I thought a hog line was like a woman's underwear line like hey buddy your hog line is showing.

Come on everybody drop your hog lines, I gotta expand my repertoire

If sweeping the floor has a massive effect on speed and trajectory I assume a little boop would as well

The stone is pretty heavy, and you're only supposed to move it by melting the ice ahead of it using the brooms. When the forces involved are that small, a small push can definitely make a difference

Finer tuned accuracy. Curling is genuinely super fucking hard, part of the reason so many pro curlers are fairly old is partially cause it isnt that physically demanding so you can keep it up at an older age, but also cause it just takes that long to get really good. It would prevent rhe rock from spinning or allow tou to slow the spin after releasing a bit more than you coukd using the handle, or curling which can be useful at certain times. I am weird and the only sport I care about is curling. Little boops translate to a big difference over a long distance.

Its a little silly and overblown which is the perfect sports drama I love, the effect before you hit the line where you're supposed to let go of the stone is negligible because... you can still hold the stone then anyway

I'm reminded of a disgusting rant during the last world cup against Iranian players that sounded similar to this; Iranian players who'd taken a knee in solidarity with Iranian anti-government protesters, so not pro-government players (not that it would matter)

7/10 Measurehead rating. Not pseudoscientific enough

Look, the only time ill participate in nationalism is over Olympic Curling. If you're not trying to cheat you're not trying to win. Come down here and try to win the Bryers Cup with your bulkshit rule following. You guys probsvlt aren't even drunk while competing in international sports. Hoser

I think the usual logic is that "everyone else is doing it". And often they are right about that. For example, various forms of blood doping in top level cycling. The standards orgs running the competitions put more focus on arbitrary rules about the bicycles themselves than safety or doping, the latter is just a PR issue for them. So if you want to be "the best", you either accept coming in 28th place naturally or top 5 doing what everyone else does.

You need to win to earn money and sponsordeals from professional sports. So it’s just the same mix of cognitive dissonance and calvinism that allows many people to feel like they deserve their success over others who work just as hard if not harder.

I might be able to get in the right headspace to explain it in a bit.

Like, I don't really get it either, but I know it starts with "I want to win" not "I want to get away with something". Then a small thrill on the "I just got away with something yay".

In terms of not understanding it, there's alignment along AuDHD/neurotypical/ASPD axes for attitudes about cheating (and, inherently, about capitalism).

My own brother used to cheat at videogames. He built a lag switch connected to his Playstation, which he would flip during SOCOM. I don't know how it worked but it caused other players to lag heavily. Sometimes he would flip it then just walk around shooting opponents in the face. I have never been able to understand why this would be fun or feel good.

He was huge into Diablo 2 at one point (I was too, but I wasn't playing it when he was). He would IM people and send them a program to duplicate their items. What it actually did was make them take off all their gear, drop it, then quit the game. He made so much off this scam, he had a mule character that had an inventory full of Stone of Jordan rings. These were the de facto high level currency because they were very rare, only took up one slot, and gold wasn't worth much.

One day he got his. I heard him absolutely losing his shit, screaming and crying from the family PC. He got scammed and lost everything. I'm not proud of this but it made me feel so, so good.

Not explaining which ones are the dregs but Canadians on here will know what's up.