Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[FrogReaver]

Yeah, I don't think anyone wants to see people getting stabbed at the olympics

I bet people would pay good money to see it

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I mean, there are lots of things on the internet. But this claim was also in the headline:

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and the article itself explains why it was wrong and just ignores that it did so:

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But I am certainly not going to go look around for worse!

So maybe it was the indisputably most inane thing in the headline of a site American's would consider major (if I ignore whatever other horrible things are out there)?

I think part of the “Biles as GOAT” discussion is that she’s done things no other gymnasts- male or female- have done.

For example, she has created 5 skills (tricks/stunts)- more than anyone else if I recall correctly*. So she’s expanding the sports’ repertoire.

She’s also done certain tricks in competition that no other woman has done. Her Yurchenko Double Pike Vault has the highest difficulty level in that event, and she’s done it in competition at least twice in the past year.





* corrections welcome

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

...then it is recursively inane turtles all the way down.

It’s fractal inanity…

 

[Deset Gled]

I think part of the “Biles as GOAT” discussion is that she’s done things no other gymnasts- male or female- have done.

For example, she has created 5 skills (tricks/stunts)- more than anyone else if I recall correctly*. So she’s expanding the sports’ repertoire.

She’s also done certain tricks in competition that no other woman has done. Her Yurchenko Double Pike Vault has the highest difficulty level in that event, and she’s done it in competition at least twice in the past year.

* corrections welcome

No corrections. But I can play the uneducated Devil's Advocate. I believe the main argument would be that the previous scoring system (where gymnasts could get a "perfect 10") gave less points for high difficulty moves and put more focus on overall presentation. The reason that previous gymnasts never tried to do what Biles does is because it didn't make sense from a risk/reward standpoint; better to do a simpler move perfect than a near impossible move with minor issues. So we'll never know if Mary Lou Rhetton or others could do the same as Biles, and we'll never see Biles train for the type of routine done in the previous century*.

That being said, I've noticed that gymnastics seems to be much more of a "quantified" sport now, focussed on measurable tricks, with much less focus on style. I'm pretty sure this is a good thing overall; less bias, less sexism, etc. Over course, I only become aware of gymnastics once every four years. For all I know, in 12 years they'll be telling us how this new scoring systems is making too many gymnasts ruin their spines, or something.

*Yes, we are that old.

 

[Alzrius]

Ah, Chrono Trigger, the game that was Rickrolling all of us before it was cool.

 

[trappedslider]

I wish medusa would stop objectifying people

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I wish medusa would stop objectifying people

Take your laugh, dang it. But just know ...

 

[trappedslider]

Take your laugh, dang it. But just know ...

The minotaur was the first cowboy

 

[overgeeked]

The minotaur was the first cowboy

Pasiphaë was the first cowgirl.

 

[MNblockhead]

Isn't there already a D&D memes thread?

Yeah, but apparently its poor etiquette to discuss the memes there.