Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.
'Get It Done'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
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.
sarameg - Aug 25, 2008 2:46:56 pm PDT #5322 of 10003
Jessica - Aug 25, 2008 2:46:56 pm PDT #5323 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The DH proposed by apologizing. He said "I have something to say to you which is really not romantic. I have been thinking and I realized I want to be married to you, but I just don't want a wedding. I'm sorry." THIS from a guy who writes for a living.
Bwahaha! Okay, mine wasn't exactly like that, but it was pretty close (minus the not wanting a wedding). Must be something about the profession.
meara - Aug 25, 2008 2:50:26 pm PDT #5324 of 10003
"Only reason you keep asking is because you know it's not okay—now that we're all painfully aware of it, do us all a favor and shut the fuck up about it."
...isn't this where the face-punching comes in?? I mean, *seriously*, people....
megan walker - Aug 25, 2008 2:55:15 pm PDT #5325 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Because I’m bored, I’m trying to come up with all the Olympic sports that rely on subjective scoring. Have I left anything out?
Gymnastics
Diving
Synchronized Swimming
Equestrian (Dressage)
How much is judging involved in the following?
BMX
Fencing
Taekwondo
Wrestling
Judo
Boxing
Any shooting or track & field events that involve judges?
meara - Aug 25, 2008 2:56:49 pm PDT #5326 of 10003
Well, some of the track and field events involve subjective scoring? Like, the pentathlon (women's) involves dressage?
There are all kinds of events that I had no idea were events, so...lord knows.
(The pentathlon is one that I didn't know was an event but I think is SUPER AWESOME: you run, swim, ride a horse (I think it's dressage? But maybe it's jumping???), do sword fighting and shoot, I think?!?! How freaking cool is that!?!?!)
megan walker - Aug 25, 2008 2:57:40 pm PDT #5327 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
the pentathlon (women's) involves dressage
What?
Tom Scola - Aug 25, 2008 3:01:29 pm PDT #5328 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
- Figure skating
- Ice dancing
- Freestyle skiing
- Snowboarding
meara - Aug 25, 2008 3:01:36 pm PDT #5329 of 10003
OK, I SWEAR there is some kind of contest in the olympics that involves that combination...maybe it's not heptathlon? I was reading about it in the airplane maagazine!!! Just last week!! About a woman who was going to her like, fourth or fifth olympics in her third different sport, because she'd started as a swimmer, and then become a triathlete, and then become a....pentathete?
YES! Found it on wikipedia. "Modern Pentathlon"
Wicked cool.
[edit: show jumping, though, not dressage]
megan walker - Aug 25, 2008 3:04:21 pm PDT #5330 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Tom, I was just thinking about summer.
amych - Aug 25, 2008 3:08:12 pm PDT #5331 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Nope -- the equestrian phase of modern pentathlon is show jumping (and the fencing is epee, which depends less on the referee than the other two). But it's not a track and field event -- that -athlon is the heptathlon, which is a decathlon for weak delicate females.
To answer the fencing question, two of the three weapons depend on a ref to make right-of-way calls, but it's not subjective scoring in the same way that diving or gymnastics are. There are no style points or degrees of right or wrong. It's more like baseball depending an umpire to call balls and strikes: this or that person started their attack first, so their hit counts according to the rules.
In epee, there's no issue of who attacked first, so the ref is a bit more like a basketball ref. A lot like a basketball ref, in fact: Did you step out of bounds? And did you elbow your opponent in the face, or did he fall down and pretend you did in order to draw a call?
Boxing and TKD both depend on electric scoring systems to register hits to legal targets, and judges to watch for rules violations and validate that the hits are good (so that only solid hits and not glancing blows count, frex).