Americans, how much do you pay to watch sports? I am reading something that says (as of 2011) that the most popular sporting events in the United States - the Super Bowl, the World Series, the NBA championship series, NCAA basketball and football championships, the U.S. Open and Masters golf tournaments, the Daytona 500 and Indianapolis 500 auto races, the Triple Crown horse races, and most Olympic competitions involving athletes from the United States - remain on free television.
Is this true, and do you have to pay to watch say non-Superb Owl concussionegg games? Here in the UK you have to pay a lot to watch all Premier League football, and you can't watch any live games without paying anything - we only get the World Cup and Olympics for free on TV
Paying for sports is one of the most boomer things you can do.
Paying for sports? Illegal streams are the only thing reddit is good for.
>>67280021
Aren't all the England matches on ITV? But yeah it's a big shame
My cable subscriber offers a basic sports package and since that's all I watch on TV I just get that. Get most american sports and most of the relevant premiere league matches of the week are shown on saturday sundays and monday on NBC sports. Really not that expensive at all since Im a single male without kids only paying for myself. Worth it not having to rely on shitty streams for important games in college football, nfl, and epl
oh and most americans get basic channels like cbs, nbc, abc for free. and that is where most of the regular season NFL games are shown. another reason NFL is so popular. it is basically free to watch. College football on the other hand not so much.
Handegg games are usually on Fox or CBS or NBC which are public broadcasting. 1 game a week is on ESPN which isn't free but comes in most basic cable packages
You don't get every game though. Since the games start in waves on Sunday, you get the one at that time period deemed most relevant to you (Fox and CBS do the day games on Sunday so you get two from each time slot; there is one night game nationally broadcast by NBC)
If you want to get the other games, there are pay options
Primetime games with big teams are free, as well as the playoffs, however if you live in the south and watch a shit team from the north, you'll need a subscription fee to see all the games. As far as subscriptions, each league have their own packages generally over 100 bucks to see all the regular season games and another package for playoffs
Burger here.
>do you have to pay to watch say non-Superb Owl concussionegg games?
Not at all. In America, major sports are broadcast to various extents on the networks. They are free of charge. Football is the most available. This is how football breaks down.
Sunday: You can see 3 football games on Sunday. There is a noon game, followed by an afternoon game followed by a 7pm game. The noon and afternoon games are broadcast by CBS and FOX. 7pm is called "Sunday Night Football" and is broadcast by NBC. These are all free.
Monday: "Monday Night Football". This is one game. It is broadcast on ESPN, so you do have to pay for cable to get it or go to a bar.
Thursday: The league has recently started broadcasting a Thursday night game. It's on NFL Network so you'd have to pay but it's generally a shitty match up between who cares teams.
The playoffs and Superb Owl are on network and are all free.
Americans get sports on free TV due to the sheer amount of commercial breaks, I mean a 30 second advert on last years superbowl cost $5,000,000. and there were hundreds of adverts.
In the UK I'm pretty sure it's law that there can only be 15 minutes of adverts per 1 hour of broadcasting so there isn't a lot of room to make money on free TV, especially if it's on the BBC where adverts are banned completely.
>>67280021
>Here in the UK you have to pay a lot to watch all Premier League football, and you can't watch any live games without paying anything - we only get the World Cup and Olympics for free on TV
I didn't know this and I can't believe it.
>>67280062
Yeah I think that extends to the Euros as well
>>67280118
>>67280122
>>67280141
This seems crazy, football here is by far and away the most popular sport comparable to NFL for you guys yet they would never entertain giving us a few free matches, even with a basic cable subscription you have to pay extra to access Sky Sports or BT Sports (which have distinct packages so to watch all games you have to pay for both)
I'm actually researching this as part of my Sports Law revision right now, regarding broadcasting rights, and although we like to give Americans shit for excessive commercialism I'm very jealous that you guys get free games
>>67280172
They can't even get the World Cup and Olympics or the Weather Channel without paying their TV license fee.
kek.
>>67280172
Did you also know that games that kickoff at 3pm on a Saturday can't be broadcast in the UK because of some archaic law passed in the 60s when they were afraid nobody would turn up to games and just watch on TV.
90% of premier league games and like 99% of lower league games kickoff at 3pm on a Saturday.
