https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/sports/table-tennis-anthony-edwards.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU4.Qjr6.z7Bk636FPvCR&smid=url-share
An N.B.A. star’s trash talk was good-natured but typical, elite players said. They say they play along with it … to a point.
Who is going about their day thinking they can beat an Olympic contender at anything??
E: aside from other Olympic contenders, I guess
I wonder what the extent of "beat" in a fight means in the context of this survey. It's gotta be something along the lines of "get injured and don't want to continue" vs "to the death", right? Like surely 40% of Americans don't think that if they had to take on a goose they'd end up dead.
Okay, okay, those people were crazy
I once managed to fight three large feral dogs without a weapon. Didn't kill them, but I ran them off and wasn't bleeding.
But one goose kicked my ass because I just couldn't do anything to it that mattered. Ever try to punch a goose? They DNGAF. There are zero fucks in their tiny heads to give. You try to punch them and they just flap harder. Try to grab their necks, they just flap harder and you miss. If I could have ever gotten ahold of it, yeah, it would have been dead, but it's all just a flurry of feathers and beak in your face, moving constantly.
Dogs? That's easy. Stay mobile, use your reach for kicks, go after eyes and noses. Even feral dogs will quit after a little pain, assuming they don't have the numbers to just take you down via coordinated attacks. A single dog though? Nah, at worst you get an arm chewed up while you use the other to attack. If they're biting, they're close enough and steady enough to hurt.
Male belief in superiority basically. A significant minority think that they personally can beat the top women in any given sport.
It's generally illegal to beat anybody. But just because someone plays table tennis is not a reason to beat them people! I didn't click on the pay wall article.
Depends on some definitions.
"Beat" and "Olympic"mostly
Are we limiting them to their field of expertise, or can I bring them into mine? Are they good at stoichiometry? I bet I can beat 99.9% of them at chemistry questions.
And what about the table tennis representative from Greenland? I'm probably not good enough to beat them, but I know a person who probably could. Olympics are open to any nation that has the money and wants to be represented. I remember a very amateur -level swimmer from an African nation who got the most supportive cheer for finishing the event, though they were minutes out of contention in an event decided by seconds
Man, screw stoichiometry. A bunch of math ruining a fun science like chemistry.
That's a joke, but also heartfelt lol. I damn near failed high school chemistry because of stoichiometry.
I got better at math in college, but dang. I'm still butthurt that you can't learn science without maths
I get it, it's very much a filter subject in chemistry, after Gen chem 1 or 2 the balancing and limiting parts of stoichiometry gets left behind for actual chemistry. But you need to know how to crawl before you can make really nasty smells... Wait that's backwards...
