Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

Is there a sort of 'scorecard' anywhere where you can compare what the Olympic team was hoping to achieve and what they have achieved so far?

Related question: The press always get incredibly upset unless British athletes are incredibly successful. Does anyone else care as long as they do their best?

Precisely why we rewarded DD when she finished her exams and didn't didn't wait to see the results.

She put the effort in and I'd rather she saw that that was what was worth rewarding rather than achieving a specific precise grade (which to be honest, is in the lap of the gods more than I'm happy to acknowledge to her).

chewmylegoff

michaels wrote: »

Is there a sort of 'scorecard' anywhere where you can compare what the Olympic team was hoping to achieve and what they have achieved so far?

Related question: The press always get incredibly upset unless British athletes are incredibly successful. Does anyone else care as long as they do their best?

I don't really care who wins as long as its women's beach volleyball that I'm watching...

chewmylegoff

zagubov wrote: »

The correct answer was rubidium bromide, - not carbon dibaxide.


Did anyone notice in the opening ceremony how big many of the athletes were?

The girls carrying the country names were selected for being tall allegedly but at least some of the athletes dwarfed them.

Is that so surprising when basketball is one of the Olympic sports? There lots of sports where being a big lump is a distinct advantage.

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

Precisely why we rewarded DD when she finished her exams and didn't didn't wait to see the results.

She put the effort in and I'd rather she saw that that was what was worth rewarding rather than achieving a specific precise grade (which to be honest, is in the lap of the gods more than I'm happy to acknowledge to her).

My parents, nor dh's, rewarded us for acheivments...a sort of acheivemnt is its own reward type attitude. (though he got a stereo for his bar mitzvah from his grandad, and neither set of parents were mean).

I dunno what we woulD have done if we had kids. I cannot see we would not have encouraged hard work though. I fear i might have been aarent with high expectations and a quite mean mother though if the kid were not driven in its own right. Which is a bit of a terrible admission.

GDB2222

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I don't really care who wins as long as its women's beach volleyball that I'm watching...

My son, the non-academic one, is currently earning £200-300 a day driving the NBC film staff around. He is on the beach volleyball section. Long hours, but he's young and resilient.

chewmylegoff

GDB2222 wrote: »

My son, the non-academic one, is currently earning £200-300 a day driving the NBC film staff around. He is on the beach volleyball section. Long hours, but he's young and resilient.

It must be terribly hard. Good to hear his stamina is up to it!

I am trying to decide which is the stupidest sport in the Olympics. So far I reckon it is 10m air pistol shooting, although riding a horse around inside a tiny picket fence comes a close second. Least spectator friendly has to be judo - just impossible to understand if you don't know anything about it.

silvercar

zagubov wrote: »

Precisely why we rewarded DD when she finished her exams and didn't didn't wait to see the results.

She put the effort in and I'd rather she saw that that was what was worth rewarding rather than achieving a specific precise grade (which to be honest, is in the lap of the gods more than I'm happy to acknowledge to her).

But what do you do when you reward the worker for trying hard and then the lazy one scores high results? Do you reward the result?

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

It must be terribly hard. Good to hear his stamina is up to it!

I am trying to decide which is the stupidest sport in the Olympics. So far I reckon it is 10m air pistol shooting, although riding a horse around inside a tiny picket fence comes a close second. Least spectator friendly has to be judo - just impossible to understand if you don't know anything about it.

Rofl, that one is the closest to my sport. Its from war movements and is harder than it looks. Really not so different from a martial art, or more likely, fencing...just...less comabtive in modern form. I do not personally like the competitive vertion of the sport very much. (there are some horrid welfare issues in the sport nowadays) but i would still have liked to see some of it. (

although i think that the dressage so far has been the eventing dressage? in which case its even less silly.....that is a test
Ess of dressage skill (expect stones thrown for any eventing fans) but of the horses trust and obedience in this skilled discipline for which they need 'least' of their stamina and energy before the phases where they need more, i.e. if the dressage were the last day it might be 'easier'. Cross country day is the test of stay and bravery, then after two totally contrasting days they need enough tamina to showjump the last day. Three different skills, tw o of them sports in their own right and the horse and rider have to turn a hoof to all of them. I the hardest order.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

This is such a great posting.

I think this is really what i love about the np. Who'd a thought i would learn an aspie as they are described on paper could share that with a much cared about cyber chum.

Only because I've just been there/am still there somewhere.... all lost and traumatised by it and the events beyond.



Two years ago I'd have said nothing as it's difficult for most people to say something/from the heart.... and I'd have proper F'd it up

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

But what do you do when you reward the worker for trying hard and then the lazy one scores high results? Do you reward the result?

Not as much, if at all.
(I realise I'm like a blindfolded clown tapdancing in a minefield here)

A clever lazy child already has had their reward from their parents.

Of course with different kids I'd need to have superhuman powers of diplomacy to handle this. Glad that's not a problem I'm facing.