Topic: Random thoughts - On the Origins of "I Could Eat A Horse" (Read 220401 times)

scriver · « **Reply #975 on:** July 20, 2020, 07:42:37 am »

Why do they even need to be professionals anyway. Make sports a hobby again.

Did you know the Olympics was supposed to be for amateurs only?

dragdeler · « **Reply #976 on:** July 20, 2020, 07:58:50 am »

scriver · « **Reply #977 on:** July 20, 2020, 08:16:18 am »

I had no idea about the upper class amateur link either but I guess that makes sense. It's sad though. I think more amateurism would greatly enhance the culture of many popular sports.

It's patently ridiculous to claim Greeks were amateurs, though. Like 99% of the Olympics are war games and military service was, as far as I know at least, very common.

Reelya · « **Reply #978 on:** July 20, 2020, 02:08:29 pm »

Yeah that whole "amateur code" was in fact to keep the Olympics as the domain of monied gentlemen, not some lofty goal of keeping sport pure or something.

One example is that enlisted men were considered to ride horses professionally, while for officers, they were held to be amateur horsemen, which was really a post-hoc justification of the rule that only the officer class could compete. There was a soldier (I forget the nation) who was an exemplary horseman, so they temporarily promoted him to officer rank so he could compete, but he got demoted again after the events.

In the same vein, rowers from Oxford and Cambridge were perfectly able to enter the Olympics as rowing teams, but if you rowed as your source of income then you were excluded.

Yoink · « **Reply #979 on:** July 21, 2020, 12:38:54 am »

Have y'all been watching The English Game or what?

Naturegirl1999 · « **Reply #980 on:** July 25, 2020, 06:23:49 pm »

This video talks about the many biases we humans can fall into

dragdeler · « **Reply #981 on:** July 25, 2020, 06:58:03 pm »

Frumple · « **Reply #982 on:** July 25, 2020, 08:19:33 pm »

... so is exurb1a some kind of bootleg exodia or...?

dragdeler · « **Reply #983 on:** July 25, 2020, 08:41:27 pm »

Frumple · « **Reply #984 on:** July 25, 2020, 08:54:09 pm »

Exodia's a children's cartoon/card game thing. Comes from Yu-gi-oh.

dragdeler · « **Reply #985 on:** July 25, 2020, 08:58:23 pm »

Naturegirl1999 · « **Reply #986 on:** July 27, 2020, 10:18:37 am »

I don’t remember what thread we were on, but there was a talk of the Uncanny Valley effect somewhere here. YouTube recently recommended a video about why the Uncanny Valley is wrong

methylatedspirit · « **Reply #987 on:** July 29, 2020, 04:21:38 am »

I wrote code in Brainfuck that outputs "14+++++ nm" to celebrate the delay of Intel's 7 nm process. There's probably ways to optimize this code, I just wanted to spite Intel for what they've done over the years.

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King Zultan · « **Reply #988 on:** July 29, 2020, 04:56:42 am »

Quote from: methylatedspirit on July 29, 2020, 04:21:38 am

I wrote code in Brainfuck

I've never heard of that before, when I first saw the code it looked like a ASCII drawing of some kind that had broken.

KittyTac · « **Reply #989 on:** July 29, 2020, 05:48:37 am »

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck

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