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Finland’s Hobbyhorse Girls

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Re: Finland’s Hobbyhorse Girls

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Post by _Microft »

collyw wrote: post #2

How did this page ended up on HN? It seems quite irrelevant.

The new submission guidelines define on- and off-topic as follows:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic., https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The first highlight is the good, general rule, the second highlight the one that applies to the submission in question, in my opinion.

Re: Finland’s Hobbyhorse Girls

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Post by pavlov »

blarg1 wrote: post #4

Sometimes I wonder if I'm just getting old and no longer get things, or if the world is just getting crazier.

I guess that's how people our age felt about rock'n'roll in 1959... (Approaching forty here.)

Too often my knee-jerk reaction to unexpected things is "There's no possible cultural value in this." But it usually pays off to put in a bit of effort to try to understand what the practitioners are getting out of it.

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Post by _Microft »

alcover wrote: post #12
nurettin wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is not topical.

Yes it is. - Per the guide-lines : "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports " - Per usage

The sentence goes on, saying unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon which might apply here.

Re: Finland’s Hobbyhorse Girls

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Post by wil421 »

Luc wrote: post #6
blarg1 wrote: post #4

Sometimes I wonder if I'm just getting old and no longer get things, or if the world is just getting crazier.

Computer games. Pew pew.

I think what most people find weird about the horse thing is they are kinda jumping around prancing about. If VR really took off and people were doing the movements they do in some video games I wonder if people would have the same reaction. I mean there are video games for kids with horses and other things kids like that arent AAA mainstream games.

Re: Finland’s Hobbyhorse Girls

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Post by saagarjha »

ktpsns wrote: post #16

It makes me sad that this is a "celebration of girlhood" but boys are not even mentioned in this article. Why can't boys also practice hobbyhorse training?

> boys are not even mentioned in this article

They are:

> she is at home in the world of hobbyhorses, where boys and grown-ups have no place.

Re: Finland’s Hobbyhorse Girls

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Post by radiorental »

modzu wrote: post #10
BurningCycles wrote: post #3

Well, it's kids playing make-believe, and in a physically active way, I'm all for it.

“If someone says we are playing, it strips away everything we made, it strips away the reality,” said Ms. Aarniomaki. it looks like playing to me as well, and not sure why the community would see that as a problem. even professional sports players know they are playing a game. an interesting and unusual perspective for sure.

I wonder if something was lost in translation, if that read " it strips away the illusion" then the component of pretending in this type of play makes sense.

I guess much in the same sense that people would probably not be amused if you ran around a Comic Con telling everyone this is just make believe.

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