2010 Winter Olympics thread

[Pentegarn]

I will not be watching it because I am not watching NBC. I will however track some of it on the interwebz.

We can discuss it here (but we probably won't do so very much)

[Colonel Flagg]

I'm waiting for the curling event. :)

[Colonel Flagg]

And team snow-tubing.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I'm looking forward to Olympic hockey something fierce actually. Curling too.

[Pentegarn]

So some women's lib site thinks the upcoming SI cover objectifies Lindsey Vonn....

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Let-the-Lindsey-hype-begin-Vonn-is-Sports-Illus?urn=oly,217525

A few thoughts here:

1) She is fully clothed, these women can quit their bitching

2) Women's libbers bitching about objectification are hypocrites. If it weren't for physical attraction, men and women wouldn't procreate and the human race would have died out long ago. If it weren't for physical attraction, these unshaved pit having harpies wouldn't be around to complain that men find women physically attractive. I don't see these women complaining about their own conception which more than likely came from some form of physical attraction between their parents though. So they should shut up about men liking to look at women because that's exactly why these birkenstock wearing Indigo Girls fans are around today to whine

3) That cover says "America's Best Woman Skier Ever" not, "Hey check this chick out!" These women have an issue with this cover because they want to have an issue with it.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

That is pretty ridiculous.

I do like her form on the front cover. The first thing I thought of was "Butt out U"

Then I noticed her legs which looks like USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Colonel Flagg]

SI was interested in selling magazines. Seeing their demographic is mostly male, between the ages of 21 and 49, my thought is that they did what they set out to do. PUT HAWT BABE ON COVER.

Maxim has been doing the same thing for years.

[Esuohlim]

I already mentioned this before but one of my best friends in elementary school was this guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_White_(figure_skater)). So although I think figure skating is lame I'll watch probably watch him to see how he does.

Other than that I hate the Olympics so >:

[WhiteRat]

Minnesota sure love's it's celebrities. First it was Al Franken, then Brett Favre, and now Vonn. Every day a story about Vonn is crammed into the local rags. I'm not complaining as you probably know by now that she is very easy on the eyes but I just don't know if i'm ready to handle the ensuing bombardment of Vonn Olympic Fever.

[WhiteRat]

I already mentioned this before but one of my best friends in elementary school was this guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_White_(figure_skater)). So although I think figure skating is lame I'll watch probably watch him to see how he does.

Other than that I hate the Olympics so >:

They've been partners for 10 years now. Is he hittin that shit yet? He's probably gay so I might have just answered my own question.

[Babs]

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[Esuohlim]

He's probably gay so I might have just answered my own question.

He's a figure skater. 'Nuff said.

[Colonel Flagg]

Hey. Johnny Weir is an ATHLETE godammit. :lol

[Zhukov]

Gold for Australia in the mens speed skating. Calling it.

[Colonel Flagg]

Which event, Zhuk? There are about a zillion.

[Zhukov]

Christ, I don't know. All of them.

I wasn't entirely sure we participated until the last games.

[Colonel Flagg]

:lol

[Pentegarn]

Wow, if the women's libbers hated the SI thread with Lindsey Vonn, their heads are going to explode when they see the swimsuit issue

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Lindsey-Vonn-poses-for-Sports-Illustrated-s-swim?urn=oly,218547

But wait, I looked at her bio and what is this? It says she weighs 165lbs. She looks just fine in those pics, and I think this is an example of a woman who can look good without starving herself like these supermodels do. The same women who complain about objectification are also known to complain about swimsut models giving poor body images. But here we have an example of a woman who looks good at a more realistic weight. So my question is; Do the women's rights groups get mad at her for marketing herself? Or do they point to her as a champion of a good body image? Sadly I expect more of the former than the latter.

[Colonel Flagg]

I tried an unscientific experiment with the SI cover. Imagining I was seeing it for the first time, and outside of her obvious hotness, I tried to determine the first thing I would notice about the photo. The winner was the huge number of sponsorships plastered all over her ski suit. I then gave the cover to my wife, and asked her the same question. Her response? Her first impression was that Ms. Vonn was solidly built, and obviously didn't starve herself.

To paraphrase the article, and you too Mr. P., I say kudos to Lindsey for being an athlete that happens to be good looking.

[WhiteRat]

So my question is; Do the women's rights groups get mad at her for marketing herself?

Of course. Skinny or fat, it comes down to a scantily clad woman featured in a "men's" magazine and the activist hags won't have any of it.

