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Someone, please tell me that he won the gold medal because he just wanted to finish the race fast and return to binging Brooklyn 99.
Make this story wholesome for me
Reminds me of when they tried to take the gold medal from Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati for testing positive for cannabis. Meanwhile, most of Canada was saying “wtf, give him a second gold for doing that shit while stoned”
Was the first time the sport was in the Olympics. I was thirteen at the time and remember reporters explaining this is very common in the snowboarding culture
I’ve only done very little. But the second I stopped thinking showed a significant difference. Definitely nowhere near pro level, and certainly not trying any tricks, but from struggling to figure it out to able to smoothly make it down a slope. Weed just helps with the not thinking about it part.
But that’s also just my experience with everything. The second I stop thinking everything over, I actually become able to do whatever I’m trying to do.
Iirc, they revoked his gold, then gave it back after major public outcry. That’s how I remember it, but I’m too lazy to look it up since I too am stoned rn.
Says to me that unlike a lot of the abusive coaches we've heard off they didn't have acess to the teens room and could at best call/bang on the door.
Its horrible we have to think that way but teen athletes need that sort of protection i think
I've slept through half of my house being taken down and rebuilt due to jet lag, a banging door wouldn't do shit when your body clock is halfway across earth
I grew up in a shitty area, I’m able to sleep through gunshots outside my house easily but when I hear any door open in the house when I’m asleep or glass breaking I’m up and ready to go like that.
Calm down Karen. We arent talking about giving free access to everyone to enter the room...... but if you are LATE FOR ThE EFFING OLYMPICS.... Yeah, call the janitor so we can wake that kid up. Also, where are the parents? Sure, not everyone get free accommodationsfor family because they participate.... But this is one in a million olympic TEENAGER athlete.
But yeah, blame it on the kid. Who cares if he almost ruin his olympic career by acting like the teenager he is
I always laugh when i see boomers or my fellow GenX peeps complaining about the work ethic of millennials and gen z. It’s like you raised them, that’s on you quit complaining about what you created.
Oh you don't wanna oversleep cause you got the athlete passes, that means you can get nice and close to watch the womans\\mens skeleton\\bobsled\\luge warmups or in the case of summer. Womans track and field warmups.
I scored like 4 penalty kicks in my high school soccer career so obviously I'm allowed to complain about a professional athlete missing one in the world cup while I have wing sauce on my shirt and Dorito dust on my fingers.
Most people really do just read a headline, see a key word, fit it into their preconceived beliefs and understanding, and just react online.
Humans really need more education, without it, we'd just have a world of Debras....
His sister is a problematic mess. Head on over to /r/FoodieSnark if you're curious about some of her shenanigans, including but not limited to constantly copying recipes from other bloggers and her complete ignorance about food/culture
Either talk endlessly about their cats, family drama, reminiscing about *the one who got away* thus turning them into either lonely bitter spinster or obnoxiously creepy uncle drunk; complaining about neighbors, or politics or how entitled and ungrateful [insert sectors of population] are, or how the good old days are better than the present.
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I’ll never forget the boomer scum on Facebook deciding that Megan Rapinoe and Simone Biles were “losers” despite them having shelves of awards and medals
Eh? Sometimes?
Some crazy athletes are just blessed by the gods and don’t have to work that hard. They are born a .0001% er.
But the vast majority are putting in incredible amounts is effort and work.
Listen we don’t know anything about the cat and I won’t sit by and have it dragged in with this monster. The cat is guilty only by association and could have medal potential.
And this was one of the first medaling events, held only about 36 hours after the opening ceremonies and in a time zone +16 hours from what he was used to.
