The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[CF87]

I do not even watch boxing and knew this Pacquiao fight was coming up. That's how promoted it was. I watch UFC if I find it on, but am not going to watch two guy punch each other for an hour with gloves on.

 

[SentinelSlain]

they're completely fascinating. i suspect there's some truth to his hypothesis that nurture vastly outweighs nature in its impact on things like 'talent' and 'genius', although the way he obsessively set out to prove it is pretty nuts. the most interesting thing about it is how happy they seem to be though - i guess having a clear path drawn for you and being equipped with the tools to navigate it must erase a lot of the anxiety that regular folks struggle with (on the flipside it may also prevent them from experiencing anything like the same diverse range of life's flavours - excuse the cheesy turn of phrase). while i'm sure a lot of humanists would decry their upbringing as depriving them of agency, i've never really bought into the idea of 'agency' and i'm not convinced said upbringing is that different to anybody else's in that regard - we're all 'brainwashed' by the conditions into which we're born and raised, it's just that the objective of their brainwashing is narrow and consciously shaped.

funnily enough, i never got chess coaching or really played it at all as a kid except occasionally with my grandad. i found it fun but never really cared about it or studied it. i joined the school chess club and we generally just fucked around playing games, didn't learn a great deal although it was practice i suppose. then i randomly entered a tournament as an 8 year old, won it, ended up on the county team a couple of years later. still didn't care, still never really studied it, my upbringing never prepared me to be a chess player in any specific way. in a more general sense i was extremely gifted with the fundamentals of literacy and numeracy etc so i probably had some 'transferrable skills' that i unknowingly applied? and i suppose it's possible that those transferrable skills were acquired more through nurture than nature? i couldn't possibly say, but it's interesting to think about.

I think the problem with it is that the daughters are obviously genetically related to him. Also, I believe the whole family, bar the mother, is Ashkenazi Jewish, a group that is rather small, as a percentage of the world population, but have made up a lot of the upper rankings of world chess players for a long time. They also have the highest average IQ of races. So it hardly settles the nature nurture dispute.

 

[tagradh]

I do not even watch boxing and knew this Pacquiao fight was coming up. That's how promoted it was. I watch UFC if I find it on, but am not going to watch two guy punch each other for an hour with gloves on.

You make out like the gloves have 'pussified' boxing or something, when they've actually made it more dangerous.

Obviously a sport where competitors spend half the time hugging on the floor is more manly.

 

[Onder]

As my piano teacher used to say, talent is 1% of success, the rest is hard work.

 

[no country for old wainds]

You make out like the gloves have 'pussified' boxing or something, when they've actually made it more dangerous.

Obviously a sport where competitors spend half the time hugging on the floor is more manly.

it's the greys

just don't even bother

 

[SentinelSlain]

I find sport to be so fucking boring to watch that it's unbarable. In theory I could watch chess matches though. Motorsport is the most boring, I find. I like cars and everything, but the races are too long and there are too many cars, too far apart, on the tracks.

 

[0Marty]

I find sport to be so fucking boring to watch that it's unbarable. In theory I could watch chess matches though. Motorsport is the most boring, I find. I like cars and everything, but the races are too long and there are too many cars, too far apart, on the tracks.

I strongly disagree with the cars. I mean, yes, F1 is boring as hell, but lower series like ETCC, MOTO GP, Superbikes, GTs are still fun to watch, or even Renault Clio Cup.

Anyone here a snooker fan?

 

[KafkaX]

As my piano teacher used to say, talent is 1% of success, the rest is hard work.

Do you still play?

 

[SentinelSlain]

it's orite some people wot finkin der betta dan wot uva people like but it int rite an if people wot did it rown ere we'd fukin nok em out innit cos we iz ard an dat. so fuk em. we might be thik an inbred but wot yuh gunna du a bout it, we've been dis way for generashunz innit, fo life, fuckin toffie noised pigz. fuckin bellend bum boyz wanna get fucked in. fukin fuck

 

[Zephyrus]

I thought you were speaking Danish for a second there.

 

[no country for old wainds]

I strongly disagree with the cars. I mean, yes, F1 is boring as hell, but lower series like ETCC, MOTO GP, Superbikes, GTs are still fun to watch, or even Renault Clio Cup.

Anyone here a snooker fan?

F1 is kind of objectively shit most of the time to be honest. it has its moments though.

i like snooker when it gets tense and close, i struggle to sit through frame after frame though. that 31st frame last night was ridiculously great.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I'm nowhere near being a nascar fan, but i enjoy watching it sometimes.

Which type of drivers are considered to be the best in the world?

 

[viewerfromnihil]

Cross-rally drivers could probably make a good case for being the best.

I like drag racing, but I don't watch it much nowadays.

 

[0Marty]

I'm nowhere near being a nascar fan, but i enjoy watching it sometimes.

Which type of drivers are considered to be the best in the world?

That depends on what you consider the best.

F1 drivers must be in top shape physically, mentally, they must be good with technology since they set up a lot of thing on steering wheel.

Le Mans drivers gotta be very experienced, consistent, able to drive in bad weather, during night with little to no sleep and they need to cope with pressure since they share the car and noone wants to fuck it up.

Then there is Dakar, which I believe is as much about driving as about strong will, sense of direction, teamwork, mechanical and technical skills (in case of technical troubles).

Isle of Man - it can't be explained, you have to see it, basically you must be batshit crazy to start this race.

Rally - driving in quite high speeds on various surfaces without knowing the track in rain, during night with people close to very narrow roads.

So as you can see, it's hard to say really. It's like somebody asked me what's the best metal genre.

 

[CF87]

You make out like the gloves have 'pussified' boxing or something, when they've actually made it more dangerous.

Obviously a sport where competitors spend half the time hugging on the floor is more manly.

Ground game in UFC is bullshit to watch. I agree, but once in awile there are good fights. I do not know what is going on in the sport now. I catch fights on once in awile.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I dont mind fighting on the ground as long as they're working on finishing the fight.

@Marty: Nice! I'll be checking those out. I just looked up some of the cross rally races BO mentioned and they were nuts! You guys wouldn't say Nascar drivers are up there?

 

[Pagan Savior]

I think they involve different skills. NASCAR drivers need to have an intuitive feeling for their car and how it is on the track so that they can communicate how the team can get the absolute most out of the car. They also need to handle the car in traffic and utilize drift etc. Any time someone talks about NASCAR as 'easy' or 'just turning left' they are instantly an ignorant moron in my eyes.

Rallying is more about quick twitch reactions, and possibly more bravery. Barreling along country lanes at high speeds takes a certain special kind of individual. Where I grew up was right in the middle of a rallying hotspot in Wales and I had a primary school friend who died in an accident when training. There are risks in all motorsport, but I think rallying (along with the Isle of Man TT) is probably as risky as it gets.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i'm sure each motorsport requires a mastery of slightly different skills that aren't easily compared with one another. successful F1 drivers, for example, are probably more technical and microscopically flawless than drivers from most other motorsports, but does that make them better drivers overall? no idea how to answer that question.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Just got back from seeing fucking Ministry.

JUST ONE FIX

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Procrastinating on a 12 pager due tomorrow at 3:00 and instead watching videos of people taking shits out of their car while driving down the highway.