Sure it’s not as widely popular as say football (either kind) but I imagine it has participation numbers on par with some of the more obscure Olympic sports. I say if dressage and “race walking” get to be considered sports then jousting should too.

I replied to someone further down that one of the ways the charged officer might have evaded negligence liability was by convincing the judge that the applicable duty of care was defined by what a reasonable Baltimore police officer would do under the circumstances, rather than what a reasonable person would do,…

Yeah, who wants to see a bunch of morons in brightly colored heavy protective gear stupidly smashing into each other like idiots, right?

I miss my Jetta. Everything was either blue or red and it didn’t incessantly make noises at me. The Germans had it right back in the day, and the world had fewer excuses for stupidity.

This was one of the most well respected sports in western europe for hundreds of years. Just because we don’t watch it on ESPN these days doesn’t mean it’s not a sport - it takes WAY more athleticism and is far more dangerous to joust than it is to play baseball or football.

Funny you should mention it, or maybe you mentioned it because you already knew, but anthropologists have figured most of the cave paintings at least in the Lascaux Caves were done by women...

It’s ok, women can always play the more manly hardcore version: http://www.usarugby.org/womens-premier…

While also simultaneously reducing human capitol costs, WIN-WIN!

America already has a sport based around men in full body armour charging straight at each other again and again. It’s the NFL. AKA rugby for delicate little princesses.

Came here to post something if no one else hadn’t yet.

a many-feet-long rod

all those rods and lances and thrusting.

So chivalry is dead?

She’s ready..

I actually hate that about my Honda. As if it assumes I’m an idiot. I don’t want multicolored Christmas lights in my car.

I have always gotten a big kick out of the fact that my state’s sport is jousting. Of course, the only place you ever get to see it is at the Renaissance Festival, while eating a giant turkey leg that always looks far better than it tastes, or some other food on a stick (so much food on a stick! Just as in days of…

Relevant: if you love jousting and medieval history, read The Last Duel. It’s non-fiction, it’s fucking awesome* and I was literally screaming as I read (just ask my husband, who was also trying to read at the time and found it “hilarious and annoying”). It highlights how obscenely brutal jousting could be.

Oh I absolutely agree.

Because that would have required a different LED, and gotta keep those parts costs down!