>>67280147
I suppose that is the main difference, the way advertising is allowed in the US compared to here means that costs that are recouped through advertising would make the price of advertising in the 15 minute break between PL broadcasts would be sky high and probably not work with the current level of money around
>>67280021
Even for the Premier League, the first basic package from my cable company includes NBCSN which is the only channel to provide the games here under contract. With that, they also provide free streaming to any live game, including ones not on tv, including the games they put on USA and NBC.
>>67280141
You get 3 NFL games in the afternoon broken out between CBS/Fox depending on match ups and local markets.
To watch non primetime hockey/baseball/basketball you need cable or a membership to nhl.tv mlb.tv nba.tv.
>>67280254
Primetime baseball is regularly broadcast on FOX, no?
>>67280308
FOX, ESPN, TBS, TNT all carry national baseball games at one point or another. The latter two usually come around for the playoffs mostly.
>>67280178
It's probably part of why there are so many ads
>>67280381
Baseball can be watched all season on FOX. Generally if you want to follow your team though you need cable. Where I'm from FOX Sports will broadcast almost every Brewers game.
>>67280118
Actually a lot of college games are shown on ABC, Fox and CBS. NBC shows notre dame games.
If you're a fan of college football you'll definitely want a sports package with the ESPNs, SEC networks etc.
>>67280193
this is sad.
even here we get free games.
>>67280500
Same here. For the NY market we get the YES Network for Yankees games and SNY for the Mets. Channels 9 & 11 also have games from time to time.
>>67280193
>90% of PL games
What world do you live in?
>>67280642
Well there's 1 game at midday on saturday, then a 5pm game. Then like 2 sunday games.
I guess it's fine seeing as all the decent match ups get moved out of the 3pm kickoff spot so casual armchair fucks can watch too.
>>67280714
He means your 90% figure is way off. Probably about a third of matches are televised
>>67280714
There was one at mid day Saturday, one in the evening, 3 on sunday and one today, that's 4/10 at 3pm Saturday, or 40%, quite short of the 90% you said.
You clearly don't watch the sport. Go away.
>>67280744
I guess I was exaggerating but it's still pretty shitty if you support a midtable team and you only get to see your team on TV like 3 times a year but you still have to pay like £50 to go to the stadium because muh premier league prices
>>67280770
That's only because we're at the tail end of the season, it's not that common to have monday night football and 3 sunday games.
It's only getting worse too.
CL used to be on free to air TV, as well as both the FA and League Cup. BBC would sometimes show Championship matches when they had the rights.
Companies like BT are more than happy to hide football behind a paywall because they seem to want to buy everything.
>>67280021
is the Champions League not free in England?
>>67280812
Well the FA cup is with the Beeb now which is something.
At least ITV is getting less sport. I'd rather pay than have to watch it via them.
C5 and C4 are better than them.
>>67280826
No it is on BT but UEFA and sponsors don't like the drop in viewing figures that has caused.
>>67280826
It used to be on ITV until last year I think, now it's on BT sport, for the Champions League they tend to show one of the games each night for free though.
>>67280839
wow that's crazy, it's free over here.
You have to pay to watch sports in England? Is this before or after you have to buy a license to watch TV? What a shit fucking country. I'll never complain about commercials again.
PFFFFFFFFFFFFF AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. FUCKING PAYING TO WATCH A SPORT YOUR NATION CREATED.
>Start Sky card sharing community
>????
>Profit!
>>67280853
>muh socialism is bad unless its for SPORTS!!!
>>67280812
>CL used to be on free to air
One game a week
BT show one game for free too if you didn't know.
>>67280812
>BBC doesnt even have the rights to FL highlights anymore
>>67280744
>>67280770
41% of PL matches are televised, lower than the amount of most other 'big leagues'
Virgin recently complained that this violates competition law and it's being investigated
>>67280873
But I'm actually a socialist. I seriously cannot believe you have to pay to watch soccer in England. I assume this is true for the Continent as well. Christ you people are cucked... Again, now I will never complain of commercials. I never knew to appreciate basic cable until a Yuropoor opened its mouth.
>>67280887
>those initial C5 offerings
It was fucking dreadful.
It's better now but they have shafted L1 and L2 even more than before. It will only get worse when Newcastle and Villa come down.
>>67280892
Oh yeah, how on earth does the prem get the most tv money when they get televised the least? They don't even have primetime hours
>>67280853
>Is this before or after you have to buy a license to watch TV?
that's not even that bad. In England their national broadcaster doesn't have commercials. In Ireland you have to pay the TV licence AND you get commercials AND you even have to pay it if you don't have a TV. and to make it worse there is absolutely nothing worth watching on our national broadcaster either. the talk show hosts get paid some of the biggest salaries in the world to talk to Z list celebrities. god damn i hate this country sometimes.
