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Kilkrazy wrote:
Generally the darts guys flip out and chuck a few arrers into the crowd.

Things quieten down after that.

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Frazzled wrote:
Oh bs, its people sliding a rock down ice and squeegying the front of it. About 8 people watch it, and none of them are sober. To call this a sport is to like calling paint drying a sport.

QFT. I used to live where curling was king, and it drove me nuts. Even where I live now, there are two curling clubs within a half hour's drive.

It's a game, not a sport. Shuffleboard anyone?

ZF-

As noted, this is a traditionally quiet sport. It’s that way both because of the concentration factor, and the communication needed between team members.

There are a whole lot of sports where spectators are expected to be quiet and not obstruct the athletes, and some of you are making yourselves look like absolute ignoramuses by pretending otherwise. What, you’ve never heard of golf, or tennis, or (for an immediately-relevant sport) figure skating? How about gymnastics or weightlifting?

Bad show on the judges/referees for not shutting the crowd up. I can hardly point fingers too judgmentally at the fans, as they’re probably erring mostly out of ignorance.

Mannahnin wrote:
As noted, this is a traditionally quiet sport. It’s that way both because of the concentration factor, and the communication needed between team members.

There are a whole lot of sports where spectators are expected to be quiet and not obstruct the athletes, and some of you are making yourselves look like absolute ignoramuses by pretending otherwise. What, you’ve never heard of golf, or tennis, or (for an immediately-relevant sport) figure skating? How about gymnastics or weightlifting?

Bad show on the judges/referees for not shutting the crowd up. I can hardly point fingers too judgmentally at the fans, as they’re probably erring mostly out of ignorance.

Weight lifting is loud.
Figure skating is loud-the music can be intensely loud
Same for gymnastics.

Weight lifting is quiet during the lift, its very much like golf. With massive men lacking necks, and the inability to swing their arms across their bodies.

off topic.... Dogma whatthe heck is your avatar? it looks like a half disected platypus.....

Frazzled wrote:

Mannahnin wrote:
As noted, this is a traditionally quiet sport. It’s that way both because of the concentration factor, and the communication needed between team members.

There are a whole lot of sports where spectators are expected to be quiet and not obstruct the athletes, and some of you are making yourselves look like absolute ignoramuses by pretending otherwise. What, you’ve never heard of golf, or tennis, or (for an immediately-relevant sport) figure skating? How about gymnastics or weightlifting?

Bad show on the judges/referees for not shutting the crowd up. I can hardly point fingers too judgmentally at the fans, as they’re probably erring mostly out of ignorance.

Weight lifting is loud.
Figure skating is loud-the music can be intensely loud
Same for gymnastics.

The music in figure skating is actually used by the skaters to coordinate and time their routine. If spectators were yelling and drumming on seats to a degree that made it hard for the skater to hear the music, that would be disruptive.

In all of these sports, the spectators cheer AFTER the athlete's done, or during a release/after a difficult maneuver is completed. They shut up while the athletes are concentrating/trying to do their stuff.

Ragnar I'd had more respect if it wasn't shuffleboard with squeegies. SQUEEGIES! hahahahahahahah

I'm lying. I don't respect much of anything about the Winter Olympics.

I hear you. I enjoy some of the skiing (ski cross is cool; and I've always wanted to ski jump ever since seeing those Wide World of Sports clips on TV as a kid), and I watch figure skating with the wife. More to your taste, maybe- I heard that the US/Canada men’s hockey game Monday night was really good, but I missed it.

At any rate, even the silly sports have people putting a ton of time into them, and traveling internationally to compete. The Olympics are pretty awesome, even when they’re silly, so people being donkey-caves to the competitors isn’t cool, in my book.

Wha? Canadas been cheating since the mid 1800's

Why should we change now?

Mannahnin wrote:I hear you. I enjoy some of the skiing (ski cross is cool; and I've always wanted to ski jump ever since seeing those Wide World of Sports clips on TV as a kid), and I watch figure skating with the wife. More to your taste, maybe- I heard that the US/Canada men’s hockey game Monday night was really good, but I missed it.

