Good news y'all: the House has passed a measure to recognize "the importance of lumberjack sports."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Oooof lol

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Some of the things Congress does, you just wood not believe

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Good news y'all: the House has passed a measure to recognize "the importance of lumberjack sports" & support "the growth of lumberjack sports around the United States"
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-resolution/460 …

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[malthaussen]

1. Okay, I'll bite.

WTF are "lumberjack sports?" I have to know what they are before I can recognize their importance.

-- Mal

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. It's called "lumberjack rodeo" or "logger rodeo."

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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lumberjack+rodeo

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=D7qrW9SEFI_45gLf9KK4Bg&q=lumberjack+rodeo&btnK=Google+Search&oq=lumberjack+rodeo

Speed-climbing poles, how fast can you chop a log in two, logrolling; that sort of thing.

[malthaussen]

3. Thanks! Now I understand their importance!

Thank Whoever our mighty Congress is on the job!

-- Mal

[jmowreader]

8. Imagine if someone decided the things you do at work were a sport

Lumberjack sports, or “timber sports,” are doing that to loggers. And in the beginning, that’s exactly what they were: a logging community would get together at the end of the season and their loggers would compete to see who could cut logs and set chokers the fastest. (A choker is a cable with a hook at the end. You use it to drag logs out of the woods.)

Now you have all these kids who would probably get killed their first week on the job running around the country throwing axes and climbing trees.

The little town I grew up in has a logging festival over Labor Day weekend. When pro timber sports became a thing, the Paul Bunyan Days committee called all the guys who compete every year and asked them if they wanted the pro timber sports athletes to come in. The vote was unanimous- this was always just for us, we don’t really need them. And so PBD has never allowed pro athletes to compete, just pro fellers.

I like the timber sports contests. They’re fun to watch, and they help the kids understand where their wooden things come from. But if you have sawdust in your blood - and I couldn’t help but have it there, as long as I lived in a small town with three mills - it’s not all that necessary to have it in your backyard

We should celebrate the forest products industry. They make the lumber from which we will make the casket to bury Donald Trump’s legacy in.

[malthaussen]

9. I do like that last reason. n/t

[3catwoman3]

4. Whew! What a relief.

This has been keeping me up at night -

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. I saw this coming!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. This is exactly what Trump was talking about yesterday. And they laughed at him! NT

[Wounded Bear]

6. And we called them a do-nothing Congress...