What the hell? Where is biathlon? Where is formula one (it’s NOT auto racing!!!)? Where is chess? And yet there is golf for some reason. Are you kidding me?
Voted for tennis, coz it’s the most awesome of these.
@serpent whoa. How is Formula 1 not auto racing? That’s like saying the butterfly stroke isn’t swimming. Just because it is a very different kind of auto race does not mean it is excluded.
@simplersimon I have like zero interest in any other racing nowadays, except maybe rally of mid-90’s (huuuuge fan of Colin McRae when he was with Subaru).
But F1, in particular, is a whole different level of racing on my opinion. It’s a different discipline. To group it with Nascar is like to group boxing and tae-kwon-do, biathlon and ski jumping, chess and checkers. Different disciplines, with different mind sets.
@serpent and yet we do group those things (except biathlon and ski jumping, maybe). While NASCAR is disgustingly inferior, both are auto racing. Just like a race in paddle boats is a boat race, and so is a yacht race. One is more impressive by magnitudes, but it’s in the same category.
@simplersimon Disgustingly inferior? Would you explain that? I’m no fan of NASCAR or any other auto racing, but I have a friend who is and he praises how purely mechanical the cars are. Unlike other leagues, especially the various open wheel racers, they apparently don’t have computers in the cars constantly adjusting and controlling the engine, the suspension, the aerodynamics, etc. Even some sort of pop-up spoiler system they use to keep the cars from going airborne if they lose control is mechanical; there are spring-loaded spoilers on the car, and if the air pressure gets too low over them the springs are able to pop them up and disrupt the airflow, diminishing the lift and keeping the car grounded. Then as the lift dissipates and the air pressure returns to normal, the spring isn’t strong enough and the spoilers lay back down flush with the surface. And then there was the Jurassic Park car, which the team owner decided they would spare no expense on and build perfectly, without any tolerance in the parts. They either fit together perfectly or they remade the parts. It was so far ahead of the rest of the pack NASCAR banned it after the lone race it entered.
@RiotDemon Oh, I know it is a sport. Which is why I wonder why it is.
I don’t consider training an animal a sport. It might be a sport for the animal, but not for the human… Just like a dog show, where the human is less involved in the performance itself.
I am not trying to demerit the effort required to do so, but it is more of a show performance than a sport.
@ELUNO I’ll have to disagree. It’s about the partnership with the animal. You can take a highly trained animal, and stick a rider on it… If the rider isn’t skilled and if the horse doesn’t trust the rider, you won’t get much done.
@ELUNO
Riders are normally very fit if riding at competition level. And it is totally a sport in the physical sense. The degree of talent, training, and physical discipline demanded is the same.
Try it and see. I’m not talking about just hopping on and trotting around. Try going over 6 foot fences on horseback, or getting a horse to do dressage.
@Humper Right - can’t take it seriously. Probably because of jokes like:
How do you tell a groom at a <nationality of your choice> wedding?
He’s the one with the ironed bowling shirt.
Sign of the times question. Which portion of the joke is most likely to offend you?
It’s an ethnic joke?
the use of the word “Groom”?
The use of the pronoun “He” ?
The bowling slight?
What happened to bicycling? It is great exercise and gets you to see places more slowly than driving. Some places you ride, you cannot drive. It’s fun!
@rockblossom It is fun to watch unicycling. I’ve never tried it, and my son is learning but I have yet to see him in action. I think it is less exercise because you can’t do it too long and I think hills are a problem.
@andyw Aren’t most road cycling events actually a team sport, though? Like they have one person they’re pushing to win, but they’ll have a whole team of riders who will spend time in the lead so their champion didn’t have to be the one fighting the wind, and other strategic moves?
@RiotDemon With all the lip synch competion shows on television these day, it actually seems less ridicluous now than in years past.
Back in the early 90s, a guy I worked with was an air-drummer and was being recruited by an air-guitarist and air-bassist to join their air band (I kid you not). I can’t properly do the story justice, but when he was trying to explain the situation to one of our other co-workers (a young female who had recently fleed Burma - now Myanmar - under extreme conditions of war and poverty), it was both funny and sad to see her try to wrap her head around the concept. You are grown man and your hobby is pretending to play the drums? Not playing actual drums, but just pretending to play imaginary drums? And you are thinking about joining a pretend band? You plan to compete against other make-believe bands?
I am not ragging on people who may like to do this sort of thing, but her take on it was hilarious due to the fact that she was 100% sincere and there was not a trace of mocking in her voice.
@RiotDemon it’s totally a thing. The world championships have been held in Oulu, Finland since 1996. US Air Guitar was founded in 2003, and is still going strong.
@RiotDemon I understand, you just need to change your perspective so your inner “me” will realize how very wrong your are. As I said, we can meet in the middle.
