Post Ar5WiRK2YniO2YUiDw by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
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(DIR) Post #Ar5Ucy5dcNgw1P1Mqe by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
2025-02-13T21:00:52.963281Z
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Anyone remember Michael Edwards?I do.Or rather I remember him by the name he was known as in Finland when I was growing up, as Eddie Edwards.Apparently in English he was Eddie-the-Eagle. He was a ski jumper, and back then everybody followed ski jumping where I lived. And everyone knew about Edwards. He was famous for not being a success, but for always coming in dead last. The kids around me all thought him ridiculous because he kept turning up even though everyone, including himself, knew he would come in last, with a clear margin. They all thought that he should've just stayed at home. And at the time, while I didn't have a particularly strong opinion on it, I didn't think to question that view. I've since come to think the opposite.Michael Edwards was the epitome of a real sport hero*. He knew he was always going to come in last, he knew he had no hope of any real achievement when it came to the score boards.But he kept showing up, despite of that. He kept going, because that's what he wanted to do. Never mind the disadvantages and screw the naysayers. Edwards kept showing up, doing his best and didn't give a damn about anything else.Very few people can do what Andreas Goldberger or Toni Nieminen did.But anyone can do what Edwards did.Keep showing up, keep trying, and keep doing one's best. So when it comes to sport, in my opinion, Edwards is a far better role model than the likes of Michael Phelps or Florence Griffith-Joyner. *In before someone starts ragging on him for something else, I don't care about that, and I in fact expect every person to have a bad side. I'm only interested here on the example he showed when it came to sports.
(DIR) Post #Ar5WegjVK0dgg3cG48 by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-02-13T21:23:33.396622Z
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@Gnomeshatecheese Wait, he was Finnish???(Yes, I totally remember him, he was (in)famous here.)
(DIR) Post #Ar5WiRK2YniO2YUiDw by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
2025-02-13T21:24:16.790057Z
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@Flick Oh no. It's just that in Finnish media, he for some reason was known as "Eddie Edwards" rather than Eddie the Eagle.
(DIR) Post #Ar5X0bB6efcNouyTcu by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-02-13T21:27:33.198699Z
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@Gnomeshatecheese Ah, right. He was infamous, but I think more as an exemplar of stick-to-it-ness than sportsmanship.
(DIR) Post #Ar5XAxdg07w8NRHMI4 by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
2025-02-13T21:29:26.218137Z
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@Flick And for the vast majority of people, stick-to-it-ness is much more important a quality to strive for.
(DIR) Post #Ar5XH1JpETTDWksoYC by PohlMe@spinster.xyz
2025-02-13T21:29:04.930203Z
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@Gnomeshatecheese Did you see the movie about him and his American couch? I always wondered about how he got the money for it. Would be even harder now.
(DIR) Post #Ar5XH2gY9TF3lWWTbs by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
2025-02-13T21:30:30.801853Z
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@PohlMe No. I just learned now there's a film about him. I don't think he funded it himself, he said in an interview that he signed the contract for it a long time ago, and didn't seem to have much to do with it apart from talking to the main actor once.
(DIR) Post #Ar5XefQaH3wqaFJucK by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-02-13T21:34:47.150871Z
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@PohlMe @Gnomeshatecheese the movie about him and his American couch?If that weren’t a typo, I would watch it!
(DIR) Post #Ar5YeUMtUdUwEm4aWG by polarisera@spinster.xyz
2025-02-13T21:45:58.377439Z
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@Flick @PohlMe @Gnomeshatecheese Eddie and his American Sofa might be better than My Dinner with Andre, but that's be hard to top.
(DIR) Post #Ar5fffiPURLZOkeFSS by PohlMe@spinster.xyz
2025-02-13T22:01:10.152219Z
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@Flick @Gnomeshatecheese I hate typing on my mobile. I switched off the spell check, but it keeps on self correcting. I swear I post at least once a week something on fb like that. Was to be a not u.
(DIR) Post #Ar5ffgHrMdhfAhEYiG by FeartnTired@spinster.xyz
2025-02-13T22:59:55.482251Z
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@PohlMe @Flick @Gnomeshatecheese sofa so good. We can divan the difference
(DIR) Post #Ar5ffgy2pnRnHWyFSy by LostInCalifornia@spinster.xyz
2025-02-13T23:04:35.858239Z
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@FeartnTired @PohlMe @Flick @Gnomeshatecheese Was this the guy in the movie?
(DIR) Post #Ar6cjKNOfEdFfdpZtg by akelai@spinster.xyz
2025-02-14T10:04:20.896116Z
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@Gnomeshatecheese I loved Eddie the Eagle. It didn't matter a whit he wasn't great at what he did, just the fact that he showed up and did his best and it helped he was funny and likeable with it.