[Colonel Flagg]

Of course, most of those activists are, as you say, hags. Major league bowwows. They're just jealous.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Major league bowwows.

:lol That's awesome.

Countdown.....

[Colonel Flagg]

The funny thing is that I learned that term from one of the smartest P-chem students it was ever my pleasure to teach. She's now a patent attorney.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I need a good patent attorney actually. They're surprisingly expensive.

[Pentegarn]

My brother was a patent attorney. He still to this day is angry at how expensive patents are for the common man

[stevetothepast]

the only bit of the olympics I will watch are the hockey games. It's the only olympic event I've ever really had interest in, summer olympics suck all together.

[Kitsa]

Same here. I am alllllll over the hockey, especially the Canadian men's stuff starting today. They've assembled a pretty good team. The US team I'm lukewarm on, except for Timmay as goalie.

[Kitsa]

They pre-empted on our local station and for some reason I wound up with women's curling instead of the scheduled hockey on the cable station, but I saw the stats and Canada kicked ass quite handily.

[Colonel Flagg]

Lindsey Vonn kicked serious ass in the women's downhill. :rock

[Pentegarn]

That'll piss the ugmo clam shucker womens libbers off

[Grislygus]

AAAAAAAAAAAUGH SEAN WHITE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HE DID IT HE DID THE BIG MAC AFTER HE ALREADY OWNED THE BEJEEZUS OUT OF THAT SHIT BRAAAAAAAAAMERICA, FUCK YEAH


My big fucking question is why fucking Lago got a measly fucking 42 when fucking Peetu's comparable motherfucking run got a forty fuckin five fucking FINLAND, GOD DAMN YOU RANKERI

And Kokubo's second run was so sad that it almost made me cry :( He could have bumped Lago down from the bronze spot

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I was watching U.S. mens curling on the USA network and they showed a "U.S. curling catchup moment from last night."

They cut to sudden death overtime curling between US and Sweden(?) where the US threw the rock and the announcer is like "Well here it looks like the thrower used too much force."

Cut to a close up of the rock getting close to the house for a knockout. Then the announcer voices over again "Is it too much force? Is it? Is it?! Is it!?!........it is. U.S loses to sweden."

I'm staring blankly now at my tv asking myself why would they show that??? Way to boost US moral USA network. Idiots.

[Kitsa]

I'm not even going to pretend to understand curling. And I thought somewhere along the line I saw a mythbusters-type thing where they discovered that the sweeping doesn't do diddley-squat as far as melting the ice is concerned?

I know that there's one canadian woman curler who's doing all this 5 months pregnant. Fresh off the experience and with all of that discomfort in recent memory, all I can say is go her.

[Tadao]

USA mens curling team fucked up bad against Dem today. Our team really sucks.

Oh, and mythbusters has progressively become full of shit science since the 2nd season.

[Colonel Flagg]

Neither the US Men's or Women's curling teams has won a match yet. :(

[Tadao]

womens on in 30 mins. this is the first i watched this olympics and todays mens match really pissed me off. hopefully the women know how to play cause the men today made the stupidest mistakes i have ever seen in curling.

[Tadao]

oh man, our girls were doing so good until the last stone of the 7th. :(

[Zhukov]

You can't watch anything on the Winter Olympics here. Basically zero coverage. We get a special gold edition super highlights programme that goes for about half an hour and shows pretty much only Australian entrants losing horribly but trying their best. No ice hockey or curling, but we can watch half an hour of cross country skiing where Australia came 87th (and from the announcers excitement you would have thought the poor bastard came first).

Last year there was a shitload of stuff to watch, now another network bought the rights to air it and they just decided they would show didlley squat instead.

[Colonel Flagg]

Torah Bright (sp?) won the Gold in women's half-pipe.

ONYA MATES!

[Tadao]

I hate the snowboard shit. It's like 1/16th as awesome as skateboarding.

[Kitsa]

Our snowboarder from here was apparently supposed to win the gold and wiped out bigtime. Louie Vito is also from here.

The Russian ice skater last night was pissed. Did you see where he jumped up on the gold platform, then down to the silver?

[Colonel Flagg]

I hate the snowboard shit. It's like 1/16th as awesome as skateboarding.

Zhuk was commenting about the Australians not winning anything. :(

[Colonel Flagg]

The Russian ice skater last night was pissed. Did you see where he jumped up on the gold platform, then down to the silver?

