The one year I actually tried to watch the Olympics, every time I turned it on, it was always curling. Which seems like it’d be a fun game if you were drinking a beer and playing, but not the greatest spectator sport.
One time I drunkenly asked the bartender for a mini broom to use while playing shuffleboard with friends at a bar. They apparently do not usually have mini brooms for shuffleboard.
Different concept but same idea. You do not want to brush the salt away in shuffleboard. It make the rock no slidey no more. The broom warms the pebbles enough that they ever so slightly grip the rock with their wet tips. So sexy
Hey buddy, you just need to keep your eye on the button and wait to see how they use the hammer to clear the house - and pray they don’t cross the hog line while holding on to the stone handle.
Don’t go to bars in Canada on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon in winter then cause…god damn it’s all they’ll show. OH and if you’re lucky, Friday Nights too.
in my 40+ years being Canadian i’ve YET to meet another fellow canuck that enjoys or watches curling. never. and yet they’ll show the absolute shit out of it on TV here. I don’t get it. We even have god damn curling clubs everywhere and I STILL have yet to meet anyone that loves it and plays it.
It’s just so bizarre. finding a hockey fan or simply someone who has played hockey? sure no prob, we all played as kids. But curling? never. I don’t get it. I think it’s some Canadian conspiracy or something. Like for decades the Canadian government has been trying to push curling on us to make it popular or something and no one plays it. no one watches it. but you see it all the god damn time.
More people in Canada watch curling than hockey. I think you need some new acquaintances. Right now Canada is playing men’s curling and men’s hockey, everyone I know is watching curling.
I’m skeptical of this - where do you get those figures from?
Objective counter-evidence: Why are they not selling out big stadiums if spectating is that popular?
Anecdotal counter-evidence: I hear people talk about hockey matches, I rarely hear people talk about curling matches.
They’re both good sports and I like both, I’d like to try curling sometime.
But surface level evidence suggests you’re incorrect, so you need to provide more convincing evidence
In the US, every time the Winter Olympics come around there is this temporary curling craze where everybody gets super into it and you would swear it’s their favorite thing and then the Olympics end and it disappears out of everybody’s mind instantly. Like a spell being broken or something. It’s weird.
The one year I actually tried to watch the Olympics, every time I turned it on, it was always curling. Which seems like it’d be a fun game if you were drinking a beer and playing, but not the greatest spectator sport.
If you are in the Netherlands there’s a 99% it’s speed skating instead.
You are incorrect. Watching curling right now.
Fun fact, more people in Canada watch curling than hockey.
Edit: Canada vs China is a really good match.
Curling was a sport ruled by fat middle aged men smoking and getting drunk. They should bring that back, along with the floppy brooms and berets.
One time I drunkenly asked the bartender for a mini broom to use while playing shuffleboard with friends at a bar. They apparently do not usually have mini brooms for shuffleboard.
Different concept but same idea. You do not want to brush the salt away in shuffleboard. It make the rock no slidey no more. The broom warms the pebbles enough that they ever so slightly grip the rock with their wet tips. So sexy
Incorrect
Hey buddy, you just need to keep your eye on the button and wait to see how they use the hammer to clear the house - and pray they don’t cross the hog line while holding on to the stone handle.
The ultimate sport for sleeping
Sweeping
Don’t go to bars in Canada on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon in winter then cause…god damn it’s all they’ll show. OH and if you’re lucky, Friday Nights too.
in my 40+ years being Canadian i’ve YET to meet another fellow canuck that enjoys or watches curling. never. and yet they’ll show the absolute shit out of it on TV here. I don’t get it. We even have god damn curling clubs everywhere and I STILL have yet to meet anyone that loves it and plays it.
It’s just so bizarre. finding a hockey fan or simply someone who has played hockey? sure no prob, we all played as kids. But curling? never. I don’t get it. I think it’s some Canadian conspiracy or something. Like for decades the Canadian government has been trying to push curling on us to make it popular or something and no one plays it. no one watches it. but you see it all the god damn time.
More people in Canada watch curling than hockey. I think you need some new acquaintances. Right now Canada is playing men’s curling and men’s hockey, everyone I know is watching curling.
I’m skeptical of this - where do you get those figures from?
Objective counter-evidence: Why are they not selling out big stadiums if spectating is that popular?
Anecdotal counter-evidence: I hear people talk about hockey matches, I rarely hear people talk about curling matches.
They’re both good sports and I like both, I’d like to try curling sometime.
But surface level evidence suggests you’re incorrect, so you need to provide more convincing evidence
Wait, like all the time?
In the US, every time the Winter Olympics come around there is this temporary curling craze where everybody gets super into it and you would swear it’s their favorite thing and then the Olympics end and it disappears out of everybody’s mind instantly. Like a spell being broken or something. It’s weird.