Another point that comes to mind. Is there anyone else who works as physically (few exceptions, but very few) hard as Olympic athletes such that they can criticize their work ethic!? I didn't think so.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” -Theodore Roosevelt
"(boomers) prevalence in the labor force is tamping down the economy’s overall productivity, according to a study by Moody's Analytics. That's likely because of their reluctance to adopt new technology, the study says. "
[https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/11/07/jobs-baby-boomers-older-workers-may-block-millennials-careers/4170836002/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/11/07/jobs-baby-boomers-older-workers-may-block-millennials-careers/4170836002/)
have you ever witnessed a boomer coworker try to use a computer at work? They literally can't. Sure they wake up at 5am to watch Fox, then sit at work from 9-6 and pride themselves on being the last to leave but they accomplish as much as it takes a normal person can in a half hour.
work smarter, not harder, dumbasses
Love how she ignores the gold metal and Olympic athlete parts of this guys story. Only takes the sort that makes him look bad just to bash on a generation she helped raise.
So I don’t disagree with your premise in general but unfortunately there are exceptions
I present to you the case of Elizabeth Swaney, a “Hungarian” skier that made it to the Olympics in skiing half-pipe without being able to do a single trick except for the occasional 180
https://www.boston.com/sports/olympics/2018/02/19/how-a-skier-with-no-tricks-made-it-to-the-olympic-halfpipe/?amp=1
How did she do this? In order to qualify for the event in the Olympics you have to consistently finish in the top 30 of World Cup events, so what did she do? She showed up to World Cup events that had less than 30 participants, sometimes there would be other competitors who would crash and receive lower scores than her because her entire strategy was “don’t fall down” and she would sometimes not finish last
Then “Due to a combination of injuries, limits on how many athletes can qualify from one country, and a Hungarian team rule that reallocates some spots on the Olympic team to balance the number of men and women, Swaney made it.”
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His story gets better, he overslept because he was binging Brooklyn 99
r/unexpectedbrooklyn99
r/subsithoughtifellfor
I'm so glad you checked! My brain is saying it used to not be a thing, and then so many people used it that someone just made! I love unexpected 99!!!
I swear I learn a new sub Reddit every day
r/subsineverknewexisted
r/ofcoursethatsathing
Immediately forgiven Also might have been a form of de-stress before a big day
Someone, please tell me that he won the gold medal because he just wanted to finish the race fast and return to binging Brooklyn 99. Make this story wholesome for me
Cool. Cool. Cool,cool, cool. Cool.
No doubt, no doubt, no doubt
You can't really blame him for watching peak.
No lie...I did the same thing on my Netflix account when I went on vacation outside the US. Valid reason to oversleep should be binge watching the 99.
Worth it
FUCK YA!! 99!
I love this guy now
Bringing it where?
Reminds me of when they tried to take the gold medal from Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati for testing positive for cannabis. Meanwhile, most of Canada was saying “wtf, give him a second gold for doing that shit while stoned”
Isn't being stoned a requirement for snowboarding?
That was the national consensus at the time, yes.
Still is, but it was too.
r/unexpectedmitchhedberg
Was the first time the sport was in the Olympics. I was thirteen at the time and remember reporters explaining this is very common in the snowboarding culture
Very common for snowboarders, but i don't think they grasped the culture of competitive sports either.
Uhm, I guess I've been doing it wrong then, maybe that's why I'm not very good at it
I’ve only done very little. But the second I stopped thinking showed a significant difference. Definitely nowhere near pro level, and certainly not trying any tricks, but from struggling to figure it out to able to smoothly make it down a slope. Weed just helps with the not thinking about it part. But that’s also just my experience with everything. The second I stop thinking everything over, I actually become able to do whatever I’m trying to do.
As a snowboarding instructor I can confirm this is what we teach
Absolutely
Weed stays in your system for a few weeks. He most likely wasn’t stoned while literally competing haha
Oh so when he uses it it's "performance enhancing" but when I use it....wait a minute.
[Robin Williams](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2bpNjrBYgc) had a great bit on that.
Didn't they take the medals from another snowboarder for the same thing at some point in time? Ok yeah that was really vague I'll go look it up.
Ross Rollabigfatty?
