Giles ,'Selfless'
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.
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.
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."
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.)
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.)
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.
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.
And the shot for putting. Can't see the point of the discus as well.
Oh, the wtf-ness of MP in no way makes me not love it. But I do find it incredibly amusing that the bunch of upper-class Euro guys who decided to revive/update the Olympics decided that "survival skills" meant pretty much "what upper-class Euro guys like us are talking about when we want to feel all manly about ourselves".
I think the survival difference between decathlon and MP is whether or not you have a gun or a horse.
What, no love for the survival value of a round-robin of single-touch epee encounters?
I do love the Olympic sports where you trace their origin to an actual useful skill.
For me, biathalon wins on this one. Skiing and shooting!
And the shot for putting. Can't see the point of the discus as well.
It just throws better, no? Like, if you're going to see how far you can throw things, you might as well pick the furthest-throwing? That would work in battle as well, I'd imagine. A rock-throwing kind of battle?