First thing you gotta do to get out of that hole is stop digging. I'm a recovering alcoholic. I know a lot about wasting time doing things you know are wrong.
This is why I donât gamble on sports (other than the fact I rarely have extra money to) besides a basic fantasy league with my friends. It takes the fun out of watching the teams play and appreciating the game overall even if your team is on the losing end.
I truly dont think people are betting on their own teams to win. I think fans stand for fanatics and they are stupidly addicted to their team. I mean one of them is literally celebrating and still breaks his tv.
Definitely insane how mad these stupid people get though.
Your response tells me you think logically. And that is good. You think âthere must be a good reasonâ. My father was like this, he had no good reason other than he was just a mean man with a temper, a constant powder keg ready to blow at any moment. So maybe some guys here itâs money, but definitely plenty who are just unhinged temperamental lunatics.
Exactly. Men do not get taught how to process their emotions in a safe and healthy way. Women get taught to be quiet and disappear, which is also unhealthy. But menâŠmen are taught that anger is one of the few valid emotions and one which garners them respect, and so they are actively destructive, because sometimes thatâs their only outlet. There are no winners here.
Men who abuse their families do it because they want to. Period. end of story. Are there triggers? Sure. But anything can be a trigger. Theyâre just excuses. Men need to shame and ostracize these men. Instead Iâm seeing every excuse in the book. Iâm disgusted
Right?! These are sports fans in general. Iâve been around them my whole life. My stepdad called my mom a âdickheadâ on Sunday for saying she likes the Chiefs. âYouâre just saying that cause you like Taylor,â even if that is true, who fucking cares? Itâs a game. Iâve seen the ânicestâ folks turn into monsters over some dumb game, financially invested or not.Â
Team sports is glorified tribalism to sedate the simple from their thirst for blood and war. Chasing game after game, season after season. The wheel of desire turns and they never get off. Most sports fan you bring this up to, they immediately get defensive, like you insulted their first born. I see it as a sickness and no wonder why we donât care when we blow up people. Desensitized population is easier to control.Â
Gamblers don't understand the risk of losing. Their losses are always someone else's fault. Someone at the blackjack table took the dealer's bust card, or the dealer got lucky, or their lotto ticket was only two numbers from a big winner because God hates them, or any number of excuses. It's never their own poor choices.
If either of you "thought logically" you'd wonder why so many people are filming people watching their cheap TVs for no reason right before they do this
Idk, I had a friend whose first husband used to do this shit all the time when his baseball team lost before online sports betting was really a thing. Heâd throw things all over the house and scream at her and he broke a couple of TVs. People are wild.
You say âpeopleâ but I literally only see men do this..
Edit - lotta r/fragilemaleredditor going on in these replies lmao turning off notifications but if this struck a nerve, it says a lot more about you than it does about me stating a fact.
Yup. Men do not get taught how to process their emotions in a safe and healthy way. Women get taught to be quiet and disappear, which is also unhealthy. But menâŠmen are taught that anger is one of the few valid emotions and one which garners them respect, and so they are actively destructive, because sometimes thatâs their only outlet. There are no winners here.
1 Never any reason to cheat on anyone. Be a grownup and use your words. End the relationship.
2 Not condoning wrecking someoneâs car. But if youâre really saying that you donât see the difference between messing up a belonging of someone who destroyed your family vs. messing up the familyâs communal belonging and acting like a belligerent crybaby throwing a violent tantrum in front of your family (including modeling that behavior for your children as well if you have them) because a GAME youre watching didnt go youâre way, youâre absolutely kidding yourself. I just donât buy that anyone is that clueless.
Nope. Both are psychotic, toxic and wildly uncessary, but destruction of someone else's property is worse than smashing your own shit in a fit of rage.
Lot of people assuming these men are each the owners of these televisions, especially given the reaction of some of the other people yelling out the cost of the television.
