I was just thinking about the olympics and how its been corrupted with 'sports' such as syncronised swimming and the like.. Are some sports simply an 'event' 'game', or worse, a 'pastime'?? Im thinking here about the athletes that compete in the testosterone fuelled world of darts, snooker, bowls, bodybuilding and International Shove Ha'penny. Im not saying that there isnt skill involved in these 'sports' (particularly snooker, which must also require the greatest level of mental strength in virtually any event or sport or whatever it is)... Maybe we should petition the IOC and see if we can get skittles or dominoes in??
Has it been "corrupted"? It's a fair point you make, but where do you draw the line? If gymnastics and figure skating, why not synchronised swimming? And surely if shooting, why not snooker? They said that windsurfing is going to be replaced by kite-surfing. Why not both? It is pretty arbitrary, but I'm in favour of them including more sports, rather than eliminating all sorts of ones they already have. I suppose we're quite lucky they don't have fishing and hunting, or bear baiting. There are probably quite a lot of nations in favour of their inclusion.
Football ain't an olympic sport really, is it. Nor are most team sports. Shooting definitely ain't - I've been unlucky enough to be working at the shooting stadium (gallery..?) last week, and it's the only 'sport' that surpasses darts and snooker for tedium. Horses. What the fuck are horses doing at the olympics? Isn't it supposed to be about human endeavour? Ban 'em all, just track and field events. Maybe some beach volleyball. Definitely some synchronised swimming...
What about donkey-teasing? And the Austrians would be firm favourites in the bunker sequestration event.
I briefly saw some of the womens air rifle this morning and they reminded me of koala bears, must keep calmmmmmmmmzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
not sure..i heard a rumour that the Swedish womens volleyball team were going to be trying some cock teasing, but im fundamentally opposed to the use of any animals in sport.
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
Let's have some sheep dog trials, British Bulldog, Murder in the Dark, statues, conkers and see who can jump the furthest off the park swings!:biggrin: I realise the under 35's won't understand most of that.
Jumping off park swings I am on to that. I guess what is sport depends from one's point of view. For me sport is if there is A physical requirement and/or B mental. Mental only (shooting, snooker) is not a sport. If it is then accountants are athletes, any one doing math or righter are all athlete. Accountants working for Olympics should have won gold each day for amount of money spent they hidden or delayed or linked to another project.
If you sweat its sport, and FTAOD being 50 st and oiling your arse for blokes on the internet while dropping fluid from your pits like a waterfall isnt sport either
bullfighting is only a sport when the matador a)dies in agony b)is horribly gored and lays humiliated in agonising pain c) just dies same goes for bull running. youtube some of the atrocious videos on youtube..the yanks arent far behind in their barbarism, but thats to be expected from them.
cheese aint a sentient being..like a few on 'ere. what about joint rolling?? were pretty good at that, or we could have some other inner city games...like chasin the dragon.
Try telling that to the three week old piece of Stilton on top of my fridge. Always thought it was a stupid name for a dragon ....
Didnt Hemingway say that? And his reasoning was that you stood a good chance of being killed when taking part. One of my favourite quotes when people start rambling on about football or cricket being a sport.:biggrin:
