Re: 2010 Winter Olympics

[Magnetic Curses]

Nothing 'sucking' is a fact. A generally-agreed-upon opinion is not a fact.

 

i think he was being facetious, but seriously, curling sucks, no matter how pissed people get at that one guy.

[NewUserName]

Jeez... Every single member of the female Russian curling team is 19 - 23 and freaking gorgeous. I kinda want us to lose now.

 

I have no idea why we are talking about anything else in this thread right now then this!!!

[Careless]

they're going to lose to the Russians #-o

[Magnetic Curses]

yeah, the russian girls are [expletive] smoking.

[Careless]

yeah, the russian girls are [expletive] smoking.

Quite a contrast with their coach

[Banedon]

it's kind of crazy to see just how god awful non-curlers are at curling when it looks so damn simple.

 

I think a buddy and I are gonna go to a curling "open house" next weekend. That should be high comedy.

[Magnetic Curses]

yeah, the russian girls are [expletive] smoking.

Quite a contrast with their coach

 

throw mama from the train is right.

[jersey cubs fan]

boos to the USA soccer moms beating the future strippers at Rick's Caberet*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*from what I hear they are all eastern european/russian

[TruffleShuffle]

boos to the USA soccer moms beating the future strippers at Rick's Caberet*

 

high-end mail order brides, imo

[Sammys Boombox]

Has anybody else been able to get the NBC Olympics video players to work? Every time I want to see a highlight the video says it is temporarily unavailable...

[jersey cubs fan]

Has anybody else been able to get the NBC Olympics video players to work? Every time I want to see a highlight the video says it is temporarily unavailable...

 

I was able to watch the costas/colbert thing, that's all

[Careless]

Has anybody else been able to get the NBC Olympics video players to work? Every time I want to see a highlight the video says it is temporarily unavailable...

Working fine for me. Looks pretty good, although it's dumb that it can't go truly full screen

[Guest]

it's kind of crazy to see just how god awful non-curlers are at curling when it looks so damn simple.

 

I think a buddy and I are gonna go to a curling "open house" next weekend. That should be high comedy.

 

My wife and I went about a month ago to a learn to curl session and it was a ton of fun.

[hawkeyecub]

there are standards of what the skaters have to do and degrees of difficulty that are decided upon long before the skaters go out there. if they don't hit what they're supposed to do, they lose points, that's not subjective.

 

you think they can just go out there and do whatever they want and get judged arbitrarily, i get it.

 

No, I don't think they can just do whatever they want. But it's still judged by humans, which is ridiculous for any sport. It's why the moguls event was disappointing even though the action itself is quite cool (blowing away figure skating).

 

now you're the one dealing in subjectivity.

 

skiing, imso, is awesome to do but moguls are incredibly boring to watch. i prefer the downhill and super g. and i'd rather watch skating than some made-up subjective nonsensical sport like halfpipe even though i enjoy snowboarding, too.

 

I agree. I love hockey and skiing outside of moguls. No interest in snowboarding. Generally I don't watch figure skating but that was pretty good last night. For those types of events, the broadcasters make a big difference and the figure skating crew is great.

Disagree on curling. It's addicting to watch and the commentator is great.

[hawkeyecub]

And I'm really bummed that I've seen so much curling but have not seen the Russian women yet.

[hawkeyecub]

Shuster has been benched and replaced by an alternate!

[jersey cubs fan]

The coach needs to cover that giant zit.

[shnsajax]

Anyone else think the Aussie who won the gold in the half pipe last night was really hot. Hoping to see her in something that was not all covered up.

[jersey cubs fan]

You have three major sponsors [Roxy, Salomon and Gravis]. The fact that you're good-looking helps, doesn't it?

At first, I was struggling with that whole thing. I thought, that just sucks that your snowboarding ability can't just talk for itself without looks being involved. But my manager explained that it's the whole package, and that's marketing, that's the way it works. So now I accept it. The sponsors allow me to travel, pay my bills - I couldn't do it otherwise. But luckily I can actually snowboard.

 

Female athletes have posed for magazines such as Ralph and FHM. Would you ever consider doing something like that to raise your profile?

I'm Mormon, so I personally would not do it. We are taught that our bodies are our most sacred things. I definitely would never do anything like that to better my career. There's no point. But each to their own.

[jersey cubs fan]

Was that just a gutter ball? I just saw a stone bouncing off the side wall.

[TruffleShuffle]

Was that just a gutter ball? I just saw a stone bouncing off the side wall.

 

yeah i don't know what the hell happened, and the announcers didn't talk about it at all, but the french guy threw it and then turned away angrily, and it just went right into the wall. that was awful.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Was that just a gutter ball? I just saw a stone bouncing off the side wall.

 

yeah i don't know what the hell happened, and the announcers didn't talk about it at all, but the french guy threw it and then turned away angrily, and it just went right into the wall. that was awful.

 

I did that a lot.

 

Me = French Olympian.

[MidoreX]

And I'm really bummed that I've seen so much curling but have not seen the Russian women yet.

 

Here ya go... This one was definitely my favorite.

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/Liudmila_Privivkova_Vancouver_2010.jpg

[Guest]

Hopefully France Shuster's this last end. Their skip looks pretty good so I doubt that happens, though.

[Mark Priors Calves]

Vernon Davis watching and loving curling at the Winter Olympics might make my head explode.