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Guinness reverses decision to strip Billy Mitchell's Pac-Man and Donkey Kong records:
Guinness World Records has reversed a 2018 decision to strip notorious arcade game figure Billy Mitchell's Pac-Man and Donkey Kong records. Mitchell, who was at the center of revered documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, says it's "a long time coming."
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Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @12:07PM (10 children)
Yeah, like the NASCAR garage door rope that has a loop on the end that's been on that door more than a year before some dumb ass black retard moves in and sees it as a noose. Many auto shops with those doors have a rope hanging from it and most of them have been tied into a loop to make it easier to pull the door shut. Anyone who ever worked around a shop knows that. He's just another Smaglett playing the race card. Fuck your white privilege whining.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @01:54PM (9 children)
Citation needed, a noose has a very different knot than what you'd use for something like that. A noose is intended to slide easily, making it inherently unsuitable for applications like this. I'm not aware of any pictures of the actual rope being posted online, so you're being purely speculative here. Given the timing and the number of people involved in NASCAR, it wouldn't be surprising if one of them was racist enough and stupid enough to put an actual noose in the one Black driver's garage.
This is an individual that's racing professionally, I'd wager that he's seen loops used for closing doors before, also a noose is rather easy to identify with all the wrapping around the central rope.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Wednesday June 24 2020, @02:21PM (5 children)
You could, like, google for yourself too...
Here's the top link that I got: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nascar/news/bubba-wallace-noose-garage-fbi-nascar-hate-crime/14b1apmtuk00f1ohtkixnq8grh [sportingnews.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @02:51PM
I could, but that's not my responsibility. I have no way of knowing which particular source the poster was referring to.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @03:01PM (3 children)
Wow, why would someone tie a knot like that instead of the simpler and much better bowline?
Personally, I used a monkey's fist so I didn't have to worry about kids getting stuck in a loop.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Wednesday June 24 2020, @04:17PM (1 child)
Because why not?
https://www.netknots.com/rope_knots/loop-knots [netknots.com]
There are all sorts of types of knots it could have been based on the grainy pictures we have seen. Link has examples.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @07:12PM
Yep, that was more or less my conclusion, the picture could show a noose, but it could also show a fair number of other loop knots as well, not to mention the possibility of it being some sort of spliced loop.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:28PM
I don't tie a monkey's fist - just a double square knot at the end of the rope. Like yourself, I worry that someone or something might get caught in a loop, that I don't want to be caught in the loop. Any sort of a loop in a non-stationary line says "snare" to me. Oh - the monkey's fist. I seriously don't remember how to tie it. Maybe I'll look it up, and try to remember . . .
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @03:40PM (1 child)
Judge for yourself. Here is a pic [twitter.com] of the rope in question.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:35PM
The photo isn't clear enough for my satisfaction. It doesn't appear to have 13 wraps. A hangman's noose is very distinctive. Does that knot even slide? No non-sliding knot can be called a "noose". In the two pics, the rope appears to be the exact same length, so that "noose" probably won't slide if a burly 200 pound man jerks on it for all he's worth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @04:26PM
A required knot for boy scouts looks like a noose. So does the finger hole on a fucking YoYo.