EPTTakeru Kobayashi Arrested - Page 4
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MangoTango
United States3670 Posts
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BlackJack
United States10503 Posts
Are people here really that clueless about competitive eating that they are shocked that people hold these competitions? Hell, pick up any guiness world record book for the last 50 years and you will probably find a section on competitive eating records. I'm not quite sure how it's any more ridiculous than competitive starcraft playing. | ||
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jello_biafra
United Kingdom6635 Posts
This is fucking ridiculous lol, fair enough stop him from eating but no need to ARREST him... | ||
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Pika Chu
Romania2510 Posts
On July 05 2010 17:59 snpnx wrote: Gaming contest. Gaming league, professional gamer. Am i the only one to whom these concepts seems similar? How can you play computer games as a sport but laugh about professional eating? Seriously, I do see that many people take the point that gaming isn't as weird as eating as it requires a lot of thinking and quick hands, but I doubt these eating competitions are a piece of cake either (haha, that fits). It also needs training and control over your body, so don't be so surprised about this stuff pulling up competitive leagues. Again, gaming is not a primordial necessity. Hell it isn't even a necessity. And to even argue about the complexity it involves would be futile. Reminds me about that water drinking competition where the winner died (anyone else remember? it was a thread with a big discussion here on tl.net). | ||
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Kalpman
Sweden406 Posts
On July 05 2010 13:27 konadora wrote: i think it's interesting lol what's next? professional ironing competition? Actually there is a sport called "extreme ironing" dont think the participants go pro though  | ||
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WhuazGoodJaggah
Lesotho777 Posts
On July 05 2010 20:23 BlackJack wrote: "60 hot dogs in 10 minutes? Pfft, you should see Boxer kill a bunch of lurkers with marine micro! now that's radical!" Are people here really that clueless about competitive eating that they are shocked that people hold these competitions? Hell, pick up any guiness world record book for the last 50 years and you will probably find a section on competitive eating records. I'm not quite sure how it's any more ridiculous than competitive starcraft playing. From the wiki articel of "The Guinness Book": "The Guinness Book also dropped records within their "eating and drinking records" section of Human Achievements in 1991 over concerns that potential competitors could do harm to themselves and expose the publisher to potential litigation.[17]" maybe next time take those 2 second to check what you type before you type? @Pika Chu nice, keep on showing those idiots why pro gaming (which i personally don't think all that good about) is not to compare with pro eating. | ||
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ahole-surprise
United States813 Posts
Kobayashi and Chestnut essentially swallow those hot dogs unchewed. They eat 50-60 of them. There's no way they can digest that, expanding stomach or not. Forced regurgitation seems like the only solution, which makes the whole thing stupid, even within its own little world of appreciation. | ||
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BlackJack
United States10503 Posts
On July 05 2010 21:47 WhuazGoodJaggah wrote: From the wiki articel of "The Guinness Book": "The Guinness Book also dropped records within their "eating and drinking records" section of Human Achievements in 1991 over concerns that potential competitors could do harm to themselves and expose the publisher to potential litigation.[17]" maybe next time take those 2 second to check what you type before you type? My point was that competitive eating has been around for many decades and is a much more established competitive "sport" than starcraft. In other words: record breaking = competition and 50 years = longegivity. | ||
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Triple7
United States656 Posts
 On a lighter note, there's a video of him challenging a BEAR to an eating contest! + Show Spoiler + | ||
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LegendaryZ
United States1583 Posts
On July 05 2010 21:21 Pika Chu wrote: Again, gaming is not a primordial necessity. Hell it isn't even a necessity. And to even argue about the complexity it involves would be futile. Reminds me about that water drinking competition where the winner died (anyone else remember? it was a thread with a big discussion here on tl.net). While eating is a basic necessity, eating the amount that is required in a competitive eating competition isn't by any means. Just like walking and running to an extent are necessities, but doing so at a certain speed or for certain distances isn't. Just because something is a primordial necessity doesn't mean you can't your shouldn't make a competition out of it. You can turn anything where one person can do more or better than another into a competition. This includes everything from gaming to racing to