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  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    will is just jelly he never gets to dock with someone

  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    No one takes curling seriously, do they? The team comes out in their silly pants and jackets and they slide the stone and do the sweepsweepsweep and a winner is declared and the whole time everyone, athletes included, just laugh that this is in the olympics. Right?

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    I'm not sure how much scope there is to make American football an Olympic sport

    Are there even any countries other than the US where it's played beyond the hobby level?

    For baseball there's Japan but I don't know if it's widely played either

    Football will never be an Olympic sport. If it were, US would win gold every year, Canada and Australia would fight it out for bronze and silver but at a much lower level of play, and maybe a few other countries like the UK would send in a team purely as a token.

    Baseball, yes. In fact it was in the games until the last Olympics. MLB in the US is by far the dominant league for a number of reasons, but it's still pretty popular in a few Latin American and Asian countries. Cuba in particular is actually waaaay better at baseball than us, and Japan and Korea are both pretty competitive. It's just not quite popular enough to be in the Olympics, given time and budget constraints.

    Actually it was an Olympic Sport for a good amount of time.

    Part of the reason it got taken out was the MLB refusing to pause the season to allow players to play for national teams during the Olympics. So that tends to suck up a lot of the good players. Also the World Baseball Classic came around and is played during a time period so it doesn't interfere with either the MLB or the Japanese leagues.

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  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator Mod Emeritus
    @evil multifarious breckenridge whiskey is pretty solid, colorado bourbon made from snow melt

    it is pretty good

    real expensive tho

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  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    that was a fuckin day at work putting together all these reports and shit

  • shalmeloshalmelo sees no evil Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    I'm not sure how much scope there is to make American football an Olympic sport

    Are there even any countries other than the US where it's played beyond the hobby level?

    For baseball there's Japan but I don't know if it's widely played either

    Football will never be an Olympic sport. If it were, US would win gold every year, Canada and Australia would fight it out for bronze and silver but at a much lower level of play, and maybe a few other countries like the UK would send in a team purely as a token.

    Baseball, yes. In fact it was in the games until the last Olympics. MLB in the US is by far the dominant league for a number of reasons, but it's still pretty popular in a few Latin American and Asian countries. Cuba in particular is actually waaaay better at baseball than us, and Japan and Korea are both pretty competitive. It's just not quite popular enough to be in the Olympics, given time and budget constraints.

    Only because it's trying to force its way into the Summer games, which is a much more competitive field. Because let's face it, the vast majority of the Winter Olympics is made up of gimmick sports that maybe 3-4 nations actually take seriously (Slope Style, Biathlon, Giant Slalom, Curling, etc etc). Really only figure skating and hockey have anything resembling global appeal. If baseball were played in the snow, the IOC would have a diamond built tomorrow.

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  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator Mod Emeritus
    will is just jelly he never gets to dock with someone

    i think i could if i could find a dude with a dog dick who was game

    i mean as far as i understand the mechanics

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  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited February 2014
    No one takes curling seriously, do they? The team comes out in their silly pants and jackets and they slide the stone and do the sweepsweepsweep and a winner is declared and the whole time everyone, athletes included, just laugh that this is in the olympics. Right?

    you have grossly overestimated the number and quality of "fun things to do in Scandinavia"

    Irond Will on
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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    y2jake215 wrote: »
    Basically more people play baseball than probably any Winter Olympics event except skiing and snowboarding

    I was thinking more in terms of the number of countries that could field a viable team rather than the raw number of people that play it.

    If a sport is only participated in at a high level by a couple of countries then it seems odd to make it the focus of an international tournament (though I didn't know there were multiple countries that played baseball).

  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    Irond Will wrote: »
    will is just jelly he never gets to dock with someone

    i think i could if i could find a dude with a dog dick who was game

    i mean as far as i understand the mechanics

    sorry Will, I see these hints you are dropping but I was a victim of male genital mutilation at birth

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    What size .gif is acceptable to post on these boards? 2MB?

  • simonwolfsimonwolf i can feel a difference today, a differenceRegistered User regular
    Irond Will wrote: »
    will is just jelly he never gets to dock with someone

    i think i could if i could find a dude with a dog dick who was game

    i mean as far as i understand the mechanics

    sorry Will, I see these hints you are dropping but I was a victim of male genital mutilation at birth

    I'm going to come to America

    and steal your dock jobs

    because that is what foreigners do best

  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    Irond Will wrote: »
    will is just jelly he never gets to dock with someone

    i think i could if i could find a dude with a dog dick who was game

    i mean as far as i understand the mechanics

    i mean you never get to dock someone

  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator Mod Emeritus
    Irond Will wrote: »
    will is just jelly he never gets to dock with someone

    i think i could if i could find a dude with a dog dick who was game

    i mean as far as i understand the mechanics

    sorry Will, I see these hints you are dropping but I was a victim of male genital mutilation at birth

    i knew there was something i liked about you

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  • simonwolfsimonwolf i can feel a difference today, a differenceRegistered User regular
    emnmnme wrote: »
    What size .gif is acceptable to post on these boards? 2MB?

    have you considered

    and I know this will sound crazy

    reading the rules

  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    the best thing about baseball is that we invented it

    so no matter what happens, we win

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  • GonmunGonmun He keeps kickin' me in the dickRegistered User regular
    No one takes curling seriously, do they? The team comes out in their silly pants and jackets and they slide the stone and do the sweepsweepsweep and a winner is declared and the whole time everyone, athletes included, just laugh that this is in the olympics. Right?

