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Ratings for NBC's Olympics Continue to Stink on Ice
Actually it's a combination of things, though I'm sure the little political statements from Olympians who don't even get a medal aren't helping. As Donny Two Scoops might say, "Me? I like Olympic heroes who crack the single-digits in rankings, not the ones who take tenth place."I can't believe the article cited the absence of Matt Lauer and Bob Costas as drawbacks. The article notes that the showdown between Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding -- admittedly, an event that had more than just sport going for it-- drew nearly ten times as much as NBC's Saturday rating -- the Kerrigan/Harding face-off drew more than 125 million.
Downhill dive: NBC's terrible Olympics get worse in week two as marquee
names flee, ratings sink and anchors struggle to find anything good to cover in the wake of school massacre The 2018 Winter Olympics have produced few medal winners from Team USA and provided little must-see TV for broadcaster NBC On Monday, NBC learned that Mikaela Shiffrin was withdrawing from downhill and figure skater Adam Rippon turned down a correspondent offer This comes after Shiffrin placed fourth in the slalom last week just minutes before figure skater Nathan Chen fell during his disastrous short program A weather delay meant her lone gold happened outside of prime time NBC is also without its two veteran anchors this year, Matt Lauer on Today and Bob Costas of NBC Sports This means Al Roker has been paired with Craig Melvin for awkward buddy segments in South Korea while Mike Tirico is in for Costas at NBC Sports Television ratings have been down double digits from the Sochi Games and on Saturday hit a low of 13.62 million viewers
By the way, NBC did not hesitate to offer a job to Adam Rippon as an analyst or whatever. I mean, he came in tenth place and all -- so scoop this talent up while he's
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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2018 02:34 PM (VM6ev)
Posted by: Sporkatus at February 21, 2018 02:35 PM (5/BgI)
x10000000
Posted by: Iris at February 21, 2018 02:36 PM (dYDe7)
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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 21, 2018 02:37 PM (+y/Ru)
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Posted by: joncelli, nominal Lutheran at February 21, 2018 02:37 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: simplemind at February 21, 2018 02:37 PM (si5cc)
Posted by: steevy at February 21, 2018 02:38 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at February 21, 2018 02:38 PM (FQKBL)
But when Roasty Vonn and the mens' cornholing team got up in my face about politics, I just couldn't.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 21, 2018 02:38 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2018 02:38 PM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2018 02:38 PM (VM6ev)
Posted by: Pete Seria at February 21, 2018 02:39 PM (UzQpI)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2018 02:39 PM (aC6Sd)
GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY and....GAY
Posted by: NBC at February 21, 2018 02:39 PM (O5Q3r)
Posted by: steevy at February 21, 2018 02:39 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 02:40 PM (39g3+)
Curling is marbles on ice with big stones.But chicks in tight pants bend over a whisk briskly with brooms...
Posted by: steevy at February 21, 2018 02:39 PM (LiyEm)
And it is cold.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2018 02:40 PM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Holier than Thou Asshole Bot at February 21, 2018 02:40 PM (SkuXa)
All of my regular shows, however, are al repeats.. none of the other networks want to put up new episodes against the Olympics..
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 21, 2018 02:40 PM (so+oy)
onctuated with Big Blowjob Eyes.
Posted by: garrett at February 21, 2018 02:40 PM (6MG+z)
BUT we have gotten to a point where we mind very much NBC using the games as just another platform to push their politics and deviant culture, plus showing such a pitiful amount of the actual events, and doing so many 'back story of this athlete' segments so we are passing on watching the games at all.
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at February 21, 2018 02:40 PM (eASYU)
Fabulous mediocre skaters who just make this Olympics their own!
Posted by: Adam Rippon at February 21, 2018 02:41 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 02:41 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at February 21, 2018 02:41 PM (Pg+x7)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2018 02:41 PM (TFkVh)
I haven't watched one second of them. And no one I knew has even mentioned the existence of the Olympics, sp I'm quite sure they haven't watched either.
Totally irrelevant badly-made reality-TV show. Season 17 of "Big Brother House" probably has more viewers, and is less staged.
Posted by: zombie at February 21, 2018 02:41 PM (42M22)
Posted by: Monty James at February 21, 2018 02:41 PM (gKOMX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2018 02:41 PM (8+Ozj)
Posted by: Max Power at February 21, 2018 02:41 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 21, 2018 02:42 PM (PNcou)
Posted by: tu3031 at February 21, 2018 02:42 PM (O5Q3r)
If you haven't seen the video of the lady doing the half pipe on skis you should find it. So, so bad.
She scammed her way into the Olympics. Pretty funny. Hope she had a good time.
Posted by: brak at February 21, 2018 02:42 PM (WjCgM)
One video starts with him saying, "Well hello again folks, Bob Menery coming to you LIVE from my parents' bedroom."
Posted by: Hands at February 21, 2018 02:42 PM (EzdLW)
You know who made the Olympics a national pissing match? The Russians. NBC's coverage is playing into that still.
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at February 21, 2018 02:42 PM (xQfPr)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 21, 2018 02:42 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: steevy at February 21, 2018 02:42 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: zibbly wibbly at February 21, 2018 02:42 PM (V3U1L)
"Gonna put Olympic winners in a smaller venue at the White House this year."
Sad
Posted by: Roman Maroni at February 21, 2018 02:43 PM (KCCgc)
Posted by: NBC at February 21, 2018 02:43 PM (DN9hz)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 21, 2018 02:43 PM (O2RFr)
Maybe sports fans (heterosexual men) DON'T enjoy watching prepubescent girls in spandex with their faces painted like whores, no matter how well they skate?
Posted by: Oschisms at February 21, 2018 02:43 PM (zAvDH)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 21, 2018 02:44 PM (tcwn1)
Posted by: NBC at February 21, 2018 02:44 PM (PNcou)
In short, no one to root for or jack off to.
Thus, no one watches.
Posted by: zombie at February 21, 2018 02:44 PM (42M22)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 02:45 PM (2LelM)
Posted by: eleven at February 21, 2018 02:45 PM (+lOpA)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 21, 2018 02:45 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: simplemind at February 21, 2018 02:45 PM (gpUcw)
Second: they removed valid sporting events
Third: They never shut up.
Fourth: They substituted politics for the main event.
There are no Olympics as sporting events. Shall we watch Rhythmic Banner Gymnastics or Home and Garden's new paver ideas?
Posted by: gNewt at February 21, 2018 02:45 PM (71o8T)
Posted by: El Carbon Azzprint at February 21, 2018 02:45 PM (foYMy)
Posted by: Jim McKay at February 21, 2018 02:45 PM (PNcou)
Summer: people running around jumping and swimming in the sunshine.
Winter: People trying not to die in subzero conditions, sometimes with weapons
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 02:45 PM (39g3+)
The asshat who threw the temper tantrum when he didn't win the coin toss to carry the flag in the opening ceremony kinda set the tone for the whole shitshow, didn't he?
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 21, 2018 02:45 PM (ZM2xo)
Bread, and Circuses....
But the Mob is no longer going to the Games...
Could it be because there are no MANLY sports being shown?
Posted by: Don Q. at February 21, 2018 02:45 PM (NgKpN)
The Olympics used to be about country. The left has turned it into being about themselves.
Eff 'em.
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at February 21, 2018 02:46 PM (jWe5r)
We work hard. We are tired and just want to be f'ing entertained. No lectures and no whining SJW's.
Posted by: Cheri at February 21, 2018 02:46 PM (oiNtH)
I think zombie just revealed the secret of the Universe.
Posted by: eleven at February 21, 2018 02:46 PM (+lOpA)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 02:46 PM (L78vw)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 02:46 PM (2LelM)
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No kidding.
The only good thing about the coverage this year is the VAST superiority of Tirico over Costas. His demeanor is pleasant and professional and I have not witnessed any of the Costas-style drama and condescension. He makes a good MC.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2018 02:46 PM (0jtPF)
NBC Execs:
"What's the viewer numbers?"
"Don't care - look at the twatters we're getting! Yayyyy!"
"You're Fired"
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 02:46 PM (7LY+6)
He was panned for being boring.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (TFkVh)
47 OK, so in 2022 we'll add
Ice fishing:
It'll be a battle to the death between the cheeseheads and the filthy icebacks.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (ZM2xo)
In fairness to NBC, Internet/technology has made it virtually impossible for NBC to hold events for showing on tape in prime time with any sense of surprise. This was not the case in 1994. The best we got of the Harding/Kerrigan evenst as it was unfolding live were stills like in the fights. That has contributed when the events are occurring in Asia.