>>67280898
>We pay for premium channels
>YUROPOORS
what?
Why are American media corporations so powerful?
The 10 biggest media companies in the world:
1. Comcast (Philadelphia, USA)
2. Walt Disney (Burbank, USA)
3. AT&T (Dallas, USA)
4. 21st Century Fox (New York City, USA)
5. Time Warner (New York City, USA)
6. Grupo Globo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
7. CBS (New York City, USA)
8. Dish (Meridian, USA)
9. Viacom (New York City, USA)
10. Sky (London, UK)
>8 out of the 10 biggest media corporations in the world are American
How do we stop them?
>tfw F1 will move exclusively to Sky soon
>>67280918
Because Sky just throw obscene amounts of money at it.
What kind of Championship-level games are televised in England? I'm a huge Newcastle supporter and if they drop then I don't think I have any option to catch games in the Championship.
Like posted earlier, the US gets the Premier League included in even the most basic cable packages, Bundesliga as well. La Liga, Liga MX, and Serie A games are sporadically on BeIn Sports but that usually requires you to go up a level or 2 without needing a subscription based service like a NFL Season Ticket.
>>67280887
>tfw BBC aren't going to have the Olympics coverage anymore (Or at least it won't be anywhere near as good)
>>67280924
god damn ireland get your shit together...
i can never decide which of my ancestors im more ashamed of, between the english the scots and the irish it's one big fucking united disappointment kingdom
>>67280918
In essence, this >>67280935
The rights just from Sky and BT amount to over £7billion, and that doesn't factor in the overseas audience one bit. Say what you will about the quality of relative leagues but in terms of marketing and consumption there really is no alternative to the Premier League, La Liga rights are like £4billion total and that's with Real Madrid and Barcelona negotiating their own broadcast rights independantly
>$70 per year for MLS Live.
>$25 per month for Bein.
>$65 one time fee for Euro 2016.
>$130 or so per month to get sport packages like NBC Sports, Fox Sports, and ESPN for everything else.
Being someone who loves soccer and hates shitty streams is the worst because of the money you have to shell out to watch. If a company rolled around and was like, hey, kid, wanna watch all those soccer games you love for a Netflix like fee? I'd sign up in a heart beat.
any of you guys have these pirate Sky box things? They're pretty good.
>>67280933
Step 1: Have a strong currency
You can get all primetime NFL and most NBA games except Monday Night Football for free with a basic tv antenna.
ESPN carries everything else an average American would watch and that costs like $15 a month.
>>67280955
wait what? I liked the coverage they had before where pressing the red button gave you a menu showing everything that was on at that time. it was so easy to use. is that gone?
>>67280928
>premium channels
Is anything free over there? The BBC and that's all?
>>67280950
Generally speaking there are teams that get quite a lot of their Championship games televised if they have a have a large fanbase, generally teams that used to be big like Boro, Derby, Forest etc. Newcastle will definitely join that list.
In England, Championship games are exclusive on Sky Sports.
>>67280933
1. Start advertising
2. Allow free access
3. ??????
4. Profit.
It isn't hard faggots.
>>67280973
It should be said they didn't mean to throw that much money.
The bid is a blind auction and on the second day both Sky and BT thought there was a 3rd mystery bidder entering. This was completely made up.
Sky didn't want to lose broadcasting over 50% of the games so just went fucking mental and bought as much as they were allowed.
BT got the remainders for free.
>>67280999
Discovery bought the rights for all of Europe. The BBC no have to go to them to get a deal which means it will not be as good. I highly doubt we will get anything like London 2012 ever again.
>>67280141
Wrong,
Thursday night games are now broadcast on Twitter and are free too.
And before that, half of the Thursday games this year were on NBC too before moving exclusively to the NFLNet later.
>>67281000
All of these are free to air
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free-to-air_channels_at_28%C2%B0E
>>67280983
You still need someone to share they keys m8.
>>67281015
fuck sake
>>67281000
"Freeview" grants access to about 50-60 TV channels, "Freesat" ie. the same thing, but satellite TV non over-the-air grants about 150 channels and Sky also offer a non-subscription satellite service with about 250 channels.
