Posts by Bart Janssen
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to recordari,
what it is about sweating that makes an activity more praiseworthy than a perspirationless one
Didn't say that fitting the definition of a "sport" was more praiseworthy.
But sweat has it's moments.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Russell Brown,
You see what you’ve made me do?
Poor baby, there there.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Megan Wegan,
I’m still thinking about the logistics of naked swimming competitions.
Did I mention I used to hold most of the trophies at the nudist club swimming competition :).
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I think there’s a good argument that they’ve screwed the pooch by making the rugby season last all year, for sure.
For me it was when Rugby impinged on the cricket season, so I chose not to watch the beginning of the Rugby season and somehow lost interest in the end of that season as well. Also, night games.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Hadyn Green,
Chess is a game; Ballroom Dancing is a competition bordering on a sport.
Best definition I heard (and still useless) ... If you don't sweat it isn't a sport, if you do sweat it might be a sport but might not.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Danielle,
The more people like a thing, the better it is!
Wham!
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I'm also a mild fan. But I guess that's part of being a kiwi (New Zealander = mild anything). What (mildly) bugs me is demands that I be exuberant. Really? Me? You like want me to jump up and down or something? I don't think so.
But I will watch, and enjoy, several of the games. At home, on TV. Cricket (proper test match cricket) is about the only live sport I go to. I will hope the All Blacks win, and I may, just may, pump my fist and shout if someone does something particularly exciting. I will of course check immediately to make sure nobody noticed my display.
Some of the preparations have been stupidly over the top, 11 day waka? But others have done wonders for my city and for other cities around NZ. I know it won't break even and it's loss will be the subject for many arguments on talk back. But I personally think the total cost will be balanced by the total benefits. And I know full well those benefits won't be shared evenly and in some cases won't be of any interest to some. If nothing else it has been a stimulus to look at our cities and think, shit we should've fixed that ages ago.
In the end the world cup is for us to enjoy at our own personal level.
That's where these ad campaigns fall down. They insist we enjoy it at some other person's level and in this case I have no idea what the marketing folk were thinking other than "how can we make this lunch last longer, and should we order another bottle of wine?".
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Danielle,
Stupid non-quotey iPad. Meh.
yeah me too - what's up with that Russell?
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Statistical sampling from our lab (n=3)
"That's. Just. Wrong."
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Tom Beard,
does Fitzy look disturbingly like John Key in some of those frames?
Ah so that's why it looks photoshopped - it originally was John Key.
At least until Paula told him what big pink fists get used for in West Auckland.