At any rate, even the silly sports have people putting a ton of time into them, and traveling internationally to compete. The Olympics are pretty awesome, even when they’re silly, so people being donkey-caves to the competitors isn’t cool, in my book.

I hear ya Ragnar, I just don't like bellyaching from athletes. Excuses are like holes, everybody has one.

Frankly, when your saying the Canadians are being mean to you, you're being a Emperor Class wuss. You could run them over with a car and they'd still "sorry!" Don't ask how I know...

Hawkins wrote:off topic.... Dogma whatthe heck is your avatar? it looks like a half disected platypus.....

A schematic for a robotic platypus.


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Mannahnin wrote: More to your taste, maybe- I heard that the US/Canada men’s hockey game Monday night was really good, but I missed it.

It was fantastic.

Seems like there's alot of folks who don't understand that quiet and crowd politeness is necessary for some sports. Not every kind of competition madates people screaming and cheering. The article metions figure skating as such a sport, and as curling seems to require alot of communication at low volumes, it should be given the same courtesy.

Also, the fact that the fans seem to have been loud during the Dane's, but not during the Candians points toward deliberate distraction and not merely fans not knowing better.

Sounds like its time to institute some crowd guidelines for curling. It shouldn't be necessary, but as the hooligans seem to have found another sport to interefere with, it's clearly needed.

Eilif wrote:Seems like there's alot of folks who don't understand that quiet and crowd politeness is necessary for some sports. Not every kind of competition madates people screaming and cheering. The article metions figure skating as such a sport, and as curling seems to require alot of communication at low volumes, it should be given the same courtesy.

Also, the fact that the fans seem to have been loud during the Dane's, but not during the Candians points toward deliberate distraction and not merely fans not knowing better.

Sounds like its time to institute some crowd guidelines for curling. It shouldn't be necessary, but as the hooligans seem to have found another sport to interefere with, it's clearly needed.

I restate. If you're reduced to saying the Canadians are being mean to you, you need to man up a little.

Kilkrazy wrote:Curling is by tradition a quiet game, like ...cricket

Cricket? Actually cricket is a good example of the opposite, Crowds often deliberately put off bowlers in cricket, it's accepted. You need to get yourself to a live match, it's not quiet at all. Just like a footballer if a cricketer came out after a match and complained about crowd distraction they'd be laughed at.

As for curling it would be good to find out if there are already rules in place about this or if it's just that they have become acustomed to quiter games outside of the olympics therefore ruling has not been necessary. Then we would know if it goes in the tennis/snooker category or with football/cricket etc.

Zad Fnark wrote:So how do the Olympic Dart and Bowling teams handle it?

ZF-

Please don't tell me darts is an olympic sport now.

What? people scream ALOT in curling.

"HARDERRRRRRRRRRR"

It makes me lol.

I'm waiting for competitive beer drinking to be an olympic sport.

Well in the event that it did, I would hope that lot there would be disqualified for drinking lager instead of beer.

Frazzled wrote:
I restate. If you're reduced to saying the Canadians are being mean to you, you need to man up a little.

Funny yes.
Having any bearing on curling needing audience regulation... No.

Frazzled wrote:I hear ya Ragnar, I just don't like bellyaching from athletes. Excuses are like holes, everybody has one.

I can picture you telling that to Genghis Connie if she got into pairs figure skating, and at a college event some jackass yelled during a lift and she fell... Just sayin'. Though that's a bit more serious than curling, they're just different degrees of severity for the same offense, really.

Frazzled wrote:Frankly, when your saying the Canadians are being mean to you, you're being a Emperor Class wuss. You could run them over with a car and they'd still "sorry!" Don't ask how I know...

[Resists urge to come up with scenarios of Canadians doing things unforgivable by Fraz]

dogma wrote:Weight lifting is quiet during the lift, its very much like golf. With massive men lacking necks, and the inability to swing their arms across their bodies.

