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No surprise Sochi isn't ready. As long as no terrorists attack I'll be happy. It is a bit elitist to expect top notch service just because the Olympics are there but Putin also dug himself a hole with this one.
Regardless I pretty much just leave the channel on the Olympics for 2 weeks and watch it all. I'm more annoyed about the awful US coverage that usually occurs than I am about reporters haveing to live like the locals for a couple weeks.
Regardless I pretty much just leave the channel on the Olympics for 2 weeks and watch it all. I'm more annoyed about the awful US coverage that usually occurs than I am about reporters haveing to live like the locals for a couple weeks.
I insta follow some people who are there, saying their nbc setup is dialed. And there's powder. :bizzo:
Yahurd.
I stayed in a smoking room in Mountain Home, Idaho last summer. It was horrendous.
Yahurd.
I stayed in a smoking room in Mountain Home, Idaho last summer. It was horrendous.
Curling!
I've never cared for the winter olympics tbh, but if I had cable I'd tune in just to get my mind off the 100??F evenings I'm dealing with right now.
also, US coverage of the olympics seems to have taken an irreversible turn for the worse after the Sydney games, when they switched from straight live coverage to over-produced segments.
I've never cared for the winter olympics tbh, but if I had cable I'd tune in just to get my mind off the 100??F evenings I'm dealing with right now.
also, US coverage of the olympics seems to have taken an irreversible turn for the worse after the Sydney games, when they switched from straight live coverage to over-produced segments.
ppadilha said:US coverage of the olympics seems to have taken an irreversible turn for the worse after the Sydney games
I wouldn't necessarily disagree with that, but for whatever reason, Sydney kinda had me open. I guess because I'm more of a sentimentalist than a true sports fan, but I remember tearing up at both the Cathy Freeman shit at the opening and the Slim Dusty shit at the closing.
The Winters Olympics are my shit, though. But I tend to favor scoring/timed events--judged events mostly just get me heated.
File under "Can it be that it was all so simple then?": The first sneakers I have any conscious memory of were some navy blue post-Montreal Bruce Jenner cash-in skippies with red and white flair and the bogus gold medal attached. I put them on for the first time on the stairs at my aunt's house, threw my old jernts down into the yawning oblivion of her basement, and ran around the outside of the house at breakneck speed and you couldn't tell me shit...right up until I vomited a little bit of Tang out by the woodpile. For about two decades straight, my mom rocked a commemorative 1980 Lake Placid Games vacuum cleaner with cord issues. My brother had a big Sarajevo poster for a while. My daughter got a swimming lesson from Cullen Jones a while back. Ah, youth.
Anyway, yeah, I'll be checking Sochi, and, like the man says, hoping for the best but expecting the worst.
I wouldn't necessarily disagree with that, but for whatever reason, Sydney kinda had me open. I guess because I'm more of a sentimentalist than a true sports fan, but I remember tearing up at both the Cathy Freeman shit at the opening and the Slim Dusty shit at the closing.
The Winters Olympics are my shit, though. But I tend to favor scoring/timed events--judged events mostly just get me heated.
File under "Can it be that it was all so simple then?": The first sneakers I have any conscious memory of were some navy blue post-Montreal Bruce Jenner cash-in skippies with red and white flair and the bogus gold medal attached. I put them on for the first time on the stairs at my aunt's house, threw my old jernts down into the yawning oblivion of her basement, and ran around the outside of the house at breakneck speed and you couldn't tell me shit...right up until I vomited a little bit of Tang out by the woodpile. For about two decades straight, my mom rocked a commemorative 1980 Lake Placid Games vacuum cleaner with cord issues. My brother had a big Sarajevo poster for a while. My daughter got a swimming lesson from Cullen Jones a while back. Ah, youth.
Anyway, yeah, I'll be checking Sochi, and, like the man says, hoping for the best but expecting the worst.
PatrickCrazy said:what about all the gays getting beaten...to death
Fixed that for you.
A lot of LGBT activist groups are organizing various boycotts, but there's a range of opinions on the matter.
Fixed that for you.
A lot of LGBT activist groups are organizing various boycotts, but there's a range of opinions on the matter.
i do find it funny that Sidney Crosby and co are sleeping on cots and shit, like military dorm room style - WTF?
