Useless Thread MDCCCV: Man Of Steel (2013) Discussion Thread

[John Price]

Literally only NBC sorts the Olympics table by overall medals not golds so Merica comes out on top lmao

It doesn't even matter anyway because nobody "wins" the Olympics - there is no prize or award for the country that finishes top of the table

insert Lee Evans bit about Great Britain doing poorly at the Winter Olympics because there's no snow

"we should have events that we're good at, like moaning in the bus queue."

 

[John Price]

Literally only NBC sorts the Olympics table by overall medals not golds so Merica comes out on top lmao

It doesn't even matter anyway because nobody "wins" the Olympics - there is no prize or award for the country that finishes top of the table

It doesn't matter you're right, because the US is dominating in total medal count AND gold medal count.

At least you don't bring up that medal per capita shit. Like, keep the Capitals out of this, they have nothing to do with this!!

 

[John Price]

The most dumbest thing @Zaide does is use stupid analytics nobody knows like "medal per capita" and weighted medals. No Zaide, the women's soccer gold doesn't count more than all the other golds.

 

[John Price]

HURR DURR VARIETY SHOWS SUCK HURR DURR MEME

 

[John Price]

 

[John Price]

 

[John Price]

why are they playing @Guerzy

@Tarantula

 

[Siamese Dream]

It doesn't matter you're right, because the US is dominating in total medal count AND gold medal count.

At least you don't bring up that medal per capita shit. Like, keep the Capitals out of this, they have nothing to do with this!!

Except they're not because China has the most golds lmao

Do you even maths

 

[John Price]

Except they're not because China has the most golds lmao

Do you even maths

US is 2nd place. China leads by a slim margin.

 

[John Price]

 

[John Price]

108 medals

how many other countries have 100?

 

[John Price]

Like if you look at the actual analytics the US and China blew the field away

China 38

USA 36

Japan 27

Russia 20

GB 20

The US leads by 9 over Japan in gold medal count. That disparity.

 

[Siamese Dream]

The most dumbest thing @Zaide does is use stupid analytics nobody knows like "medal per capita" and weighted medals. No Zaide, the women's soccer gold doesn't count more than all the other golds.

He's kind of right though, this is why nobody cares about the final medals table because not all of the medals are equal, you get an obscene amount of medals for all the made-up swimming and cycling and rowing events compared to other sports for example. There's only 1 gold medal for each gender in soccer, 1 gold medal for each distance in the running, I saw on twitter someone say if there was a backwards running race like there's a backstroke in swimming we would think it was ridiculous

 

[John Price]

He's kind of right though, this is why nobody cares about the final medals table because not all of the medals are equal, you get an obscene amount of medals for all the made-up swimming and cycling and rowing events compared to other sports for example. There's only 1 gold medal for each gender in soccer, 1 gold medal for each distance in the running, I saw on twitter someone say if there was a backwards running race like there's a backstroke in swimming we would think it was ridiculous

He's not right. He's never right.

 

[John Price]

The US got a shitload of golds in swimming and track and of course men's basketball

But they all have the same weight

Do you mean to imply that Ledecky's 800m gold was less important than the us men basketball gold? It's all gold.

 

[John Price]

Implying some gold have more importance than other gold is goldcist. We should be woke. All gold are created equal!!

 

[RayP]

triggered

 

[John Price]

triggered

what you doing in alberquerque!

 

[Siamese Dream]

I don't know, I feel like if some athletes can win multiple golds in their sports while a soccer or basketball player for example can only possibly win 1, it kind of devalues it a little bit

 

[John Price]

get some good mexican there!

 

[John Price]

I don't know, I feel like if some athletes can win multiple golds in their sports while a soccer or basketball player for example can only possibly win 1, it kind of devalues it a little bit

it's not like they assign one gold for multiple swimming events

 

[John Price]

Ah NBC didn't even show the men's gold medal game for soccer live.

 

[Siamese Dream]

This isn't even jealousy because I come from a country where we revere people like Steve Redgrave and Chris Hoy as our greatest ever athletes because they were able to win consecutive multiple golds in their multiple made-up variations of their sports and I think it's kinda stupid

 

[Tarantula]

why are they playing @Guerzy

@Tarantula

Exhibition sched, no idea if they will be tickets or how many. I haven't been paying too much attention as a lot can change from now to then.

 

[John Price]

Exhibition sched, no idea if they will be tickets or how many. I haven't been paying too much attention as a lot can change from now to then.

Sounds like fans are let back into paramount fine foods.