Weightlifting is another sport where you really don't want to piss off the competitors by being noisy.

Same with shooting, javelin, archery, fencing, wrestling, boxing, judo...



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whatwhat wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:Curling is by tradition a quiet game, like ...cricket

Cricket? Actually cricket is a good example of the opposite, Crowds often deliberately put off bowlers in cricket, it's accepted. You need to get yourself to a live match, it's not quiet at all. Just like a footballer if a cricketer came out after a match and complained about crowd distraction they'd be laughed at.

As for curling it would be good to find out if there are already rules in place about this or if it's just that they have become acustomed to quiter games outside of the olympics therefore ruling has not been necessary. Then we would know if it goes in the tennis/snooker category or with football/cricket etc.

Zad Fnark wrote:So how do the Olympic Dart and Bowling teams handle it?

ZF-

Please don't tell me darts is an olympic sport now.

There's no such thing as live cricket, it only happens on the radio.

Would you really want to mess with a curler? You're just walking down the street and then BAM a big rock hits your foot. And then people following it come and beat you to death with giant brushes.

Mannahnin wrote:

Frazzled wrote:I hear ya Ragnar, I just don't like bellyaching from athletes. Excuses are like holes, everybody has one.

I can picture you telling that to Genghis Connie if she gets into pairs figure skating, and at a college event some jackass yells during a lift and she falls... Just sayin'. Though that's a bit more serious than curling, they're just different degrees of severity for the same offense, really.

No thats shotgun time. But frankly if she's in a competition and might lose, its shotgun time (heh I'm from the land of the "cheerleader mom" )

Frazzled wrote:Frankly, when your saying the Canadians are being mean to you, you're being a Emperor Class wuss. You could run them over with a car and t
hey'd still "sorry!" Don't ask how I know...

[Resists urge to come up with scenarios of Canadians doing things unforgivable by Fraz]

Good luck with that, and don't forget your took eH!*
(*except Hockey, Canadians gel all their pent up rage into Hockey season).

Kilkrazy wrote:

whatwhat wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:Curling is by tradition a quiet game, like ...cricket

Cricket? Actually cricket is a good example of the opposite, Crowds often deliberately put off bowlers in cricket, it's accepted. You need to get yourself to a live match, it's not quiet at all. Just like a footballer if a cricketer came out after a match and complained about crowd distraction they'd be laughed at.

As for curling it would be good to find out if there are already rules in place about this or if it's just that they have become acustomed to quiter games outside of the olympics therefore ruling has not been necessary. Then we would know if it goes in the tennis/snooker category or with football/cricket etc.

Zad Fnark wrote:So how do the Olympic Dart and Bowling teams handle it?

ZF-

Please don't tell me darts is an olympic sport now.

There's no such thing as live cricket, it only happens on the radio.

Tushay. TMS for life.

Frazzled wrote:

Mannahnin wrote:

Frazzled wrote:I hear ya Ragnar, I just don't like bellyaching from athletes. Excuses are like holes, everybody has one.

I can picture you telling that to Genghis Connie if she gets into pairs figure skating, and at a college event some jackass yells during a lift and she falls... Just sayin'. Though that's a bit more serious than curling, they're just different degrees of severity for the same offense, really.

No thats shotgun time. But frankly if she's in a competition and might lose, its shotgun time (heh I'm from the land of the "cheerleader mom" )

Frazzled wrote:Frankly, when your saying the Canadians are being mean to you, you're being a Emperor Class wuss. You could run them over with a car and t
hey'd still "sorry!" Don't ask how I know...

[Resists urge to come up with scenarios of Canadians doing things unforgivable by Fraz]

Good luck with that, and don't forget your took eH!*
(*except Hockey, Canadians gel all their pent up rage into Hockey season).

It isnt rage, its Skill, it takes alot of training to just use your fists and elbows. players work hard to master this skill and their emotions, so that they dont fall to the dark side. the darkside is rage, when you jump up and down on someones neck in a hockey fight. fun to watch, messy to clean up.