As you probably have heard the Olympics are very near. An unfortunate turn of event's happend to one of them. Nodar Kumaritashvili a luger died on friday while in training. The luger was thrown off the side of his sled and into and unpadded steel pole. He later died in the hospital.
I memory of him please post and interesting fact about the Olympics.
Maybe instead of making Fox jokes we should continue to remember the luger that tragically died? You 3 all realize that it was an accident and he didn't purposely do this right?
But yeah...all his pics, including himself and the crash are all over google.
It was his own fault. He was warned that the track was dangerous months in advance and he raced on it anyway.
Training. He didn't race on it he died while in Training. Anyway Fankenstein needs to let us have some fun. Yet another holiday is coming up and people need to relax.
It was his own fault. He was warned that the track was dangerous months in advance and he raced on it anyway.
So you should joke about it? A person gets his head blown off because he's trying to get people to work together, and some crazed terrorist doesn't like it, you'd make fun of him and slander his memory instead of appreciating what he was trying to do? The thread was started to remember this guy and you're joking about it, go make another thread to bash people who have died in general.
I don't necessarily care for this guy, yeah, it's sad, but I won't cry over it and it's just another person among the 500 that died that day all over the world for various reasons, but you should still have some sort of respect.
A person gets his head blown off because he's trying to get people to work together, and some crazed terrorist doesn't like it, you'd make fun of him and slander his memory instead of appreciating what he was trying to do?
That's different, because the guy you're talking about was actually trying to do something productive and useful, rather than just race (even in training) on a dangerous track that would've inevitably killed someone anyway.
go make another thread to bash people who have died in general.
You know I would, but it would get locked, like all of my other failure threads.
but you should still have some sort of respect.
If the guy had died for a good cause rather than just died on a dangerous luge track that he knew would kill him anyway, I would respect this situation more.
If the guy had died for a good cause rather than just died on a dangerous luge track that he knew would kill him anyway, I would respect this situation more.
So doing what you love means nothing? It doesn't have to be helpful, it's what they loved, it's their passion, you're basically saying that anyone who dies trying to fulfill their dreams is an idiot and deserves to be laughed at.
You know I would, but it would get locked, like all of my other failure threads.
Hmm, have someone else with +50 Karma make it for you :P, remember, a +karma a day makes the Mods go away .
That's different, because the guy you're talking about was actually trying to do something productive and useful
Again, fulfilling dreams and possibly earning some merit to whatever country he was from and all that happy-cheery stuff~ It's productive as far as sports are concerned...
So can football, but these athletes wear protection so it can't be.
A bit of a contradiction there :P
They do it because it was what they were born to do. They called upon the sum of all of their knowledge and made a judgment. They knowingly bet their life upon it. The fact that he died is a tragedy, not stupidity. Every contemporary who spoke to him had an opportunity to influence his judgment, so a bit of all of us goes down with him.
Created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1914, the Olympic flag contains five interconnected rings on a white background. The five rings symbolize the five significant continents and are interconnected to symbolize the friendship to be gained from these international competitions. The rings, from left to right, are blue, yellow, black, green, and red. The colors were chosen because at least one of them appeared on the flag of every country in the world. The Olympic flag was first flown during the 1920 Olympic Games
Created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1914, the Olympic flag contains five interconnected rings on a white background. The five rings symbolize the five significant continents and are interconnected to symbolize the friendship to be gained from these international competitions. The rings, from left to right, are blue, yellow, black, green, and red. The colors were chosen because at least one of them appeared on the flag of every country in the world. The Olympic flag was first flown during the 1920 Olympic Games
asia gets yellow, africa gets black, north america gets red, and I dont know about the others. europe and south america have no color stereotypes for me to base my guesses on.
