Avarage Joe 🏃
(midwest.social)
People TwitterI jessy watched flava flav do skeleton.
Literally saw a YouTube short of someone doing just that. The did the skeleton luge. They did half the run, and then they estimated the rest of the run and she came in almost 2 min slower than the last place finish in the Olympics.
Just pull people from the crowd make it an interactive experience.
The hard part is cleaning up the mess at the bottom of the ski jump.
Or skeleton.
Or speed skating.
I feel like in both events, the regular person would just go at a slow, life-preserving pace. There's no way to ski jump slower.
I'd accept Eddie the Eagle as our representative.
Olympic athletes: does jump, lands, waves to audience and skis off to wait results.
Normal person: visibly nervous when near start of ramp. Shaking. Gentle tears as they line up. Nopes out with open sobs and goes to hug family with a new found perspective on their appreciation of just being alive.
I watched a video of one of the more benign ski jumping videos. Seemed like the first half would be easy, since that's just hitting a ramp. It's the not breaking your knees going up, falling over on the ramp. or landing on your head that's hard. Actually doing a trick is impossible, so I don't even count that against me.
Honestly, I'd settle for a crash test dummy on skis tumbling down the ramp then ragdolling off into the air, like a SuperDave sketch.
No way in hell I'm doing luge, skeleton or bobsled on those Olympic tracks for my first attempt. Maybe I'd go down it in one of those inflatable balls that people roll down hills in. They're getting to around 100 mph if they don't hit the walls, and if I got to even half that speed and slammed into a wall I'd be in the hospital for a long time
I'd like to see the math on how fast you would get thrown around inside a Zorb going down a ski hill or a off a ski jump.
I feel like you would still get injured but instead of hitting the ground once and stopping you would get a few Kilometers worth of soft tissue injuries and sprains compiled on top of eachother.
There are videos of people using the balls down ski slopes
People also regularly die because of it
An average Joe before the event, and someone with ALL the steroids after for added comparison.
That could even be the same person.
I don’t know, the Enhanced Games was doomed from the start.
And then, to make the non-athletic person feel better about themselves, they show us a skill they themselves have perfected in life.
Surely we've all got that under our belts, right?
For example I can get groceries faster than everyone else at Winco on a Sunday morning; I know the exact route to take through the store to be as economic with my time as possible.
I can do cart tricks. I know how to push on the handle just right so the cart pivots on one wheel while pointing perpendicular to how I'm walking for a fast, compact 180°. I'm also part of a team sport called "speed self checkout". It involves knowing scanning cadence, handing them the item with the barcode facing the convenient way, knowing how many items in which category to give to fill the bag before swapping, and knowing which items go on top. The real trick is knowing which items trigger a human to come over and check an id, and presenting those at the right time so they show up just after you finish scanning everything else. Too early and they eat valuable time leaving you idle, and you miss the chance to possibly combine the item check with the id check, which doubles the number of logins you have to watch and will totally mess everything up.
Speed self checkout is a great skill.
Do you bag at the end of everything, or do you sneak your first item into a bag to start? Is there a way to not have coupons ruin the speed as it forces the helper to come take the coupons from you?
Our self checkout lets you bag as you go, and the coupons are mostly handled automatically. Any paper coupons get fed into a scanner on the self checkout, but most are digital. About 90% of the coupons I get are automatically added when I buy things that qualify, and automatically applied when I buy eligible things.
Our flow is entirely based on one person being able to have an item out where their hand expects while the other bags the last item, with the handoff taking place just over the scanner. The cart driver (me) just needs to know how many items will be in the current bag and what order the scanner likes to bag.
The real game changer is the shop and scan system they have now. We've shifted to bagging as we walk through the store as we scan with the app. It means we've been figuring out the store layout that matches our preferred bag layout for unloading into fridge and pantry.
... what in the goddamn fuck. I'm reassessing my entire shopping experience - we tend to go opposite of store route to miss most of their impulse game (no avoiding checkout but when you see it from the beginning and avoid it then it's easier the 2nd time) but then kinda go aisle to aisle based on headers/needs.
Also sometimes just order ahead to avoid the whole thing, but a little extra money wasted that way.
Right? I mean, I feel like I could put a shot pretty far. How hard is it to throw a ball?
Like watching the pace lap on a NASCAR race, the cars crawl around the track at typical car speeds, then they go green and open up.
Pace cars are not normal cars being driven by normal people. They're high performance cars being driven nearly flat out by professional drivers. They just seem slow by comparison to actual race cars being driven by the top drivers in the world.
Pace car speed in NASCAR is 45-60 mph, with pre-start getting around 100 mph before letting them go. Fast, but hardly flat out in a sports car. The point was that at those speeds that normal people drive regularly, it is very slow on a track built for high speeds.
Is that the turn-left game?