You still need to pay licence fee regardless though, which is about £150 per year.
>>67281025
>via satellite
Fucking kek
>>67281009
yeah cunt it actually is hard
you see all those big shitty companies? theyre funded by the american worker who invests in them for retirement
you want to find me another country in the world with a similar population who has a strong currency to deposit into national companies?
cuck
>>67281000
Basic television with absolutely no package gets you like 10 channels or so, BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BB4, ITV, ITV2, IT3, Channel 4, E4, Channel 5. I think you might get some channels like Dave and Watch but I'm not 100% sure on that.
They're pretty much all just news and entertainment channels.
>>67280933
because they put on commercials every 5 minutes
europeans would never accept that, but americans just accept everything
good for the shareholders and CEOs of those companies, bad for the average american
>>67281036
the thing i got i just had to pay the guy 300 euro for installing it. its hooked up to the internet which apparently decrypts the satellite signals. it gets all the sports and everything. the only bad thing is you're fucked if your internet isnt working.
>>67281045
So the answer is no, you cannot watch a single channel in Englad for free (legally).
Wew. Wow. Yikes.
>>67281025
>>67281046
There is digital as well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DTT_channels_in_the_United_Kingdom
>>67280950
Championship have like 3 games televised per week. If more than 1 game is on at a time, only 1 is televised. Ergo, Saturday arvo most games not televised.
Has anyone actually had a tv licence inspector knock on your door?
I've lived in 6 places in 3 cities and never got inspected
>>67280021
Bong in the US here. Ultimately despite most sport being on "free" TV, there are very few people who don't have a TV package, which is way more expensive than paying for Sky + Sky Sports
>>67281000
free tv in Ireland is 6 (six) channels and one of them is in Irish
whats the point of paying for a tv license when you cant even watch your own football league
>>67281086
True, but the demographic is shifting.
Many people are just paying for Hulu/Netflix and using free air antennas.
Just Google the phrase cord cutting and you'll see how much this is affecting major US television companies. ESPN is losing money hand over fist at the moment.
Free TV in Germany consists of like 24 channels
But most of them are shit.
>>67281086
False.
>>67281107
Don't want to miss out on quality programmes like songs of praise and countryfile
>>67281119
Almost the same in the US except those channels are the biggest ones and carry the most popular sports.
It is possible, depending on where you live, to get upwards of 60 channels.
My wife's father lives in the middle of nowhere, so far out that no cable or satellite company will install for him and he still gets 10 channels including ABC, NBC, FOX and CBS
damn, I get every single prem game on cable. didn't know you lads don't, that's rough life
>>67281107
Switzerland has a TV licence (so does most of Europe yet everyone only talks about the UK)
Is football part of your TV licence?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence
>>67280193
No one would go to lower league games if United, City, Chelsea and Leicester were on TV every week
>>67281059
No it doesn't. It still requires someone to actually own a Sky Subscription and share the encryption keys. The box basically downloads the keys from whatever server in real-time.
This can fuck you up btw if they trace it. Plus whoever runs the server can shut you down whenever he wants.
>>67281175
This isn't true at all. You think lower league fans give a fuck about Man Utd, especially over their team?
>>67281175
> british "people" unironically believe this
>>67281177
Seems like a huge waste when you can poor that money into fantastic internet connection and stream HQ stuff.
>tfw Sky bought off all serious competition in our Pay TV market
>tfw everything is on Sky now
>tfw no price competition
>tfw Sky is jewing up the prices every year
Thank god for streaming sites
>>67281205
*pour
>>67281118
I was under the impression that you still need a TV service provider to watch the basic channels, unless you're willing to take a chance on a shitty antenna. And the most basic tv packages are fucking expensive. Plus there's the whole limited competition bullshit going on with service providers
>>67281205
I have xFinity and they're literally a piece of shit. I miss Virgin's internet in the UK, they were great comparatively
>>67281205
You can stream keys from one subscription to like a hundred clients and take like 10-20€/month for it from every client.
All the clients need is a ~50€ receiver or a PC TV-Card. And a Satellite or Cable signal.
>>67281165
yes
>>67281316
for premier league:
buy usa vpn £5
buy a cable login from bitcointalk £5
cheaper than a beer at your local bar
>>67280021
In the US, ESPN is included in every cable package, so everyone pays $6/mo whether they want it or not. Then you have the local networks which broadcast local teams (e.g. YES, which carries the New York Yankees and Nets costs $5/mo for every subscriber). That's a major reason why cable is so fucking expensive in the US (although Sky is slowly dragging up the price in the UK).