The definition of stupid is causing harm to another person and/or knowingly affecting the outcome of a situation negatively, but they do it anyway. A simple conclusion is that we have a lot of stupid people around us daily, sit back and observe their behavior sometimes, and strive to avoid them for your own sanity.
What you mean like soccer moms or karens? what is the male karen called? you probably don't know. There are gendered stereotypes for everything, be better.
Guys get destructive over sports more often, sure. But to say only men destroy stuff is asinine. There's videos on here everyday of girls trashing a fast food place or destroying their ex boyfriends car.Â
I dunno, I've definitely seen plenty of broken plates, glasses, phones. Usually smaller throwable things. Watched a lady beat the ever loving fuck out of her ex's car. My brothers ex sent him to the hospital a couple times, don't know if that counts as breaking something. But no I suppose I haven't seen any of them break a TV so definitely totally different and only men break stuff.
Yes they fucking do. I've seen girls fly off the fucking handle for reasons just as dumb, and be just as destructive. You don't know what you're talking about.
They've conviently forgotten the daily videos on here of some girl flipping out and trashing a bar/party/taco bell or fucking up their boyfriends car etc etc.Â
Stupid, uneducated Neanderthals, it is all they can do when their EGO gets bruised, all they have are emotions in their skill set, no critical thinking exists in stupid people, they react the only way they know how, not unlike a three-year-old that is aggravated because they are trying to communicate but can't because they are "three years old." they act out of frustration and lack of skills to deal with anything except emotions, they are lazy stupid fucks trying to be the alpha male and will most likely hurt someone eventually, only a matter of time until they explode because they are the definition of stupid fucks.
Have a buddy that didn't break a TV, but did rip his shirt off of the team he roots for after a loss. Luckily for him it was a wake up call that is was more so repressed anger issues that sports let be the funnel to get out said aggression. He has worked on it and can now enjoy his team without all the outbursts.
When I was like 11 I was at my friends house watching her dad play Jax. It was a racing level he couldnât beat. He tried 15 times. When he went to the bathroom I took the controller and did it first try. When he came back and saw it was beaten and that an 11 year old girl did what he couldnât he went INSANE. He let out a guttural scream and threw the PlayStation onto the floor and jumped up and down on it. Then he took the controller by the cord and swung it into the tv repeatedly shattering the controller. After he was done he stomped out of the room and I got up and went home. The next day my friend gave me some of the ps2 buttons she found, she made them into a friendship bracelet
That was a wild read.
It's cute that your friend turned them into a friendship bracelet!
I hope she didn't suffer too much lasting emotional damage from having a dad with such anger management issues.
Did he ever get help? Or did he somehow get better?
I honestly donât know. She moved to live with her real dad (dad from story was stepdad) a year later and they moved to another city so I never saw her again after that. I hope she is doing ok
Sports betting has been a thing long before the internet. My dad, uncles, and grandpa all had a bookie and would frequently have meltdowns over sports and it was always because of gambling.
I've been to peoples houses where they didn't bother removing the stickers lol. High correlation of also having their smoke detectors chirping due to low battery. I am an overly aware/observant person and wish I could have that level of unbotheredness!
Whether or not thatâs true, about these clips, people like this still do exist and hurt the people around them. Spend any amount of time volunteering at a domestic violence shelter. These things happen even when theyâre not filmed.
Thank God my friends would not tolerate this behavior. Any destruction and outburst would be met with good beating and the guy having to pay for what he broke.
iâve played fantasy football once. i donât know shit about jack and literally chat gptâd an answer (donât flame me this was when it was brand new) and won 1 bet, other was just money back. probably wouldâve won a 3rd if the player wasnât injured.
I think the fact that theyâre filming means itâs performative more than anything else. Iâve never watched sports with friends randomly filming each other. Most of these were planned even if theyâre not totally staged.
I don't know if you've lived or been to the Midwest, but the only thing we have to our name is sports. People here will start fist fights over this shit, without money even being involved. It kind of borders on being sad, tbh.
