I gotta numbah one all the time!

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Why is society obsessed with winners? Do you want to be a winner in games and/or life?

― nathalie, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I gotta BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE naturally.

― nathalie, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I prefer to think in percentiles

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Losers stink

― mike hanle y, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

second placed is the first loser

― rainy, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

why isn't this about thimble bladder

― bc, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i don't get the obsession with gold as being #1, either. i always cheer for the olympic silvers, because they get the prettier medal.

― geeta, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know much about this topic but I just wanted to chime in. Hey, imagine if you wrote that on ILM! So did I write the winning post? Or do I get to be shiny silver? Or trusty bronze? I like bronze, it's more tragic and stoic, as a metal. If you're 3, and no- one remembers you, does that mean you get to do whatever you want?

― maryann, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The winner takes it all, of course. When I'm playing games, there rarely seems any point in playing other than to win. I'm not, I think, generally a bad loser, and I don't lose my pleasure in games/sports I like if I am being beaten. I don't get very competitive at all in real life. I've always been more of a co- operative person in university and work.

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So why do I enjoy playing, say, snooker whe I *know* there's no chance I'll win? I'm quite a competitive person as those of you who know me or have played footie against me will know), but there are times when I play something against a vastly superior opponent and still enjoy it. I think it's to do with personal achievement - if I'm playing golf and get a par on a hole, I'm dead chuffed with myself. It doesn't matter if my mate's got an eagle. And vice versa - if I play shit but my mate plays shitter, I get very little satisfaction from that. Unless we're playing for money.

But then everything about me is about proving myself, or (more often) failing to do so. Go figure.

― Mark C, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Playing snooker against someone who is better than you = the only way you'll get better yrself. This is a metaphor for IL*, obv.

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four months pass...

Do they have foam fingers in other countries or is it just us Americans who will have to explain it to the Martians?

http://www.dsdukes.com/dukes%20foam%20finger%20$3.JPG

I think I will make a Strokes foam finger and wave it around at the Interpol show to embarass rosemary.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 22:01 (twenty-four years ago)

yes

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 22:47 (twenty-four years ago)

I gotta numbah one all the time!

And here I thought this was a thread about lack of control over one's wee.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 23:38 (twenty-four years ago)

Do they have foam middle fingers, too?

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 23:42 (twenty-four years ago)

i thought the same thing Donut

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 00:11 (twenty-four years ago)

No, Christine, but at Cubs games they have a five-clawed foam paw ("We're in fifth place"?) that you could alter, if you're really interested.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 01:02 (twenty-four years ago)

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