Oscar Cole

He/They. Live, or die trying

[Oscar Cole @ocole13]

@Austin20997 @racepluscom F1 hasn’t been ‘build the best car possible’ since the 70s when they outlawed ground effects & fan cars. It has been ‘build the fastest car the regulations allow’ for longer than you have been alive.
The new regs have made for the best racing since 2009.

[Oscar Cole @ocole13]

@Frau_Haku See - this is what happens when you wear heavy armour without the proficiency…

[Oscar Cole @ocole13]

@friendlyjordies It’s really easy to survive an assassination attempt when your the one staging it…

[Oscar Cole @ocole13]

@realukraine1991 @Battt1812 @accipiter0 @pippercorn A quick explanation of Australian (also British) rhyming slang: American = Yank, Yank rhymes with Septic Tank, extra Oz only step: Shorten Septic Tank to Seppo because no one has time for the extra syllable & all slang must end in ‘o’. Seppo=American. QED.

[Oscar Cole @ocole13]

@Keyne_ @m0pan_40k You know Kriegsmen are no more effective in melee combat than any other guard regiment right..?
Catachans on the other hand…
You really shouldn’t get your info from memes

[Oscar Cole @ocole13]

@TwinkTheory Also: pretending that people went to see the housemaid just for Sydney when it had Amanda Seyfried (who by all critical accounts held the movie together) is sheer lunacy…

[Kenny Devine @TheKennyDevine]

In QLD, a police officer can say "choke this c*nt out" but a student can't wear a t-shirt that says "from the river to the sea".

[Oscar Cole @ocole13]

@Venus_dea Seriously, how long is it going to take for straight men to realise most of the time it’s not the p*nis that lesbians have an issue with - it’s the dickhead attached to it..?

[Oscar Cole @ocole13]

@RealDCunningham I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again - they need to change it to a similar system to Cricket. You get 2 reviews, you always get it back if you were right, and lose it if you are clearly wrong. Additionally, if the call is not overturned due to insufficient evidence you retain

[Oscar Cole @ocole13]

@mandarthalorian Piastri did this exact same move last year, in the wet, against a Ferrari, on the last lap of the race.

[Oscar Cole @ocole13]

@aukuschampion @ausvstheagenda @DavidCrisafulli As a Queenslander who actually uses their brain you are dead wrong mate. Crisaf*ckwit is walking a fascist line and we will not accept his BS. He won’t survive the next election.

[Oscar Cole @ocole13]

@AlboMP Fucking Coward. Do what we elected you to do and cut ties with the imperialist US & Israeli agenda. No aistralian wants to go into WW3 on the side of these fascist assholes

[Oscar Cole @ocole13]

@Buckafunk @Maggie_Perry6 The Australian Greens have to fight against the Murdoch Media apparatus in addition to their political opponents, and most of the Australian electorate don’t bother to question the MSM

[Oscar Cole @ocole13]

@m0pan_40k and a Tau fleet made first contact they could absolutely make the same vows & alliances that other Knight Worlds make with the Imperium & Mechanicus. Water caste diplomacy & earth caste logistics would work wonders here. This is the back story I used for my Knight house

[Oscar Cole @ocole13]

@m0pan_40k Interesting lore fact - Knight Worlds were founded by pre-imperial humans, and therefore if the imperium hasn’t made contact with them yet they will lack the xenophobia inherent in the imperium.
It is therefore logical that if a Knight Worlds was isolated by a Warp Storm 1/2

[Oscar Cole @ocole13]

@Adolfo16318885 @NornQueenKya Nice, my idea is to have a Gue’Vesa army that includes both recently inducted units still using their imperial equipment with only a few tau bits(battle line units) & units like I posted that I’ll be using as Kasrkin/Scions.

[Oscar Cole @ocole13]

@Adolfo16318885 @NornQueenKya My Gue’Vesa that I’ve just finished putting together

[Oscar Cole @ocole13]

@TG_ZoBo @NornQueenKya Apparently they took lessons from Cypher…

[Oscar Cole @ocole13]

@Torykbirdthrowa @NornQueenKya In 3rd ed they actually had rules for this on Burna Boyz

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

It annoys me that so many people are under the impression that this guy, Steven Bradbury, is some subpar goober who lucked his way into gold.

That could not be further from the truth.

This is one of the most satisfying victories in the history of the Olympics if you know the full backstory.

This medal final was during his fourth Olympics, in Salt Lake City in 2002.

Earlier in his career, he was among the best athletes in the world in this specific event, the 1000 meter short-track men's speed skate.

But despite his talent, he just had some of the shittiest luck in the sport. We're talking a decade of shit luck.

In the '94 Winter Olympics, he was considered the odds-on favorite to take gold, but he fell in his heat after getting illegally pushed by an opponent (who was later disqualified). He didn't get a re-do. That was it. He got shoved by some asshole, and his Olympics was over.

Then in the '98 Winter Olympics, he was a favorite to at least medal in the same event but got caught up in a collision that wasn't his fault and failed to advance.

In 1994, he got his thigh sliced open by a competitor's skate during a race, which required 111 stitches and 18 months of recovery time.

In 2000, he broke his neck during training because a skater in front of him fell and tripped him up. That required a bunch of screws and plates being inserted into his skull and back and chest.

And doctors told him that he should stop skating. But he didn't wanna give up. It meant too much to him.

So, there he was in Salt Lake City in 2002, past his prime, a walking erector set, going up against opponents who were faster and younger and in their prime.

He manages to win his heat and advance to the quarterfinal but then has the shit luck (yet again) of having to go up against the best two athletes in the quarterfinal and only the top two advance.

He finishes third and thinks: "Damn, I gave it my best shot." But then, the second place finisher is disqualified, so Bradbury gets to advance to the semifinal.

Now, at this point, he's thinking: Well, shit, I'm not as fast as these younger guys, and I got a bad habit of getting taken out by crashes that aren't my fault.

So, he consults with the Australian national coach, Ann Zhang, and they decide that he should hang back from the pack and hope the pack crashes.

That is a perfectly valid strategy. If you crash, you lose, but speed skaters risk crashing to gain an advantage in order to win.

It may not feel exciting, but it is a valid strategy and just as risky: avoid crashes entirely and hope that pays off.

It paid off in the semifinal: the pack, including the defending Olympic champion, jostled too much and crashed. Bradbury wins and advances.

So, he's improbably in the final and takes the same approach, and it works: the entire pack jostles too much and crashes, and Bradbury's risk of hanging back pays off.

This victory was not some un-athletic schlub lucking his way into gold.

It was a journeyman athlete who never gave up and played smart after a career of shitty luck and finally got his due after it being snatched away from him so many times.

Hands down, one of my favorite Olympics stories.