Who thought cross country skiing would be this entertaining

When things start going wrong...

Vasaloppet (literally, The Vasa race) is an annual long distance (90 km) cross-country ski race (ski marathon) held on the first Sunday of March in northwestern Dalarna, Sweden between the village of Sälen and town of Mora. It is the oldest, the longest, and the biggest (in terms of participants) cross-country ski race in the world.(WikiPedia)

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Vasaloppet 2012 crashes cut Risberg vurpor

Compressed clip of cross country skiing crashes in Vasaloppet 2012 4th of march.
Lannsays...

It's more to do with the places of employment rather than the individual standards.

Zawashsaid:

If norwegian sifters were as delicate and sensitive as the english ones, this would have been flagged nsfw for a lot of swear words from the camera crew.

Zawashsays...

Nah - was thinking more about countries and cultures - in Norway (and Denmark, for that matter), the local f-words are much more common and "acceptable" than the english ones in the english culture. One single "f-bomb" is enough for several to mark a video as NSFW - in Scandinavia the corresponding swear words wouldn't make anyone bat an eyelid..

Lannsaid:

It's more to do with the places of employment rather than the individual standards.

Kruposays...

First off, *quality video!

As for the quoted matter, yeah, it's a standard that I took a part in imposing in the early days of the sift - so I'll speak to it, as the cross-cultural analysis is interesting, but a non-starter.

You simply can't go by the "coolest non-chalant culture/workplace" standard. If you work in a place like that, you'll watch videosift all day and no one cares because it's one of 14 windows you have on your 3 monitors.

Others either are in a) in a more uptight workplace where they can at least sift or b) have to think of the children - won't someone PLEASE think of the children?

You may be cool with dropping English or Danish f-bombs around your kids, but not everyone is, hence the liberal (or, if you will, conservative) use of nsfw tag.

If you're not fussed by anything, then you'll ignore the nsfw tag even if it's on. Or does that little scarlet stub stir something deeply disconcerting in your conscience?

Zawashsaid:

Nah - was thinking more about countries and cultures - in Norway (and Denmark, for that matter), the local f-words are much more common and "acceptable" than the english ones in the english culture. One single "f-bomb" is enough for several to mark a video as NSFW - in Scandinavia the corresponding swear words wouldn't make anyone bat an eyelid..

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