Sports like NFL are on over-the-air channels, but consider they have a shitload of commercials compared to football. Plus they get large carriage fees too from cable companies, despite being available for free over the air!
>>67281023
The Thursday Night Football scam is one of the greatest things the NFL have ever pulled off.
1. Create Thursday Night Football and put it on the The NFL Network.
2. Wait until 90% of providers are signed up to long-term contracts to carry the NFL network at *massive* carriage fees
3. Double-dip by selling half the games to broadcast networks on a year-to-year basis (giving the implied threat of pulling the deal in case any provider doesn't decide to continue carriage) to maximise total revenue
The sheer balls required is amazing, ESPECIALLY since the TNF games are second-tier games to begin with.
>>67282174
Oh, I also forgot the other ways they did it:
4. Save money by forcing the broadcasters to cover all the coverage costs of the NFL Network games, both the ones they cover and the ones they don't
5. Triple-dip by sell the online rights to fucking Twitter
It's fucking amazing what they have managed to get away with.
>>67280839
>C5 and C4 are better than them
channel 5 is the cancer of tv. they have totally ruined football league highlights
>>67282259
It's the usual cycle m8. Some channel looks at the BBC, thinks 'WE COULD GET SO MANY MORE VIEWERS FOR THESE HIGHLIGHTS', puts it in primetime, then slowly puts it later and later because no-one watches it, then the BBC gets it back. I think this is the third time this exact sequence of events has happened.
The only thing that may change this time is that the BBC is in a serious budget crisis that may never end because the governments wants to kill it.
>>67280021
>Here in the UK you have to pay a lot to watch all Premier League football
We don't even have to pay extra to watch the Premier League, it's just part of basic cable and NBC lets you stream games for free online if you want to watch a team other than United/Arsenal/Chelsea/feel good team of the year (Leicester and Spurs right now). The main commentator, Arlo White, is actually from Leicester, so he's been getting pretty hyped up this season.
>>67280950
Championship is on beIN Sports USA here.
>>67282331
But the average cable bill is like $100 (£70). That's about the same price as the very top package in the UK (and, in practice, it's actually way lower due to included internet/phone deals which are charged separately in the US)
Something like third-quarters of US households subscribe to cable while in the UK it's something like half.
we don't have tv licenses either which pay for shitty BBC programming. After Top Gear fucked over I would have just threw out my tv and bought a pc monitor to avoid the tv tax in britain.
>>67282414
Having read up, the average UK price for pay TV is ~£35, so about half the price as the US.
>>67282438
>TV tax
Nobody buys a TV license anyway.
Someone knocked on my door and asked if I had a TV license. I said no and that I don't use TV so I don't need one. They asked to come in my house. I told them to fuck off*
End of story.
*I said sorry but I don't invite strangers into my home.
>Parents have Sky
>I just use Sky Go on my laptop
>Also get BT sports through it
>Just plug my laptop into my TV so I watch it through that
It's not HD but it's saving me £1000-£2000 per year.
funny how jews want free trade but don't want people in one country to use a netflix subscription or sports streaming package from another.
>Not having cable
Are Bongs really this poor?
>>67282535
Agreed, free trade for companies but not for ordinary people. It's a fucking joke m8.
>>67282414
do people still use home phones in europe/britain? the practice is basically dead here. all mobile phones now.
>>67282578
Not really, but you have to have it if you want broadband. It's basically a scam by BT who owns the phone lines, since only something like a third of the country is cabled.
>>67282578
Yes because sometimes you want to phone a family. Not a specific family member.
>>67282543
>having cable tv
are you a baby boomer? I can't name anyone under 30 I know who pays for cable tv. For non sports fans its the easiest decision to not pay for it. sports fans though just use streams or go to a bar.
>>67282578
I guess some people still use them.
It's mosttly just for the line rental for broadband, although I guess that'll die out as more places get fibre.
>>67282608
oh so you guys across the pond havent de evolved into mass autists who are too afraid to talk and instead just text friends and family? also its considered rude to leave a voicemail here since it takes time and effort to listen to it when a text would be more sufficient an quicker.
>>67282609
>sports fans though just use streams or go to a bar.
I have a 56 inch LED tv and I'm gonna use it
>>67282609
Poorfag.