I've recently read a bunch of pieces about organized crime and corruption in Russia and shit is completely next level, not outlandish or out of this world but totally extraterrestrial... it was all in german so the links won't do you any good but just google for the Zapok gang out of Kutschowskaja to induce some prolonged headshaking. For the small handful krauts who do frequent the board, this is a pretty good, disgusting, entertaining and scary read: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/russland-im-angesicht-des-verbrechens-16424.html
They should just give up on the Olympics altogether. Actually as corrupt as their committee has grown it's more than fitting that they're staging their shitshow in Russia. They should just move it there permanently, introduce mob run bare knuckle fights, cancel all doping tests and turn the whole spectacle into a hormone fueled steroid championship. They should also allow or better encourage human cloning and genetic manipulation for future athletes. Hell, I want to see bearded women claw each others eyes out and three legged mutant babies kick the guts out of their asses. Maybe then I'd start watching sports for once.
They should just give up on the Olympics altogether. Actually as corrupt as their committee has grown it's more than fitting that they're staging their shitshow in Russia. They should just move it there permanently, introduce mob run bare knuckle fights, cancel all doping tests and turn the whole spectacle into a hormone fueled steroid championship. They should also allow or better encourage human cloning and genetic manipulation for future athletes. Hell, I want to see bearded women claw each others eyes out and three legged mutant babies kick the guts out of their asses. Maybe then I'd start watching sports for once.
"in russia, olympics watch you"
seriously though, the seeming corruption surrounding these games is hard to escape. also, those videos of gays being beaten by skinhead mobs seem like scenes straight out of krystalnacht.
seriously though, the seeming corruption surrounding these games is hard to escape. also, those videos of gays being beaten by skinhead mobs seem like scenes straight out of krystalnacht.
Frank said:I've recently read a bunch of pieces about organized crime and corruption in Russia and shit is completely next level, not outlandish or out of this world but totally extraterrestrial... it was all in german so the links won't do you any good but just google for the Zapok gang out of Kutschowskaja to induce some prolonged headshaking. For the small handful krauts who do frequent the board, this is a pretty good, disgusting, entertaining and scary read: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/russland-im-angesicht-des-verbrechens-16424.html
They should just give up on the Olympics altogether. Actually as corrupt as their committee has grown it's more than fitting that they're staging their shitshow in Russia. They should just move it there permanently, introduce mob run bare knuckle fights, cancel all doping tests and turn the whole spectacle into a hormone fueled steroid championship. They should also allow or better encourage human cloning and genetic manipulation for future athletes. Hell, I want to see bearded women claw each others eyes out and three legged mutant babies kick the guts out of their asses. Maybe then I'd start watching sports for once.
Russia is among 2-3 countries that I am absolutely terrified to visit.
I'd sooner go to Somalia, and I'm dead serious when I say that.
They should just give up on the Olympics altogether. Actually as corrupt as their committee has grown it's more than fitting that they're staging their shitshow in Russia. They should just move it there permanently, introduce mob run bare knuckle fights, cancel all doping tests and turn the whole spectacle into a hormone fueled steroid championship. They should also allow or better encourage human cloning and genetic manipulation for future athletes. Hell, I want to see bearded women claw each others eyes out and three legged mutant babies kick the guts out of their asses. Maybe then I'd start watching sports for once.
Russia is among 2-3 countries that I am absolutely terrified to visit.
I'd sooner go to Somalia, and I'm dead serious when I say that.
the winter olympics are almost like hallowe'en for us canadians.
the olympic hockey tournament is a two week period every four years where everyone in an otherwise mild-mannered and delightfully subservient country gets to haul their patriotic gear out from where you keep the christmas decorations and straight wile out on patriotism like our friends to the south.
for two weeks in february, we ARE america, and our version is hilarious.
the olympic hockey tournament is a two week period every four years where everyone in an otherwise mild-mannered and delightfully subservient country gets to haul their patriotic gear out from where you keep the christmas decorations and straight wile out on patriotism like our friends to the south.
for two weeks in february, we ARE america, and our version is hilarious.
prof_rockwell said
atrickCrazy said:what about all the gays getting beaten...to death
Fixed that for you.
A lot of LGBT activist groups are organizing various boycotts, but there's a range of opinions on the matter.
I wasn't sure if Patrick's comment was in jest. Or serious...
In all seriousness. Russia should not be given any of these world wide events.
[media]//www.youtube.com/embed/zMTbFSJ_Tr4?feature=player_embedded[/media]
Disgusting shit.
atrickCrazy said:what about all the gays getting beaten...to deathFixed that for you.
A lot of LGBT activist groups are organizing various boycotts, but there's a range of opinions on the matter.
I wasn't sure if Patrick's comment was in jest. Or serious...
In all seriousness. Russia should not be given any of these world wide events.
[media]//www.youtube.com/embed/zMTbFSJ_Tr4?feature=player_embedded[/media]
Disgusting shit.
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