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at February 21, 2018 02:40 PM (eASYU)
Would Hoxx VPN (free) work?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (pVGtq)
Posted by: Simo at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (si5cc)
Posted by: simplemind at February 21, 2018 02:45 PM (gpUcw)
A meeeellion dollars.
Posted by: eleven at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (+lOpA)
Posted by: thathalfrican - Stay Woke! at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (IYHxL)
Ice fishing
Ice Bucket Challenge
Ice Ice Baby
Ice Pole Dancing
Posted by: NBC at February 21, 2018 02:44 PM (PNcou)
May I suggest Tide Pod eating?
It can be the only sport at both the summer and winter games. You guys get a ratings boost from idiot millennials, and those who like to watch idiot millennials be idiots, and we'll probably rid the world of some idiot millennials in the process.
That's like a win-win-win.
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (tKW45)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: El Carbon Azzprint at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (foYMy)
61 In short, no one to root for or jack off to.
I think zombie just revealed the secret of the Universe.
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Add cold beer and you're right - God of the Universe.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (2LelM)
Posted by: TJ at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (jlN7X)
7.75 billion to have the rights until 2032.
Posted by: tu3031 at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (O5Q3r)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (dKiJG)
I have a painting of that ready to go for tomorrow's art thread!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2018 02:41 PM (TFkVh)
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*** calls in bomb threat on Art Thread ****
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (PNcou)
Posted by: Leon Botsky, definitely not a paid Russian troll at February 21, 2018 02:48 PM (MWX7h)
I actually really have an interest in a few America-obscure sports (nordic skiing), and have always enjoyed a few of the older winter events (ski jumping, bobsled, speed skating).
As I've noted here for the past 2 weeks, the live feeds on the NBC website have been great. Maybe because of the events I watch, no stupid American commentators, no focus on the American participants. And some dramatic action.
In recent days the live feeds have been a wasteland - curling, figure skating, boring teenagers-making-up-something-new-to-do-after-skiing events (most snowboard stuff, some of the new group ski stuff).
There is a master calendar that shows the days all the events are happening - have not compared that to the live feed menu to see if NBC has switched its offerings. Confess I have been lazy, have not sought out any foreign broadcaster website live feeds - which should be rewarding, esp. for my interests. Maybe I'll do so today.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 21, 2018 02:48 PM (QDnY+)
No Olga Korbut, no Nadia Komaneci, no Usain Bolt, no Bruce Jenner, no 1980 US hockey team.
In short, no one to root for or jack off to.
Thus, no one watches.
Posted by: zombie at February 21, 2018 02:44 PM
NBC did try to include Usain Bolt. Showed a short video of him wishing Jamaican bobsled team good luck. That was it. Whoop dee doo.
Posted by: Hands at February 21, 2018 02:48 PM (EzdLW)
People were more interested when athletes rooted for the US and the team rather than their special designation
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2018 02:48 PM (8+Ozj)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 21, 2018 02:48 PM (oVJmc)
Ratings would probably go up if Al sharted himself again.
At least the German ratings.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 21, 2018 02:48 PM (kqsXK)
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Biathalon. I beg to differ
Yeah Ski Jump, lots of the winter sports are pretty manly. Just avoid the skatey stuff.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 02:48 PM (39g3+)
onctuated with Big Blowjob Eyes.
You rang?
Posted by: Emma Miskew at February 21, 2018 02:49 PM (XkVXQ)
I guess they were afraid of being outbid by Shep.
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 21, 2018 02:49 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: The NFL at February 21, 2018 02:49 PM (DN9hz)
1. The whole wokeness thing is difficult to stomach. Both during the broadcast and in the commercials. If I don't immediately switch to mute at a commercial, I'm will hear something that irks the crap out of me. I don't watch much TV and to listen to all the shows that are marketed makes me want to vomit.
2. Speaking of not watching much TV, I only have the standard cable subscription. Which means that I only get to watch what's shown on the network channel. And I can't go online and watch anything, because NBC requires a more-than-standard cable subscription to watch online.
3. The outspoken athletes and the outspoken announcers immediately make me wish that they would just form their own country already.
I miss my youth and watching Jim McKay on ABC. Or maybe that's just the romantic in me.
