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Don’t r ape Alisa Craig for sport it’s sacrilege How can you justify ruining natural beauty for a stupid unimportant game it’s idiotic

why is this even an Olympic sport

What a stroke of luck that the only granite suitable for a curling stone.... came from an island a stones throw from where they invented curling... And the two different types of granite too! Miraculous .. or _bogus_

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EVERYTHING Olympics is a massive scam.

I come from a curling family. South Central Wisconsin born and bred and my family now is on our 6th generation of curlers. I love learning all of these weird things.

More skill in making it than playing it

Because somebody’s brother in law is in the business of making stones?

Why the F is this a sport😅 an olympique sport !! It feels like somebody paid some organisation to make it an olympique sport 😂😂

In Canada we use Curling Stones as Currency ...

I don't even know how I got here

Expensive?? Those stones are incredibly cheap compared to other sports equipment… extremely cheap! My pool cue costs more and golf clubs

Still don’t understand how this is even an Olympic sport??? Also, why do new stones need to be mass produced, aren’t the ones in existence good for a looooooooong time???

Could well be the lamest most boring game ( hardly a sport ) in the world.

RETUUUUUUURN THE SLAAAAAAB

So like.....what happens when they use all the stones from the island? Lol

my question is why this became a sport and wtf

Again proved canada is jobless .... Making an useless sport popular

Pfft, why

"So how are Olympic curling stones made, and why are they so expensive?" A better question is why in the hell is curling even an Olympic "sport"? Might as well throw shuffleboard and foosball into the Olympics as well.

if a documentary says "it can only be harvwested in schottland" im not bought in

So in other words you are just destroying a whole island mountain just for the Olympics

Forget the stones why does curling exist at all - I guess it means in 60 years bottle tosding will be an olympic sport

you put like 5 times the same sequences into this clip :(

The first so expensive that felt not so expensive.

Такое ощущение что этот вид спорта придумали те кто продаёт этот камень.

OK. More power to them for being the monopoly for curling stones, but let's get real... this whole thing reminds me of the British Monarchy. It doesn't take 30 seconds to come to the realization that it's all BS. But, like I said, they've got it to the point that they're intimidating everyone to say anything but something favorable.

Only one company. Thats called a monopoly so they can set their price and people have to pay.

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The dumbest sport next to slap fights

The answer is nepotism. There's absolutely no other reason why stones couldn't be made elsewhere.

Even the island looks like curling stone...

Does a real man carry-on two bowling balls or one curling stone? Asking for a friend.

Who owns that island?

Stupid sport

Great video, can you do one on tiddlywinks???

What an uninteresting, boring, shit sport that is.

shouldn't he be using milwaukee tools instead of ryobi lololol

so why dont we just remove curling from olympics

It's shuffle board on ice. The kind of thing you would find in a retirement home.

That’s because they have the name Olympic mind it just like airplane parts thousand times higher than they should because they got airplane behind the name

Нагнали пафоса ради пиара и задирания цены. Снаряды для кёрлинга можно делать из чего угодно - металл, бетон, любой камень рядом с твоим домом. Цена будет в 10 раз меньше и никто не заметит разницы в эксплуатации. Это как аудиофилы, признающие только ламповый звук и провода из бескислородной меди. Просто на западе тоже умеют пилить бабло, не хуже, чем в рашке. Люди, включайте голову.

I really enjoyed that.

That was way more interesting than I expected it to be.

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Wtf is curling lol

Why not make counter tops out of the Granite? Looks ni

try ducking plastic!

I can honestly say that I have never in my life thought that the hand manufacturing of curling stones is even a thing or that one company taking granite from one island has lease over the Olympic Games! You know, every once in a while you come across a completely random nugget of information that just shocks you not only with how incredibly unique it is but with the notion of how unlikely it is that you would have ever pondered it yourself to the point where you might have looked it up online or something online. So, in other words, I probably would have gone my entire life completely oblivious to this process or this company or the history behind this unless I saw this video today. This is very cool and I am delighted to have come across this video!!!

I call this BS