I tend to think the Modern pentathlon would be the best survival skills indicator, since it involves long distance running, swimming, horse-riding, swordsmanship, and pistol firing. Unless you have a decathlete that can run faster than a horse and throw clip's worth of javelins with more accuracy and deadlier force than a pistol, anyway...
I can handle the Oz Full Monty. I mean, not 'handle' handle.
Xander ,'Help'
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 26, 2008 11:21:31 am PDT #5503 of 10003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
tommyrot - Aug 26, 2008 11:24:29 am PDT #5504 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think there should be an Olympic event called "Fix your computer after the latest service pack hosed it."
amych - Aug 26, 2008 11:26:57 am PDT #5505 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I tend to think the Modern pentathlon would be the best survival skills indicator
Especially if you happen to be a (late) 19th century European cavalry officer!
Of course, the run isn't
long
long -- it's 3K, so definitely longer than I could run, but it's hardly marathon distance. Of course, since the riding event specifies an unfamiliar horse, I guess you only have to run as far as the next horse you can steal commandeer.
I find MP fascinating, in a completely wtf way.
tommyrot - Aug 26, 2008 11:27:12 am PDT #5506 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oopsie!
Whoops! Top Republican Admits That GOP Is Running "Ministry Of Truth" Against Obama
Um, this guy must not have read 1984. Or else he's just honest.
Wow -- a leading Republican appears to have just inadvertently admitted that the GOP's spin machine set up to counter Barack Obama during the convention is a propaganda machine spewing nothing but lies.
The GOPer in question is Colorado GOP chairman Dick Wadhams, who accidentally made the admission when describing the GOP's war room in Denver set up to hammer Obama during convention week.
Wadhams described the GOP's outfit thusly to the Denver Post: "Just consider this the Ministry of Truth."
brenda m - Aug 26, 2008 11:30:28 am PDT #5507 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I do love the Olympic sports where you trace their origin to an actual useful skill. I think that would my "reform the Olympics" platform rather than just on objective/subjective measures. (So long, beach volleyball.)
juliana - Aug 26, 2008 11:31:44 am PDT #5508 of 10003
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
But it isn't appreciably longer than the mens marathon! (Though a marathoner might hurt me if I tried to make them go an extra 5 miles.)
Men's and women's - same distance. Also, there are the whackaloons who do "ultra" marathons, for which the marathon is a mere training run.
(I say "whackaloon" in the admiring "holy shit, I could never do that, marathons killed me" way.)
I tend to think the Modern pentathlon would be the best survival skills indicator
Especially if you happen to be a (late) 19th century European cavalry officer!
Or a survivor of the Apocalypse! (I love MP.)
§ ita § - Aug 26, 2008 11:32:40 am PDT #5509 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yes, I think marathoners have run just about as far as they're going for now.
I think the survival difference between decathlon and MP is whether or not you have a gun or a horse. It's easier to improvise a javelin and a pole for vaulting.
Ginger - Aug 26, 2008 11:33:23 am PDT #5510 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Why walk if you can run?
Because racewalking is designed to keep you from putting all your weight on one leg. For me, running = a sharp jab under the kneecap every time my foot hits the ground.
I think there should be an Olympic event called "Fix your computer after the latest service pack hosed it."
There could if we started the Geek Olympics.
Trudy Booth - Aug 26, 2008 11:34:24 am PDT #5511 of 10003
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
§ ita § - Aug 26, 2008 11:34:28 am PDT #5512 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And the shot for putting. Can't see the point of the discus as well.