That’s the thing, though. I’m one of those weirdo art people. Virtually all the people I surround myself with are weirdo art people. Theatre, writing, sculpture, painting, clothing designers, performance artists. And I am pretty sure the number of us who would pull that level of goofy pretentiousness in the face of…

Charisma.

Or Michonne stumbling upon an old Blockbuster case containing Love Actually in VHS...

Ezekiel was playing a role meant to inspire his followers. They saw him as a king so he became one. He didn’t make them change their speech patterns,or their lifestyle, he simply played the role of king as their leader, and put on an act to make himself seem bigger than life in their eyes. And their reversion to armor…

Seconded. Also glad for the explication of the heapsters behavior. I still hate it but at least they are making it out to be a conscious choice by a bunch of weirdos looking to reinvent society rather than some kind of natural progression.

I admire Jadis’s commitment to performance art, though. Her people have all be slaughtered, most turned into zombies and she says “I must change out of my black clothes and into a white shift dress so I may wander the garbage dump barefoot, like a living ghost.”

That is exactly what I was thinking. She has a grudge now.

The US team is a bit... unusual.

Most elite curling teams are pretty athletic, at least in the first 3 positions who sweep. Not XC skier athletic, but I’ll burn more calories curling for a weekend than I will playing volleyball.

But the real reason to watch is the strategy, there’s a lot of times the better curlers lost…

Don’t knock it ‘till you try it.

Absolutely, winners buy the first round. It’s...well, one of the unwritten_laws of Curling.

...there’s also the problem that for clubs that aren’t year-round, the season is winding down right about now. The club here in the DC area wraps things up in mid-April and won’t really kick off again until October.

It’s typically the other way around and playing 10 end games socially is quite rare too. Most clubs for social leagues will play 8 end games as it keeps the games to around 2 hours.

Also, maybe wait a year or so (maybe 2 because of the US gold). Interest in curling spikes during and after the winter games. I wanted to get involved years ago, and I couldn’t even get a spot as a sub in a league that had several of my friends in it. Then I realized it was a Winter Games year.

Just watched it for the first time the other day (they beat Canada) and I’m 52. I liked it. I thought it was fascinating. If there was a club out by me, I’d go check it out.

I took curling as a community education class 3 years ago. I love it, made many new friends. Once you get the hang of it become a substitute. You’ll get to curl with many different teams and make the connections to join teams the following year. Our club also has an open league for beginners so you don’t have to…

I live in a moderately sized city that gets snow and has an ice rink but no curling clubs :( . How do you go about starting a curling group?

“Mob With Brooms” - Worst Paul Gross movie ever.

Never anger a mob with brooms....

You left out the best part of curling: SCREAMING!

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if someone did do an emergency curling podcast after Team Homan was eliminated from the Olympic tourney.