[Bored] [Druid] [Thread] Follow

You're not even watching for all the eyecandy?

I'd watch the Olympics if they made Shinty an Olympic sport. It's like a mixture of field hockey and lacrosse, minus the body armour. Also, why do some American sports have so much protection? American Football, Ice Hockey, and Lacrosse all have insane amounts of body armour. What's the deal?

Indeed, hockey is hockey, ice hockey is fighting on ice. Entertaining, sure, but it's no match for real hockey.

Also, just look at this (I hope this video works, I couldn't find it on youtube. Sorry for the Dutch commentary but it's probably only shown by the Australians as far as English speaking countries go)

How is field hockey different from lacrosse? I thought that was like soccer (US) and football (pretty much everywhere else).

If the Olympic committee was worried about one country dominating a sport, they would have dropped basketball from the Olympics years ago. Since 1936, the US has won gold in all but 4 years: two genuine losses, one boycott, and one loss under highly controversial circumstances (it came down to an IOC decision on a referee call about a timeout with the US up by 1 point).

Not that I follow basketball, it's just a sport I assumed the USA would excel at.

I wanted to try paan (which is the same thing essentially) anyway, but not in the middle of the night when I needed to sleep.

Lacrosse is ball in air, field hockey is ball on ground. Lacrosse was originally played by the Iroquois, field hockey not so much.

It's more of a southern US thing. Everything down here is football, football, and more football. No school I've ever been to has had a field hockey or lacrosse team (that I'm aware of). No ice hockey teams either, but ice hockey shows up in the occasional movie. I couldn't tell you much about the rules of the game, and could only guess at the number of players even allowed on the ice at once.

Ice hockey > everything. Super serious.

Sports that don't include some violence are boring. Mainly because I want to be reminded why I don't do sports.

Edited, Jul 30th 2012 3:32pm by Mazra

How about sports with women in bikinis?

Tennis has got nothing on beach volleyball.

Has got? Really?

Edited, Jul 30th 2012 4:52pm by Mazra

Football is a group watching sport, so we need time between plays to argue about the play that was just run, to argue about the official who screwed up by calling a penalty or not calling a penalty or placing the ball at the wrong point or about whether or not he was in bounds when he caught the ball or was on one knee or if he broke the plane of the goal line or not or if the ball was touched by an offensive player before it was intercepted or if it was offensive or defensive pass interference, and we also need time to argue what the next play should be.

And it's not an official National Football League game unless there are a couple of fat bald guys in the stands in the middle of the winter without shirts on who have painted their bodies the color of their favorite team. My personal favorite is New York Jets green.

Oh, and if its a superbowl, you really have got to spray cheeze whiz at the TV at some point.

Maybe we have different definitions of technical, but I just don't see any ball sport as being "very technical". Things like figure skating or gymnastics, or low-contact tournament martial arts are my idea of "very technical". You have a panel of judges deciding that this trick or maneuver or routine is worth so many points, but when you do this or that before or after it it increases the degree of difficulty so it's actually worth more points.


I could tell you American Football is all about tactics. How the offense sets a pace to try to keep the defense off-balance, and takes the time between plays to vary their strategy to get the ball down-field. But honestly, I think they've gone way overboard with the replays and the helmet cams and the radio communication between the guys on the sidelines and the guys on the field. There is so much money in the game that teams will hire players that they think excel in certain situations, and then change out their players to suit the players' strengths. Rather than get an all-around good tight-end, for example, you might have one that is good at zone defense, one that is good at stopping a running play, and another that does well in man-to-man coverage.

I say bring back Iron-man football like my dad's dad used to play. You have just enough men on the roster to cover if someone gets hurt in the game, and maybe have your QB sit out when you're on defense. And the staff consists of a coach, 1 or 2 assistants, and a team doctor.

Lacrosse doesn't have a lot of padding. Mostly helmets, gloves, arm guards, and a cup. Because as a defenseman with a six-foot-long metal stick, I can hit your hands all I want to knock the ball out of your stick. And I might hit your head. Accidentally. And possibly your nuts.

Goalies wear a chest protector, a cup, gloves, and a helmet with a throat protector. And that's it.

BTW, lacrosse balls can be shot at up to 114 mph. I think I'll keep a little bit of padding and a helmet, thanks.

Relevant pic of lacrosse injury (back of my leg from two Sundays ago):

Oh, we're talking about the Olympics? That sounds... fun.

So a 3 star dinner and many fancy wines will be had?

Internet bandwidth vs easy access to Cascade Brewing, Deschutes, Hair Of The Dog Brewing, Ninkasi, Rogue and about a hundred other Oregon breweries. Not to mention probab;y fairly good access to many Californian breweries as well. Who cares about internet speeds if you can spend your days in drunken bliss? :P

I assumed it was a photo from two weeks ago as well. And I agree... It's hard to avert my eyes as well. It sort of makes my leg feel like it's hurting too lol

I absolutely love leg injuries.

In that they're pretty much the only injuries that make me squinch when I see them in movies or real life or even hear about them. Ugh.

I never get tired of showing off my legs to the ladies. I've pretty much always let bruises heal on their own, though. Had no idea about that "cure." Thanks for that info.

I'm going to have to try that one Maz, considering I have a pretty impressive hickie on my neck right now lol. I made the mistake of telling S he could give me one last night, as long as he didn't go overboard. He didn't mean to, but apparently it got a lot darker about 10 minutes after he stopped. >.< And it's smack dab in the middle of the side of my neck. If I let him do it again, I'll have to make sure he does it more by my collar bone so it's not quite so visible for work.

*hugs* Kali, hope it's nothing serious.

@#%^ing @#%^ Ghom on inferno. The @#%^ing piece of @#%^.

People still play Diablo 3? I don't know how people can run the exact same thing over and over again. (I know, I know, raiding in WoW is the exact same thing, which is why I rarely log on any more.)

I have 796 all resist, 60% dmg reduction from armor, almost 40% dodge, 600 life on hit, 500 life per second and about 22k dps.

I got him to 80% on my best try.


Out of 10 or so.



55k in repairs.


I absolutley hated the pointless grinding in WoW but for some reason I am endlessly entertained by smacking demons in the face over and over and over and over. And I have yet to beat inferno mode, so yeah, maybe once I do that I'll get bored but until then there'll be some nagging feeling that I'm not done yet and by then we'll know when the xpack is released

The fact that it's actually challenging (and sometimes insanely frustrating) when you get to Inferno is making me stay too. And lets face it, it's not like the story is at all important to D3, it's a uninteresting bunch of glued together cliches that serve no greater purpose than to give you a reason to go punt demons by the dozen. But so was D2's story and I'm assuming D1 as well.



Also: Sad Kermit sings Hurt (the NiN/Johnny Cash song)


Edited, Aug 1st 2012 8:24pm by Aethien

Occasionally selling sh*t for 20 million helps. Also, I don't care much about my health per second, life on hit is more important. Oh and I forgot to mention the 58k hp.