Re: Scrape.

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My neighbor and his son ride unicycles. They seem to enjoy it.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 9:29 AM
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It must be hard to ride a unicycle up a hill because of the lack of gears.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 9:34 AM
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I wonder if hipster unicyclists don't try to figure a way to put gears on a unicycle and then brag about riding an unfixie?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 9:35 AM
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There are no hills on the football court. Stay focused.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 9:39 AM
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If they can invent a game with a football and unicycles, why can't I change the rules a bit and require it to be played on a defrosted speed-skating rink.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 9:45 AM
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It wouldn't be difficult to put gears on a unicycle, but it would involve offsetting the pedals from the wheel hub, so you'd have to relearn to balance.

I think that should be an Olympic sport. Far more spectator friendly than synchronised swimming or 20k walking.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 10:00 AM
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I'm assuming that the 20k walk is only an event because you can hatch Pokemon Go eggs while participating.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 10:02 AM
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White people really go to extremes to find ways to make a sport mostly white.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 10:05 AM
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Voting isn't a sport.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 10:09 AM
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I think that should be an Olympic sport.

I'm holding out for unicycle fencing.


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 10:11 AM
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Unicycle jousting would be great. Please make that happen, random small towns in Texas.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 10:11 AM
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Unicycle Jousting: A Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DThZb4GmCE0


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 10:13 AM
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Thank you. Last time I wait around for Texas to bring joy into my life.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 10:14 AM
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Is 11 without watching the video, or building on the video? That's how they flip a coin. Watch at the 4 minute mark.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 10:14 AM
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I completely watched the video for the first 15 seconds.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 10:16 AM
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I don't think you get to see a tackle until more like the 45 second mark.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 10:18 AM
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From a few seconds of video of a guy on a unicycle with a football, a logician can infer the possibility of a unicycle tackle without having seen or heard of one.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 10:20 AM
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Wouldn't logicians worry that they were playing flag football?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 11:43 AM
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I think the logicians would still want to see people on unicycles trying to flatten each other.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 11:49 AM
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The synchronized swimming sequence in Hail Caesar is wonderful and seems like a product of real love married to impeccable craft (and Scarlett Johansson's character & plotline my favorite part of the movie). The tap dance number though is thoroughly meh, very disappointing.


Posted by: dairy queen | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 11:50 AM
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19: then why did they stop watching after a few seconds?


Posted by: Heebie | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 11:57 AM
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Because they don't like to be seen watching too many YouTube videos at their desks.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 11:59 AM
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Not all of us are tenurable.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 12:06 PM
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20:

I loved the mechanical whale in the synchronized swim sequence, and how it would be picked up, sort of in the Eisenstein-ish submarine sequence.


Posted by: idp | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 12:10 PM
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It must be hard to ride a unicycle up a hill because of the lack of gears.

Yesterday someone told me that a person has ridden the Dirty Dozen on a unicycle.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 1:27 PM
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I'd like to know which person.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 1:33 PM
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Well it's not me.

I'm going to follow up on this claim.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 3:32 PM
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It seems hard to believe is what I'm saying.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 7-16 3:36 PM
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