    I know lots of you laugh at curling but I curled for my high school and it's not nearly as easy as most think. It's not a matter of throwing it as hard as you can. It takes a lot of control to have the right weight, maintain your balance and get a proper spin. All while your sweepers have to move with this rock on a sheet of fucking ice while sweeping in order to provide a smoothed surface for it to travel. It's not for everyone but I find it very similar to the skill required for golf.

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  • y2jake215y2jake215 certified Flat Birther theorist the Last Good Boy onlineRegistered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    y2jake215 wrote: »
    Basically more people play baseball than probably any Winter Olympics event except skiing and snowboarding

    I was thinking more in terms of the number of countries that could field a viable team rather than the raw number of people that play it.

    If a sport is only participated in at a high level by a couple of countries then it seems odd to make it the focus of an international tournament (though I didn't know there were multiple countries that played baseball).

    Yea i was just being a boner there. There are a significant enough amount of countries that play though, but not nearly a majority

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  • simonwolfsimonwolf i can feel a difference today, a differenceRegistered User regular
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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    america aren't even the world champions at baseball lol

  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    simonwolf wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    What size .gif is acceptable to post on these boards? 2MB?

    have you considered

    and I know this will sound crazy

    reading the rules

    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/165388/the-rules#latest

  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    But golf is dumb.

    If anything ice covered courses would be a major improvement.

  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    emnmnme wrote: »
    simonwolf wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    What size .gif is acceptable to post on these boards? 2MB?

    have you considered

    and I know this will sound crazy

    reading the rules

    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/165388/the-rules#latest

    ?
    Posting gigantic images or gifs. Anything above 500kb should be linked to.

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  • simonwolfsimonwolf i can feel a difference today, a differenceRegistered User regular
    emnmnme wrote: »
    simonwolf wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    What size .gif is acceptable to post on these boards? 2MB?

    have you considered

    and I know this will sound crazy

    reading the rules

    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/165388/the-rules#latest

    yes

    the rule on gif size is right there

  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator Mod Emeritus
    japan wrote: »
    y2jake215 wrote: »
    Basically more people play baseball than probably any Winter Olympics event except skiing and snowboarding

    I was thinking more in terms of the number of countries that could field a viable team rather than the raw number of people that play it.

    If a sport is only participated in at a high level by a couple of countries then it seems odd to make it the focus of an international tournament (though I didn't know there were multiple countries that played baseball).

    i mean we forced our basketball on the world already

    why not let us follow it up with baseball and football and like rodeo sports and nascar and magic the gathering and whatever other dumb pastimes that the US has a huge advantage in.

    because that is the true spirit of the Olympics.

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    When it comes to the winter olympics I kind of think it's reasonable for a sport to have fewer participating nations, given the focus is primarily snow sports that are only feasible at all in certain areas of the world.

  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck Registered User regular
    they need to include chessboxing

  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Tav wrote: »
    america aren't even the world champions at baseball lol

    And the English aren't champions at soccer or at least not the last few years.

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  • ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    You guys

    I'm out of garlic

    I don't know how this happened but this might be the saddest day of my life.

  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    simonwolf wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    will is just jelly he never gets to dock with someone

    i think i could if i could find a dude with a dog dick who was game

    i mean as far as i understand the mechanics

    sorry Will, I see these hints you are dropping but I was a victim of male genital mutilation at birth

    I'm going to come to America

    and steal your dock jobs

    because that is what foreigners do best

    great post would read again

  • y2jake215y2jake215 certified Flat Birther theorist the Last Good Boy onlineRegistered User regular
    Tav wrote: »
    america aren't even the world champions at baseball lol

    This is because Latin America is really really good at it

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    maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    No one takes curling seriously, do they? The team comes out in their silly pants and jackets and they slide the stone and do the sweepsweepsweep and a winner is declared and the whole time everyone, athletes included, just laugh that this is in the olympics. Right?

    There is nothing sexier than women's curling.

    Yelling?
    Synchronized brooming?
    Even more yelling?
    Ice?

    It's the best.

  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    im playing hearthstone i guess

  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    Should of brought dinner to work

    I am quite hungry

  • ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited February 2014
    desc wrote: »

    Yes, hello lookhuman? Can I get that on all the things I own?

    Shivahn on
  • y2jake215y2jake215 certified Flat Birther theorist the Last Good Boy onlineRegistered User regular
    Also because baseball is probably the sport where the heavy favorite wins least often

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    maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
  • Solomaxwell6Solomaxwell6 Registered User regular
    I think patriotism should be an Olympic sport.

  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator Mod Emeritus
    they need to include chessboxing

    cheeseburger bowling

    beer pong

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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Irond Will wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    I'm not sure how much scope there is to make American football an Olympic sport

    Are there even any countries other than the US where it's played beyond the hobby level?

    For baseball there's Japan but I don't know if it's widely played either

    look we allowed curling so scandinavia owes us one

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    and we repaid the world

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