Literally everyone I know (99% under 30) has cable TV.
>HD sports
>HD HBO series (and on demand meaning you can watch literally any TV show at literally any time)
>SKY ONE HD
>HD Movies package
>Cool HD documentaries about nature and history
Enjoy your viruses and cramping around a shitty 14" monitor to watch a laggy stream faggot.
>b-b-but i know where to get pretty good streams
Yeah whatever. Enjoy your third world entertainment while I have glorious full HD and surround sound.
Maybe if you weren't NEET you could afford basic luxuries like this.
interesting read about UK broadband
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/24/gov_will_not_roll_out_another_broadband_scheme_for_citizens_legal_right_10mps/
>>67282638
Jesus Christ.
>time and effort
>>67282667
>not watching HD streams on TV
do you even HDMI 2.0?
>>67282667
use it for vidya or netflix. cable is mostly commercials constantly plus you have to follow THEIR schedule.
>>67282671
bars are better especially for sports that are 1 or 2 games a week because its cheaper in the long run.
>>67282693
voicemail takes around 2 minutes altogether from start of selecting message to listen to to hangup. a text is less than 10 seconds.
>>67282736
I think all that high fructose corn syrup has overloaded your population if you can't bear a 2 minute phone call, Hank
>>67282771
outside of the southern states we are a quick paced group of people. there is a reason why coffee/caffeine is so popular here and the biggest drug used here.
>>67282736
I can assure you it takes me longer to text a message than to leave a voicemail.
Especially if the message is complicated and requires more than 5-10 words.
Voicemail takes literally no time at all. It rings out and you leave the message. You were always going to let it ring out anyway, so that time isn't added on.
tl;dr you are mentally retarded
Texting is for 14 year old girls. I can't even remember the last time I sent a text. If you're over the age of 18 you shouldn't be sending texts to anyone. Just call them like a grown up you autist.
>>67282809
>Texting is for 14 year old girls. I can't even remember the last time I sent a text. If you're over the age of 18 you shouldn't be sending texts to anyone. J
lol what the fuck am I reading?
>>67282800
and how do you explain the growing popularity of heroin in the US then?
heroin is a "relaxing" drug
it makes you sleepy
>>67282841
>>67280991
The Euro is still stronger than the Dollar
>>67282826
Confirmed for 14 year old girl.
Do you also have Snapchat and Twitter downloaded on your smartphone? Maybe Instagram too?
Consider suicide.
>>67282809
You're autistic
>>67282880
Yes, I literally have all of those things.
What are you, like 60 years old?
Even my dad texts.
>>67282880
Hello NEET. Mummy has some tendies for you in the kitchen for being a very good boy.
>>67282855
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/30/us/31heroin-deaths.html
>90% Of First-Time Heroin Users Are White
>Researchers have found that prior to the 1980s, whites and nonwhites were equally represented among first-time heroin users. But that’s changed as heroin use has expanded across other parts of the country.
>Now, nearly 90 percent of the people who tried heroin for the first time in the past decade were white. And a growing number are middle-class or wealthy.
well?
>>67282907
>white
>>67282896
Seriously kill yourself. You're an embarrassment.
And yes, I'd rather be labeled a 60 year old than a 16 year old. By far.
>>67282978
so you are a luddite.
>>67281073
In Soviet Britain, Television watches you.
>>67282978
I can only assume that you just don't live in the real world.
>>67282989
Nope. Not at all. I run a small tech company in my spare time.
>>67283007
>the real world
>sending stupid pictures of yourself to friends with faggot filters for attention and 'likes'
tumblr pls go
>>67283020
>in my spare time
I'm a chef at wendy's who makes $100,000 a year and I have a 9 inch cock.
>>67282896
>openly admitting this
wew lad
>>67283033
I don't what to tell you; you're the weird one in this discussion, not me.
>>67283020
>small tech company
and it will always stay small if you don't expand your horizon m8
the 14-30 demographic is the most important one for tech companies
that's where the trendsetters are
gotta keep up with them if you want to stay in business
>>67283036
Congrats? No idea what point you're trying to make.
>>67283058
>people that use text or pic apps are weird
wew lad
>>67283061
No, it's certainly you. You're the one who engages in activities which are almost exclusively targeted and marketed towards the 12-16, female demographic.
Are you another Johnson? Is that what it is? You a nonce son?
