Comments on: Brilliant Logic http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/08/20/brilliant-logic/ Delivering Enlightenment to the Masses, One Blunt Force Trauma at a Time. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gatesbasher http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/08/20/brilliant-logic/comment-page-1/#comment-825 Gatesbasher Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:31:07 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=307#comment-825 <p>So swimming is exempt from suspicion? What about the 4 x 100 relay that Jason Lezak swam the fastest 100 meters in history to win? He must have been on steroids! And the Italians and the Swedes both broke the existing world record to take 4th and 5th place! How come nobody questions their performances? Could it be because they're all white?</p> So swimming is exempt from suspicion? What about the 4 x 100 relay that Jason Lezak swam the fastest 100 meters in history to win? He must have been on steroids! And the Italians and the Swedes both broke the existing world record to take 4th and 5th place! How come nobody questions their performances? Could it be because they’re all white?

]]> By: Gatesbasher http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/08/20/brilliant-logic/comment-page-1/#comment-3815 Gatesbasher Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:31:00 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=307#comment-3815 <p>So swimming is exempt from suspicion? What about the 4 x 100 relay that Jason Lezak swam the fastest 100 meters in history to win? He must have been on steroids! And the Italians and the Swedes both broke the existing world record to take 4th and 5th place! How come nobody questions their performances? Could it be because they're all white?</p> So swimming is exempt from suspicion? What about the 4 x 100 relay that Jason Lezak swam the fastest 100 meters in history to win? He must have been on steroids! And the Italians and the Swedes both broke the existing world record to take 4th and 5th place! How come nobody questions their performances? Could it be because they’re all white?

]]> By: Ralph Hitchens http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/08/20/brilliant-logic/comment-page-1/#comment-824 Ralph Hitchens Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:56:52 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=307#comment-824 <p>Given the recent history of performance-enhancing drug use by top-level track & field athletes, it's natural that some degree of suspicion would be directed at the remarkable Usain Bolt -- and the fact that he's not an American has nothing to do with it. The ease with which he won both his races and the staggering margins of victory were bound to raise questions, but I think the current drug screening regime at the Olympics can probably be trusted.</p> Given the recent history of performance-enhancing drug use by top-level track & field athletes, it’s natural that some degree of suspicion would be directed at the remarkable Usain Bolt — and the fact that he’s not an American has nothing to do with it. The ease with which he won both his races and the staggering margins of victory were bound to raise questions, but I think the current drug screening regime at the Olympics can probably be trusted.

]]> By: Ralph Hitchens http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/08/20/brilliant-logic/comment-page-1/#comment-3814 Ralph Hitchens Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:56:00 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=307#comment-3814 <p>Given the recent history of performance-enhancing drug use by top-level track & field athletes, it's natural that some degree of suspicion would be directed at the remarkable Usain Bolt -- and the fact that he's not an American has nothing to do with it. The ease with which he won both his races and the staggering margins of victory were bound to raise questions, but I think the current drug screening regime at the Olympics can probably be trusted.</p> Given the recent history of performance-enhancing drug use by top-level track & field athletes, it’s natural that some degree of suspicion would be directed at the remarkable Usain Bolt — and the fact that he’s not an American has nothing to do with it. The ease with which he won both his races and the staggering margins of victory were bound to raise questions, but I think the current drug screening regime at the Olympics can probably be trusted.

]]> By: Rip Ragged http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/08/20/brilliant-logic/comment-page-1/#comment-820 Rip Ragged Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:51:13 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=307#comment-820 <p>Fortunately, outside of marketing jock straps and tennis shoes, the Olympics are pretty much meaningless for anything except mindless entertainment.</p> <p>It's nice to see that no one can be a winner without arousing suspicion of cheating. Some things never change. Envy is an ugly thing.</p> Fortunately, outside of marketing jock straps and tennis shoes, the Olympics are pretty much meaningless for anything except mindless entertainment.

It’s nice to see that no one can be a winner without arousing suspicion of cheating. Some things never change. Envy is an ugly thing.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/08/20/brilliant-logic/comment-page-1/#comment-3813 Anonymous Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:51:00 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=307#comment-3813 <p>Fortunately, outside of marketing jock straps and tennis shoes, the Olympics are pretty much meaningless for anything except mindless entertainment.</p> <p>It's nice to see that no one can be a winner without arousing suspicion of cheating. Some things never change. Envy is an ugly thing.</p> Fortunately, outside of marketing jock straps and tennis shoes, the Olympics are pretty much meaningless for anything except mindless entertainment.

