comment by Scouse (U9675)
posted 20 minutes ago
Spart must save a fortune on mind altering substances?
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Most people wish they had something to alter your mind.

comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted about an hour ago
The ice IS perfectly flat, Spart. The brushes are not the reason why the stone turns. As with the application of tactics and formations in football, it's painful to watch you trying to fathom it, yet at the same time it's wonderfully entertaining.
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Sorry but if the ice is perfectly flat there is no way it can change direction. What other forces are being applied to the stone? It wont be affected by air resistance like a golf or cricket ball. The stone is much too heavy so what are the forces?

comment by Scouse (U9675)
posted about 2 hours ago
Spart will probably say this was also travelling in a straight line?

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Thanks Scouse.
Well I for one thought it was an excellent shot. Perfectly placed, rather than lucky, Id say. So nice to see a player keeping it low, rather than ballooning it over the bar.
Good run round the outside by Birdy (?) too, to distract the defender.
Can't wait for the cricket season for Sparts explanation of swing bowling.

Spart, you need to think laterally.

comment by Spart-Derby really are the best says red dog. (U4603)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted about an hour ago
The ice IS perfectly flat, Spart. The brushes are not the reason why the stone turns. As with the application of tactics and formations in football, it's painful to watch you trying to fathom it, yet at the same time it's wonderfully entertaining.
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Sorry but if the ice is perfectly flat there is no way it can change direction. What other forces are being applied to the stone? It wont be affected by air resistance like a golf or cricket ball. The stone is much too heavy so what are the forces?
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Heb used The Force !

comment by Spart-Derby really are the best says red dog. (U4603)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted about an hour ago
The ice IS perfectly flat, Spart. The brushes are not the reason why the stone turns. As with the application of tactics and formations in football, it's painful to watch you trying to fathom it, yet at the same time it's wonderfully entertaining.
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Sorry but if the ice is perfectly flat there is no way it can change direction. What other forces are being applied to the stone? It wont be affected by air resistance like a golf or cricket ball. The stone is much too heavy so what are the forces?
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Presbyterianism plays a significant part.

As does presbyopia.

👁

Some people say that the man who put the curl on the curling stone is the same man who put the zip in the zip-a-dee-doo-dah, but there is no actuall proof of this.

Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong
Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop
Who put the curl on the curling stone
Who was that man
I'd like to shake his hand
Cos he made old Sparty scratch his head (yeah)

Well!
How to kill a match thread

comment by ViewFromCroxteth - FECK the EFL (U1581)
posted 9 minutes ago
Well!
How to kill a match thread
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🤣

How to kill a match thread

Rhymes with 'old Sparty scratch his head'

Come on. That has to be the most comments on curling ever!

comment by 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 HebridesRam (U2909)
posted less than a minute ago
Come on. That has to be the most comments on curling ever!
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I could start a thread or has it finished?

Soon there will be a footy thread. It may lack the visceral excitement of the noble sport of curling but it is what we have.............Millwall eh!

comment by ViewFromCroxteth - FECK the EFL (U1581)
posted 21 minutes ago
comment by 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 HebridesRam (U2909)
posted less than a minute ago
Come on. That has to be the most comments on curling ever!
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I could start a thread or has it finished?
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Im still waiting for the Storm Franklin one

comment by Scouse (U9675)
posted 6 hours, 49 minutes ago
comment by Spart-Derby really are the best says red dog. (U4603)
posted 3 minutes ago

Were the ice perfectly flat the brushes would make no difference.
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That's bólločks Spart and you know it. The brushes melt the ice and the resultant water reduces the friction. Just like an ice skate in fact, but to a much less extent.
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Just noticed this reply and you displaying your ignorance of basic schoolboy physics. All that would happen if the ice was perfectly flat and the friction was reduced is that the stone would continue in a straight line but wouldn't decelerate so quickly. Newons first law of motion not scouse's law of making up physics because he doesn't understand it.

If the ice had small undetectable deviations from the horizontal then the centre of mass of the stone would no longer be through the centre of the stone. This would create a small turning moment causing the stone to deviate from its course. The lower the friction the more the stone would deviate.

comment by 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 HebridesRam (U2909)
posted 21 minutes ago
Soon there will be a footy thread. It may lack the visceral excitement of the noble sport of curling but it is what we have.............Millwall eh!
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You'd have us at an advantage on a curling thread, Heb.
Only you & Spart know anything about it

comment by Spart-Derby really are the best says red dog. (U4603)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Scouse (U9675)
posted 6 hours, 49 minutes ago
comment by Spart-Derby really are the best says red dog. (U4603)
posted 3 minutes ago

Were the ice perfectly flat the brushes would make no difference.
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That's bólločks Spart and you know it. The brushes melt the ice and the resultant water reduces the friction. Just like an ice skate in fact, but to a much less extent.
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Just noticed this reply and you displaying your ignorance of basic schoolboy physics. All that would happen if the ice was perfectly flat and the friction was reduced is that the stone would continue in a straight line but wouldn't decelerate so quickly. Newons first law of motion not scouse's law of making up physics because he doesn't understand it.

If the ice had small undetectable deviations from the horizontal then the centre of mass of the stone would no longer be through the centre of the stone. This would create a small turning moment causing the stone to deviate from its course. The lower the friction the more the stone would deviate.
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Like the bowlers rough in cricket ?

comment by Spart-Derby really are the best says red dog. (U4603)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Scouse (U9675)
posted 6 hours, 49 minutes ago
comment by Spart-Derby really are the best says red dog. (U4603)
posted 3 minutes ago

Were the ice perfectly flat the brushes would make no difference.
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That's bólločks Spart and you know it. The brushes melt the ice and the resultant water reduces the friction. Just like an ice skate in fact, but to a much less extent.
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Just noticed this reply and you displaying your ignorance of basic schoolboy physics. All that would happen if the ice was perfectly flat and the friction was reduced is that the stone would continue in a straight line but wouldn't decelerate so quickly. Newons first law of motion not scouse's law of making up physics because he doesn't understand it.

If the ice had small undetectable deviations from the horizontal then the centre of mass of the stone would no longer be through the centre of the stone. This would create a small turning moment causing the stone to deviate from its course. The lower the friction the more the stone would deviate.
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Whilst you are displaying the reading ability of Mr Magoo.

Similat Ang. If the friction was changed on half of the stone's trajectory this could also cause a turning moment as one half of the stone would be decelerating more quickly than the other which is what they are probably trying to achieve. The stone has a massive amount of inertia compared to a cricket ball so more difficult to deviate. That must be why the brush people have to work so hard. Just brushing though wont have any effect. It has to be done on one side of the trajectory unless of course there are deviations in the ice. As you know from cricket the greater deviations from line are caused by the pitch and the seam rather than the air.

FFS Spart. It isn't the brushing that causes it to curl. Even when they don't do any brushing, it curls. You just haven't figured it out yet.

Brilliant.
As quick and more accurate than Alexa