Things You Just Don't Care About

all Olympics actually

apathy, it's a road to nowhere

fuck the olympics, i don't care how much olympiads fuck, just go away!!!

I feel like most of this thread boils down to 'things I wish I didn't care about so much'.

powerful

i'm sure i'm not the first person to note this but how come all the winter olympics are specifically "winter" sports and all the summer olympics are all the other sports? it makes the winter olympics feel like some bullshit rich kid ancillary thing. why don't they move some of the summer olympics sports (fencing? weightlifting? no reason these *need* to be summer sports) so that it doesn't feel like a totally bullshit endeavor?

for sure, it should be "the olympics" and "the olympics: winter games" as a naming scheme

because one is things that only work in the winter, and the other is every other competition

because the (summer) olympics came first and the winter ones weren't introduced until 1924

Not that I personally care but the winter olympics certainly don't "feel like some bullshit rich kid ancillary thing' in Canada.

yeah I don't really get that vibe from them at all, but... upper midwest

you know what I really don't give a shit about? summer olympics. at least the winter one has people doing crazy shit to music and x-games style snowboarding that is fun to watch

yeah it's like oh michael phelps can swim really fast for 25 feet, here's a gold medal. how about 50 feet, here's another. how about doing it while making a silly face? sure, that's gold

idk what the situation is like in canada but most winter sports (all???) require expensive equipment and, depending on where you live, the luxury to travel to resorts to practice etc. there's def a class aspect.

Summer better because track and field.

needs an xc event where you shoot a gun tbh

it could be swimming, track & field, etc have too many of the same competitions but ultimately "swimming" "running" "jumping" "lifting heavy things" these are core practices of humanity. "skiing" "snowboarding" "figure skating"...

broomball should be in the winter olympics

Outwith the Anglosphere (or the USA and the UK, tbh) there's nothing class based about winter sports.

whom amongst northern europeans does not own a pair of skis

Itt ppl who hates sports discuss sports

Again.

Outwith the Anglosphere (or the USA and the UK, tbh) there's nothing class based about winter sports.

lol come now you know it's a big world out there

Most of which is not best suited for winter sports.

Don't worry - before long, there won't be anyplace with enough snowfall to host a Winter Olympics.

what i don't care about with immense feroious rage and passion is the fact that so-called biathlon only means getting to shoot stuff while skiing

there should be an entire so-called "biathlon" olympics, like a combination summer and winter olympics except every sport also includes gunplay

that's what i don't care about at all extremely angrily

Skeet surfing, coming in 2024

you know, the ski/shoot bit always reminds me of james bond, but whatever/shooting sounds very american

Outwith the Anglosphere (or the USA and the UK, tbh) there's nothing class based about winter sports.

lol come now you know it's a big world out there

― Mordy, Tuesday, February 13, 2018 9:48 AM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this isn't true. in south america going skiing in the andes is the preserve of the bourgeoisie with more serious skiers doing south american winter skiing in the andes and then going to the alps or rockies in european winter

is hockey bougie

yes. all the gear and rink time is $$$.

i never got the feeling that the winter olympics was exclusively for the rich in canada either

for something like figure skating, you need skates, some clothes when training and performing. these don't sound like expensive gear (same with something like curling). just reading about it in canada, it seemed like all types of people have access to it, but i don't know how much the training programmes are. i remember during the vancouver olympics, they interviewed some local olympians and some of them had jobs and just seemed like normal people. i mean we can talk about the middle class, as well, but that's different per country. i'm sure the scandinavians have a better system

in terms of hockey, in vancouver, if you you couldn't afford to play minor hockey or didn't want to, you'd play pick up hockey/street hockey and/or soccer

hockey gear is definitely more expensive now, because it's now bigger and better (with more padding), but if you really wanted to play, people would get used gear

anyway, i don't understand where this interest to include non-winter sports in the winter olympics is coming from, because surely non-winter sports are better suited to be played in spring or summer, in or outside. if it were in a venue, it would probably be more cost effective to do it when it's warmer in an open air stadium or something, to use less energy

yeah this isn't true. in south america going skiing in the andes is the preserve of the bourgeoisie with more serious skiers doing south american winter skiing in the andes and then going to the alps or rockies in european winter

I was thinking of nations that routinely compete in the Winter Olympics, i.e. Norway rather than Brazil.

insert jamaican bobsled team reference

south american countries routinely compete in the winter olympics, they just send very few athletes

Get away.

xp

they are not representative of the popularity of the sport the athlete is participating in though

you're going down a slippery slope

no pun intended

http://content.internetvideoarchive.com/content/photos/412/001731_10.jpg

OK, I'll rephrase the statement, outside of the Anglosphere (or the USA and UK tbh) and those countries, almost too numerous to mention but I'll make a stab at it, that have no great tradition in winter sports - usually for reasons of geography and climate, but not necessarily - there's nothing class based about winter sports. If only I'd thought of that in the first place.

Not that I personally care but the winter olympics certainly don't "feel like some bullshit rich kid ancillary thing' in Canada.

Skiing and hockey do kind of feel like this to me?

OK, not if you're counting like skating on the canal and street hockey.

anything SpaceX does

this book is interesting on this topic
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51zxd3WjtGL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

(its author is a bit of a weird thatcherite git, yet with a fascinated love for small and plucky countries like norway, and for the things indigenous people are better at than their imperialist overlords)

here is the young nansen modelling (a) ski-ing technique, back when you used one big pole instead of two small ones and (b) warm yet revealing woollen jaeger trousers, which he introduced to norway

https://mattsko.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/fridtjof-nansen-and-his-wife-eva-in-1890.jpg?w=1400

his wife is the one in the cute hat

more stuff i obviously don't care about at all

the picture probably resembles hockey in that more and bigger gear has been required for it as years go by

but that's because athletes are now bigger, stronger, and in the case of hockey, faster

in that young lad's time hockey gear was pretty minimalist i meant to suggest if that wasn't clear

kind of want to go watch Slap Shot now