@RiotDemon I don’t typically binge watch TV, but when the Decades network airs marathons of the early 70’s Celebrity Bowling, I find myself inexplicably glue to the set. Ninety percent of them look like they have never bowled before. Charles Nelson Reilly and Robert Clary (Hogan’s Heroes) hung up a score of 66 one time.
There are a few exceptions: actor John Beradino (whose previous career was of a major league baseball player) and Roy Rogers, for example. While usually easy-going, on occasions, Rogers looks severely ticked when his partner can’t even keep the ball in the lane and looks like it is taking all his energy to keep a calm facade.
Do none of you people have kids (you people being those that put this poll together)? Have you seen the movie Cars? Auto racing is not an individual sport.
Golf, gymnastics, and auto racing are not sports. I know @meh is all inclusive but I highly doubt any horses will be casting ballots in today’s poll so neither is horse racing.
I think golf is boring as heck to watch, but it is a fairly enjoyable activity in which to participate . To me, its best selling point is that unlike most individual sports, you can enjoy it even if the other person(s) you are playing with have wildly different skill levels. You are competing against the course and your own person best, as opposed to competing against the other people. Yes you can compete against the other person, but it isn’t required (or even the norm).
Even if you’re playing it with others, you’re only really competing with yourself. It’s kind of like golf in that respect, but less boring - especially in the back nine.
Really??? Barely anyone for Horse Racing? Go to a major race like any of the Triple Crown races and the crowd is electric. The race lasts about 2 minutes but the memories last a lot longer. It’s not about the betting, although winning a few bucks helps. it’s about watching athletes at their best. I’m talking about the horses. The jockeys are pretty darn great athletes themselves.
Also, I’ve never seen a horse take a dive. I’ve watched soccer and that happens every two minutes.
@ascii256
Endurance runners and ultra runners are more than a bit awesome.
But FTW:
Sister Madonna Buder, the “Iron Nun”, Catholic nun and sister, age 86, who started competing at age 48 and now has completed over 325 triathlons including 45 Ironman Distances.
Oh yeah, she forgot to retire from competitive sports.
She is quoted as saying, "I train religiously.
@sligett I finally broke my own record yesterday, extending my streak to 109 clicks. I set my record at 108 fairly early on during Meh’s first autumn, and maddeningly wasn’t able to break it in the roughly 2 years since.
I like sport and want to become a professional basketball player. But since childhood I was short. I started to buy hgh and anabolic to grow higher and stronger + played a lot basketball. Now I am 186 cm and have good skills. My fav player is J.R. Smith
No love for hockey?
@hems79 Individual sports, not team.
@jqubed Tonsil-hockey?
@jqubed I’m such a putz.
Racquetball
video games (pc)
@thismyusername
I see what you did there.
video games (console)
Pocket pool
@awk Watching or playing?
@TheCO2 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
You left out bowling.
crickets
What the hell? Where is biathlon? Where is formula one (it’s NOT auto racing!!!)? Where is chess? And yet there is golf for some reason. Are you kidding me?
Voted for tennis, coz it’s the most awesome of these.
@serpent Chess Boxing.
@serpent whoa. How is Formula 1 not auto racing? That’s like saying the butterfly stroke isn’t swimming. Just because it is a very different kind of auto race does not mean it is excluded.
@PocketBrain I do like the song.
@simplersimon I have like zero interest in any other racing nowadays, except maybe rally of mid-90’s (huuuuge fan of Colin McRae when he was with Subaru).
But F1, in particular, is a whole different level of racing on my opinion. It’s a different discipline. To group it with Nascar is like to group boxing and tae-kwon-do, biathlon and ski jumping, chess and checkers. Different disciplines, with different mind sets.
@serpent and yet we do group those things (except biathlon and ski jumping, maybe). While NASCAR is disgustingly inferior, both are auto racing. Just like a race in paddle boats is a boat race, and so is a yacht race. One is more impressive by magnitudes, but it’s in the same category.
@simplersimon Disgustingly inferior? Would you explain that? I’m no fan of NASCAR or any other auto racing, but I have a friend who is and he praises how purely mechanical the cars are. Unlike other leagues, especially the various open wheel racers, they apparently don’t have computers in the cars constantly adjusting and controlling the engine, the suspension, the aerodynamics, etc. Even some sort of pop-up spoiler system they use to keep the cars from going airborne if they lose control is mechanical; there are spring-loaded spoilers on the car, and if the air pressure gets too low over them the springs are able to pop them up and disrupt the airflow, diminishing the lift and keeping the car grounded. Then as the lift dissipates and the air pressure returns to normal, the spring isn’t strong enough and the spoilers lay back down flush with the surface. And then there was the Jurassic Park car, which the team owner decided they would spare no expense on and build perfectly, without any tolerance in the parts. They either fit together perfectly or they remade the parts. It was so far ahead of the rest of the pack NASCAR banned it after the lone race it entered.
