Discussion: Sweet commercial

http://www.lkmedia.se/video/venice.html

can i buy the lamp ?

I want one for my bike, too.

Boris, can you give us a translation on what the words mean at the end of the commercial?

It's nothing too exciting, something like "Light as light - choose a personal one (or own one)". There are probably people here who can translate this a bit better...

Am I right in understanding that the night-orienteering in this commercial is simply a theatrical device used to help sell a lamp?

awesome!

I don't think you guys understand. The cordless lamp is the latest evolution in night orienteering in Sweden. All the top teams were using them in Smalandskavlen this past weekend. The wonder is that it has taken so long to catch on; night orienteers in Texas have been using cordless lamps for years with great success.

That's funny!!

As the former (very unofficial) Texas Night-O Champion (in an event that included only Tom Carr, myself and one other person, and Tom was the course setter), I want to make it quite clear that I have never used a lamp similar to the one in the commercial for orienteering purposes.

Yea! What John said! Thppttthptpthhh!! (spelling?)

Don't be fooled folks--those are Texans talking now, and it's well known that down in the Lone Star State, they do things different.

Word has it, the lamps haven't grown popular with Texas orienteers because it's too hard to shoot an azimuth with the lamp in your hands.

Yes, but think of what kind of spider web patrol you can do with one of those babies in hand.

I expect it would be a straigtforward mod to install a chamber below the bulb and rifle the post so the lamp could double as a perfectly good azimuth-shooter. With a barrel that long, it should be accurate for several miles. That's a long way to shoot an azimuth!

Don't laugh at this, because Eric knows what he's talking about. Out here in the west where the spaces are big, courses with legs averaging much less than a few miles per control are considered sprint. And of course, the biggest of the big are in Texas, where everything is bigger, even the mall buffaloes. In some of the finer shopping centres around Dallas and Houston, it takes much more than a 500 lb mall buffalo to turn heads.

Well, here in Philly we don't call them buffalos, but I expect they are the same species. And our version could easily rival your western pretenders.

I am not claiming anything in Texas as mine. It all belongs exclusively to the Tom Tex Carr Gang, and when you mess with Texas, you're messing with Tex's, if you follow me.

I don't know anything about mall buffalos and if I had been at the Alamo I would have properly used my training to run away. That said, as y'all start welcoming winter and are forced to kill time roasting your chestnuts, I'll still be out running, biking and sculling my way to optimal fitness.

Thppttthptptppth!! (I think I spelled it correctly this time.)

Yeah, but we'll be building character and growing wise in the ways of the buffalo at the same time.

...growing wise in the ways of the buffalo at the same time.

Did you mean to type growing wide?

What j-man really meant to say was: "Super-size me!"

how much does that thing weight?

You know. if I had a bunch of money, i think the funniest thing would be to run that commercial on US television. We could befuddle the media watchers for days, weeks even with them trying to figure what that guy in the commercial is doing...............

I think that the fact that it's in Swedish might be more befuddling.

more commercial:
http://ol-wiki.de/index.php?title=Videos/Filme#OL_...

Is that a Russian sitcom all about orienteering?

Looks like the Russian sitcom is Latvian

I actually did hear a guy at our event this weekend describe a route choice (very loudly, naturally) to someone and use the words "shoot an azimuth." His stomach was large enough that I think he could balance the "cordless" lamp on it while he did the shooting, though.

A little duct tape and I could make that thing into a headlamp, no problem. That would keep your hands free for shooting azimuths or any other game you might see. When does the season open for azimuth anyway?

Bow season for azimuth all year 'round.