Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you

TheBigBean

rick_chasey said:

TheBigBean said:

rick_chasey said:

Does anyone know if the different hill sizes in ski jumping favour different jumpers?

It's an interesting question. Ryōyū Kobayashi who just won the normal hill won everything in 2018/9 including the ski flying title. The latter is quite a lot bigger than a normal hill (k-point of 240m or something). That said, I presume there must be some variance in performance, but it is definitely not like Cavandish winning the tour.

Incidentally, finding info on ski jumping is really hard. It's very popular at the Olympics just not in the English speaking world. I don't watch it any more though. I can still remember when the 200m club was very small.

Eurosport cover the whole season, and they seem quite clued up.

I just wonder as there are two competitions in the olympics, normal and the big hills and to my untrained eye it just looks like another opportunity for exactly the same competitors, which would seem to detract from the event.

I therefore, assume there is enough difference between them. Maybe it is less about landing technique on the big ones and more about the 'flight' bit.

Yes, I used to watch it on Eurosport, but there is very little coverage outside of that e.g. forums, websites etc.

As I said, I don't think it makes much difference. Landing is the same. It's on the same bit of the hill (marked as hill size below, but often K-point). More air time and higher speed on the bigger hill, but if Ryōyū Kobayashi can win ski flying and the normal hill, the skills are very similar.

pblakeney

rick_chasey said:

TheBigBean said:

rick_chasey said:

Does anyone know if the different hill sizes in ski jumping favour different jumpers?

It's an interesting question. Ryōyū Kobayashi who just won the normal hill won everything in 2018/9 including the ski flying title. The latter is quite a lot bigger than a normal hill (k-point of 240m or something). That said, I presume there must be some variance in performance, but it is definitely not like Cavandish winning the tour.

Incidentally, finding info on ski jumping is really hard. It's very popular at the Olympics just not in the English speaking world. I don't watch it any more though. I can still remember when the 200m club was very small.

Eurosport cover the whole season, and they seem quite clued up.

I just wonder as there are two competitions in the olympics, normal and the big hills and to my untrained eye it just looks like another opportunity for exactly the same competitors, which would seem to detract from the event.

I therefore, assume there is enough difference between them. Maybe it is less about landing technique on the big ones and more about the 'flight' bit.

Think of it like CX and World Tour.
Different enough for specialists but the talented can do both.

TheBigBean

Also, landing only becomes difficult if the jumper goes a long way past the K-point to where it becomes flat. That's when they might use both feet for the landing and lose style points. Here's the world record. No telemark landing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96BkG0TYKrY

surrey_commuter

Ben6899 said:

surrey_commuter said:

Ben6899 said:

The Imperial War Museum hasn’t had an Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria exhibition yet.

Probably to do with uncomfortable truths.

which begs the question of when is a war a war and when is history, history.

Do we know if they did a Korean War exhibition and when was it and same for the Falklands "Conflict"

Northern Ireland

I can’t work out if that is an answer or a question

rjsterry

Have stood part way up the Holmenkollen jump in Oslo. Even just beneath the take off point it's a long way down. TV does not do it justice.

Pross

rjsterry said:

Pross said:

How my dog is still managing to open the back door when I lock it with the key. For months he has managed to open it when it isn't locked but I've lifted the handle.

He's started doing it so often I got fed up and locked it properly with the key, the first time he opened it I assumed I hadn't fully turned the key but he just did it again after I'd checked and the handle wasn't moving.

I'm going to have to take the key out but the way he's going he'll probably put it back in and unlock it.

Are you sure he's not just climbing out of the window?

He hasn't learned to shut the door after him yet (the sudden draught and cold air is the give away that he's let himself out) so I'm pretty sure

Pross

rick_chasey said:

TheBigBean said:

rick_chasey said:

Does anyone know if the different hill sizes in ski jumping favour different jumpers?

It's an interesting question. Ryōyū Kobayashi who just won the normal hill won everything in 2018/9 including the ski flying title. The latter is quite a lot bigger than a normal hill (k-point of 240m or something). That said, I presume there must be some variance in performance, but it is definitely not like Cavandish winning the tour.

Incidentally, finding info on ski jumping is really hard. It's very popular at the Olympics just not in the English speaking world. I don't watch it any more though. I can still remember when the 200m club was very small.

Eurosport cover the whole season, and they seem quite clued up.

I just wonder as there are two competitions in the olympics, normal and the big hills and to my untrained eye it just looks like another opportunity for exactly the same competitors, which would seem to detract from the event.

I therefore, assume there is enough difference between them. Maybe it is less about landing technique on the big ones and more about the 'flight' bit.