I didn’t know that I hated them all until I got to the bottom and realized - I’d rather watch paint dry than watch any of those sports.
I put auto racing because I like to do it. Watching it is boring as shit.
Drone racing
Other than major league baseball, football and NCAA basketball…
Hydroplane racing and airplane racing.
Alpine skiing
Fencing! It was a lot of fun when I did it in college and watching the professionals is amazing.
I wanted to select hate them all… But occasionally I’ll watch horse jumping or dressage.
@RiotDemon But really, how is dressage a “sport”?
@ELUNO you do notice the Olympic rings at the top right of that gif, right?
You try sitting on top of a 900+ lb animal and getting it to do exactly what you want in minut details and then get back to me about how it’s a sport.
Dressage has levels with tests and the rider is judged on how well they can get their horse to perform the exact maneuvers.
@RiotDemon Oh, I know it is a sport. Which is why I wonder why it is.
I don’t consider training an animal a sport. It might be a sport for the animal, but not for the human… Just like a dog show, where the human is less involved in the performance itself.
I am not trying to demerit the effort required to do so, but it is more of a show performance than a sport.
@ELUNO I’ll have to disagree. It’s about the partnership with the animal. You can take a highly trained animal, and stick a rider on it… If the rider isn’t skilled and if the horse doesn’t trust the rider, you won’t get much done.
@ELUNO
Riders are normally very fit if riding at competition level. And it is totally a sport in the physical sense. The degree of talent, training, and physical discipline demanded is the same.
Try it and see. I’m not talking about just hopping on and trotting around. Try going over 6 foot fences on horseback, or getting a horse to do dressage.
Nobody who’s tried thinks it’s not a sport.
Muff Diving
Eventing (see @RiotDemon’s comment above). Followed by speedskating. Yes, speedskating.
Figure skating.
/image backflip Scott Hamilton
@2many2no
/giphy results sucked
@2many2no
/giphy "blades of glory"
Seriously, no bowling? The greatest sport ever invented?
@Humper Right - can’t take it seriously. Probably because of jokes like:
How do you tell a groom at a <nationality of your choice> wedding?
He’s the one with the ironed bowling shirt.
Sign of the times question. Which portion of the joke is most likely to offend you?
It’s an ethnic joke?
the use of the word “Groom”?
The use of the pronoun “He” ?
The bowling slight?
@Boiler3k The bowling slight. Definitely that.
Now you’ve done it…
CHESS BOXING!!
.
@PocketBrain this thread has opened my eyes.
What happened to bicycling? It is great exercise and gets you to see places more slowly than driving. Some places you ride, you cannot drive. It’s fun!
@andyw But unicycling is more fun to watch.
@rockblossom It is fun to watch unicycling. I’ve never tried it, and my son is learning but I have yet to see him in action. I think it is less exercise because you can’t do it too long and I think hills are a problem.
@andyw Aren’t most road cycling events actually a team sport, though? Like they have one person they’re pushing to win, but they’ll have a whole team of riders who will spend time in the lead so their champion didn’t have to be the one fighting the wind, and other strategic moves?
Competitive air guitar.
Been doing it for five years, and I personally know this years world champion.
@sanspoint In your dreams.
@sanspoint this is a thing?
@RiotDemon With all the lip synch competion shows on television these day, it actually seems less ridicluous now than in years past.
Back in the early 90s, a guy I worked with was an air-drummer and was being recruited by an air-guitarist and air-bassist to join their air band (I kid you not). I can’t properly do the story justice, but when he was trying to explain the situation to one of our other co-workers (a young female who had recently fleed Burma - now Myanmar - under extreme conditions of war and poverty), it was both funny and sad to see her try to wrap her head around the concept. You are grown man and your hobby is pretending to play the drums? Not playing actual drums, but just pretending to play imaginary drums? And you are thinking about joining a pretend band? You plan to compete against other make-believe bands?
I am not ragging on people who may like to do this sort of thing, but her take on it was hilarious due to the fact that she was 100% sincere and there was not a trace of mocking in her voice.
@RiotDemon it’s totally a thing. The world championships have been held in Oulu, Finland since 1996. US Air Guitar was founded in 2003, and is still going strong.
@sanspoint
I thought some championships were on Staten Island? Is that just a local or regional contest?
@f00l Local. The US Air Guitar competition structure goes like this:
And the winners of the National Championship go on to Finland for the World Championship.
Hiking, rock climbing, rock crawling and overlanding in my Jeep.
