Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Teflon Billy" data-source="post: 760944" data-attributes="member: 264">I attended the Sumo Basho here in Vancouver a couple of years ago, where Yokozuna Akebono was competing (the thing was won by Takanohana I beleive)It really wore on me. At first it was pretty interesting, but I just did not have a single clue what was going on most of the time.that whole &quot;throwing salt&quot; thing was semi-interesting the first half dozen times I saw it, but after awhile I realized that yes; they were just tossing some salt around.the audience would inexplicably go nuts when one guy looked at another. They'd walk in and out of the circle, toss mroe salt etc....it looked like &quot;stalling for time&quot; for the most part.And that got to me. There was about an average of ten minutes of tossing salt, staring and walking in and out of the ring for every 10 seconds of action. the high point of the thing for me wa at the end when Takanohana was presented with his prizes, one of which was a year's supply of salmon.My date leaned over and wondered to me if the Salmon providers knew what a &quot;year's supply&quot; likely was to this wreslter <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />anyway, not my thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Teflon Billy, post: 760944, member: 264"] I attended the Sumo Basho here in Vancouver a couple of years ago, where Yokozuna Akebono was competing (the thing was won by Takanohana I beleive) It really wore on me. At first it was pretty interesting, but I just did not have a [i]single[/i] clue what was going on most of the time. that whole "throwing salt" thing was semi-interesting the first half dozen times I saw it, but after awhile I realized that yes; they were just tossing some salt around. the audience would inexplicably go nuts when one guy looked at another. They'd walk in and out of the circle, toss mroe salt etc....it looked like "stalling for time" for the most part. And that got to me. There was about an average of ten minutes of tossing salt, staring and walking in and out of the ring for every 10 seconds of action. the high point of the thing for me wa at the end when Takanohana was presented with his prizes, one of which was a year's supply of salmon. My date leaned over and wondered to me if the Salmon providers knew what a "year's supply" likely was to this wreslter :) anyway, not my thing. [/QUOTE]

Verification