Yeah, just read his interview on ESPN - "Yes, I think I won, but I guess he needs a gold medal more than I do."

What a dick.

[Tadao]

Womens curling just won against Russia, but I'm not too proud of how the Americans in the stand treated the Russians throwing thier last very very very important rock. Way to fag up a sport America. :(

[Tadao]

YAY! They took the faggot who kept blowing it for U.S. Mens Curling out of the game. I KNOW, I CARE WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT OLYMPIC U.S. CURLING. :tear

[Grislygus]

You care about the one event where we will always have a disadvantage against the Ice People of the world; I assume you're a masochist

[Tadao]

All you need is indoor ice and booze :(

[Sam]

I'd be so good at curling :(

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I was watching the women's curling last night and this woman totally gunned the rock way past the house. At first I thought she looking to knock the other teams rock out but when they showed it approaching the house there wasn't anything to knock out....

:AMIRITE

[Tadao]

she may have just making a pass so that they can keep the hammer for the next end


:CURLING

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I don't know, the entire team seamed real disappointed in her during the huck and afterwords.

[Tadao]

oh, she threw the rock to heavy and missed the draw. The U.S. womens has a girl that does tht way too much.

[Colonel Flagg]

That was a hell of a hockey game - Norway vs. Switzerland.

Just trying to change the subject is all.

[executioneer]

boner is missing at the olympics guys everyone scan the audience for clues

[Colonel Flagg]

He wasn't at the hockey game, where the US beat Canada (Cindy cries "boo hoo").

[Pentegarn]

I can't wait for Jim Rome today. Canada is going to take it from the USA clones so badly today. All Canada did on Rome was talk smack and say team USA would not beat Canada. I expect to hear things like:

"War fat Americans being better than Canada at the game they invented"

and

"Canada, tell me how my ass tastes"

It'll be fun on the bun.

[Colonel Flagg]

I just liked looking at Cindy - he really had some tears welling up in there. :lol

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

"Canada, tell me how my ass tastes"


:lol

[Tadao]

Womens curling just won against Russia, but I'm not too proud of how the Americans in the stand treated the Russians throwing their last very very very important rock. Way to fag up a sport America. :(

I've noticed the rest of the world took Americas cue and started making a shit ton of noise during the oppositions crucial throws. This is just sad to see at the Olympics.

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Candian-curling-fans-leave-Danish-player-in-tear?urn=oly,221320

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

TEAM USA Women's has blonde twins on it. :)

[Tadao]

10k curls for Great Britain.

http://cache1.asset-cache.net/xc/94675280.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF878921CC759DF4EBAC47D0A63597224B9C9F05 2003B30877E0C9AD772ACC7422BB4320E30A760B0D811297

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

? Not displaying for me.

[Tadao]

http://www.morethanthegames.co.uk/files/morethanthegames/murdochmacdonald.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5--ca8rX4ks/SaGBXBWhngI/AAAAAAAAGlM/mhSR8JLSKE4/s400/Sun-2-Ewan-on-knees.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41325000/jpg/_41325564_macdonald416.jpg

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

:lol Oh crap. That middle one is dead on.

[Tadao]

When I was watching a few days ago I was all OMG 10K! You need to see it live, he looks even more so like you. He makes the same faces. :lol

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

:hypno:hypno:hypno He was born on November 17th.

[Tadao]

OMG Your mom put a twin up for adoption!

[RaNkeri]

He seems to be a pretty cool guy but he's not even close to M15

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

At least I know how my hair will look in 10 years :( It's slowly going the way of the buffalo as we speak.

[Tadao]

Chris Rudge, the CEO of the Canadian Olympic Committee, plopped down at his daily morning media briefing here and got right to it.

“We’re going to have questions about Own the Podium,” he acknowledged. He then launched into an unprompted five-minute defense of the $118 million government-funded albatross on the Canadian team.

The much hyped program declared that the Canadians would win the total medal count at the Vancouver Games – a boast that was not just bold but struck many as rather un-Canadian.

[kahljorn]

my sister was born on november 17th :O
OMGAZ

[Colonel Flagg]

“We’re going to have questions about Own the Podium,” [Canadian Olympic Committee CEO Chris Rudge] acknowledged. He then launched into an unprompted five-minute defense of the $118 million government-funded albatross on the Canadian team.

The best quotation I saw came from Canadian columnist Cam Cole - "... we've essentially Blown The Podium".

