That belongs in the popular opinions threadWe could turn hunting rich people into a sport
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That belongs in the popular opinions threadWe could turn hunting rich people into a sport
the marathon runners and 50km runners put themselves through worse than than boxers in the short term at least. boxing is dangerous and even a certain gold medalist's mother won't watch her fights.boxing is not a sport.
I'm fairly sure this is horseshit, but I heard a story that went along the lines of:Nah..that has got to be running
That was the Winter War where that lad skied around sniping Russians. Think there's a story about him being off his head on drugs for about 2 days whilst doing it too.I'm fairly sure this is horseshit, but I heard a story that went along the lines of:
There's a Finnish guy in WWII who went tearing around on cross country skis with a sniper rifle on his back, he'd hole up somewhere and ping a load of Rooskies in the absolute arseholes of nowhere. Then he'd bate off on his skis again, and the Russians simply couldn't catch him. They'd live in mortal fear of a shot out of nowhere blowing the back of their heads off.
Like, this lad took out hundreds of soldiers. Constant existential fear pervaded the ranks, they had a name for him along the lines of The White Death or some shit.
The Finns, and in reality all of Scandinavia, seem to have this permenent fuck you relationship with Russia, and will take any oppurtunity to throw the dig in. So shortly after WWII some genius comes up with "The Biathlon" which coincidentally enough is about cross country skiing with a sniper rifle strapped to your back, pinging a target, and GTFO of there as pronto possible. As a SPORT though (winky face). And in hindsight it's a fairly fucking contrived sport. The Scandinavians gave it some hurr durr "hUnTinG aNtEloPe" shite, but as everyone very well fucking remembered that one Finnish guy who scared the ever loving shit out of an entire army, and then died of old age long after the end of the war, and wanted fond memory immortalized. So yeah, they lobbied and got it accepted as an Olympic sport. And every four years the Russians get their ass handed to them again by some Scandinavian.
what separates sport from a game? i suspect there is no line.
By that definition professional wrestling is the purest of all sports and I’m ok with that.Totally guessing,but would sport have more skill whereas a game depends on chance like the roll of a dice?
Then chess would be a sport.Totally guessing,but would sport have more skill whereas a game depends on chance like the roll of a dice?
I always thought chess was a sportThen chess would be a sport.
I'd probably be ok with that.
I always thought chess was a sport
I tend to think if you cam smoke while you're doing it, it's probably not a sport.
David Bryant. A giant of the game.They used to show lawn bowls on TV, and there was an aul boy who'd be strolling about with a big pipe, wearing funny clothes, probably a hat, puffing away, firing balls off in all direction like a gangster.
A genuine hero of mine growing up. I didn't understand bowls. I didn't care about any other player. I didn't even like the sport. But if that absolute stud was on the grass, I was watching.
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