Umm sitting on a horse is work. Requires some strength and a fair amount of skill. Sitting on a horse that is running or galloping. That takes more skill. Jockeys are definitely athletes. Race horses are athletes too - but that just makes it a team sport.
Fire bad. Tree pretty.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Typo Boy - Jan 09, 2008 9:47:12 am PST #1877 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
§ ita § - Jan 09, 2008 9:51:41 am PST #1878 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
if jockeys are athletes, then ditch-diggers are athletes, right?
Are discus throwers athletes? They're using their bodies in the course of their jobs too--their job happens to be a sport which is why I feel comfortable calling them athletes.
Cashmere - Jan 09, 2008 10:02:45 am PST #1879 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Umm sitting on a horse is work. Requires some strength and a fair amount of skill. Sitting on a horse that is running or galloping. That takes more skill. Jockeys are definitely athletes. Race horses are athletes too - but that just makes it a team sport.
One afternoon of horseback riding makes my entire body ache--back, ass, legs and arms. Those guys are athletes. Definitely.
Trudy Booth - Jan 09, 2008 10:04:52 am PST #1880 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Are ballet dancers athletes?
Trudy Booth - Jan 09, 2008 10:05:42 am PST #1881 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
One afternoon of horseback riding makes my entire body ache--back, ass, legs and arms. Those guys are athletes. Definitely.
Two and a half hours in a race car can take off ten pounds. It's a pretty intense workout.
-t - Jan 09, 2008 10:06:05 am PST #1882 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I mean, if jockeys are athletes, then ditch-diggers are athletes
Competitive ditch-diggers are athletes.
F - tater tots, C - french fries, M - hash browns. I've been pondering it all this time and took a trip to Mickey-D's to figure it out. When I eschewed the Value Meal, I knew the truth.
Cashmere - Jan 09, 2008 10:07:45 am PST #1883 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Two and a half hours in a race car can take off ten pounds. It's a pretty intense workout.
I know racecar drivers--even local stock and sprint cars knock the shit out of you. My sister's ex built and drove his own sprint and he worked out all the time because it took a lot of strength to drive that car.
Trudy Booth - Jan 09, 2008 10:08:13 am PST #1884 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Competitive ditch-diggers are athletes.
Hmmm.... are the Harlem Globe Trotters athletes?
(Personally, actually, I'm grey on calling Racing a "sport". I stick with "motor sport". But to me the drivers are deffinately athletes.)
§ ita § - Jan 09, 2008 10:09:19 am PST #1885 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I will marry french fries, especially steak fries, if there are no breakfast potatoes (that recipe needs bacon) around. Chuck hash browns, because they are too often limp, and fuck tater tots, but delicately, because they rasp my mouth.
We were big on the croquettes when we moved to the UK.
Trudy Booth - Jan 09, 2008 10:09:45 am PST #1886 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I know racecar drivers--even local stock and sprint cars knock the shit out of you. My sister's ex built and drove his own sprint and he worked out all the time because it took a lot of strength to drive that car.
t overcome by trance
I'm looking into the future...
I see Cass... I see Cass saying "where is your sister?" while logging on to farecast.com...
t snaps out of it