EDIT: At least the podium was happy. :)

[Tadao]

reminds me of police academy :lol

[kahljorn]

LEFT 4 DEAD 2 WAS ALSO BORN ON NOVEMBER 17TH

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

:lol

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Gold medal game between usa and canada.....


Usa usa usa usa

[Kitsa]

noooo

canada.

Rick Nash.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

:(

[Babs]

30 SECONDS LEFT AND USA TIES IT UP

[Zomboid]

And then what happened?

[Kitsa]

I just wish Nash had gotten that winning goal. Allllllllmost.

Also I wish that Babcock hadn't been the coach but I'll overlook it.

[Colonel Flagg]

Damn that Cindy Crosby. >:

Congratulations to Canada, anyhoo. :\

Now back to the NHL....

[Kitsa]

That thing on the ceiling during the closing ceremonies reminds me of carousel from Logan's Run and it's creeping me right the fuck out.

I don't have any NHL to go back to...not like I'm going to be watching the Jackets in the playoffs even with a gold medalist at the helm.

[Kitsa]

double post :\

[Colonel Flagg]

That thing on the ceiling during the closing ceremonies reminds me of carousel from Logan's Run and it's creeping me right the fuck out.

Now there's a blast from the past. RENEW!!! RENEW!!! :hypno

À propos of nothing in particular, Farrah Fawcett (R.I.P.) had a cameo in that film, and I believe that was pre-Charlie's Angels. I think I was 12 when it came out (without checking IMDB).

[WhiteRat]

Why is doggy style the official sex position of Canada?

So they can both watch the hockey game!

harharharhar

Seriously though, that was a great game. Congrats to our neighbors of the north on a great win. Unlike some Americans, I actually like Canada (Thunder Bay where you at?) and if it wasn't going to the be the US, I'm glad they won. Better than those stinky Ruskies!

[Kitsa]

I have an uncle who is now royally pissed at me for rooting for anything non-USA.

I mean, like really pissed, not joke pissed.

[RaNkeri]

Didn't really have a favorite out of the finalists, but I kind of feel bad for USA. It's Torino 2006 all over again

[Kitsa]

Now there's a blast from the past. RENEW!!! RENEW!!! :hypno

À propos of nothing in particular, Farrah Fawcett (R.I.P.) had a cameo in that film, and I believe that was pre-Charlie's Angels. I think I was 12 when it came out (without checking IMDB).

Yeah, she was the plastic surgeon's assistant.

Does this not look very much like the closing ceremony? :hypno

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[Esuohlim]

Nationalism is stupid. The Olympics always bring out my anti-patriotism, and I made fun of USA every time somebody had the Olympics on their TV.

I'm glad the Canadians kicked our ass at everything

[RaNkeri]

It ain't over yet, the battle shall rage on in youtube between the retarded 16-20 year olds.

[Zomboid]

I'm mainly just annoyed at everyone on facebook suddenly being like "I AM PROUD TO BE CANADIAN!"

It was just a fucking hockey game. There are other things to be proud of in this country. Like poutine. Oh, and that was a wonderful closing ceremony. I loved how it showed all of Canada's shitty musicians and every imaginable stereotype.

[Kitsa]

the outfits they had the canadian athletes in were fucking horrible.

I mean, earflaps and moose sweaters? Did the designer think it was a joke?

[Zhukov]

So I was watching the Australian 2 person bobsled team, and I began to wonder 'how does one get into bobsledding in Australia?' and 'just how easy is it to be classed as the best bobsledder in Australia?'

Do you have to actually do anything as a brake person in a bobsled? I mean, brake at the end, sure, but do you brake on the corners too? I hope not, because I think I could be a pretty good bobsled brake man for Australia. I've seen Cool Runnings at least three times, so I think I have the experience.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I noticed this during the event but forgot to mention it. Everyone who was on the ski team for Canada looked liked they were wearing bacon on their suits.

[Colonel Flagg]

Mmmmmmmm..... Bacon ......

[Tadao]

Canadian Bacon

[Zomboid]

I've always found the American fascination with bacon to be very, very odd.

[Kitsa]

There was an article on that in, oh, it was Details magazine or something. They basically called everyone who was keen on bacon tools.

[Zomboid]

I enjoy it, but so many people seem to go absolutely fucking apeshit for it, and I've never understood why. I thought maybe it was just a stupid fad or something :(

[Sam]

Bacon is just fucking good. :(

[executioneer]

it is kind of a stupid fad, though