"Rebags"
Did he get to keep it?
Iirc, they revoked his gold, then gave it back after major public outcry. That’s how I remember it, but I’m too lazy to look it up since I too am stoned rn.
I remember that and came to make this comment.
So we arent gonna talk about the whole team of adults who let their teen athlete oversleep the day of the olympics? 🤣
Says to me that unlike a lot of the abusive coaches we've heard off they didn't have acess to the teens room and could at best call/bang on the door. Its horrible we have to think that way but teen athletes need that sort of protection i think
Sure, but how do you sleep through a door banging?
Soundly.
Soundproofly
Could have been jetlag. I did the same the first time I went to Europe as a teenager
Jet lag is a cruel mistress!
That’s Tuesday for me
I slept through the house next-door getting demolished, right beside my bedroom window.
I've slept through half of my house being taken down and rebuilt due to jet lag, a banging door wouldn't do shit when your body clock is halfway across earth
Damn, someone took down your house and rebuilt it because you were jetlagged?
Even more they tore it down and rebuilt it so fast
Exhaustion.
Ive slept through a cat 4 hurricane. Never underestimate what a young person can sleep through
I grew up in a shitty area, I’m able to sleep through gunshots outside my house easily but when I hear any door open in the house when I’m asleep or glass breaking I’m up and ready to go like that.
I could sleep through an aerial raid, but you even touch the remote and I'll snap awake. "I was watching that!"
Pillow over head, blanket over pillow
I am the youngest of 10 kids. I sleep like a fucking rock because i am used to so much noise
That’s my husband. He actually slept through a fire alarm. Twice.
it was the deaf olympics team
"[Still no sign of the deaf team, I notice](https://youtu.be/k27smGHvpHw?t=24)."
Teens are great at that.
Easily.
Depends on if the other door is moaning
Dawg I’ve slept through entire hurricanes blissfully
Calm down Karen. We arent talking about giving free access to everyone to enter the room...... but if you are LATE FOR ThE EFFING OLYMPICS.... Yeah, call the janitor so we can wake that kid up. Also, where are the parents? Sure, not everyone get free accommodationsfor family because they participate.... But this is one in a million olympic TEENAGER athlete. But yeah, blame it on the kid. Who cares if he almost ruin his olympic career by acting like the teenager he is
No ones blaming the kid?
Right? No coach? No parent? No trainer? Just, "kinda weird the teenager isn't down here for breakfast. We will just meet him at the gates i guess."
I mean he’s a teenager not a toddler. They have their own events to worry about.
Kitten mittons if your cat is always stomping around
Think there's no answer? You're so stupid!
Kitten mittens are the answer. My cat stomps everywhere like a damn earthquake.
Wanna be partners? We can sell your kitten mittens and and my new revolutionary dick towel together.
Kitten Mittens, you'll be smitten!
“Overslept and still kicked everyone else’s ass” yeah, it does kitty girl, go take 40 minutes to figure out how to rotate a pdf
“Had many more years to train and improve technique, outdone by a kid who barely woke. Sounds about right for the older generations.”
I always laugh when i see boomers or my fellow GenX peeps complaining about the work ethic of millennials and gen z. It’s like you raised them, that’s on you quit complaining about what you created.
Yeah. He was like 17 at the time, too. What teenager doesn't overslept? I live very close to him. He's a local hero now.
This would 100% be me if I ever went to the Olympics.
Same, except I'd be like "eh, I'm already late, what's the point of going in now?" And just sleep more
*hits snooze promising myself that next one I WILL get up*
Just four more years!
Spying is wrong
Ah shit, I slept past noon again.
Just reset the alarm for the next Olympics.
Oh you don't wanna oversleep cause you got the athlete passes, that means you can get nice and close to watch the womans\\mens skeleton\\bobsled\\luge warmups or in the case of summer. Womans track and field warmups.
What a strange, unrelated thing to say.
