View Full Version : Do *spoilers* apply to sporting events ?
Duderonomy
03-07-2016, 12:41 PM
Considering many of us have dropped cable and only do streams now. Doesn't it bug you when you haven't seen the game yet due to work schedule or falling asleep but someone puts a thread title that gives the results away. I'm not saying inside the thread if I want to watch UFC fresh I wouldn't open the UFC thread but win shouldn't the OTC be safe to not give the finishes on the thread title.
Just curious what your thoughts are.
I think they are fair game. If there is a game you desperately want to see so you recorded it, don't come to ISH until after you watched it.
In person, you have to actively state that you have not seen a game to get others to avoid talking about it.
hateraid
03-07-2016, 01:19 PM
My problem is whatsapp and Facebook. Facebook is easier to avoid if you take of the app. Whatsapp has spoiled some results for me. Just yesterday in my basketball group posted Yes Lakers! While I was out and had the game recorded. The message automatically pops up on my phone. It's happened a few times.
SugarHill
03-07-2016, 01:40 PM
Of course it does. Ronda getting that ass beat got spoiled for me
My problem is whatsapp and Facebook. Facebook is easier to avoid if you take of the app. Whatsapp has spoiled some results for me. Just yesterday in my basketball group posted Yes Lakers! While I was out and had the game recorded. The message automatically pops up on my phone. It's happened a few times.
What is Whatsapp? This is the first I have heard of it.
hateraid
03-07-2016, 02:16 PM
What is Whatsapp? This is the first I have heard of it.
It's an app that allows you to texts without having a provider connection. You can chat and create groups with whomever has the app. I have it so I can communicate with my son on his phone. My basketball group communicates through there. It's like an archaic snapchat
It's an app that allows you to texts without having a provider connection. You can chat and create groups with whomever has the app. I have it so I can communicate with my son on his phone. My basketball group communicates through there. It's like an archaic snapchat
Cool, good to know. I lag behind on technology.
Done_And_Done
03-07-2016, 02:19 PM
What is Whatsapp? This is the first I have heard of it.
It's essentially BBM with a different layout
It's essentially BBM with a different layout
I had to google what BBM is even. :lol
Done_And_Done
03-07-2016, 02:27 PM
And it's fair game with sports for whatever reason. The same goes for other social media platforms such as FB.
The average person (on my friends list at least) will limit their episodic television posts to "OMG Walking Dead" or something less revealing whereas sports plays are spewed out and elucidated, the second they happen.
Why is that the case?
Fans like to display their fandom and brag/boast.
TV watchers share an understanding that a spoiler can literally ruin somebody's night or watching experience lol
I dunno... But yeah.... Just do what Myth said
Done_And_Done
03-07-2016, 02:28 PM
I had to google what BBM is even. :lol
Myth, where the hell do you live bro, in a hut in Congo? :lol
No worries dude, im totally on board with you. Some of this techy business just goes straight over my head.
hateraid
03-07-2016, 02:30 PM
Myth, where the hell do you live bro, in a hut in Congo? :lol
No worries dude, im totally on board with you. Some of this techy business just goes straight over my head.
He's a tree hugging west coaster :lol
With the best beers in the land :cheers:
Myth, where the hell do you live bro, in a hut in Congo? :lol
No worries dude, im totally on board with you. Some of this techy business just goes straight over my head.
I still have a keyboard that slides out of my phone. I just text and call. I'm usually vaguely familiar with popular apps, just never heard of that whatsapp. I'm aware of what Snapchat is, but have never used it.
He's a tree hugging west coaster :lol
With the best beers in the land :cheers:
I'm hugging trees on the east coast now.
Bosnian Sajo
03-07-2016, 03:02 PM
Most of the time a big game will be everywhere, people talking about it on ISH, insta, snapchat, fb, twitter, radio, wtf how do you expect to escape it? If you don't want it spoiled, don't surf the internet the night of and turn the radio off on your way home. The world doesn't revolve around people who aren't on time, and it never should. Sporting events, there are no spoilers.
ArbitraryWater
03-07-2016, 03:03 PM
What is Whatsapp? This is the first I have heard of it.
this cant be true.....
Bosnian Sajo
03-07-2016, 03:06 PM
this cant be true.....
Most of us in the states have unlimited texting as is, no use for whatsapp.
Levity
03-07-2016, 03:16 PM
I still have a keyboard that slides out of my phone.
:lol the abacus of modern day phones
hateraid
03-07-2016, 03:18 PM
Most of us in the states have unlimited texting as is, no use for whatsapp.
I gave my son my old phone. It has no data. But he can still access Internet anywhere there is WiFi. He can access whatsapp through there. That comes in handy if he stays late after school or needs to get picked up
:lol the abacus of modern day phones
This is mostly what my phone looks like:
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/WCwAAOxyGqZSZbEM/s-l300.jpg
Though, mine looks beat up from years of use. Still holds a battery charge for about 48 hours though. That is the one advantage (well, 2 if you count the cheap price of service).
This is why I got involved in the MS Paint threads a while back. I wasn't upgraded to Photoshop, so Paint is all I knew how to use anyway.
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