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gumby · 02-17-2018, 06:51 PM

I mean, maybe the rifle on skis event, but curling?! Seriously? It is like shuffleboard on ice. I get freezing cold, five month long winters driving you crazy to the point of inventing ice fishing just so you can get out of the house for a while, but curling?! Whoever invented that was so freaking bored that the correct answer would have been: move south.

Seriously, how much of a nerd do you have to be as a kid to say “when I grow up I want to be a curler.”
This could be the absolute stupidest sport EVER.

N8DCJ · 02-18-2018, 05:53 AM

What's nuts is , if you look up the rule book for curling (World Curling Federation) , there are 67 pages in the rule book...

KatDad · 02-18-2018, 06:10 AM

Women don't like it because the don't believe two men know how to use a broom.

BigO · 02-18-2018, 10:05 AM

Right up there with basketball.

FWIW, curling is my favorite winter sports. The skill and strategy fascinate me and the only time I get to watch it is at the winter games.

For my money, the arials and the half pipe shouldn't be Olympic sports any more than motocross biking and skateboarding belong in the summer games.

jazznut · 02-18-2018, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by BigO

The skill and strategy fascinate me...

Agree 110%... Don't knock it until you've tried it. It really is a lot of fun as well as being a tremendously challenging game.

BigO · 02-18-2018, 12:55 PM

I would love to try it someday. Just isn't much call for it here except during the games. There is a local ice rink that sets up a couple of curling lanes, but I'm not able to move like that right now.

I think I turned a couple of the guys at the cigar bar onto it yesterday. Once you explain the game and how it is played, people are more open to watching it. Somebody called it "shuffleboard on ice". It's a wee bit more complicated than shuffleboard.

macsauce13 · 02-27-2018, 10:39 AM

I love watching curling and think it would be a TON of fun to play.

Now Get off Gumby's lawn.

Briandg · 03-01-2018, 06:06 AM

I just found this thread and it just about cracked me up. The first time I saw curling,it left my jaw hanging. Two nuts on skates beating at a collapsed bowling ball with brooms as it was sliding across a patch of ice. I asked my dad why he had turned off the sports and turned on Monty python.

So many thoughts. One thing I've wondered for years now, has anyone ever died after being whomped on the head with a curling stone? I should write a screenplay for masterpiece mystery; hercule poirot and the murder at flat rock. If that doesn't make me wealthy, I should go into business making curling stones. Seriously, how may people could possibly be in the field of glueing handles on rocks?

In any case, I guess with global warming, curling is about to slip into the same obscurity as competitive goat milking did back in 1880. Better watch it while you can.

BigO · 03-01-2018, 08:35 AM

The stones are quarried at a specific granite mountain in Scotland. Once quarried, they are finished by hand to make sure that the stones are as identical as possible. Even so, there's a subtle difference between stones and part of the first end is to winnow out which stones are better than others so that they can be pushed to the end, when the skip is throwing the last two. There are even sensors in each stone that goes off when you release it over the hogline.

The subtleties of the sport are easily passed over. It's a lot like a combination of chess and pool.

02-17-2018, 06:51 PM	#1
gumby Contributing Editor MOM November 2012 Emeritus Honorary MOM November 2021 Herf God Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Republic of Texas Posts: 48,078	Is There Possibly an Olympic Sport Dumber Than Curling? I mean, maybe the rifle on skis event, but curling?! Seriously? It is like shuffleboard on ice. I get freezing cold, five month long winters driving you crazy to the point of inventing ice fishing just so you can get out of the house for a while, but curling?! Whoever invented that was so freaking bored that the correct answer would have been: move south. Seriously, how much of a nerd do you have to be as a kid to say “when I grow up I want to be a curler.” This could be the absolute stupidest sport EVER. __________________ I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson

02-18-2018, 06:10 AM	#3
KatDad Herf God Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Overland Park, Kansas Posts: 30,830	Women don't like it because the don't believe two men know how to use a broom. __________________ The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it George Bernard Shaw The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it H. L. Mencken The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants Albert Camus The Land of the Free Because of the Brave

02-18-2018, 10:05 AM	#4
BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 56,458	Right up there with basketball. FWIW, curling is my favorite winter sports. The skill and strategy fascinate me and the only time I get to watch it is at the winter games. For my money, the arials and the half pipe shouldn't be Olympic sports any more than motocross biking and skateboarding belong in the summer games. __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.

02-18-2018, 12:55 PM	#6
BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 56,458	I would love to try it someday. Just isn't much call for it here except during the games. There is a local ice rink that sets up a couple of curling lanes, but I'm not able to move like that right now. I think I turned a couple of the guys at the cigar bar onto it yesterday. Once you explain the game and how it is played, people are more open to watching it. Somebody called it "shuffleboard on ice". It's a wee bit more complicated than shuffleboard. __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.

03-01-2018, 08:35 AM	#9
BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 56,458	The stones are quarried at a specific granite mountain in Scotland. Once quarried, they are finished by hand to make sure that the stones are as identical as possible. Even so, there's a subtle difference between stones and part of the first end is to winnow out which stones are better than others so that they can be pushed to the end, when the skip is throwing the last two. There are even sensors in each stone that goes off when you release it over the hogline. The subtleties of the sport are easily passed over. It's a lot like a combination of chess and pool. __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.

02-18-2018, 05:53 AM	#2
N8DCJ Club Member Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Mansfield , Ohio Posts: 1,334	What's nuts is , if you look up the rule book for curling (World Curling Federation) , there are 67 pages in the rule book...

02-27-2018, 10:39 AM	#7
macsauce13 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Kentucky Posts: 3,194	I love watching curling and think it would be a TON of fun to play. Now Get off Gumby's lawn.

03-01-2018, 06:06 AM	#8
Briandg CW Squirrel Wrangler Herf God Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: southwest Missouri Posts: 35,720	I just found this thread and it just about cracked me up. The first time I saw curling,it left my jaw hanging. Two nuts on skates beating at a collapsed bowling ball with brooms as it was sliding across a patch of ice. I asked my dad why he had turned off the sports and turned on Monty python. So many thoughts. One thing I've wondered for years now, has anyone ever died after being whomped on the head with a curling stone? I should write a screenplay for masterpiece mystery; hercule poirot and the murder at flat rock. If that doesn't make me wealthy, I should go into business making curling stones. Seriously, how may people could possibly be in the field of glueing handles on rocks? In any case, I guess with global warming, curling is about to slip into the same obscurity as competitive goat milking did back in 1880. Better watch it while you can.

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