Thanks for the cool factoid! My mother’s family is originally from Mauchline.
Is it me or is Monobob an unfortunate name for a sport?
The summer Olympics are going to test cornhole next time.
It is. And why do Americans call it bob-“sled” while our neighbors to the north call it bob-“sleigh”?
There are subtleties, but it seems at heart a rather simple game:
- Slide rocks down the ice toward a target.
- Earn point(s) for rock(s) that finish closer to the target center than any of the opponents’.
Oh great! Son-of-a-wrek is very obsessed with Cornhole.
We’ll never hear the end of this.
All of you are acting like you’ve never seen Lawn Bowls before.
I, for one, don’t even know what that is.
I think it’s what barbers call a Moe Howard haircut.
Sad comment on today’s world; I have no idea if this is a joke or not.
It’s a topsy turvy world we live in.
If I watch the woman’s curling I have to turn the sound off. I don’t mind the yelling of the two teams I’m watching play but it drives me nuts to hear the players from matches going on in the same building screaming directions to their teammates while the players in the televised match are in strategic discussion mode.
Sometimes I recognize the voices you can hear from the other sheets.
“Bob sleigh” is the UK term so I figure it’s from that influence.
Here’s a discussion about it:
ETA: Here is a rhyme I just made up…
We say zee and they say zed, they say sleigh and we say sled.
I believe that’s spelled “bocce”
If you really want to appreciate the cut-throat nature of curling, you should watch the movie Men With Brooms.
You’re thinking of “petanque”.
It’s similar to curling, but instead of ice, you roll balls on grass, aka a ‘green’, and the points come from getting your bowls in close proximity to a white ball called a ‘jack’. It is very popular with the elderly because it’s a low impact outdoor* sport, with a socialising aspect.
*There is also Indoor Bowls, but played on a long carpet strip.
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Or if you’re French, “boules”.
I dunno…I don’t have a problem with curling being popular or dominating Olympic coverage, but I just never can get into it as a sport.
Mainly I’m baffled as to who thought having two players who can do nothing but very, very slightly alter the surface was a good idea. I keep thinking how much it must suck to be a sweeper, to have the highest effort-to-actual-impact-on-the-game ratio in sports, mainly because you can never touch the stone at all no matter how horribly tempted you get. And it’s the same near-futile grind for seven shots a round for nine rounds.
I barely could get used to having two useless limbs in youth soccer. If I tried to be a sweeper, I’d be snapping that thing in a rage after maybe fifteen minutes, assuming total exhaustion didn’t take me out first.
Cornhole? My biggest issue is if such a niche game can have decent fields. As long as the players are there, sure, why not.