Irish Olympic Sailing Commentary
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LOL My kid lives out west with 2 young guys that are (a) Irish and (b) bartenders. Funny as fuck they are... A bit stereotypical, but they really are a hoot.
Stupid to assign non-sailors to do the commentary. Like having rugby commentators cover ice-dance, and never suggesting they at least learn the terminology, even if they can't figure out what they're looking at.
And how dare they never mention that the Laser was a Canadian design.
And how dare they never mention that the Laser was a Canadian design.
What the heck is going on at 48 seconds when the boat on the port tack seemingly is forcing those on the starboard tack out of the way? I realize if it is raw footage that it is about 2:19 before the start but still?
Tell ya what, you charmer you, let's all demand classical Japanese flower arrangers do the Stanley Cup play by play for equal merriment.
The stupidest bit was not recognizing tacking upwind when they saw it. Sorta like, "Why don't they just each get one of those little round black things to whack instead of fighting over just the one. Dickheads". Incompetence on public display is pathetic, not funny. And laughing at ignorance is never nice. Dead air woulda been an improvement, but no broadcast exec would ever allow it. "It's sailing, not soccer; no one gives a shite, That's why we couldn't be bothered to find anyone who knew anything about it, just talk."
Bruce Kirby, who designed the Laser, got his start sailing at the Britannia Yacht Club in Ottawa as a lad.
This was so over the top. . ., then again many people are so ignorant of the racing rules etc. . . that I agree you make very good points.
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when you have to resort to a sailboat it is proof you cannot afford a motor. Wankers and wind a great combination.
I can willingly give you the attempt part, but comedy has to be funny. Still, as in your example, I guess one always has to allow for specialized humour and for minority tastes, like the hilarity of setting fire to sleeping cats' tails or mocking morons until they cry.
But my personal little minority eagerly awaits Hockey Night in Canada with a play by play from Karl Lagerfeld and colour commentary by Richard Dawkins. Funniest ever! And wait'll ya see Coaches Corner!
The athletes in those little boats trained as hard and long as the guys up against Usain Bolt, and almost certainly got less publicity and financial support. Out there they are at real risk of drowning or injury from their own or other boats. Canadians should remember at the last Olympics, our single-handed sailor abandoned what looked like a medal-winning race to rescue another sailor who'd capsized. The IOC gave him a special medal afterwards.
By all means let's be light-hearted and humourous, but let's also show equal respect for all the athletes. If they're not mocking Michael Phelps for pretending to be a dolphin when he turns, or our soccer crybabies, I think mocking the guy who strategically took the other tack makes the commentators—and those backing them—look like fools. Clowns can be funny. Fools, especially commenting at others expense, are pathetic at best. But never funny.
See 'Usain Bolt' above, a land wanker who couldn't afford a motor. See also 'fools', above.
I trust we all recognized that the Olympic single-handed class boat in that clip was the Laser.
OJ, baby, you're far too smart not to know it's a spoof - and a good one. So lighten up, and accept that satire is a cornerstone of free speech and democracy.
There's always far more heartache than joy in competitive sport. Sure it's heartless to ignore the efforts of people who compete in the olympics but come nowhere. Sure it's bad taste to poke fun at people who win gold medals in sports you've never heard of. But we can't limit what it is a ripe area for spoof, satire, parody, and the like.
If you don't like it, don't watch it. And give thanks to whoever you give thanks to, that that is your only remedy.
I'm as light as they come. Their tasteless spoof landed like a blob of wet concrete. Until it was blathered about here as the "…funniest thing" I was happily unaware.
Ignorance is seldom funny whether one is smugly unaware one is displaying one's own, or imagining one is cleverly mocking the ignorance of others.
Ignorance is seldom funny whether one is smugly unaware one is displaying one's own, or imagining one is cleverly mocking the ignorance of others.
Of course that's not an actual Irish TV broadcast. Its a joke. Kind of obvious, I thought, that it was satire.
Which has to be clever and pointed—witty is the classic term—to meet the definition and succeed. But inept satire I can give you.
Much more intriguing than the success of the satire is how one would go about proving the negative, "Of course that's not an actual Irish TV broadcast". Not that it improves the quality of the 'humour' either way.
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