Or less comforting than the appearance of a 1000 year old egg.
Exactly.
And just to clear things up in case anyone has actually read any of the posts between Njord and I, I feel both things are things people should be allowed to do. I don’t necessarily understand it, but many likely don’t understand the choices I make.
I was bothered by his interactions with others, and his views towards obese people. It came off quite arrogant to me. I saw hypocrisy on his part and felt he deserved being called out on it due to his behavior. It was childish of me, and a waste of time to internet fight with bullies.
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those are really good!
Also, if you manage to succesfully make a century egg, please teach me
As far as vehicle insurance goes, the insurance makes a logical connection with risk.
But for health insurance how is the risk determined. A person can have a single vehicle for transportation and it be a “slow” Vespa. Another can have his sole transportation be a high horsepower crotch rocket. An a third could own a truck, two sedans, and one motorcycle. How is the health risk assessed in each case? And then add all the other varied percent time of motorcycle use to the entire population. You’d need AI to begin to get close to fairly assessing transportation risk for every case.
Now assess all the other risky things people can decide to do, and do so fairly. Yes. It is a monumental task. Probably impossible, not to mention everyone making a case that their percent time of risky behavior deserves a closer look. “I changed this. I changed that.”
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I think the answer here is in a way that the insurance company makes lots of money on average over the long run. The companies hire actuaries to make sure that happens. If the government says they can’t raise prices on people who do certain things or are someone with more risk, they raise rates across the board.
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Gymnastics is a sport, even though it is judged similar to bodybuilding. Tricks have difficulty values and the subjective aspect is how well that trick was executed.
Bodybuilding is not a sport, IMO. It is a male muscle “beauty contest.” And not to leave out the women, it is a female muscle “beauty contest.”
Maybe bodybuilding should add a division called Aesthetic Adiposity. The best built fat man.
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While we’re at it. Chess is 100% not a sport and should be removed from the Olympics. I guess I should be posting this in the hot takes thread, but, chess is a prime competition setting for folks carrying a bit of extra weight so I guess this works too. Fat chess players don’t piss me off, but people playing chess in the Olympics bugs me. If those Olympic chess players were fat, they’d bug me too.
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Not so. The “sport” of chess is called American Football. It is the king of all sports and it will never be an Olympic sport. Think about it. One well thought out move after another with the fastest, strongest, most graceful athletes of the world.
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More controversial opinions:
Bowling is not a sport.
Golf is not a sport.
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NASCAR
non athletic sport centered around rednecks
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My love affair with football has cooled in the last several years. I will likely never experience the absolute zenith of sports fandom that was Super Bowl LI again in this life. Since then, football just hasn’t been the same.
That said, I find it to be a fairly simple game and often over-complicated by coaches and coordinators who for lack of a better explanation must be too smart for their own good. I’m convinced the best Madden players could out coach/play call half the league at a moments notice.
I haven’t given chess a fair shake, but the couple times I attempted to play, I floundered fast.
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Controversial, yes. But a lukewarm take at best.
I will say, these two examples, to me, are more sport than powerlifting is.
I’m enjoying the direction this thread has gone.
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How about “anything you get better at after 3 beers is not a sport”.
Although I would say golf is a sport, bowling, darts, billiards, cornhole, and similar activities are not sports.
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[quote="RT_Nomad, post:229, topic:285026 is not a sport, IMO. It is a male muscle “beauty contest.” And not to leave out the women, it is a female muscle “beauty contest.”
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In my head, a sport has to meet all of these criteria.
1.) An objective instead of subjective scoring system.
2.) Physical action that needs to be practiced.
3.) Competing against another person.
So chess meets 1 and 3 - not a sport.
Bodybuilding meets 2 and 3 - not a sport.
Football meets all 3 - a sport.
I’d separate the other things into games, or athletics.
Nascar is theater. I can take 500 left turns no problem.
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They’re all just putting balls/sacks in holes. I think its gotta be an all or none kinda deal here
It would be rather involved and very controversial/confrontational to assign an hierarchy of the various sports. So, I will stick with a binomial view of sports, i.e., it is a sport, or it is not a sport.
But even the objective scoring has a component of subjectivity involved. Was the “objective score” obtained without a “subject infraction” being made.
That is an agreeable stance for sure.
I consider these “skill competitions”. It takes talent and hard work, but not necessarily physical prowess (the component that makes it a sport).
Yeah, but then basketball wouldn’t be a sport.
Even that is over-thinking it. They are games. Everything doesn’t have to be a sport. Being good at cornhole doesn’t make you an athlete, it just makes you good at that game.
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