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CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago

What if instead of the Summer and Winter Olympics it was the wet and dry Olympics?

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What if instead of the Summer and Winter Olympics it was the wet and dry Olympics?

CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago
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  • gspm@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    How about qualitative and quantitative Olympics?

    All the higher, faster, farther sports on one side. All the sports that include style judges on the other.

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      10 months ago

      The sports vs popularity contest Olympics?

    • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workOP
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      10 months ago

      Yes, please!

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    10 months ago

    So much for the triathlon lol

    • cryptiod137@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      No now it just takes 3 Olympics

    • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workOP
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      10 months ago

      Wet Olympics.

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        It’s only 1/3 wet though

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          Yeah that one’s tough, are we including any sports where the athletes get wet in the wet Olympics? Throwing steeple chase to the wet Olympics feels wrong.

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            10 months ago

            Steeple chase wet.

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    Is ice wet or dry?

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      Usually dry but I think it actually melts under the pressure of a blade, so events with skates might have to go in the dry wet Olympics.

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        Afaik they just discovered that Ice has a layer of water ("pre-melted ice) at the surface, which is the lubricant that makes ice slippery. So, imo ice is wet ^^

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          The phrase “pre-melted” is making me chuckle. If it’s pre-melted, surely it’s frozen? If it’s frozen, isn’t that just ice?

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            I think pre-melted means melted in advance, not the state before melting.

          • PatrickYaa
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            Eh, that’s what they called it in the article and I’m neither a physicist nor a material scientist. They made a definite distinction between the two forms of the materials in this and other articles related to the topic which I was too topic-uninformed to understand. So you might be right :D

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              Nothing personal, my lack of understanding is what made me giggle :)

  • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Moist Olympics

  • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
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    I think I saw a video titled “Wet Olympics” once online.

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      How can you have that user name, and no link!?

  • Boozilla@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Cartoon mascots: Sweaty and Chafey.

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    I prefer it the way it is. The hot and cold Olympics.

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    ain’t sweat wet

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      All Olympics are Sweat Olympics

  • NorthWestWind@lemmy.world
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    It’s wet here, but dry somewhere.

    Same for summer and winter tho, so you may have a point.

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    Why?

    • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workOP
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      10 months ago

      Seems less arbitrary.

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        I don’t see how. Summer games are games that can be played outdoors during the summer season. Winter games are games that can be played outdoors during the winter season.

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          Why so many indoor events then? Also, the typical seasons of many of of the “Summer” Olympics events are in the winter.

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            Why so many indoor events then?

            They’re games that people CAN play outdoors during summer.

            Also, the typical seasons of many of of the “Summer” Olympics events are in the winter.

            I don’t understand this question.

            • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workOP
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              What I mean is that I consider basketball, for example, to be a winter sport since it is properly played indoors on a wooden court and therefore its season is during the cold months of the year.

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                I can’t say i agree. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion

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