[Roland]

Re: Beijing Winter Olympics

No, "pounds " was correct. "Favourite", however, was not.

I object on both counts

[Didymus Much]

Re: Beijing Winter Olympics

Have you succumbed to some archaic system for measurement? 20 kilograms Didymus, stay on track

Yeah, no. Those rocks weighed 40lb. when they were purchased, and still do. They do not suddenly weigh 4lb. more (even in Hämsterdam) because we now use metric for most things.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Re: Beijing Winter Olympics

Tut, Roland! A pedant writes: 20kg ≠ 40lbs.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Beijing Winter Olympics

He could have been referring to "toes curling" an expression used for describing something else I can't recall at the moment.

In summary then, can I assume granite curling is not now nor ever has been popular in Athens? That would suggest it has no military function. Perhaps laying mines on frozen waters – once they get far enough out they sink but I wouldn't want to be a sweeper. Does the Aegean freeze?




Mount Olympus


Athens

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Beijing Winter Olympics

Curling is one of many sports that started out ok but got taken over by homers:

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Beijing Winter Olympics

Whoever chose that fabric needs their eyes tested.

What's with the sweepers? I gather there's some sort of target, like lawn bowls. You'd roll your ball or slide your stone along and see who got closest; in "crown green" bowls played on a domed lawn there could be several players coming from different directions but clearly that wouldn't work on ice.

The equivalent is therefore playing (bowls) with magnetic balls and having one (or two?) assistants running along in front of the (rolling) ball with big magnets.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Beijing Winter Olympics

I'm suspicious curlers are all doped up. They look so frantic when they are sweeping. The rock throwers have glazed look. Are they being tested or is that reserved for just figure skaters?

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Beijing Winter Olympics

Presumably the sweepers and rock throwers would cancel each other out, one being on sedatives and the other, stimulants.