The Super G and downhill feels like that for me too, the Super G is just a slightly tighter version of downhill to my untrained eye and teh same skiers seem to excel at both.

Ben6899

surrey_commuter said:

Ben6899 said:

surrey_commuter said:

Ben6899 said:

The Imperial War Museum hasn’t had an Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria exhibition yet.

Probably to do with uncomfortable truths.

which begs the question of when is a war a war and when is history, history.

Do we know if they did a Korean War exhibition and when was it and same for the Falklands "Conflict"

Northern Ireland

I can’t work out if that is an answer or a question

Just listing conflicts not covered at the IWM.

morstar

Pross said:

rick_chasey said:

TheBigBean said:

rick_chasey said:

Does anyone know if the different hill sizes in ski jumping favour different jumpers?

It's an interesting question. Ryōyū Kobayashi who just won the normal hill won everything in 2018/9 including the ski flying title. The latter is quite a lot bigger than a normal hill (k-point of 240m or something). That said, I presume there must be some variance in performance, but it is definitely not like Cavandish winning the tour.

Incidentally, finding info on ski jumping is really hard. It's very popular at the Olympics just not in the English speaking world. I don't watch it any more though. I can still remember when the 200m club was very small.

Eurosport cover the whole season, and they seem quite clued up.

I just wonder as there are two competitions in the olympics, normal and the big hills and to my untrained eye it just looks like another opportunity for exactly the same competitors, which would seem to detract from the event.

I therefore, assume there is enough difference between them. Maybe it is less about landing technique on the big ones and more about the 'flight' bit.

The Super G and downhill feels like that for me too, the Super G is just a slightly tighter version of downhill to my untrained eye and teh same skiers seem to excel at both.

Funny though, as a layman I have the same ‘all the same’ attitude to ski jumping.
Same skill, bigger jumps.

But then you throw in skiing and i go, oh no, lots of differences.

Yes, both speed events but downhill introduces blah, blah, blah whereas SG is this that and the other.

Yet interestingly, GS is the basis of downhill technique and training.

But I have skied the Streif in Kitzbuhel and stood at the top of a (very small) ski jump. They’re all nuts.

surrey_commuter

Ben6899 said:

surrey_commuter said:

Ben6899 said:

surrey_commuter said:

Ben6899 said:

The Imperial War Museum hasn’t had an Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria exhibition yet.

Probably to do with uncomfortable truths.

which begs the question of when is a war a war and when is history, history.

Do we know if they did a Korean War exhibition and when was it and same for the Falklands "Conflict"

Northern Ireland

I can’t work out if that is an answer or a question

Just listing conflicts not covered at the IWM.

Would they not have to rebrand as the ICM?

Ben6899

surrey_commuter said:

Ben6899 said:

surrey_commuter said:

Ben6899 said:

surrey_commuter said:

Ben6899 said:

The Imperial War Museum hasn’t had an Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria exhibition yet.

Probably to do with uncomfortable truths.

which begs the question of when is a war a war and when is history, history.

Do we know if they did a Korean War exhibition and when was it and same for the Falklands "Conflict"

Northern Ireland

I can’t work out if that is an answer or a question

Just listing conflicts not covered at the IWM.

Would they not have to rebrand as the ICM?

I wonder if there's a Museum of Semantics?

Tashman

surrey_commuter said:

Ben6899 said:

surrey_commuter said:

Ben6899 said:

surrey_commuter said:

Ben6899 said:

The Imperial War Museum hasn’t had an Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria exhibition yet.

Probably to do with uncomfortable truths.

which begs the question of when is a war a war and when is history, history.

Do we know if they did a Korean War exhibition and when was it and same for the Falklands "Conflict"

Northern Ireland

I can’t work out if that is an answer or a question

Just listing conflicts not covered at the IWM.

Would they not have to rebrand as the ICM?

CCM surely, the Empire is long gone

Pross

What has happened to Elbowloh?

First.Aspect

My company's mail spam filter filters out some internal emails.

pinno

Toxteth '81.

Pross said:

What has happened to Elbowloh?

Given that his wife was in a serious condition, I would suggest that this is possibly a reason.

briantrumpet

First.Aspect said:

My company's mail spam filter filters out some internal emails.

Do you have an office in Scunthorpe?

Jezyboy

How, despite stiff competition Piers Corbyn manages to be both the worst Piers and the worse Corbyn.

(with apologies to news thump)

rjsterry

First.Aspect said:

My company's mail spam filter filters out some internal emails.

