So I was watching the the Winter X games on tv last night. For those of you unfamiliar the Winter X games, it is pretty much a week where young adults try and come up with better ways of falling down a mountain in a controlled manner. While another set of adults judge their falls, whilst making up names for what they are doing.
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Despite the athletism shown the Alley-oop Mc-land-on-your-head doesn't score so well. |
The crowds these events are normally rebellious people that shun convention and show their uniqueness by wearing mismatched and ill-fitting ski attire, just like everyone else in the crowd.
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Only on a ski-field is it acceptable to match purple and green. |
Well.....
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Unless you are an educational dinosaur |
Given the crowd of people watching the X-games you would presume that the major sponsor of the event would be some sort of energy drink, or a colour-blind foundation. But no the major sponsor of the Winter X games is the US navy. WAIT! What? First of all the navy is filled with people that wear clothes that not only match but also fit.
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And not one of them is falling down. |
Secondly, the Navy patrols the world's oceans. Now I don't know about you but the ocean is the antithesis of a mountain. One is a large mound, the other a large hole. As a general rule one is inland and one is on the coast. In large countries such as America a lot of kids from the mountains wouldn't even know what an ocean looks like.
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"What the hell is that!" |
I was about to say no Navy in the world would go anywhere near a mountain. But then I recalled I almost got shot by one such Navy for not stopping as they lowered the flag.
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The Bolivians don't have a coast, but that doesn't stop them having a navy. |
The Bolivian navy patrols Lake Titicaca in the Andes, and stops those mistrustful Peruvians sneaking into their country.
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Sneaky Peruvian....don't believe me see here |
But the Winter X games is sponsored by the US navy, not the Bolivian one, so the mountain exposure would be minimal. I don't claim to be a marketing expert but if you wanted to target any group of slackers to join your defensive force on the ocean surely there is a better option...
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Look at all those potential sailors, with plenty of ocean knowledge. |
The other thing that annoys me about this arrangement, is the fact they sneak Navy facts into the coverage. They keep saying the Super-pipe is larger than the biggest submarine that the US Navy has. So? I have no idea how big that is, I like most people don't keep up-to-date with submarine sizes.
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As big as the X-games super-pipe apparently |
That is not a good frame of reference. You are comparing something that I have no concept of how big it is, to something I equally have no idea about a regular size. The idea of giving a frame of reference is to compare something unknown to something everyday so I can relate. Hence why football fields or buses get used a lot for large objects, because most people have a rough idea how large that is.
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In fact I think they are proposing to make Bus an SI unit |
Greaat reading this
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