The Old Geezer's Thread.

[Sheilbh]

Out of interest do any American sports - especially baseball I imagine - have the tradition of sledging (https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1742234-the-top-10-greatest-cricket-sledges-of-all-time)? Probably called something different though.

[Josquius]

Out of interest do any American sports - especially baseball I imagine - have the tradition of sledging (https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1742234-the-top-10-greatest-cricket-sledges-of-all-time)? Probably called something different though.

Surely so?
At least on the simpsons it was a thing.

[Barrister]

Out of interest do any American sports - especially baseball I imagine - have the tradition of sledging (https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1742234-the-top-10-greatest-cricket-sledges-of-all-time)? Probably called something different though.

In hockey it would be called chirping.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/383071-trash-talking-a-look-at-some-of-hockeys-greatest-chirps
(just the first link I could find)

There's a whole TV series practically built around hockey chirps: Shoresy.  It's based on a character from another series, Letterkenny.  I'm sure it's on streaming where you are (CraveTV in Canada).  Warning it is not rated PG, but it is pretty darn funny.

[PDH]

Hell, we were taught to throw off the opposing batter with chants when I was learning Pee-Wee baseball.

Kids these days probably do all sorts of pronoun things with foo-foo and tattoos.  Everything is going to heck in a handbasket.

[Valmy]

Out of interest do any American sports - especially baseball I imagine - have the tradition of sledging (https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1742234-the-top-10-greatest-cricket-sledges-of-all-time)? Probably called something different though.

In Baseball and Basketball (for free throws mostly, but also the air ball chant for shots that miss the rim and backboard) it is practically institutional with little rituals you are supposed to do.

[Barrister]

CHanting is certainly one thing, but from what I understand about "sledging" (which is only based on Sheilbh's link) he's asking more about making funny and/or insulting comments only heard on the playing surface designed to get under the other player's skin and knock him off his game.

[PDH]

In close contact sports I know it happens.  When I was an athletic tutor I heard some funny stories about mouthing off from football players who were trying to get into the opponents heads.  The really good ones were respected for this talent.

[Josephus]

You know what modern word bothers me? Racialized

I mean , what's it really mean?

[Jacob]

You know what modern word bothers me? Racialized

I mean , what's it really mean?

My assumption: It means you're a normal person just like everyone else, but society treats you as if your race makes you somehow different from regular folks. It means that you experience negative treatment because of how your race is perceived, but it is something done to you by society, not inherent to you. That is, the conversation is not about whether you're "really" [group X], but whether you are discriminated against because society perceives you as belonging to [group X].

... that's my guess, anyhow.

Whether that distinction is important, I leave up to you.

[mongers]

What the hell is up with some modern trousers/jeans, feel like they're about to fall off, so find myself resorting to more substantial belts and underwear.

What is the point of that low-riding junk?

[Savonarola]

And these kids with their smart phones grafted right onto their hands every hour of every day.  Yesterday, when I was driving home, I saw a young woman riding a skateboard looking at her cell phone the whole time; like the world is going to end if she didn't see her best friend's lunch the moment she posts it on Instagram.  The young woman wasn't wearing a helmet, which I can't blame her since her skull obviously isn't protecting anything useful, but she should have at least got one of those Otter Boxes.  Those phones cost a lot of money.

[mongers]

And these kids with their smart phones grafted right onto their hands every hour of every day.  Yesterday, when I was driving home, I saw a young woman riding a skateboard looking at her cell phone the whole time; like the world is going to end if she didn't see her best friend's lunch the moment she posts it on Instagram.  The young woman wasn't wearing a helmet, which I can't blame her since her skull obviously isn't protecting anything useful, but she should have at least got one of those Otter Boxes.  Those phones cost a lot of money.

Again the quality just shines through.

I had the "what do young people do on their phones/screens all day"  conversation with a friend I bumped into the last night. 

[grumbler]

I was arguing to argue.  This is the old geezer's thread.

Note that the geezer in the title is singular.  It's his thread, we are just visiting.

[grumbler]

I was arguing to argue. 

No, you weren't.

An argument isn't just contradiction!

[Jacob]

I was arguing to argue. 

No, you weren't.

An argument isn't just contradiction!

Yes it is!