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Hi all
I should probably try and clear something up here: Paphides is mainly
having a pop at the kind of people (couples particularly) who wander down
the park and aimlessly throw a disc to each other very badly. It's these
people he's particularly referring to as "idiots".
Not a particularly nice thing to do, but insulting people is what these
opinionated writers get paid for it seems. But because of the sarcastic,
dismissive opening paragraphs about Ultimate (which he patently doesn't
know the first thing about anyway), Ultimate players and golfers end up
getting tarred with the same brush, by association.
So it's not Ultimate players directly that he's criticising (it's
golfers! :-) no, no, no. Well, actually, yes, from the tone of his piece
he seems to think that Disc Golf is particularly pointless. It's just
that he calls it Ultimate).
Here's another media person who obviously thinks Frisbees are stupid per
se. So I'm not sure that a response from an organisation whose job it is
to promote all games played with "flying discs" will carry any weight
with him. It will probably simply confirm his suspicions that we're all a
bit sad ("My god, they even have a British Frisbee Federation...").
However, a letter from the governing body of a team sport (which happens
to use a flying disc) might be perceived differently. Particularly when
he so badly maligned Ultimate by name - the BUF has every right to
correct him.
My two cents...
Paul
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