Posted by: matty at February 21, 2018 02:49 PM (zQA40)
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Biathalon. I beg to differ
Posted by: Simo at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (si5cc)
And just how much coverage did it get?
Posted by: Don Q. at February 21, 2018 02:49 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: grammie winger - at February 21, 2018 02:49 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: zibbly wibbly at February 21, 2018 02:49 PM (V3U1L)
7.75 billion to have the rights until 2032.
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WAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Posted by: Simplemind at February 21, 2018 02:50 PM (Iqk+R)
Posted by: Simo at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (si5cc)
eeeeew, those icky guns!
Posted by: It's me donna at February 21, 2018 02:50 PM (O2RFr)
The asshats who selected said hat are responsible.
Plus selecting those who were NOT the top 3 in skating, so there's that....
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 02:50 PM (7LY+6)
It was worth watching.
The modern day nonsense? Not so much.
Though I did watch a YouTube of the snowboarder's gold medal run.
Posted by: davidt at February 21, 2018 02:50 PM (djCea)
I mean if you managed to miss the hour of 'olympic ice' that preceded it that for some reason had the gay skater on the black chick ghostbuster doing skits for some reason while the professionals had to awkwardly pretend to be impressed.
Anna Puma failed to mention when she posted that Sailor Moon routine a few months back that the gal performing it is actually the best in the world at the moment. Well, aside from an injury and her teammate scoring a half point higher. According to the coverage, the two of them had the highest scores ever recorded in competition, so it won't be like last time where the gold medalist was the least bad of gals who fell.
*I don't know about the coverage for other skating events as I didn't watch.
Posted by: Methos at February 21, 2018 02:50 PM (XQvuQ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 02:50 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 02:46 PM (2LelM)
::raises hand::
Posted by: eleven at February 21, 2018 02:50 PM (+lOpA)
Posted by: Grump928(C) can likewise assert at February 21, 2018 02:50 PM (QQ+il)
Posted by: El Carbon Azzprint at February 21, 2018 02:45 PM (foYMy)
I doubt he needs any encouragement in that direction.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 02:50 PM (pVGtq)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 02:51 PM (L78vw)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 21, 2018 02:51 PM (+y/Ru)
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Last night he was helping a skater button her costume. The announcer promptly called him the star of this Olympics. Not kidding.
Posted by: grammie winger - at February 21, 2018 02:51 PM (lwiT4)
I can't believe the article cited the absence of Matt Lauer and Bob Costas as drawbacks.
x10000000
Posted by: Iris at February 21, 2018 02:36 PM (dYDe7)
What little I have watched, THAT WASN"T COMMERCIALS, I enjoyed. Mike Tirico and that other blondish guy, though he's a little self impressed, have been a refreshing change of pace from those other two insufferable wankers.
I like Johnny Weir and Lipinski's analysis. They know the job.
All that from 20 minutes of watching.
Posted by: Adam Rippon at February 21, 2018 02:51 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Ice Capades at February 21, 2018 02:51 PM (r9UYA)
"I'm going to leave it all out there on the ice."
"I decided that I was going to leave it all out there on the ice."
"I figured that what I needed to do was leave it all out there on the ice."
"My strategy was that I was going to leave it all out there on the mountain."
...Yup. It's what you have to do when you've exhausted the phrase "go for it."
Posted by: RKae at February 21, 2018 02:51 PM (YyNjs)
Posted by: RioBravo at February 21, 2018 02:51 PM (5NMZN)
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Biathalon. I beg to differ
Yeah Ski Jump, lots of the winter sports are pretty manly. Just avoid the skatey stuff.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 02:48 PM (39g3+)
And once more I ask... how much coverage have they gotten?
I'm not watching... but every time I pass a TV that has the Olympics on... it skating...
Its like the Summer Olympics and Gymnastics... WAYYYYYYY more coverage on it than on the actual track and field events...
Posted by: Don Q. at February 21, 2018 02:51 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Oschisms at February 21, 2018 02:51 PM (zAvDH)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 21, 2018 02:51 PM (ymnmz)
Could it be because there are no MANLY sports being shown?
