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I'm both chaotic and orderly. I value my own principles, and am willing to go to extreme lengths to enforce them, often trampling on the very same principles in the process. At best, I'm heroic and principled; at worst, I'm hypocritical and disorderly.
"You can't just mix two sports up and call them a new one."
- You can if you call the new 'sport' "eXtreme ..." (as in eXtreMe Snowboarding - it's skydiving an snowboarding and should get you a mandatory psych eval for attempting suicide).
I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
And so, due to rising costs of maintaining the Golden Throne, the Emperor's finest accountants spoke to the Demigurg. A deal was forged in blood and extensive paperwork for a sub-prime mortgage with a 5/1 ARM on the Imperial Palace. And lo, in the following years the housing market did tumble and the rate skyrocketed leaving the Emperor's coffers bare. A dark time has begun for the Imperium, the tithes can not keep up with the balloon payments and the Imperial Palace and its contents, including the Golden Throne, have fallen into foreclosure. With an impending auction on the horizon mankind holds its breath as it waits to see who will gain possession of the corpse-god and thus, the fate of humanity......
Guitardian wrote:I was just writing an article on much curling rocks just because it does. Its like watching a couple of terribly animated housewives. Why they have synchronized swimming but still give no cred to skateboarding is beyond me. Skaters are some of the most talented, agile, creative athletes on earth, and are way more fun to watch than greco-roman wrestlers or curlers, but they never get invited to the olympics (probably because of drug laws).
It takes a while and a lot of politicking for a new sport to get into the Olympics, and skateboarding is still fairly new. Synchronised swimming came in when they were looking to even the medal events evenly between men and women and synchronised swimming, as ridiculous as it is, is for ladies only. There's also an issue with facilities, as skateboarding would require a whole new facility just for it, whereas synchronised swimming just uses the pool when the divers don't want it.
That said, it's probably a matter of time before skateboarding gets a shot. Probably the next time the US hosts.
I think there's a risk in these sorts of threads for people to identify the sports they personally don't like and then build reasons to reject them. People can talk about how a sport is subjectively scored, or doesn't require an elite level of athleticism but really, if there's a competitive international scene for the sport and people like watching, why shouldn't it be at the Olympics? Personally, I'd rather boot out all the sports we get on tv all the time anway, so no soccer, no baseball, no basketball. Those sports already have big tournaments that are more important than the Olympics. Leave the Olympics to all the sports where a gold medal really is the pinacle.
Well, except speed walking, because that's just making people look silly.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
I want to see dodgeball played at the Olympics. I would totally watch that.
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
I'm both chaotic and orderly. I value my own principles, and am willing to go to extreme lengths to enforce them, often trampling on the very same principles in the process. At best, I'm heroic and principled; at worst, I'm hypocritical and disorderly.
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