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Excited to kick off their new curling team, Max and his friends decided to dive headfirst into the training session. They came armed with brooms, lots of snacks, and even a motivational playlist, thinking they were ready to conquer the curling world. However, instead of gracefully sliding stones across the ice, their training quickly devolved into a chaotic mix of slipping, sliding, and more than one accidental “sweeping” of the snack table, which promptly became a target for flying chips and popcorn.
The image of tough athletes taking their sport seriously while also trying to avoid a disastrous snack attack is just too good to resist. As Max attempted to perfect his release, he ended up launching a snack bowl across the rink, prompting Larry to simultaneously dive for the chips and yell, “Sweep it like you mean it!” It was a true Olympic-level disaster, but their laughter echoed louder than any cry for a gold medal.
T
I love how much drama there is from curling this year
A
I don’t even watch olympics but I love this shit lol
V
Always will watch curling.
O
Yes, I have been watching curling in the winter Olympics for more than a decade. My wife did not understand all the fuss until this year.
G
I sooner watch curling than a post about four dumbbells.
A
People always say they don’t understand the appeal. I tell them to just watch for a few minutes.
F
Nobody watches curling… until curling starts looking like an action movie training montage🤣
O
Some of us didn’t grow up near the Canadian border in the 70s with only 4 TV channels on rainy Saturdays and it shows.
F
I live in Minnesota. I remember in early 2014, sitting in class at college, and one of my classmates told his friend excitedly that he had a cousin competing in the Winter Olympics. “Is he on the curling team?” “…Yes.” “Then it doesn’t count! They’re *all* from Minnesota!”
T
And all the ski/snowboard people are from Utah lol
S
Or Colorado
B
Speak for yourself. It’s the only part of the Winter Olympics I watch, mainly because of the drama, but also it’s probably the only part I could reasonably have a shot at.
D
Funny you say that because there is apparently a swiss-filipino guy that narrowly missed out on attending these olympics that started to curl like 3 years ago and has some asian curling title after founding the filipino curling association. All you really need aside from time and money is a second citizenship in some country that has no ice and contacts to 3 people that are already really good curlers and also have that citizenship.
R
It has always been one of the more popular events people watch from the winter olympics in my experience.
J
I’m watching the curling event right now
J
A Canadian loses it and everybody’s belief in the stereotype has been shaken so hard that people are learning about curling because of it? I’d say it’s a win for the sport. I figure in about 10 years, we could slowly introduce and normalize body-checking!
W
It’s crazy. > “The word from Canada was that it was pre-meditated. A set-up. That the Swedes had deployed someone to try to catch them out in a game that is founded in trust and respect.” This is from the people who were cheating.
J
Accountability is a motherfucker, innit?
B
Most of them are from Alberta.
T
I think it was 2018 Olympics my wife and I both had the flu at the same time and started watching curling and got super into it. It’s my favorite sport to watch where you can’t hit the opponents lol
J
I have no idea why, nor do I really have much invested in the sport. But, for some damned reason, it’s more entertaining to watch than most other fast-paced sports.
T
Tension building. We don’t get that in most movies nowadays
J
Holy shit, I think you nailed it. It’s constant suspense because of how little the average viewer knows of the sport! Damn, well put.
T
Thanks. Now go watch tremors and appreciate the slower build up of a great movie! Then get into edging hahahahha
W
it is it’s so entrancing to watch. it’s like slow pool or bowling. it takes a while to hit and then you got the excited screaming some guy brooming like a madman and then you see if they got the shot!
M
A lot of people don’t know about your absolutely balls-to-the-wall, batshit-insane, Geneva Suggestion example setters that the 1900s Canadian military was.
O
Even weirder, is that another accusation came from a Dane, known for their hot tempers, who said something along the lines of “we don’t want to focus on it too much”
S
As a Canadian, I feel like it’s my patriotic duty to go outside and touch rocks.
T
Do that thing where you put the maple syrup in the snow and roll it on a stick. I’m told y’all do that
S
We did that in school! I think it was making taffy or something. You unlocked a memory with that… sort of. My memory is awful lol.
H
Only in school? It’s a staple of the sugar shacks.
A
Yes we do but it is because it is toffee not syrup the snow makes it thicker as it becomes toffee.
2
As a swede, i feel like it is my patriotic duty to do the same. Why did nobody come up with this before?
B
This should become a new Canadian insult. *Take off ya rock toucher!*
B
Towel off yer rock ya hosehead
W
touch grass? no rocks 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
R
I’m so OOL Can you tell me what happened?
L
Started here: https://old.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1r4k068/heated_argument_breaks_out_between_canada_and/ Nothing was done about the above finger. Dude from Canada got verbal warning regarding his conduct. Other matches happen with people complaining but since curling has no replay system it was mostly ignored besides online outrage. After that everyone pays extra attention to the bad touch on the stones. Officials got extra strict and in some matches other teams got their stones removed. Browse /r/Curling/ for more details.
C
“Got their stones removed.” Sounds serious!
G
Kidneys love this one simple trick
S
Yeah, I’m definitely going to remember never to cheat at curling!
R
This is one of the best summaries actually. However, I would add that the extra judges were stood down after every team complained to the federation to remove them.
P
> Browse r/Curling/ for more details. Nah, I’m good
B
It’s full of finger apologists apparently.
L
Understandable have a nice day
S
Lol. No kidding. It’s like watching Wikipedia editors fight in the talk pages about punctuation. 💀
U
This made me laugh Im good too
C
You forgot to mention that after this happened, the Canadian female team got called out for this exact infraction by the referees the following day during a match.
S
Great Britain Men’s team had a stone removed for the same thing. That one really was an accidental booping imo but the boys were pretty sanguine about it in the end.
G
Why don’t they have a replay system?
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