eating. I definitely won't argue that there's a certain absurdity to it or that it's a disgusting symbol of decadence in our world (particularly with people starving all over the globe), but so are most other competitions. Think about eSports. How is that not any less absurd? It's not as if you're testing some sort of useful or meaningful skill. It's essentially a bunch of people sitting around on their ass wasting their time away on a computer, detached from reality and we glorify it. One could argue why we're doing so when we could or should be instead encouraging these people to go out and do something productive with their lives. The same argument could apply to any professional sport though. Soccer, Basketball, Baseball, Football, etc. They're all pointless activities that we've turned into competition, all equally as pointless as eating 15lbs. of food in a single sitting. | ||
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-Valor-
United States283 Posts
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LegendaryZ
United States1583 Posts
On July 05 2010 23:25 ss6290 wrote: Oh man, I remember when Kobayashi was king. Now Joey Chestnut seems to rule the hot dog eating contest :/. Psshh... Kobayashi could still give him a run for his money (and beat him) any day of the week. Chestnut didn't even eat that many dogs this time around. Of course you could argue it's because Kobayashi wasn't there to put any pressure on him in order to push him to his limit, but that's exactly the shitty point of this whole situation. Without both #1 and #2 there to compete against each other, how can we know what their limit is and how good the best in the sport is? | ||
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Sc2ggRise
United States607 Posts
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dnosrc
Germany454 Posts
i think that sport is disgusting | ||
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LegendaryZ
United States1583 Posts
On July 05 2010 23:44 dnosrc wrote: how can you eat so much? i think that sport is disgusting I think bodybuilding is disgusting at the highest levels too... | ||
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RA
Latvia791 Posts
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USn
United States376 Posts
On July 05 2010 23:22 JinMaikeul wrote: While eating is a basic necessity, eating the amount that is required in a competitive eating competition isn't by any means. Just like walking and running to an extent are necessities, but doing so at a certain speed or for certain distances isn't. Just because something is a primordial necessity doesn't mean you can't your shouldn't make a competition out of it. You can turn anything where one person can do more or better than another into a competition. This includes everything from gaming to racing to eating. I definitely won't argue that there's a certain absurdity to it or that it's a disgusting symbol of decadence in our world (particularly with people starving all over the globe), but so are most other competitions. Think about eSports. How is that not any less absurd? It's not as if you're testing some sort of useful or meaningful skill. It's essentially a bunch of people sitting around on their ass wasting their time away on a computer, detached from reality and we glorify it. One could argue why we're doing so when we could or should be instead encouraging these people to go out and do something productive with their lives. The same argument could apply to any professional sport though. Soccer, Basketball, Baseball, Football, etc. They're all pointless activities that we've turned into competition, all equally as pointless as eating 15lbs. of food in a single sitting. Obviously tennis is just as objectively pointless as everything that exists purely for it's entertainment value (movies, for example), but tennis is not eating fifteen pounds of food and it's no good saying it is. It's not fundamental to these other things you cite that they be celebrations of gluttony and mental blindness. I think bodybuilding is disgusting at the highest levels too... It's up there... | ||
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ironchef
Canada1350 Posts
On July 05 2010 23:44 dnosrc wrote: how can you eat so much? i think that sport is disgusting I dont think its that disgusting. Maybe if you think of the food they're wasting etc but a lot of sporting events generate similar waste(maybe not as obvious). That said, I do find the hardboil egg eating a bit gross because their mouths are all foamy and covered with hardboiled yoke/saliva froth. | ||
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SiNiquity
United States734 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + and how much it expunges | ||
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NuKedUFirst
Canada3139 Posts
He looks surprisingly fit..must be because ripped people need to eat so much to get energy(?) MLE..lol On July 05 2010 22:59 Triple7 wrote: I think this sport is incredible, and it's unfortunate he was arrested. On a lighter note, there's a video of him challenging a BEAR to an eating contest! + Show Spoiler + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLzWJgMxQWA Poor bear | ||
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