I dont care if there are smart skaters in the world, maybe my opinion will change of them one day. But as for now, I think they are still little pricks who I cant stand. I live in a neighborhood where theres lots of normal families and every normal family (not that im saying normal is good just saying) boring old families and each one has a social reject skating around in front of their house. As for their adrenaline rush, i hope they enjoy it, you know because there will always be someone who will criticize it. Like me, theres many sports i do like and play myself and im willing to accept that theres people who hate them. Like for example, I hate baseball, because I actually find it quite dumb to watch a guy hit a ball with a stick. I also have no real liking to golf and think its about as fun as watching flies f*ck.

There will always be people for it or against it. And I particularly happen to hate skaters, and the so-called "sport". You obviously like skating arcon, and as you tried to let me know that they dont give a **** about my opinion (and im not asking them to, its mine after all) neither do I give a **** about yours. But then again its always good to have healthy discussion, be it flaming or whatever. As far as I go, I still hate skaters, I still hate skating, I still think their little pussies who think their special and still think they all deserve to be lined up and shot. Oh and as far as that goes, I dont think skating is a real sport in even the most miniscule sense, nor does it deserve the title of being a sport.

"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla

this is a lot better than watching the telly!

@Krazy Scout
I went to school with Skaters, and those same Skaters Graduated Cumlaude from the same school, do you want more evidence??

as for the topic: Calling Skaters dumb, would be the same as Calling Einstein an idiot, They did some revolutionary stuff, Einstein, as we all know, invented the theory of relativity, And Skaters Defy The principals of Gravity with some of their tricks.

For the Second or third time in my whole time on TLR I would have to say: I Agree with Arcon. (Except on the Rebel Part)

Baseball? Ow! Say it ain't so Comont54, say it ain't so.

Come on you two, play nice . You've both expressed your opinions, but if you keep being so vociferous, you'll only get this thread locked.

Taw - I'm sure that they are glad that you are enjoing yourself .

at least one WILL be

Lol skaters are just plain SICK!!

I mean how fun can it be jumping around....and busting your head, or in worse case going down the rail and busting u know what. I mean, do they plan to have kids in the future??

P.S Skaters and Stickfigure violence...could not resist

http://www.sfdt.com/flash/movies/8496.html