Category: Sports Bar
Hi all,
Someone asked on another network what events might be included in a blind
olympics. These were the ideas I came up with, but interested in others.
Rocking disciplines: You could have Rapid Rock, where the winner is the
contestant who rocks the most in a set amount of time. There would also be
an endurance event, where the winner is the contestant who rocks for the
longest.
Cane disciplines: There would be cane fighting, where different models such
as 1-piece canes and folding canes might be used, as well as different
materials. The winner would be the one who snaps the other's cane. Also,
you'd have pedestrian wipe-out, where you try and take pedestrians out by
getting canes caught between their feet. Extra points if you can smash
shopping.
Guide dog racing: The only flaw I can see with this event is I'm not sure
where you'd get the saddles.
Plastic eyes: I also think it's important that those in the community with
plastic/glass eyes can participate. There'd be the Fake Eye Fling, I'm not
sure whether this would be purely a distance event or one where you had to
hit a person/target. Also, there'd be an event where contestants have to drop
an eye into someone's drink. Rather like gymnastics and diving that are
judged on both difficulty and execution, you'd get points for stealth, and the
extremeness of the reaction elicited from the drinker when the eye was
discovered.
I'm sure there are plenty more.
ooo, those are all good ideas minus the cane one. :p We should do a goalball game afterwords. just sayin.
I love this, minus the eye games. So gross.
I'm going to be pedestrian wipeout champion. I especially love it when they tell you they're sorry, as if you're the one who tripped
This is greatness!
How about the eye poking challenge. Who can get their finger in there the deepest. Yuck! lol
Don't like that one? Ok, in honor of my x-husband, the accidental inappropriate groping contest. How many butts or boobs can a guy get away with quote unquote accidentally groping.
Short ladies, c'mon, yall know yall have accidentally cupped some junk so we're not out of this either.
Spinning.
You can either have it were you must stay on time with the music, or speed.
The person that doesn’t fall out from dizziness wins.
Object finding. An object is held above the head, then dropped. It has to be sort of round so it can roll a bit.
The person that finds there’s first wins.
Genius ideas DG and Wayniwoos. I wonder if there should be some form of tray-
carrying, cafeteria-based competition. I'm not sure whether the aim here ought
to be to emerge unscathed or cause chaos.
Ah. Each athlete would get a different tone to follor, or you could put them in lanes that are roped off?
Laughing
Speed listening to speech synthesizers.
Speed writing contest with a slate.
Is it just me, or are are a lot of people who listen to their speech synths sped up to incredibly fast speeds ... a little bit pretentious? Please tell me that's just my experience. And hey, Cane fighting! I'd be all over that action.
Seems to me they do.
I like mine slow to others.
I don't want to have my small brain over heated trying to keep up with it.
I'm not in a hurry like that.
Laughing.
cane fighting? pretend they're swords! :d
I've heard voice over sped up to like 80. lol, and my poor brain cannot rap around it.
I don't think I'm being pretentious. I can't remember if I've mentioned the fact that I speed listen on here before, so if I have, it was a long time ago. I'm mostly home alone, so there's no one here to impress. Why do people assume I think about other people way more than I actually do?
Who assumes you think about people at all? I can't personally think of anyone who speed listens on here, though I'm sure they exist. That has been my experience from the people who do it though. As for me, I can technically understand and even process some things at high speed, but I have to work at it.
> Who assumes you think about people at all?
You do.
adjective: pretentious
attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc. than is actually possessed.
You said that people who speed listen tend to be a bit pretentious. I speed listen, so according to the way you categorize people I am likely a bit pretentious. That means I'm trying to impress people, which requires me to be thinking about people.
And I really can speed listen, although I'm sure I'm not the fastest on Earth.
I'm with Voyager. I don't think I'm pretentious about it, (but comment taken in the spirit of fun and commiseration I think Remy meant.) I don't think of it as speed listening, but I can take in information with JAWS at a fast pace. I get really impatient with slow speech--I hate reinstalling Jaws, for this reason! I like my audio books sped up, too.
I'm not as comfortable with a speedy Voiceover, though, I just don't process humanlike speech options as well as the robotic speech. (IOS beta 10 has a Dectalk-like voice called Fred, which I can't wait to get! I don't have the beta, but know someone who does.) Anyway, re VO, I was amazed and impressed by a girl in my last guide dog class who has hers at a quicker speed than I could possibly hear. LOL But that's to her advantage; no one else was going to be able to eavesdrop on her email, or whatever.
Let's see... my Jaws is currently at a rate of 52 percent.
my voice over is about a 70. my jaws is at 52 too, violet. :)
My voiceovers about 30. Jaws is about 39 40.
I can understand it faster, but I have to bepretentious .
Laughing.
I like audio books at the rate the person speaks.
Ok, so I had to go check, and turns out my Voiceover is 70, as well. Let's have lunch sometime, Sia fan. *smile*
Ah, but with the new Daisy readers, Wayne, you can speed up Bob Askey, and still hear his lovely voice as it naturally sounds. No more chipmunk narrators, since cassettes are a thing of the past. My ear was quite accustomed to chipmunk speak, though. LOL
damn Wayne, that's slow, blah.
I'm a slow man. I confess.
Laughing.
It actually took me a while to get used to the sped up voices in their natural tone after 30 something years of listening to chipmonks and munchkins. lol
I think my Jaws is on about 55 or so. I used to keep it around 60 but have slowed it down some over the years as I found myself sometimes having to backtrack to hear stuff twice. My VO on my phone is usually around 90. Slow speech drives me nuts but like VB said, the more human sounding voices trip me up. The Alex voice on the mac was difficult for me to understand at a high rate of speed so I slowed it down. I think my ears are just so used to eloquence that I understand it best at a higher rate of speed.
Well if I take the first rate that is spoken I can say mine's at 84% hahaha.
The reason y'all don't like the human-sounding voices sped up is because the faster you crank them up, the more information you lose. The robotic voices are a different technology, so they tend not to have this problem. My iPhone is set at 100% with the lower quality voice so that I can get the most possible speed out of it. NVDA is currently set at 45, but with rate boost turned on.
Just so you understand. Your iPhone doesn't even break a sweatno matter how your voice rate is set. Now the quality uses up more drive space, but that is all. To push your phone or even notice it working, you have to play some heavy games.
But still, I'm not Olympic able in this. 100% would drive me crazy. Lol
Yup I don't speed mine up much either.
People who can see would probably say it's fast. But other blind people think I'm slow.
Leo, good to see you. I was starting to wonder if everything was ok as I hadn't seen you post in a while.
Same here.
Same here.
And I did not mean that I chose the low quality voice because I was afraid the iPhone's processor couldn't handle the high quality voice. Last I checked, low quality actually spoke faster than high quality at 100%.
I totally believe you.
Laughing.
You go girl!
My small brain would be mush after listening to a few text messages at that rate.
Laughing.
Oh, and Voyager gets the Gold.
Does anyone else do 100%? Guess we'd need specially built devices so we could crank them to say 200%
Laughing.
Sometimes, I've been known to put the Samantha standard voice at 100 percent.
Well, people already say she sounds like a drunk and a smoker, so she'd just prove it by not making any sense at all.
Do this on a Saturday night, and she's good.
hdherdflckdjrllsjdl
That is what it be like to me.
Laughing.
I'm listening to "Far From True" by Linwood Barclay narrated by Alec Volz and discovered last night if you slow him down to the lowest speed on the NLS player he sounds very drunk, that slow very precise drunk where you are speaking slowly and carefullly so as to hide the fact that you are drunk but of course giving it away by your carefulness.
Entertaining.
Good to see you guys too.