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A story to tell some other time then. Yeah the races at Fontana are hella boring. It was still fun to go once a year for about 10 years. I stopped liking NASCAR around 2014/2015. I’d say international sports widely replaced my love racing. I don’t wake up at 4-5AM to watch F1 anymore, and I don’t watch Outlaws, Monster Energy Cup, NASCAR, IndyCar, or Aussie Supercars anymore.

Yes, decades aren’t really used in historical terms that often for this reason I would imagine. Also, okay the “first year” is year 1. 10-1 = 9 by @Monzanator method. So a decade is actually 1-11, so 2001-2011 is a decade then? That’s why I’m saying calendars aren’t exactly scientific. Also, the American method or writing dates is clearly superior, and I will not have it any other way.

Have I not talked about the period of life where racing (NASCAR, and ALMS) was my everything? There’s also a yearly NASCAR race in the LA area at California Speedway.

Stop putting your balls all over the tree, that’s not not in the spirit of Christmas, and quite frankly it’s a TMI detail. At least get someone else’s balls all over that thing from time to time.

I’d also add his tragic crash as part of this list. While it’s obviously not one of the best moments of the decade, it’s one of the most important and memorable. I think his crash helped heighten safety standards in US, and open wheel racing. The 4 lap, 3 wide salute to his life is also such a beautiful, poignant moment in motor sports history.

I’m not trying to spread lies or take over the world. It’s not a lie. It’s an opinion. We’re all allowed have those, even if they comply us to argue with the same user every fucking day. I’m going to try an explain my logic here, and with a cool head. All I ask is that you give it serious though instead of trying to come up with your next sick burn. Humans hate the unknown. We choose to label, group, and categorize everything. That’s fine, it’s an evolutionary trait. Years are factual in the fact that one rotation of the Earth around the sun does equal somewhere between 364/365 days. However, there is no “first year”, not at least one that civilization can remember. We hate the unknown, so we choose an arbitrary date, and make that the beginning. Calendars only exist to help us plan our days, keep track of history, and give us a sense of security. Now, you can choose to go be official calendar rules, but for the purpose of this thread I’m counting the last ten years of human history. Yes because of the numerous times when I referred to the country of Africa . The point isn’t to win a debate, it’s to inform ourselves and mutually settle differences. The “winner” of a debate is human knowledge. If you come on to this forum only trying to “win” a debate, we’ve already all lost. Now, there is a winner to an argument in the court of public opinion, but even then it’s an asinine victory. You’ve made someone feel worse, reverted to personal attacks, and failed to actually better a situation in any way. I was not trying to change the Gregorian calendar, I was merely offering an interpretation of it. Everything can be statistical data by the way, that’s like the first thing you learn in statistics. I am allowed to make mistakes. Now, I do hate owning up to them, and that’s weakness on my side. I was wrong about a part of European history, but to be fair, European history is long and complicated, and not always as clear-cut as modern Europeans make it out to be. I do come on this forum and think “what lies am I going to spread today!”. I come on here to share facts, my opinion, and sometimes a heartfelt post. Sometimes I can interpret facts wrong, and I need to be corrected. I need to work on accepting that I can be wrong.

Not too many games of indoor football, but we’ve had multiple artificial trees over the years, and we keep all of our decorations. We’ve lost a few here and there, but it’s always fun to decorate the tree and reminisce about past times. I’d imagine our traditions are very similar since my mom’s side of the family has the name of Avery. We’ve traced that side of the tree back to Ellis Island (New York Customs Station), and the English part of the that side to the Revolutionary War. In fact, one of my great, great, great, etc. family members was a general in Massachusetts (and there’s a statue of him in his home town to this day). Not really sure about some of the details on the Irish side, it’s been a while since I’ve looked at the research. My dad’s side is Scandinavian/German. Supposedly our family name, Nelsen, is of Danish origin, but I can’t really prove that at this point (but maybe @Wumo or @Agger could testify to it’s Danishness). I do know that my great grandmother spoke Norwegian, and that when that side of the family came through Ellis Island it was actually split. One brother was given the “Danish” spelling of Nelsen, and the other brother got the English version, Nelson. With all that tradition though, my family largely chooses to forget it all.

