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top ten most miserable cities. their criteria: unemployment, taxes, crime, and HOW THEIR SPORTS TEAMS DID THE PAST TWO YEARS.

what a fucking tragedy if you live somewhere where the team sucks. like st louis. realestate.msn.com/slide...

I stopped reading when they kept talking about sports.. but i guess it makes sense

does it?

all they had on st louis was their goddamned team sucking, unless i missed something. up to the same qualities as crime and unemployment?

come onnnnn

It's called Morale. If we have something to believe in, we won't be miserable.

eh. that's a fundamental difference between us and fucking morons though. embedding your happiness in a team of millionaires. fuck, that

applies to a lot.

I dunno. I wouldn't want to sit at home and be completely miserable with absolutely nothing to do or watch or feel anything for when

Everything else makes me miserable.

eh, if you can find happiness in anything else then i'd say you've missed out on a lot of life.

You're not getting the point here, but OK.

you say that a lot. i dont think you're getting the point.

there's worse shit than your team losing if apparently the crime is not bad and neither is unemployment.

btw - quit saying im missing the goddamned point when im DISAGREEING with your point.

either that or learn to communicate better if you truly thing i AM missing it.

Your views on things are pretty absolutist. Always placing your ideals above others, and eventually calling everyone else flawed when they

don't fit under your ideals. Then assuming a person's life is wasted or misplaced when you see it as such.

Not everybody is you. Everyone feels and reacts to things differently. Just because someone finds happiness in a sports team doesn't mean

It's less important to them than what is important to you.

It's like looking down on general luxury items when there are so many other things to be worried about in the world. Like telling people

To stfu and comparing their reasons for happiness is not worth having when there are other things to worry about.

I was saying I get this article. I understand it could've focused more on the "actual" problems of the places it's talking about

But it's called the top 10 miserable places.. and here are some of the reasons.

Not having things that make you happy, what does that do to you? It causes you to be miserable. Having a crappy home sports team?

That makes you miserable. Some people can live as they do without thinking of that, but your actual well-being does become affected when you

have things to actually look forward to or cheer for or be cheered on for.

you know - whatever you just said was completely invalidated in my mind by the fact that you still have a need to belittle every change.

my *only* point is that there's more shit to worry about that football. i get it, people care about football. but people can care about

teams in places they dont live in. living where a shitty team is does not make "misery". they should go hang themselves if they're that

goddamned stupid.

the fact that you went on some tangent and then accused me of "missing the point" is moot when you missed the point to begin with.

Are we still talking about the article?

so do you root for ghana in the olympics?

it's a pretty natural inclination to want your "own kind" to succeed, whether that pertains to city, country, nationality, family, whatever

no, we shouldn't all stick to that exclusively, that'd be narrow-minded...but the inclination is there.

i'm not into sports at all really, but it's still nice to hear about the braves or falcons doing well (especially because the falcons

generally DON'T lol)

i actually dont watch the olympics or care who wins, honestly.

i try to not be concerned too much with regional/political boundaries when i can. i just like seeing human achievement in general.

yeah i know, "damned hippy".

The Olympics is more then just sports Brad. Its nice to see other countries come together to do things together. Some are rude, but most

are kind to each other and its really nice to see that. An unhappy city do to poor sports is completely understandable. Philly has been a

pretty unhappy city through the years, but the moral of everyone's spirits went up when our baseball team actually won the world series.

Everyone was in a really awesome mood because of that for a really long time. Its something people like to get behind and root for and look

forward to. It doesn't have to be just stupid sports that you can turn your nose up to. Sometimes people turn to those things to get away

from life and enjoy something for a couple hours. When a home team does something good, you kinda feel like part of the team. Hell

Chicago Cubs haven't won a world series is like 80 years, and you don't hear much about the Bears either.. aren't they listed? Yeah.