Rubik's Cube World Championship 2017 - Paris, France (13-16 July 2017)

DGCubes said:
I think it deserves repeating: How romantic.

:p
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Well, it could very well be, in the off chance he gets a girlfriend who cubes.

Or a girlfriend who wants to learn how to cube.

Then as soon as you teach her, hop on a plane, go to Paris, ignore all the wonderful things to do in the city, and put her in a room with hundreds of people who are faster than her, not to mention the sound cubes make when they're turned fast that annoys some people.

Once the comp is over, continue to be oblivious to the fact that you're in the romantic city of Paris and go home.

HOW. ROMANTIC.

Um.

How could anyone ignore the wonderfulness of Paris to solve Rubik's Cubes for three days? This entire post is pure silliness.
 
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mark49152 said:
@Dene, of course people have the freedom to make up their own minds, according to which twisted version of facts they choose to believe.

So, which set of facts do you believe? Are you just here to tell us you're too scared to go to Paris, or are you making a case why other people should be concerned too? Because your comments earlier in the thread look like the latter. Sorry to say it, but you are spreading fear and doing a disservice to France, WCA and the comp organisers.
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tbh I'm a little disappointed that out of the options available, France was chosen, due to the fact that there were other options available that would have been safer.

I'd love to go to France (and hopefully see some football while there), as well as travel around Europe a bit. At this stage I have every intention of going.

But to say I'm spreading fear is unreasonable. That's being done by extremists over in that part of the world. And as far as I'm concerned, it is very rational to be fearful if you don't want to die in a fiery bomb explosion (or worse, survive it with major injuries).
 
Matt11111 said:
Well, it could very well be, in the off chance he gets a girlfriend who cubes.

Or a girlfriend who wants to learn how to cube.

Then as soon as you teach her, hop on a plane, go to Paris, ignore all the wonderful things to do in the city, and put her in a room with hundreds of people who are faster than her, not to mention the sound cubes make when they're turned fast that annoys some people.

Once the comp is over, continue to be oblivious to the fact that you're in the romantic city of Paris and go home.

HOW. ROMANTIC.

Um.

How could anyone ignore the wonderfulness of Paris to solve Rubik's Cubes for three days? This entire post is pure silliness.
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*que great plan for the girl who friendzoned me.
1: take her to paris and say we will stay a few extra days.
2: go home immediately when the comp is over!
3: proft

Nah ive been to paris. Awesome place and definitely would sightsee and see sights. Might try and see some sites as well.
 
Don't want to drag this too far off topic, but I know of a couple who have this week cancelled a family holiday to Disneyland Paris (promised as a Xmas present to their kids last December) because of the recent atrocities. I also have a friend who refused to travel from the UK to America earlier in the year to be best man at a wedding because of his perceived risk of a terrorist attack. Whatever the statistics show, the fear is most definitely real.
Anyway, I hope everyone who goes to Worlds has a jolly nice time and lots of records get set.
 
Yeah the fear is most definitely real but there is really not a good reason for it (not that it is really needed either. people can often be afraid of silly things).

Chances of dying in a terrorist attack during the comp are so low that if you start being afraid of those odds there is a HUGE HUGE amount of totally everyday things you should be even more afraid because you are more likely to die during these events.

Also Brazil was WAYYYYYY more dangerous country for tourists than France is and people still went there.


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Or maybe we should organize the comp in Qatar. It has the lowest death rate of all countries ;)

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CDRT.IN

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tseitsei said:
Yeah the fear is most definitely real but there is really not a good reason for it (not that it is really needed either. people can often be afraid of silly things).

Chances of dying in a terrorist attack during the comp are so low that if you start being afraid of those odds there is a HUGE HUGE amount of totally everyday things you should be even more afraid because you are more likely to die during these events.

Also Brazil was WAYYYYYY more dangerous country for tourists than France is and people still went there.


[trollmode]
Or maybe we should organize the comp in Qatar. It has the lowest death rate of all countries ;)

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CDRT.IN

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We should organize it in my house. No one has ever died there
 
Rcuber123 said:
We should organize it in my house. No one has ever died there
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When was your house built, and how long have you lived in it? You can actually find this stuff out online. Mine was built in 1925. I've lived here since I was born, so who knows who lived and died there before me? The more recent your house was built and the longer you've lived there, the less likely someone you don't know of died there.
 
Matt11111 said:
When was your house built, and how long have you lived in it? You can actually find this stuff out online. Mine was built in 1925. I've lived here since I was born, so who knows who lived and died there before me? The more recent your house was built and the longer you've lived there, the less likely someone you don't know of died there.
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Nobody lived in my house before my family a few years ago.
 
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