A good quarter of the decorations on our tree are of a similar nature. We also have some random shit too. Shrek, Dora, Dale Earnhardt Jr., USA Luge, A Fish Head, A Navajo Hut, and a Meadowlark all make frequent appearances on the tree.

I can’t stop watching the “Pandemonium” segment from London2012. Its just so genius and enjoyable. Whenever we get remotely close to an Olympics, I find myself beginning to watch it over and over again.

It isn’t a lie, it’s a difference of opinion. There’s a difference between Discrete and Continuous statistical data. It makes more sense to count years as continuous, and not as discrete. The 21st century began in 2000, not 2001. We’d already lived in the 2000s. Why the fuck do you always have to contradict every single fucking thing I post. This wasn’t political, and it wasn’t originally opinion. I just wanted to relive some of the best sporting moments from the last decade. I liked some of the memories people shared, and then the asshole amigos had to come and shit all over another. I fine with people disagreeing with, and I enjoy debating, but the amount of negativity around here sucks sometimes. My intentions with this thread were good. I wasn’t trying to rob your vision of the decade, if anything I was trying to get people to collaborate and remover all the good times from the last few years. It shouldn’t be that hard to just have some threads where we just get along, and talk about sports. I don’t re GER the part in the Olympic Charter where everyone is supposed to argue about every single fucking little thing. My definition of a decade won’t cause anyone bodily harm. It won’t completely change the way we see the world. All of things that happen in the past, present, and future will still happen irregardless of how we group years together. I’m so fucking done with this shit right now.

0 counts. 1900 exists as a year. That’s the first year you count. The 21st century is 2000-2099. The 22nd Century is 2100-2199.

The 20th century did end on December 31st, 1999. Y’all Europeans are real dumb when it comes to common sense

While I agree, much of the world thinks otherwise, and quite frankly I’m not having this argument, so fuck it. It’s been a wonderful decade.

Nah, decades are 10 years: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 = 10 years. The end of the 10s.

Someone made a good point to recognize Katie Ledecky’s golds on here. Definitely worth a mention. Dominance like that definitely deserves a tip of the hat

Might be a very late edition to best sporting moments of the decade right there

I forgot the c didn’t I. I’ve seen it spelled different ways, so now I just get confused. Also, I spell shit wrong all the time on here

Always a risk when cheering for Fak around my family . If you just say the proper pronunciation a bit wrong...

Also have to mention Lindsey Vonn’s 2010 Downhill gold medal. It’s the one event from Vancouver2010 that I can still remember watching. She captivated the nation with that win, and became America’s first ski queen.

Ester Ledeka’s double gold will arguably go down as one of the greatest stories in Winter Olympic history. I still remember NBC calling that race, and then being like “uhhh, we may have made an early call earlier.” Plus, she was just so dominate in the Parallel GS. Now all that’s been complimented by her first World Cup win (and in the same bib number as her Olympic win).

Speed Skating Reallocations: Rejected 1 Male: Rejected 1 Female: Gained 1 Male: Gained 1 Female:

To quote Ron Burgundy, “the market is has really become over saturated.”

I would prefer to talk about the 2025 EYOF in here for now though. After today that thread would most likely be empty for years,

By my calculations the FIS still has the potential to reallocate 15 quotas. However, I’m not sure about how the process works at this point, or if they plan to reallocate those quotas. What happened is that each discipline was given a maximum amount of quotas, but some of the disciplines couldn’t meet that maximum even after allocation (example: Ski Jumping should have had 40M/40W, but instead ended up with 38M/35W after all reallocation). The FIS seems to have given some of these “lost” quotas to other disciplines, though there doesn’t seem to be a real method to it (they’re just giving them off wherever pretty much). We are now left with 15 quotas and countries who still seem to want a few, but I don’t know if the FIS intends to reallocate them, or if there will just be less athletes than allocated for in Lausanne?

Or any games in 2021 except for the World Games. I could start making some I guess, I’m generally the most active in those threads.