| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| jema |
Fork handleshttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/cab_innit/
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| Nick |
This is the trouble with people who fly from Bristol airport, it's all Easyjet and bucket airlines. They even applaud when they land. Full of piercings, tattoos and clad in tracksuits. | ||||||||
| Brownbear |
I know it's a side issue, but has there ever been any research on what percentage of sporting clothes sold are ever worn during exercise? | ||||||||
| Jonnyboy |
I played football in a non sporting t-shirt last night, hope that goes s small way to redressing the balance. |
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| Barefoot Andrew |
Hopefully she did make it on holiday, and will be subsequently refused re-entry to the UK.
A. |
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| Brownbear |
An interesting philosophical point. Although not designed as a sporting t-shirt, the fact that it was worn as one may make that particular shirt a sporting shirt, although its brother and sister shirts of the same design may not be. |
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| Nick |
But that would suggest that items not worn for sport are not sporting clothes. So the answer to your question is all sporting clothes are worn for sport. | ||||||||
| judith |
What about darts players? Are their clothes sporting clothes? | ||||||||
| vegplot |
Is darts a sport? |
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| judith |
I think afficionados claim it is. | ||||||||
| Brownbear |
Ah, but what about clothes specifically designed for sporting purposes but which are not worn during sporting activity? Does the intention of the designer, or the inertia of the couch potato, determine definition? |
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| vegplot |
I'd better not hijack this thread. 
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| vegplot |
An interesting philosophical point. |
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| Jonnyboy |
They become leisure wear. |
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| judith |
Oh go on. You know you want to. |
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| vegplot |
Okay then. Definitions of sport 1. competitive physical activity: an individual or group competitive activity involving physical exertion or skill, governed by rules, and sometimes engaged in professionally 2. competitive physical activities as group: competitive physical activities considered collectively as a group 3. pastime: an active pastime participated in for pleasure or exercise It could fall under 3. if you consider 'active' to mean standing up holding a pint in one hand and throwing tiny javelins a few feet. I wouldn't consider darts as either active or physical in a meaningful way. |
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| Brownbear |
So if you have the leisure to pursue your interest in sport, what then? |
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| judith |
What about competitive shooting? |
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| Jonnyboy |
Darts passes your definition (1) |
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| Jonnyboy |
That statement makes no sense to me. |
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| Brownbear |
Is asking questions a leisure activity, do you think, or a sport? If the latter, should I wear trousers or a hat? |
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| Jonnyboy |
You're doing it via the internet, you should be naked. Hat is optional |
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| Jonnyboy |
Interestingly, my office overlooks a rather infamous part of east belfast. Right now I can see several white tracksuited 'gentlemen of leisure' |
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| vegplot |
Good point. If someone asked me do I partake in sport I'd say no even though I target shoot and we hold competitions. I'd say the same if I played darts or snooker. My physical activity aside from walking is cycling but I don't do it as a sport. My definition is an active competitive activity and by active I mean quite hard physical activity. I'm aware that some sports which are inactive such as darts and shooting as classified as such but it wouldn't be my definition. |
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| Rob R |
Wow, so off topic and only the second page
You can't beat South London teens; pity. |
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| Frewen |
You can beat saarf london teens - but they'll either knife or shoot you back (whether or not they consider it "sport" to do so, I do not know, and am not about to go and ask) 
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| gil |
What about Highland or Scottish Country Dancing ? Is dance a sport or an art form, or both ? Highland dance features at Highland Games, along with tossing the caber and all that malarky |
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| Nick |
Surely sport has to have at least some competitive element to it? Hm. Maybe not. Jogging's a sport, isn't it?
God, I dunno. |
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| gil |
Both those dance forms are danced competitively.
Very competitively, in the case of Highland Dancing |
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| Nick |
Well, yeah, they'd be sports fairly clearly then, I guess. Do they do tracksuits in tartan? | ||||||||
| gil |
Jogging would be a form of exercise; marathon running a sport (even if some people jog it) | ||||||||
| vegplot |
If it's active and competitive then yes, it's a sport. But we tend to compartmentalise on original beginnings with exceptions (as always). Dancing wasn't considered a sport until it become competutive (Come Dancing) but we don't call it a sport and yet by the term active competetion it's a sport but I dare say the ancient Athenians wouldn't see it that way. |
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| vegplot |
I wouldn't have said so but I suppose you could compete against yourself. Just to invoke Godwin's law and stop this off topic topic early I'll just mention the 1936 games shall I? |
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| judith |
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| Brownbear |
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| MarkS |
aka yarrows lemma
Y'know, I cant decide between lema and lemma? what do you think? |
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| judith |
lemur? | ||||||||
| Brownbear |
lemma. Or, it could be llama if the stoat's having a day off. |
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| vegplot |
It was just a thought. | ||||||||
| dougal |
Sounds like you're in a bit of a di-lemma... Anyway, the original story sounds wildly improbable, innit. Taking a hackney carriage all the way to Bristol? About as likely as taking one from outside Northampton to Stamford Bridge... http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/apr/04/5 Innit? |