Does that mean it is working properly? 😏

Pross

Deleted - stupid quote coding getting on my nerves!

rick_chasey

Just on a client call - colleague just said he wants to “double click” on a topic and I might just die of shame

shirley_basso

Aren't you the head of a new department? Luckily you can use your skillset to find your colleague a new job.

rick_chasey

He is head of his own department haha he can talk as much shite as he wants

briantrumpet

Pross said:

Deleted - stupid quote coding getting on my nerves!

I'm not sure what's suddenly changed about the forum software to produce these weird annoying glitches. Maybe they've taken advantage of Brexit to allow the standards to diverge from EU ones.

pinno

briantrumpet said:

Pross said:

Deleted - stupid quote coding getting on my nerves!

I'm not sure what's suddenly changed about the forum software to produce these weird annoying glitches. Maybe they've taken advantage of Brexit to allow the standards to diverge from EU ones.

The server is probably in China and one of Xi Jinping's boys is regularly piddling on it.

First.Aspect

rjsterry said:

First.Aspect said:

My company's mail spam filter filters out some internal emails.

Does that mean it is working properly? 😏

You aren't the only person to have suggested this.

briantrumpet

pinno said:

briantrumpet said:

Pross said:

Deleted - stupid quote coding getting on my nerves!

I'm not sure what's suddenly changed about the forum software to produce these weird annoying glitches. Maybe they've taken advantage of Brexit to allow the standards to diverge from EU ones.

The server is probably in China and one of Xi Jinping's boys is regularly piddling on it.

Or Huawei is intercepting our posts and subtly altering them to send covert messages to communist sleeper cells that were installed in the UK before the forum platform was changed.

pinno

briantrumpet said:

pinno said:

briantrumpet said:

Pross said:

Deleted - stupid quote coding getting on my nerves!

I'm not sure what's suddenly changed about the forum software to produce these weird annoying glitches. Maybe they've taken advantage of Brexit to allow the standards to diverge from EU ones.

The server is probably in China and one of Xi Jinping's boys is regularly piddling on it.

Or Huawei is intercepting our posts and subtly altering them to send covert messages to communist sleeper cells that were installed in the UK before the forum platform was changed.

They don't need sleeper cells as long as we have Spaffer screwing things up at No. 10. The last thing they would want is to have him assassinated accidentally through some covert message.

briantrumpet

pinno said:

briantrumpet said:

pinno said:

briantrumpet said:

Pross said:

Deleted - stupid quote coding getting on my nerves!

I'm not sure what's suddenly changed about the forum software to produce these weird annoying glitches. Maybe they've taken advantage of Brexit to allow the standards to diverge from EU ones.

The server is probably in China and one of Xi Jinping's boys is regularly piddling on it.

Or Huawei is intercepting our posts and subtly altering them to send covert messages to communist sleeper cells that were installed in the UK before the forum platform was changed.

They don't need sleeper cells as long as we have Spaffer screwing things up at No. 10. The last thing they would want is to have him assassinated accidentally through some covert message.

Maybe Spaffer has been taking his orders through CS! Don't forget we've got the lurker-liker...

pinno

briantrumpet said:

pinno said:

briantrumpet said:

pinno said:

briantrumpet said:

Pross said:

Deleted - stupid quote coding getting on my nerves!

I'm not sure what's suddenly changed about the forum software to produce these weird annoying glitches. Maybe they've taken advantage of Brexit to allow the standards to diverge from EU ones.

The server is probably in China and one of Xi Jinping's boys is regularly piddling on it.

Or Huawei is intercepting our posts and subtly altering them to send covert messages to communist sleeper cells that were installed in the UK before the forum platform was changed.

They don't need sleeper cells as long as we have Spaffer screwing things up at No. 10. The last thing they would want is to have him assassinated accidentally through some covert message.

Maybe Spaffer has been taking his orders through CS! Don't forget we've got the lurker-liker...

If that is so, he hasn't stuck to the script.

briantrumpet

pinno said:

briantrumpet said:

pinno said:

briantrumpet said:

pinno said:

briantrumpet said:

Pross said:

Deleted - stupid quote coding getting on my nerves!

I'm not sure what's suddenly changed about the forum software to produce these weird annoying glitches. Maybe they've taken advantage of Brexit to allow the standards to diverge from EU ones.

The server is probably in China and one of Xi Jinping's boys is regularly piddling on it.

Or Huawei is intercepting our posts and subtly altering them to send covert messages to communist sleeper cells that were installed in the UK before the forum platform was changed.

They don't need sleeper cells as long as we have Spaffer screwing things up at No. 10. The last thing they would want is to have him assassinated accidentally through some covert message.

Maybe Spaffer has been taking his orders through CS! Don't forget we've got the lurker-liker...

If that is so, he hasn't stuck to the script.

How do you know what the script is? 🤔