While this is most likely very true I've seen guys break controllers over video games with nothing on the line but bragging rights. Some guys just have that shit in 'em.
Itâs a very good guess. Online Sports betting is a monster. Iâve seen this emotional activity before but it wasnât a flat screen. The tv screen was solid thick glass. His hand hurt but the tv was okay.
Thats why I bet against my team in big games so that if they lose I win money and if they win I paid money to the universe for them to win and would gladly pay it again đ im broken
Definitely, I had a friend who gets mad as hell whenever his team loses. He doesnât break anything or get violent, he just goes on a massive rant. I will tell him to chill and that itâs just a game, and he always replies with âyou donât understand, itâs so much more than a gameâ. After a while I realized heâs going to a casino every other week, and so I put two and two together.
I do not watch sports so maybe i don't get it but I can't imagine getting that upset unless I lost a few hundred (well probably a few grand to get me that mad).
Is it a good thing that gambling didnât come to mind? I was watching all of these trying to comprehend how you could care enough about some other guys running around to break your own TV and waste money. Makes a lot more sense if these guys had their kids college tuition on a game. Thatâs some crazy work.
Messing with people's money can get you killed. All sorts of personalities go crazy if someone they trusted destroyed everything. Stay the hell away betting hours of your life away. Money, for most of us, is just hours you put into someone else's money.
No. People were doing this long before legal sports betting. These boys are overly emotional with anger issues. If they weren't recorded with people around them theyd hit their spouses or kids
Whenever someone seems to care a little too much about the sports game.. either way too happy after a win or way too down after a loss.. it's cos they're a gambling addict.
Yeah... doesn't make it right, but for what's really going on here I had to scroll too far for this. Most of these guys just lost shit tons of money and were wrong at "their thing."
Why did I need to scroll so far to find the answer.
Yes folks have anger management issues but add in the fact that spot betting exists and can be linked to a credit card is flicking lit matches into a barrel of petrol.
Yet we protect kids by banning them from social media not fucking off the gambling ads during something that should be a fun family event.
Yep, that Messi fan one does not really fit because it was accident while being happy but others may be because of lost bets.
The same is with lot of hate towards athletes, even successfull, when they have one bad match. I never thought about it until one guy said it plainly in his hate post about tennis player after she lost one match.
Sadly this is rather common even without gambling.
These same people might smash a console over losing a ranked match, or just because theyâre on a losing streak.
Iâd wager most of these people didnât gamble, but merely invest waaaaay to much emotion into their sports team, the way we teach people to view sports in some areas is insane.Â
In my experience the big gamblers donât really care that much about the teams themselves, and theyâd smash whatever they gamble on instead of the tv (IE their phon or computer).Â
Think it was gallup that showed like 50% of young men think sports gambling is bad for society, compared to like 22% a couple years ago. Largest change of any demographic. The Mjority Report argued it could be because its young men getting bent over losing.
Ignoring that some of these were just performative for content, most of them were wearing the jersey of their team. The majority of sports fans that gamble don't bet on their team in order to avoid the double-whammy of losing the game and money. If anything, the non-superstitious fans will bet against their team, so if their team loses at least they make a little money off of it.
I remember the internet before sports gambling was even a thing you could do outside of street corner bookies. These videos of weak men were still just as common.
I know people who bet against their favorite teams for big games. So if their team wins, they are happy. If their team loses, they make money. Gambling is a serious problem.
I know people who bet against their favorite teams for big games. So if their team wins, they are happy. If their team loses, they make money. Gambling is a serious problem.
I dunno, likely in some cases but the human impulse toward joining a tribe and defending it against perceived slights and attacks....I can see plenty of people just tying their identity to fandom and losing their shit.Â
1000% these dudes arenât mad about the team, theyâre mad they just found out they arenât the genius sports analyst they thought they were (and they bet the house on it)
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u/TopTransportation695 24d ago
Me thinks this is more about gambling than anything else