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| Name: | Grouchy Dude |
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| Gender: | Dude |
| Member since: | March 11, 2002 |
| Last visit: | June 07, 2002 |
grouchydude has posted 2 links and 1 comment to SportsFilter and 0 links and 1 comment to the Locker Room.
Stupid worthless non-sport's governing body to eat its young next month.: Idiots. Long have I strove to keep judged events out of the Olympics and in the hands of Disney where they belong. But since I'm just a grouchy dude with a computer, there's not much I can do.
Ice skating in circles whilst wearing lingerie is not a sport. A sport should not rely on a subjective measurement to determine its outcome - judges should be transparent.
Now darts - that should be an Olympic event. Hardly any rules, no disputes about the outcome, play in a pub with a beer in one hand. Darts!
posted by grouchydude to other at 06:46 PM on March 14, 2002 - 5 comments
Why no threads about octopush?: Also known as "Underwater Hockey," this sport is growing in both popularity and international attention. I think it would behoove us all to spend some more time learning about the sport and enjoying the sense of excitement a match fosters in young and old alike. ROCK!
posted by grouchydude to other at 07:31 PM on March 12, 2002 - 3 comments
Sure, every actual sport has subjective, or at least interpreted, decisions enforced by judging officials - the strike zone, the pass-interference call, the decision win in boxing. The point is, sportos, that the outcome of those sports is not determined by a set of subjective decisions. You may shriek all you like about a miserable called third-strike, but the game isn't won or lost based on a folding table full of judges adding or subtracting points based on the suggestiveness of the Marlins' uniforms.
posted by grouchydude at 03:28 AM on March 15, 2002
Grouchy Dude, who points out that Microsoft rightly won the browser war before the first shot was fired, just checked on Mozilla 0.9.9 on Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.1.2. No problems. Salmacis, might you be using Linux?