Things You Just Don't Care About

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.

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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

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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.

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this book is interesting on this topic
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(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

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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

you go to the box, you know

two minutes by yourself, you know and you feel shame, you know

and then you get free

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

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.

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Icing happen when the puck go down bang. You know. Before the other guys.

you’re stupid when you do that. just some english pig with no brains, you know

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how much money black panther makes & what that means

yea... idk the hyperbole about it is a little much. it's a comic book movie

whether there's a better compiler than Bob Stanley out there

TBF I don't care about Black Panther the character or the movie, but can completely understand why there are so many people excited to see it, as opposed to other comic book movies

i never go to comic book movies. and i made sure to go see black panther.

what'd you think

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Caring about the winter Olympics and even calling them "the Olympics" is something that separates me from Canadians

"what'd you think"

of black panther? i wanted to love it to death but i think i just liked it. mostly for all the cool people in it and how cool they looked and i will always love michonne/danai until the day i die but i wasn't a big fan of the plot of black panther. wanted to see them leave their kingdom and kick major bad guy ass. the bad guy was just kinda sad in the end. and too human. but i guess that's what a lot of people like about it.

i'm glad i went and saw it though. the only other comic book movies i've seen in recent years were guardians 1 (loved it), guardians 2 (liked it okay...), and ant man (eh...).

yea i feel u. i'm so so so so so sick of super hero movies but understand why people are psyched on this one. just looked up to see how long it is - 135 minutes - which is honestly on the shorter side, that's something i fucking hate about this abundance of super hero movies, they're all too long. did that start with nolan's batman movies?

Batman Begins felt like a brisk movie for 140 min long. The Dark Knight was good but it felt a bit lengthy. The Dark Knight Rises was like watching the long version of Fanny and Alexander, minus the exciting bits.

i got tired of the whole "dark" marvel thing a long time ago. i blame frank miller. for everything wrong in the world. i did watch some of the netflix shows though. daredevil, etc. my fave comic thing in recent times would be that Legion show on Hulu. that was very inventive and very cool to look at. in the way that a good comic book could be inventive/cool. so, hats off to those people.

ya i'm starting to get tired of superhero movies

don't they have planned like 50 more?

it's kind of incredible how superhero movies have managed to maintain their popularity

also omar otm

the trailers before black panther were 100% superhero and they all just kinda blended into one trailer to me.

it's kind of incredible how superhero movies have managed to maintain their popularity

it's definitely discouraging, but not at all surprising imo. i was really into comic books (only marvel tho) when i was a young kid circa 1999 - 2003, and that was still when superhero movies were not being made & not considered commercially viable. X-Men in 2000 was the first one. I was SO excited about Spider-Man in 2002 but trailed off hard by 2004. I remember how frustrating it was that Hollywood was so hesitant to make these movies back then, now it's just a joke. So I understand why the audience is there because I had that hunger for these endless monstrosities. But I outgrew that when I was 12.

Black Panther an exception bc of its sociopolitical significance & resonance

i watched my first Marvel movie the other night, the first Iron Man. it was fine, certainly very well done. then i guess to keep up i have to watch the next 17 in the EU...

Black Panther an exception bc of its sociopolitical significance & resonance

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Don't care about

seems like a good thing to me, makes a lot of people happy

curling

Apart, perhaps, from the Olympians who compete in this sport, no one truly cares about curling.

I care

So do I.