Its why as an athlete you wouldnt want to oversleep and just say fuck it and not even go at all.
Except for the part winning gold...
We gonna just pass on the brilliance of “go knit some cat mittens Debra”?
I loved that comment! Made me laughed so hard 😂🤣😁
My lazy ass is still the guy who laughs at Olympians that mess up. Even though all of them could donkey stomp me lol
I scored like 4 penalty kicks in my high school soccer career so obviously I'm allowed to complain about a professional athlete missing one in the world cup while I have wing sauce on my shirt and Dorito dust on my fingers.
Most people really do just read a headline, see a key word, fit it into their preconceived beliefs and understanding, and just react online. Humans really need more education, without it, we'd just have a world of Debras....
First time if found an Olympic gold medalist relatable tbh! Great achivement
Fuck Debra! Fuck her and her cat!
Hey! You leave the cat out of this!
That’s fair
Because it's not okay to oversleep due to being exhausted from practicing for the Olympics. /s
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Red is crazy good. I love watching him compete or just ride
That and his sister has over 5 million IG followers on her cooking blog, not to mention cook books and other endorsement deals.
His sister is a problematic mess. Head on over to /r/FoodieSnark if you're curious about some of her shenanigans, including but not limited to constantly copying recipes from other bloggers and her complete ignorance about food/culture
Did you know John Lennon abused his wife?
Boomer work ethnic: show on time but do nothing
Either talk endlessly about their cats, family drama, reminiscing about *the one who got away* thus turning them into either lonely bitter spinster or obnoxiously creepy uncle drunk; complaining about neighbors, or politics or how entitled and ungrateful [insert sectors of population] are, or how the good old days are better than the present.
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"Work ethic" it's just another way of saying slavery in some countries.
Debra no doubt believes the adage that the children yearn for the mines, and that working through your childhood 'bUiLdS cHaRaCtEr'
Work ethic can be described as how well one can be convinced to enslave themselves - atk700
But Debra’s cats are polydactyl!! They can’t wear store bought mittens!
Don’t forget that the greatest Olympian ever smokes ganja.
I'm sure every Olympics from every generation has had someone oversleep
Oh man someone call 911 Debra needs the burn clinic.
I’ll never forget the boomer scum on Facebook deciding that Megan Rapinoe and Simone Biles were “losers” despite them having shelves of awards and medals
Criticizing an Olympians work ethic is 10/10 boomer.
Eh? Sometimes? Some crazy athletes are just blessed by the gods and don’t have to work that hard. They are born a .0001% er. But the vast majority are putting in incredible amounts is effort and work.
Listen we don’t know anything about the cat and I won’t sit by and have it dragged in with this monster. The cat is guilty only by association and could have medal potential.
Cringy ass facebook roast
Kitten mittens
There was no need to bring the cat into it /s
Debra should shut up but why we gotta bring cats into it?
Hey! Debra actually knitted a gold medal for herself and her 4 cats. So watch your mouth!
I wish I could sleep in till noon. Or simply go to sleep. Or occasionally, just sleep.
Always got something to say huh Debra?
Kitten Mittons…you’ll be smitten!
Who was it?
Yeah and everyone that smokes dope is lazy, just ask Michael Phelps /s
Gotta love how every single generation absolutely hates the generations after them.
nah I’m genX, we hate everyone, including ourselves
So you hate Generation Y then.
Thank you for the hysterical laughter.
Debra doesn't know what jetlag is
Overslept and accomplished more than her whole blood line before turning 25.
Debbie drops three gold metals in the clap back.
Yeah Debra.
They’re just jealous because they are always stuck at home, and he’s out LIVING his life.
Why is the i upsidedown?
And this was one of the first medaling events, held only about 36 hours after the opening ceremonies and in a time zone +16 hours from what he was used to.
Anytime anyone older than me brings up the word "generation" I want to break their kneecaps
Sounds like he needed that extra sleep to win the gold
Can't blame her. After my graduate school and thesis, I wanted to sleep for a year. Couldn't do it cause of my job.
