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XXIe Jeux olympiques d'hiver
« on: December 17, 2009, 03:48:53 PM »
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Re: XXIe Jeux olympiques d'hiver
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2009, 04:12:43 PM »
Weird design. Looks like a poorly-rolled doobie from some angles
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Re: XXIe Jeux olympiques d'hiver
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2009, 04:13:13 PM »
Wait, what am I saying; of course it looks like that: Vancouver is the dope capital of the west coast.
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Re: XXIe Jeux olympiques d'hiver
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2009, 04:22:58 PM »
Quote from: Hmof Solo on December 17, 2009, 04:13:13 PM
Wait, what am I saying; of course it looks like that: Vancouver is the dope capital of the west coast.

There were actually suggestions about that a while ago:

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/636701
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Re: XXIe Jeux olympiques d'hiver
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2009, 05:41:29 PM »
Ha! I'm not usually that savvy, but like all kids my age I listened to a lot of Cheech and Chong on vinyl.
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Re: XXIe Jeux olympiques d'hiver
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2009, 05:50:39 PM »
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Re: XXIe Jeux olympiques d'hiver
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2009, 05:53:16 PM »
West Coast is all vapes and glassware tho. Too snobby about the quality to just roll it up.

I think we decided in the last thread that I might be the only one who gives a shit about the Olympics, anyway. (Even the hockey? C'mon, surely somebody at least cares about the hockey.)

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Re: XXIe Jeux olympiques d'hiver
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2009, 05:59:12 PM »
I could get into curling, myself. Ski jumping though - that's :nuts:
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Re: XXIe Jeux olympiques d'hiver
« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2009, 07:05:56 PM »
Some events, yes; other events, no.

The ones I like generally (generally) either aren't televised or aren't televised well.  And I don't get cable anymore, anyway.  But I have some interest, just the same.
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Re: XXIe Jeux olympiques d'hiver
« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2009, 07:10:25 PM »
I'll watch pretty much all the winter events, even curling (except maybe figure skating - which is so lame). I love the winter olympics.... but I rarely watch the summer games. Hockey, downhill skiing (my favourite), biathlon, ski-jumping, luge/bobsled - if any of those are on I'll drop everything to watch.
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Re: XXIe Jeux olympiques d'hiver
« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2009, 07:20:03 PM »
Right. I think if we actually got to watch some of the competition, it might be possible for me to get excited about the Olympics. But, really, we don't. I mean it's not possible to watch, for example, the 100m sprint final (which takes, ooh, 15-20 seconds from on your mark to the winner draping himherself in the national flag) without enduring two hours of talking heads, biographical crap, inspirational music, and words from our corporate sponsors. And do we get to see any of the preliminaries? Um, no. That might cut into valuable time required for Bob Costas to talk about his visit to the Olympic Village.

So I'm torn. I could watch sports pretty much all day and love it, and it's great to see the best in the world against each other. But we actually don't get much of that. I'd say two minutes every hour of actual competition. Okay, five. Can't stand that.

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Re: XXIe Jeux olympiques d'hiver
« Reply #11 on: December 17, 2009, 07:36:45 PM »
:clap: to HMOF, because that is exactly right.  I don't give a fuck about the Olympic facilities, especially if you aren't also going to talk about all the old Olympic facilities and what they're being used for now, if anything.  And spare me the 627 fluff biopics about the athletes.  The most remarkable thing about them, inevitably, is that they're among the best of the species at whatever it is they're good at.  And I don't care about who you have reporting on the game.  Journalists who are celebrities are almost always crappy journalists.
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except maybe figure skating - which is so lame

And it isn't even figure skating anymore.  The US and Canada are like the only counties that still call it that.  They've eliminated the figures (where people have to skate precise geometric forms), the actually kinda interesting fours (double-pairs in symmetrical synch), the team synch skating (more interesting to watch, if much less weird, than the synch swimming), the distance jumping, and I don't know what else.

I admit, the skating has gotten kind of dull -- it's not as interesting or varied as gymnastics, but it's come to take up a similar proportion of the Olympics, and, frankly, I sometimes think even the gymnastics takes up too much (even though I'd like to see some of the rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline events).  The X Games skating events are actually a lot more fun to watch than the Olympic ones.

I think ice skating could be revived with some creativity -- without going crazy, even -- but I doubt it'll happen soon.  And I'd really rather see speed skating that wasn't just going around an oval.
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Re: XXIe Jeux olympiques d'hiver
« Reply #12 on: December 17, 2009, 07:36:54 PM »
Winter coverage is better here I'd guess. You see all the prelims in pretty much every sport.
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Re: XXIe Jeux olympiques d'hiver
« Reply #13 on: December 17, 2009, 07:38:23 PM »
I am not surprised. I have no idea why we tolerate the sports coverage we get; although maybe we don't, perhaps viewership is down.

But it's really insulting.
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Re: XXIe Jeux olympiques d'hiver
« Reply #14 on: December 18, 2009, 01:58:26 AM »
Right there with y'all. I think when it became more about the ad/product sales I lost interest. The only time I've ever had an interest in background shit was when a bird flew on to the field during a football game and one of the guys in the graphics department put up a stats card for it (Like they do with the players) We were down at the Chase Taproom drinking when that happened and the entire bar went down in a fit of lulz.
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