It’s nice to see that no one can be a winner without arousing suspicion of cheating. Some things never change. Envy is an ugly thing.

]]> By: Allanimal http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/08/20/brilliant-logic/comment-page-1/#comment-818 Allanimal Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:14:34 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=307#comment-818 <p>Because no one in the history of human beings, from the first primitive soul desperately trying to outrun a saber-toothed tiger to the sophisticated races of our times, has ever run as fast as Usain Bolt has run at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.</p> <p>Actually, he seems to be mistaken. According to <em>my</em> record book, a guy named Urg in 50,000 BC outran a saber-toothed tiger 0.00001 seconds faster than Bolt did his thing. Of course, there is some debate about the stopwatch technology used at the time... And the meter hadn't been invented, so the distance calculation may be off. (Converting to "ugs" to "cubits" to "royal whatchamacalits" to "meters" has had problems in the past)</p> <p>I wonder what history of humans running, especially the bit before writing was even invented, this guy was reading?</p> Because no one in the history of human beings, from the first primitive soul desperately trying to outrun a saber-toothed tiger to the sophisticated races of our times, has ever run as fast as Usain Bolt has run at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Actually, he seems to be mistaken. According to my record book, a guy named Urg in 50,000 BC outran a saber-toothed tiger 0.00001 seconds faster than Bolt did his thing. Of course, there is some debate about the stopwatch technology used at the time… And the meter hadn’t been invented, so the distance calculation may be off. (Converting to “ugs” to “cubits” to “royal whatchamacalits” to “meters” has had problems in the past)

I wonder what history of humans running, especially the bit before writing was even invented, this guy was reading?

]]> By: Allanimal http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/08/20/brilliant-logic/comment-page-1/#comment-3812 Allanimal Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:14:00 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=307#comment-3812 <p>Because no one in the history of human beings, from the first primitive soul desperately trying to outrun a saber-toothed tiger to the sophisticated races of our times, has ever run as fast as Usain Bolt has run at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.</p> <p>Actually, he seems to be mistaken. According to <em>my</em> record book, a guy named Urg in 50,000 BC outran a saber-toothed tiger 0.00001 seconds faster than Bolt did his thing. Of course, there is some debate about the stopwatch technology used at the time... And the meter hadn't been invented, so the distance calculation may be off. (Converting to "ugs" to "cubits" to "royal whatchamacalits" to "meters" has had problems in the past)</p> <p>I wonder what history of humans running, especially the bit before writing was even invented, this guy was reading?</p> Because no one in the history of human beings, from the first primitive soul desperately trying to outrun a saber-toothed tiger to the sophisticated races of our times, has ever run as fast as Usain Bolt has run at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Actually, he seems to be mistaken. According to my record book, a guy named Urg in 50,000 BC outran a saber-toothed tiger 0.00001 seconds faster than Bolt did his thing. Of course, there is some debate about the stopwatch technology used at the time… And the meter hadn’t been invented, so the distance calculation may be off. (Converting to “ugs” to “cubits” to “royal whatchamacalits” to “meters” has had problems in the past)

I wonder what history of humans running, especially the bit before writing was even invented, this guy was reading?

]]> By: The Angry Drunk http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/08/20/brilliant-logic/comment-page-1/#comment-813 The Angry Drunk Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:38:35 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=307#comment-813 <p>@<a href="#comment-809">mdhughes</a>: That's fucking weird, the html for that link looked ok in the editor, but it was rendering wrong. Fixed now.</p> @mdhughes: That’s fucking weird, the html for that link looked ok in the editor, but it was rendering wrong. Fixed now.

]]> By: The Angry Drunk http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/08/20/brilliant-logic/comment-page-1/#comment-3811 The Angry Drunk Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:38:00 +0000 http://www.theangrydrunk.com/?p=307#comment-3811 <p>@<a href="#comment-809" rel="nofollow">mdhughes</a>: That's fucking weird, the html for that link looked ok in the editor, but it was rendering wrong. Fixed now.</p> @mdhughes: That’s fucking weird, the html for that link looked ok in the editor, but it was rendering wrong. Fixed now.

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