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I am, of course, boycotting the Olympics because not only is it a hideous display of government funded, genetically engineered, drug addled cheats held in a country with a human rights record of Zimbabwean standards but because most of the events are just plain silly. So, the only thing of interest is what events should be added for next time. Therefore a poll.

[Poll #1239304]

Date: 2008-08-12 12:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bopeepsheep.livejournal.com
Carcassonne. Or Fluxx.

Date: 2008-08-12 12:52 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] gillo
It's in London, so I think Traditional Queuing (it's about time that was reintroduced), Synchronised Apologising and Gymnastic Self-deprecation should be in there somewhere.

I'm not boycotting it - that would take way too much energy. As with almost all televised sport, I'm simply avoiding it as best I can. Which is not easy, though Putin's adventures are at least keeping it off the front pages. Not a good reason, but a tiny silver lining - it must be pissing off the Chinese gerontocrats big time.

Date: 2008-08-12 12:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valkyriekaren.livejournal.com
Maffball!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6MeGd4zhNc

Date: 2008-08-12 12:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erotetica.livejournal.com
The Classic Pentathlon idea is the best idea I have ever, ever heard. About anything.

Headless goat (or captive of war, as available)

Date: 2008-08-12 12:57 pm (UTC)
ext_6283: Brush the wandering hedgehog by the fire (Default)
From: [identity profile] oursin.livejournal.com
It's called bushkazi (http://www.samarkand-travel.com/bushkazi.htm) and played by Afghans, though according to site linked, also fairly widely throughout Central Asia.

How about extreme ironing (http://www.extremeironing.com/)?

Date: 2008-08-12 01:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] knirirr.livejournal.com
It would be nice to see traditional cudgel fighting or shin kicking.
Also, I saw it suggested that since the "modern" pentathlon is meant to represent the skills a spy trapped behind enemy lines might need to escape then it should be changed to comprise SMG marksmanship, driving a sports car, helicopter piloting, oriental martial arts and running (or similar).

Date: 2008-08-12 01:07 pm (UTC)
nanila: me (Default)
From: [personal profile] nanila
Durex volleyball.

Date: 2008-08-12 01:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sam-t.livejournal.com
Ecky Thump (http://www.tv.com/goodies/kung-fu-kapers--aka--ecky-thump/episode/196338/summary.html)?

Date: 2008-08-12 01:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com
Since the next Olympics are in London, what about A Ba' Game, similare to Kirkwall's, but played within the City.

Date: 2008-08-12 01:38 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com
I believe Mr Boycott has already mentioned as a potential Olympic sport one that I can actually play, which is shove ha'penny. I've got my father's board which the London committee can borrow if they like (as long as I get it back no chalkier than usual).

Date: 2008-08-12 01:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cymruangel.livejournal.com
Three-legged, sack and egg-and-spoon race triathlon.

(oh, and hello, commenting via replying to you on lisekit's jounral)

Date: 2008-08-12 01:43 pm (UTC)
ext_36143: (Default)
From: [identity profile] badasstronaut.livejournal.com
I reckon why not go for everything. Except I've excluded pie eating because that kind of thing is dangerous and people keep dying.

Eg - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7261888.stm

Date: 2008-08-12 01:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blonde222.livejournal.com
Duck herding

Log chopping

Turkey calling

Clogging

Date: 2008-08-12 02:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fearsclave.livejournal.com
Just to keep my loon schtick up, Parkour and IPSC spring to mind. Is Rugby an Olympic sport

[livejournal.com profile] gridlore had an excellent suggestion during the last Olympics; limit the Games to sports that only the Spartans or Vikings would recognize as such; so most of the track and field and combat sports and heavy lifting and rowing/canoeing, swimming, sailing and so forth, and in the winter skiing, biathlon, that sort of thing, but ice dancing?

Date: 2008-08-12 03:40 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
What about Extreme Ring-A-Rosie , where the teams are infected with bubonic plague and then dance in a ring trying to be the last to 'fall down'

And Go Fish, with real fish 'Have you got a mackerel? 'Yes..well,I had...oops....Shark!)

Date: 2008-08-12 04:06 pm (UTC)
ext_1059: (Default)
From: [identity profile] shezan.livejournal.com
Olympic PhotoShopping, of course! Standards to be set by the Beijing Broadcast Authority!

Bushkazi...

Date: 2008-08-12 04:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] albionwood.livejournal.com
... as played in Kaffiristan, using the head of a recently-deposed leader in lieu of a goat carcass. "Oh, big damn head!"

Date: 2008-08-12 05:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anneth.livejournal.com
Calvinball! Also, competitive mathematics.

Date: 2008-08-12 05:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anneth.livejournal.com
Beer pong! Truth or Dare! I Never!

They should all take purity tests.

Date: 2008-08-12 09:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] okoshun.livejournal.com
I was at a bar and quite surprised to see that beach volleyball is considered a real sport. Beach volleyball? WTF?

THUNDERDOME!

Date: 2008-08-12 10:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gillen.livejournal.com
Two men enter. One man leaves.

Date: 2008-08-12 11:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anthrokeight.livejournal.com
NOT Ultimate Frisbee... that sport, with the Anti-Ref, On Your Honor style of goal keeping was invented as the anti-pro-sport sport. It would truly just kill the wonderful of the game.

In London: Competative Stiff Upper Lip, also the Blue Plaque Landmark Marathon- you have to get to as many as you can in the time it takes a Kenyan to run the London Marathon route, extra points if you get postcards.

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