>>67280021
If you own a antenna or HD antenna you can watch the basic channels
In those basic channels include
NBC
Fox
CBS
All carry American football , cbs and fix carry baseball and nbc carries hockey sometimes . Iirc none carry basketball but that is okay
So yes you can watch sports for free especially if you live where you favorite team is located then then yes you for the local commentators unless you live in LA then you're fucked and some parts of NYC
Who here has a twitter for the sole purpose of stalking females online?
>>67283099
Weird for grown men. Certainly.
>>67283100
>texting and twitter is almost exclusively targeted and marketed towards the 12-16, female demographic
Like I said, you emphatically do not live in the real world.
>>67283129
Snapchat
and Twitter, although slightly different is still 80% under 18s and the ones that are over 18 are fucking mongs. Like you.
>>67283162
>>67283162
>and the ones that are over 18 are fucking mongs. Like you.
>implying he's over 18
breh, /sp/ is mainly under 18s these days
it's not 2010 anymore where most people were in their mid 20s
>>67283104
not really
mine is for stalking footballers and football "personalities" (journalists, rerporters, managers, fans etc.)
i love seeing their reactions when their team loses for example or some major news break
(the butthurt on twitter after hummels announced he was going to bayern the other day was delicious)
>the only people who text and use twitter are under 18
Jesus, the state of this thread
>>67283170
>he uses twitter
>he has a twitter account
>he checks it regularly for ""updates"" from ""celebrities""
>he justifies his pathetic behaviour by claiming it's sports related and he likes sports
what's your justification for instagram lad? you like to upload pictures of sports events?
>>67283205
It's just 1 autist (in the actual, non-meme sense of the word since he obviously has no clue about normal social interaction)
>>67283162
I am fairly sure none of those things are true.
That's the thing, in the UK you have to pay to watch sports. In the US all the sports stuff is included if you pay for cable (which includes internet and/or phone) anyway.
So unless you want niche stuff, it should all be provided in your regular tv/internet/phone package which is like 100 bucks. For other extra channels you have to pay more.
>>67282907
>But that’s changed
No it hasn't, we've just started categorizing light-skinned latinos as "white". This is like saying "well in the 1930s all the mobsters were colored, but now in the 1950s they're all white! What happened?"
>>67283218
don't have an instagram account m8
why are you so riled up btw?
>>67283205
Except literally nobody said that. Nice try though trying to make your argument seem more credible.
>Snapchat
Do you also use words like "swag" and "yolo" unironically whilst wearing basketball shoes and a backwards baseball cap? Are your trousers 'skinny' or 'slim' fit? Do you own an album by a black hip-hop artist?
>>67283252
It bothers him people use text message to communicate.
>>67283205
>>67283223
>>67283129
>>67283061
>>67283007
>>67282896
Pretty obvious just one samefag who thinks that Instagram, Snapchat etc. are perfectly acceptable and "normal" activities for a typically functioning male adult with no mental problems.
Go on, show us your (yous)
>>67283255
>basketball shoes
Yes
>Are your trousers 'skinny' or 'slim' fit
Yes
>Do you own an album by a black hip-hop artist?
There's this thing called "Spotify" nowadays mate. It's pretty interesting, you should check it out some time.
>>67283218
I use a telegram. Only people under 80 uses phones. Crazy youngings.
>>67283269
Texting is fine if you're in a meeting and have an urgent message that you simply cannot do without sending. And in that case, surely it would be worth excusing yourself so you can make a call?
Otherwise, phoning is 100% easier and quicker. And also not autistic.
Sorry for not being afraid to talk to people. I guess years of being NEET with no social interaction whatsoever has conditioned you into believing that text-based communication is safer for your confidence.
Kind of pathetic though. You should work on that.
>>67283288
Just out of curiosity, does the "etc." still include texting and twitter?
Or have you come to realisation that you're actually the dysfunctional one?
>>67283297
not the same guy but i hope youre trolling
>>67283327
Embarrassing.
Why would you even admit to it? Just log out of your /sp/ account and forget it happened. You're anonymous.
have you ever watched american TV?
It's wall to wall ad' breaks. It's fucking brutal.
It's a wonder they put up with it.
>>67282671
i'm richer than most of spee and I use a blackbox or stream. why would I pay for something I can access for free?
>>67283447
we are sheeple. why you think the liberals and neocons have so much power here?
>>67283766
wire me some money. i'll take anything.
>>67283766
pls give me money, kind sir
