What Are You Watching?

[Don Edwards 558]

On 7/28/2024 at 9:09 PM, Darth Fluffy said:

Egregiously breaks the fourth wall.

[mlooney 3,548]

I've never noticed that wearing glasses helps any in interpersonal relationships of the negative sort.

[Don Edwards 558]

Using them as a club, to hit someone with, seems more likely to damage the glasses than to hurt the target.

[Darth Fluffy 332]

1 hour ago, Don Edwards said:

Using them as a club, to hit someone with, seems more likely to damage the glasses than to hurt the target.

I concur. Don't use glasses, grab a mug, they are heavier.

On the other hand, if you want to stab, a broken glass should have nice sharp edges.

[mlooney 3,548]

12 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

On the other hand, if you want to stab, a broken glass should have nice sharp edges.

Modern "glasses" are made from either polycarbonate or generic plastic.  They don't shatter into sharp edges.  As my why I know...

[Darth Fluffy 332]

7 minutes ago, mlooney said:

Modern "glasses" are made from either polycarbonate or generic plastic.  They don't shatter into sharp edges.  As my why I know...

You can still buy glass glasses, but yes they usually seem to cost more. Pretty sure the dollar stores carry actual glass glasses.

Guessing you smashed a polycarbonate 'glass' and it broke differently.

AFAIKT, Tupperware sippy cups don't break. The tops wear out because the kids chew the tips, but the cups last forever. Future intelligent species will find them and assume there was an animal that had a sippy cup shell.

[mlooney 3,548]

Back on the watching thing.  Today on YouTube was "Expert reactants" with Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, Action Retro, building a franken Mac, Band-Maid/The Warning "Show Them", 2 Pirate Software shorts, and Ginni D D&D short.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,614]

 

Not the Olympics 

It is always an emotional crash for me when the Olympic Games and Olympic Winter Games come to an end 

The French Gymnastics Federation got too pushy.  Insisting on all their prospects training in the same camp with the same coaches.  One girl insisted on staying with her own coach, changing her citizenship to Algerian through her Father.   She ends up winning the first women's gymnastic gold for an African team. 

Without an Olympic connection, this would be just another story of surviving bureaucracy.  With the Five Rings, this is a epic triumph of the human spirit. 

 

[mlooney 3,548]

I haven't watched any Olympics since the pre pandemic Korean winter Olympics.  I'm not that much of a sports person and the things I do sorta want to follow don't get airtime. (Epee fencing, Pentathlon)

[Darth Fluffy 332]

39 minutes ago, mlooney said:

I haven't watched any Olympics since the pre pandemic Korean winter Olympics.  I'm not that much of a sports person and the things I do sorta want to follow don't get airtime. (Epee fencing, Pentathlon)

I remember some fencing on TV back in the day; may have been Wide World of Sports, or Olympics long ago.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,614]

 

Fencing does get televised coverage, but not a lot.  I saw some from Paris. You may need to look in the stratospheric cable channel numbers or online. And if the particular games are featuring Epee, Foil or Sabre varies.

Most of the time, I can not tell a legal from an illegal touch or which fencer hit first. 

 

[The Old Hack 2,482]

3 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Most of the time, I can not tell a legal from an illegal touch or which fencer hit first. 

You are not alone in that. I can't, either.

[Darth Fluffy 332]

I had a fencing set when I was a kid, because apparently my parents didn't want kids, retroactively. It consisted of two foil looking metal rods, about two or three feet long each, with rubber tips and full handles and round cup shaped hand guards, and, thank God, two stiff screen full face masks. Somehow, none of us ever lost an eye. (There were no rules supplied, nor did I receive any parental guidance.)

It is amazing that we are facing a world population crisis, considering how suicidal we are in the aggregate. I also had a carbide cannon, which are very easy to overload or stuff a rock into . . . I've never blown my fingers off with fireworks (but, to be fair, we lived in a State that you had to sneak them into, you could not buy them locally) ((except sparklers, which burn hundreds of degrees hot (F or C doesn't matter so much; just go with 'flesh searing'), given to us to swing wildly around before school age)) . . . oh, yeah, a bow and arrows I used in my back yard with a target on a cardboard box, used unsupervised. Yet, here I am, at a ripe old age.

All of this stuff make sense, with a lot of adult supervision. Am I wrong, and it is better for kids to work it out for themselves?

OMG, the chemistry sets! You can't purchase anything close to what we had, they have been Nerfed to the nth degree.

 

[mlooney 3,548]

14 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

 

Fencing does get televised coverage, but not a lot.  I saw some from Paris. You may need to look in the stratospheric cable channel numbers or online. And if the particular games are featuring Epee, Foil or Sabre varies.

Most of the time, I can not tell a legal from an illegal touch or which fencer hit first. 

 

 

10 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

You are not alone in that. I can't, either.

That's why I said Epee.  While I know the rules of foil and saber, I really can't follow right of way when watching.  Epee:  Whole body is legal, 1st hit wins.  There are some more rules, but that pretty much sums it up.

[Darth Fluffy 332]

I want to see caber tossing added to the Olympics, then I want to see caber catching added to the Olympics.

[mlooney 3,548]

36 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

I want to see caber tossing added to the Olympics, then I want to see caber catching added to the Olympics.

Not at the same time.  For the caber catching event they will have a mechanical Scotsman throw the caber so all the tosses are the same.

[mlooney 3,548]

I as both chuffed and sad. The final "The Grand Tour" airs on Sept 13th. I may spend the week before watching the whole of the Grand Tour.

 

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,614]

 

The Closing Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.

When they handed the flag over to the mayor of the next host city, Los Angeles, the music was The Mamas And The Papas.

I like 60s folk rock much more than a lot of current hits.  But after the show Paris just gave, the world is expecting more from LA.

 

[mlooney 3,548]

2 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

 

The Closing Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.

When they handed the flag over to the mayor of the next host city, Los Angeles, the music was The Mamas And The Papas.

I like 60s folk rock much more than a lot of current hits.  But after the show Paris just gave, the world is expecting more from LA.

 

California Dreaming by any chance?

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,614]

 

12 hours ago, mlooney said:

California Dreaming by any chance?

It wasn't Monday Monday.

 

[Darth Fluffy 332]

1 hour ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

It wasn't Monday Monday.

Garfield Garfield hates Monday Monday.