Magic The gathering… Twitch seems to have it and Youtube for replays… but It USED to be on ESPN…
Cliff diving, particularly when they hit the cliff.
What I like to watch and what I like to play are two different things…
Used to be Track and X-County. But my knees are shot so I bicycle now (and loving it)
But I’m biased as running paid for my schooling.
@Boiler3k Congratulations, you must have been good in college!
What the heck meh? Don’t all you hipster-types bowl? Not even ironically? You can totally wear your pork-pie hats and conflict free textiles doing it.
@therealjrn I love bowling. Watching it is super boring to me.
@RiotDemon I think we can find a midde ground here, let’s just agree that I’m right and you’re wrong.
@therealjrn I said “to me.”
@RiotDemon I understand, you just need to change your perspective so your inner “me” will realize how very wrong your are. As I said, we can meet in the middle.
@RiotDemon I don’t typically binge watch TV, but when the Decades network airs marathons of the early 70’s Celebrity Bowling, I find myself inexplicably glue to the set. Ninety percent of them look like they have never bowled before. Charles Nelson Reilly and Robert Clary (Hogan’s Heroes) hung up a score of 66 one time.
There are a few exceptions: actor John Beradino (whose previous career was of a major league baseball player) and Roy Rogers, for example. While usually easy-going, on occasions, Rogers looks severely ticked when his partner can’t even keep the ball in the lane and looks like it is taking all his energy to keep a calm facade.
@DrWorm now that I might watch if it was current celebrities that I liked. I guess I can relate better to people being bad at it.
@RiotDemon
I guess if Kim and Kanye were bowling on TV I would give them 120 seconds.
“Individual Sport” ? You mean non-team sport? Talk about awkward phrasing.
@DrunkCat Meh! didn’t invent the term “individual sport”, it is common usage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_sport
@DrWorm Too many syllables.
Do none of you people have kids (you people being those that put this poll together)? Have you seen the movie Cars? Auto racing is not an individual sport.
Golf, gymnastics, and auto racing are not sports. I know @meh is all inclusive but I highly doubt any horses will be casting ballots in today’s poll so neither is horse racing.
@elimanningface all inclusive? i think you mean i’m highly exclusive.
@elimanningface Based on the definition of sports they most certainly are.
@MrMark bah, a technicality…maybe.
@elimanningface
I’m dying to see non-athletes do gymnastics.
Wait, phrased that one wrong. It’s the non-athletes who are dying when they try to do gymnastics.
And who on Meh participates in horse racing? That would be interesting.
I think golf is boring as heck to watch, but it is a fairly enjoyable activity in which to participate . To me, its best selling point is that unlike most individual sports, you can enjoy it even if the other person(s) you are playing with have wildly different skill levels. You are competing against the course and your own person best, as opposed to competing against the other people. Yes you can compete against the other person, but it isn’t required (or even the norm).
Ninja Warrior
Drinking.
Even if you’re playing it with others, you’re only really competing with yourself. It’s kind of like golf in that respect, but less boring - especially in the back nine.
Really??? Barely anyone for Horse Racing? Go to a major race like any of the Triple Crown races and the crowd is electric. The race lasts about 2 minutes but the memories last a lot longer. It’s not about the betting, although winning a few bucks helps. it’s about watching athletes at their best. I’m talking about the horses. The jockeys are pretty darn great athletes themselves.
Also, I’ve never seen a horse take a dive. I’ve watched soccer and that happens every two minutes.
@bsci87
If only they could get the horses to participate in the fashion show and wear hats.
Actually, the racehorses are amazing and so are the jockeys.
Endurance running for the win. It’s what cyclists would do if they had the guts.
@ascii256
Endurance runners and ultra runners are more than a bit awesome.
But FTW:
Sister Madonna Buder, the “Iron Nun”, Catholic nun and sister, age 86, who started competing at age 48 and now has completed over 325 triathlons including 45 Ironman Distances.
Oh yeah, she forgot to retire from competitive sports.
She is quoted as saying, "I train religiously.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_Buder
Medieval foam or rattan weapons combat. Thats me some years and pounds ago.
@moondrake I had no idea foam had been around so long.
@therealjrn Sure. It’s as old as the sea.
@moondrake If anybody ever tries to “get medieval” on me, I hope they use the foam.
Clicking on the meh button. My personal best is one month of consecutive clicks, last April.
@sligett I finally broke my own record yesterday, extending my streak to 109 clicks. I set my record at 108 fairly early on during Meh’s first autumn, and maddeningly wasn’t able to break it in the roughly 2 years since.
I like sport and want to become a professional basketball player. But since childhood I was short. I started to buy hgh and anabolic to grow higher and stronger + played a lot basketball. Now I am 186 cm and have good skills. My fav player is J.R. Smith