What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)

[popeyewhite]

g3org3y said:

mko9 said:

Any activity in which winners and loser are decided by a slate of judges is not a sport, and doesn't belong in the Olympics.

Gymnastics?

Within that there are compulsory set skills/routines and times for completion. There are elements judges do not need to vote on ie if an athlete falls of the bar, doesn't land cleanly etc etc

[popeyewhite]

otolith said:

mko9 said:

Also, curling is not an Olympic sport. Any activity where an overweight, middle aged dude holding a beer could conceivably win the gold is not an Olympic sport.

I'd have to go with mko9. Also any sport should incur a raised heartrate or it's not a sport. Standing stock still firing a peashooter isn't even a game unless you're trying to hit a moving target like a running man.

[otolith]

Maybe go back to the original - fighting, running, throwing discus and javelin, jumping, chariot and horse racing. Never mind shoes, no clothes. Sponsors would have to go for tattoos or body paint

If you wanted to modernise, you’d probably want unarmed combat, shooting, grenade throwing and drone piloting.

[e-honda]

Why do people give so much of a st if something is technically a sport or a game.
Just seems like petty jealousy that people are better at something than you and you want to trivialize it.

[popeyewhite]

otolith said:

Maybe go back to the original - fighting, running, throwing discus and javelin, jumping, chariot and horse racing. Never mind shoes, no clothes. Sponsors would have to go for tattoos or body paint

If you wanted to modernise, you’d probably want unarmed combat, shooting, grenade throwing and drone piloting.

[daqinggregg]

Chauffard said:

I'm not happy about other crisp manufacturers following Walkers perverse and heretical flavour/colour packaging.

Food Quality and Preference
The context of colour–flavour associations in crisps packaging: A cross-cultural study comparing Chinese, Colombian, and British consumers

Highlights
• •
We compare colour–flavour correspondences in crisps packaging in Colombia, China, and the UK.
• •
Associations corresponding to natural pairings in the environment can be found across countries.
• •
Complex or unspecified flavours have different colour associations across countries.
• •
The results are discussed in terms of crossmodal correspondences and brand colour schemes.

WTF do the Chinese and Columbians know about crisps, green ‘cucumber flavor’ yellow ‘lemon flavor’ orange ‘kimchi flavor’.

What next, the best cocktail flavours, according to Afghan freedom fighters, Patagonian goat herders and Texan cattle ranchers.

Green = Cheese & Onion
Blue = Salt & Vinegar

The End.

[nickfrog]

e-honda said:

Why do people give so much of a st if something is technically a sport or a game.
Just seems like petty jealousy that people are better at something than you and you want to trivialize it.

Like swimming ;-)

[mac96]

I would remove any sport from the Olympics where winning an Olympic gold is not the pinnacle of the participant's ambition. The obvious example being football, a sport for which the Olympics is way below other competitions in significance.

[jonsp]

mac96 said:

I would remove any sport from the Olympics where winning an Olympic gold is not the pinnacle of the participant's ambition. The obvious example being football, a sport for which the Olympics is way below other competitions in significance.

Makes tense, tennis would be another. I'd assume a tennis player would far rather have a Grand Slam than an Olympic gold.

[Randy Winkman]

jonsp said:

mac96 said:

I would remove any sport from the Olympics where winning an Olympic gold is not the pinnacle of the participant's ambition. The obvious example being football, a sport for which the Olympics is way below other competitions in significance.

Makes tense, tennis would be another. I'd assume a tennis player would far rather have a Grand Slam than an Olympic gold.

I agree 100%. I also think it's important the sports are global. Clearly no sports are participated in everywhere, but decent competition should come from a broad range of countries. (And I also think that gymnastics should be in the Olympics.)

[Speed addicted]

e-honda said:

Why do people give so much of a st if something is technically a sport or a game.
Just seems like petty jealousy that people are better at something than you and you want to trivialize it.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
Ernest Hemingway

To me no genuine risk of death/injury = game.

[21st Century Man]

America only sports that are described as "World" this and "World" that.

[anonymoususer]

I liked Top Gear and openly laughed out loud at some of the situations they concocted.
Having seen some of these episodes being repeated on BBC 3 I still like them. Top Gear was genuinely entertaining

[captain_cynic]

anonymoususer said:

I liked Top Gear and openly laughed out loud at some of the situations they concocted.
Having seen some of these episodes being repeated on BBC 3 I still like them. Top Gear was genuinely entertaining

What makes you think that is an unpopular opinion?

They didn't last 22 seasons and 5 on Amazon because no one enjoyed the show.

A lot of it was obviously concocted but still entertaining.

[jdw100]

otolith said:

Maybe go back to the original - fighting, running, throwing discus and javelin, jumping, chariot and horse racing. Never mind shoes, no clothes. Sponsors would have to go for tattoos or body paint

If you wanted to modernise, you’d probably want unarmed combat, shooting, grenade throwing and drone piloting.

I want to see an augmented Olympics.

All the drugs and blood doping you want. All of them!

Any enhancements are allowed.

100m in <8 seconds.

People being fitted with artificial legs, giving huge gains in the high jump.

Weight lifting on huge amounts of steroids, artificial joints and carbon fibre tendons.

That sort of thing.

It would drive medical innovation and be really interesting to see how far people could push themselves.

[e-honda]

jdw100 said:

I want to see an augmented Olympics.

All the drugs and blood doping you want. All of them!

Any enhancements are allowed.

100m in <8 seconds.

People being fitted with artificial legs, giving huge gains in the high jump.

Weight lifting on huge amounts of steroids, artificial joints and carbon fibre tendons.

That sort of thing.

It would drive medical innovation and be really interesting to see how far people could push themselves.

They coule come up with some sort of formula where people do long distance running, but allow people access to motorized devices to propel them around the circuit.

[Austin Prefect]

e-honda said:

jdw100 said:

I want to see an augmented Olympics.

All the drugs and blood doping you want. All of them!

Any enhancements are allowed.

100m in <8 seconds.

People being fitted with artificial legs, giving huge gains in the high jump.

Weight lifting on huge amounts of steroids, artificial joints and carbon fibre tendons.

That sort of thing.

It would drive medical innovation and be really interesting to see how far people could push themselves.

They coule come up with some sort of formula where people do long distance running, but allow people access to motorized devices to propel them around the circuit.

I think the suggestion is augmented Olympics as well not instead. Just as we have running and cycling and motor racing but keep them all separate. Apart from the old Le Mans start of course.

Or this;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D568_-2E2Uo

Edited by Austin Prefect on Friday 14th March 11:28

[mko9]

SlimJim16v said:

mko9 said:

Any activity in which winners and loser are decided by a slate of judges is not a sport, and doesn't belong in the Olympics.

Good point about boxing though.

Boxing can be won by KO or TKO, judges are not necessarily required.

[mko9]

g3org3y said:

mko9 said:

Any activity in which winners and loser are decided by a slate of judges is not a sport, and doesn't belong in the Olympics.

Gymnastics?

Exactly. Incredibly athletic, not a sport.

[popeyewhite]

mko9 said:

SlimJim16v said:

mko9 said:

Any activity in which winners and loser are decided by a slate of judges is not a sport, and doesn't belong in the Olympics.

Good point about boxing though.

Boxing can be won by KO or TKO, judges are not necessarily required.

Prizefights originally continued until only one fighter was left standing or couldn't go on. Olympic boxing can be very close though.