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9 years ago

With the Olympics close and all, I'm wondering: do any of you do any sports/have any interesting sport related opinions/ shenanigans to share?

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9 years ago
Swimming is going to be very competitive at the Olympics this year. They've ordered 450,000 condoms.

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9 years ago

You just reminded me Michael Phelps' girlfriend used to be a guy.

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9 years ago

I'm pretty sure she wasn't entirely a guy, like she was intersex or something.

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9 years ago

Exactly, used to be.

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9 years ago

Dude, she was never a guy. She was intersex, now she's either still intersex or female.

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9 years ago

... Are you unfamiliar with hermaphroditism?

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9 years ago

Sorry then. I'll look it up.

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9 years ago

:P Intersex is just the new medical term for it. Anyone else who is curious, it is not about your gender identity. It is a physical condition where you are born with the sexual organs/characteristics of both males and females. Usually one is more prominent than the other. This is common in some creatures, rare in others--like humans.

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9 years ago

I "practice" Historical European Martial Arts, and throw axes at a target in our yard from time to time. Those are my sports, I consider most of the other ones to be sucky.

Volleyball as we know it is for camp homosexuals, women in bikinis, animu girls with martial arts skills and a physics engine for their disproportionate bewbations, and boring regular people. Herbert Hoover took it upon himself to change this image, so that all the manly men of the world could partake in this otherwise dainty game without feeling un-challenged. Enter Hooverball, the game wherein the goddamn President selects his most barrel-chested, unshaven friends to shove each other around and whack a 5-pound exercise ball over the net at each other. Our football may be rugby for pussies, our baseball might be cricket for plebs, but goddammit, at least our Hooverball was volleyball for badasses. Sadly, this was never implemented as an Olympic sport.

Handgun and rifle shooting are/were Olympic sports. Future General George S. Patton competed in these, as well as boxing and/or wrestling, and fencing, before joining the military and taking on Pancho Villa.

Kung fu, IIRC, was an event in one of the Olympics. I vaguely remember reading about it on Wikipedia, and the contests were never described, so I'm not sure if it was a contact sport, a la the other Olympic martial arts, or if they were demonstrations/interpretations of the movesets like the kiddie competitions we have at home, but I do know Jet Li was discovered competing internationally in Kung Fu, though I don't think it was Olympian.

Sex, as far as I know, is not an Olympic sport, unfortunately, but Jackie Chan participated in both Kung Fu competitions and glorious fucking. He was discovered in a porno. There is nothing Jackie Chan cannot do.

Other things that were also Olympic Sports:

Baseball: Later removed for allegedly being "Too American". That's probably just tabloid drama, though, since they still have Olympic Basketball.

Tug of War: This was in 1908, when men with mustaches and stripey wool swimsuits needed to prove they were strong enough to pull ropes apart.

Solo Synchronized Swimming: For when the rest of your team are just swimming like a bunch of cucks.

Trampoline Jumping: More to it than that, but it's funny to say without context.

Club-Swinging: You swing clubs around. If it looks cool, you get more points. That's it. Gods I miss the Olympics of the early 1900s...

Other Sports that are Sentinel-Approved:

Shin-Kicking: If you break the other guy's leg, you win. That's a thing people do.

Jousting: Yes. Somebody please Olympic this!

Axe-Throwing: They already do this at the Lumberjack Games miles north of where I live, and I don't doubt they do it in other places.

Caber-Tossing: How bored are you? Bored enough to throw fucking trees up in the air just to see how far you can flip 'em?... That's... Actually really genius.

Rock-Lifting: More just for the backstory than anything else. Way back in the days of Scotland being a less-clothed version of Vikingia, each "Clan" had their own pile of giant fucking rocks. They were huge fucking rocks, each a significant fraction of the size of the human body, and in a designated area of Scottish plains, they were all stacked on top of each other in towers 4-5 feet tall, and are considered minor monuments to this day. It was a coming-of-age thing, and you were finally considered a man (Or a very badass woman) the day you were able to lift the biggest (Or all) of your Clan's fucking rocks. That fucking rocks.

Swedish Arm Wrestling: The ultimate game of Chicken. It takes complete awareness of your opponent to be able to defeat them. You have to keep your opponent from pushing your hand down, but you also have to be ready for them to let go and make you punch yourself in the face. It's a very delicate balance of force that has to be maintained. Swedish Arm Wrestling is a very serious art form and is not a made-up practical joke in any sense of those words.

The Knife Game: I just want to see what the "athletes" would look like.

Gladiatorial Combat: A lot of what the Roman Gladiators did was fake anyway. I'd like to see some of the more interesting Gladiator classes go to battle, even if it's all fat guys and LARP weapons.

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9 years ago

Sex- There actually is a sport where two women wrestle and have to make the other submit or pin them 2 out of 3 times and then the winner fucks the loser.

Gladiator Combat- That’s basically the WWE and professional wrestling in general.

Caber tossing and rock lifting- I think those are part of those Strongman competitions where they’re pulling semi-trucks with their teeth or something. Still, wouldn’t mind seeing them in the Olympics either.

The Knife Game- Yeah we need that one, but it should be called by the more amusing alliteration name of “Five Finger Fillet.”

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9 years ago

Gladiators need to kill each other. In WWE, there isn't daily death. Five Finger Filet sounds like a game for people with a death wish.

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9 years ago

You'd be surprised. A lot of the guys that were allowed to carry traditional weapons, and ranged weapons that could go up into the stands, were actually volunteers that got fat on purpose so they could take a beating and get cut up without damaging too many important things. You only really saw death and mutilation when they made prisoners and criminals fight to the death, and when that happened, it was usually a stacked battle with an experienced/war veteran volunteer, or they fought other convicts, or they were thrown in with lions and shit. Think of it like WWE with swords, bucklers, and talented actor-athletes fighting each other and emulating their scripted personas, except maybe once a month they get two convicts dressed up in armor and make them shiv each other to actual death to keep your willfull suspension of disbelief up and running.

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9 years ago

I play tennis. I'm at a tennis camp right now! I HATE it. So hot, and sweaty.

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9 years ago

I'm a golfer and a martial artist. Things can get a little hectic at times.

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9 years ago

Are you trying to say that golf is a hectic sport?! ROFL.

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9 years ago

No, I am not implying that golf is a hectic sport. It is the fact that I play it so much that I sometimes do not have enough time to fully enjoy that day. 

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9 years ago

*gasp* Playing a lot of golf?! Jesus...

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9 years ago

Honestly, Wizzy. Do stop trying to get on my nerves. We don't want this to get derailed. 

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9 years ago

I played soccer for quite a while, had a brief stint with basketball, I was on a swim team, and I studied two kinds of martial arts.

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9 years ago

I'm really getting good at Pokken Tournament. 

Esports is so fun, requires hand-eye coordination and a comfortable chair. ^3^

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9 years ago
I'm pretty strong at swimming, pretty average speed and really high endurance level apparently. Me and my friend (Virt for you guys who know), who did squads for 3 years, were placed in the same swimming group. She said that I had a heaps high endurance level and asked if I did squads and was surprised when I said I didn't even know what that was. I also really enjoy cricket/baseball/t-ball/etc. Also e-sports, but I'm not gonna call it that - it's just vidya gaems. Other than that, I'm pretty mediocre at the other sports, like soccer. Unfortunately I'm terrible at the cool people sports (basketball, netball, etc).