Not that I personally care but the winter olympics certainly don't "feel like some bullshit rich kid ancillary thing' in Canada.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
yeah I don't really get that vibe from them at all, but... upper midwest
― mh, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:25 (six years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
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.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
Summer better because track and field.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
needs an xc event where you shoot a gun tbh
― Hunt3r, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
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"...
― Mordy, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
broomball should be in the winter olympics
― mh, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
Outwith the Anglosphere (or the USA and the UK, tbh) there's nothing class based about winter sports.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
whom amongst northern europeans does not own a pair of skis
― mh, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
Itt ppl who hates sports discuss sports
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
Again.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
lol come now you know it's a big world out there
― Mordy, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
Most of which is not best suited for winter sports.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link
Don't worry - before long, there won't be anyplace with enough snowfall to host a Winter Olympics.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
Skeet surfing, coming in 2024
― "oh no my cheds" man had dark to black packet (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
you know, the ski/shoot bit always reminds me of james bond, but whatever/shooting sounds very american
― mh, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
― 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
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
is hockey bougie
― mh, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
yes. all the gear and rink time is $$$.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
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
― papa poutine (∞), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
I was thinking of nations that routinely compete in the Winter Olympics, i.e. Norway rather than Brazil.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:34 (six years ago) link
insert jamaican bobsled team reference
― mh, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:35 (six years ago) link
south american countries routinely compete in the winter olympics, they just send very few athletes
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
Get away.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
xp
they are not representative of the popularity of the sport the athlete is participating in though
you're going down a slippery slope
― papa poutine (∞), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
no pun intended
http://content.internetvideoarchive.com/content/photos/412/001731_10.jpg
― papa poutine (∞), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
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.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
Skiing and hockey do kind of feel like this to me?
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
OK, not if you're counting like skating on the canal and street hockey.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
anything SpaceX does
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:56 (six years ago) link
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)
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:56 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
more stuff i obviously don't care about at all
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
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
― papa poutine (∞), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
in that young lad's time hockey gear was pretty minimalist i meant to suggest if that wasn't clear
― papa poutine (∞), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
kind of want to go watch Slap Shot now
― mh, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 19:08 (six years ago) link
you go to the box, you know
two minutes by yourself, you know and you feel shame, you know
and then you get free
― papa poutine (∞), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
It might just be me looking it at from an immigrant's perspective, by which I mean that hockey in particular is even more deeply embedded into my conception of 'Canadianness' precisely because it's one of those things I'm never going to get, always reminding me on some level that I'm not originally from here. So beyond the whole class thing (which skiing definitely foregrounds), there's an (often unexamined) sense in which winter sports are essentially Canadian, regardless of whether that's actually true in practice or not.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
How SiriusXMU brought together Smash Mouth and Car Seat Headrest
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 00:17 (six years ago) link
Icing happen when the puck go down bang. You know. Before the other guys.
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
you’re stupid when you do that. just some english pig with no brains, you know
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 03:55 (six years ago) link
Thread got guud
― papa poutine (∞), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 06:08 (six years ago) link
how much money black panther makes & what that means
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 17 February 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
yea... idk the hyperbole about it is a little much. it's a comic book movie
― marcos, Saturday, 17 February 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
whether there's a better compiler than Bob Stanley out there
― Big Ched aka The Cheesedriver (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link