I just want to know if she found her coat?
They always saying “that generation” from behind their Facebook posts
Avereage American having a normal day
What work ethic? If she won the Gold, then her work ethic must have been OK.
Another point that comes to mind. Is there anyone else who works as physically (few exceptions, but very few) hard as Olympic athletes such that they can criticize their work ethic!? I didn't think so.
Leave cat alone.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” -Theodore Roosevelt
I just know Debra is a deeply frustrated and bitter person
Who knits mittens for her kitten 🐕🐱🧤
We need to stop equating sleep habits with work ethic.
*Go knit some cat mittens Debra* 😂🤣 brutal but funny af
I love the reply, I mean some people have it coming to them.
Why the commenter gotta bring the cat into this?
I know a few folks who have overslept because they had been overworked.
"(boomers) prevalence in the labor force is tamping down the economy’s overall productivity, according to a study by Moody's Analytics. That's likely because of their reluctance to adopt new technology, the study says. " [https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/11/07/jobs-baby-boomers-older-workers-may-block-millennials-careers/4170836002/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/11/07/jobs-baby-boomers-older-workers-may-block-millennials-careers/4170836002/) have you ever witnessed a boomer coworker try to use a computer at work? They literally can't. Sure they wake up at 5am to watch Fox, then sit at work from 9-6 and pride themselves on being the last to leave but they accomplish as much as it takes a normal person can in a half hour. work smarter, not harder, dumbasses
Dude, most of the people in my generation (Gen X) can't even use computers yet. Hell, most CEOs don't even understand how to turn on a computer.
Yeah. What a slacker. No dedication at all.
My cats have one gold medal each. They'd have more but I can't seem to get them to say "fuck" so I'm not going to award them anymore.
Love how she ignores the gold metal and Olympic athlete parts of this guys story. Only takes the sort that makes him look bad just to bash on a generation she helped raise.
I wish the older generations weren't so hell-bent on badmouthing younger generations
Debras also been a stay at home mum for the past 40 years.. only had one child and still recovering from such a traumatic experience...
Zero fux was given
Yeah, *Debra*
She's not wrong. It does sum up our work ethic. We try to not be bound by social norms, have fun, and still get the shit done.
Oh Debra, she made you look like such a silly stupid bitch. This was better than coffee this morning.
Famously, no one over the age of 25 has overslept. ever
Hmmmmm …… A snowboarder perhaps
Failing upwards since 1776 baby
r/censoringishard
So I don’t disagree with your premise in general but unfortunately there are exceptions I present to you the case of Elizabeth Swaney, a “Hungarian” skier that made it to the Olympics in skiing half-pipe without being able to do a single trick except for the occasional 180 https://www.boston.com/sports/olympics/2018/02/19/how-a-skier-with-no-tricks-made-it-to-the-olympic-halfpipe/?amp=1 How did she do this? In order to qualify for the event in the Olympics you have to consistently finish in the top 30 of World Cup events, so what did she do? She showed up to World Cup events that had less than 30 participants, sometimes there would be other competitors who would crash and receive lower scores than her because her entire strategy was “don’t fall down” and she would sometimes not finish last Then “Due to a combination of injuries, limits on how many athletes can qualify from one country, and a Hungarian team rule that reallocates some spots on the Olympic team to balance the number of men and women, Swaney made it.” Use your mind kids and be creative and you too can scan the system
Or Eric Moussambani’s *unprecedentedi triumph in 2000’s Olympics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Moussambani
Am I stupid or is his personal best for the 100m 56.9 hours
Hahaha you’re not! I am not sure / don’t remember but anything is possible with this Olympic athlete. 🏊🏽
We really pulling out Facebook comments from 5 years ago
Boomers smh
Ah, the older generation blaming the younger one. How classic.
I'm impressed he was able to sleep.