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Biathalon. I beg to differ
Posted by: Simo at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (si5cc)
They did a study and Women like to watch the Olympics, that's why you get Ice skating, Ice skating doubles, and Ice Dancing. They show the Women sports more, I am glad I can stream it.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 21, 2018 02:51 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at February 21, 2018 02:52 PM (9nCnN)
Posted by: Bill R. at February 21, 2018 02:52 PM (IuYIh)
Posted by: Marcus T at February 21, 2018 02:52 PM (FpPL1)
Johnny Weir's outfits became the most interesting thing for me.
And that Rippon guy? Somehow I saw a clip of him complaining about the condoms. I guess he expected them to have a special designs and was hugely disappointed they are just run-of-the-mill. Why you would feel the need to share that, I have no idea.
In fairness to Rippon...shut up...he did skate beautiful programs with no falls or mistakes...and helped win the team the bronze medal. No fan, but giving some extra detail.
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 21, 2018 02:52 PM (Oizsv)
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Biathalon. I beg to differ
Posted by: Simo at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (si5cc)
And just how much coverage did it get?
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Not enough. They had another photo finish for the men, just like last Olympics. They only showed like the last 12 minutes of the race on the main channel. Nbc is run by women and low T men.
Posted by: Simplemind at February 21, 2018 02:52 PM (JL099)
54 Adam Rippon said he was upset that everyone was remembering him
for his comments on Pence. He should go back to what he was known for
and put a cock in his mouth.
Posted by: El Carbon Azzprint at February 21, 2018 02:45 PM (foYMy)
I doubt he needs any encouragement in that direction.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 02:50 PM (pVGtq)
OK, learn to do a quad then.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 21, 2018 02:52 PM (ymnmz)
You see, it doesn't bother her in the least when she is caught in her lies and deceptions at home. That's just the deplorables that are outraged. The fashionable set gives her applause and awards! (BAMN.)
But when 'sophisticated' Europeans laugh and point at her for her arrogant imbecility, THAT hurts her deeply.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2018 02:53 PM (0jtPF)
She scammed her way into the Olympics. Pretty funny. Hope she had a good time.
Posted by: brak at February 21, 2018 02:42 PM (WjCgM)
There's a Nigerian? women's bob-sled team, too. Haven't seen them yet. I think the women are from the US.
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2018 02:53 PM (0+nbW)
*flamethrows the unbelievers*
I wonder how much being able to stream the specific sports is cutting into this? I mean, I've watched a ton of curling and half pipe and slopestyle and some of the biathlons but all of that is via streaming. I've seen maybe five minutes total of the prime time coverage.
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe deeply. Namaste. Prayer-hands. Warrior Pose. at February 21, 2018 02:53 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 02:47 PM (2LelM
God of the universe is interested in people rooting for Olympic athletes, jacking of in beer?. Sounds like Zeus or possibly Odin.
BTW, my son is learning about Nose myths He asked me yesterday what "Flatulence" was. I said "Farting" Well, apparently that's the Norse myth for why there are bad poets. Odin got ahold of some bad mead-farted-and bad poets were the result.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2018 02:53 PM (8+Ozj)
What kind of "job?" Or do I not want to know?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 02:53 PM (pVGtq)
Posted by: Holier than Thou Asshole Bot at February 21, 2018 02:53 PM (SkuXa)
Posted by: grammie winger - at February 21, 2018 02:53 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 02:53 PM (39g3+)
Instead you'll get more x games variations. Gotta get those teenagers watching. Halfpipe couples routines. Halfpipe group routines. Halfpipe while holding hands. Etc.
Posted by: brak at February 21, 2018 02:53 PM (WjCgM)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 02:53 PM (2LelM)
Seemed to be: 20 minutes (interspersed with a ton of commercials, so it actually took 30) of talking heads spouting drivel about nothing.
Then another 10 minutes (commercials made it 15) of interviews and backstory on athletes
10 minutes of actual sporting events (commercial cuts at odd times, breaking the flow of the event, plus tacked on another 5 minutes for them)
And that was the hour of the Olympics that I saw. 10 minutes of sports, 20 minutes of commercials, 30 minutes of sheer blather.
Yawn. No wonder nobody's watching.
Posted by: pkudude99 at February 21, 2018 02:53 PM (9gNkj)
FRANCE! The brie eating surrender monkeys!
More gay skaters will be needed next time. Or hijabs.
Posted by: Ripley at February 21, 2018 02:54 PM (MxEKc)
All the news, all the TV, film, schools, sports, shit, what's left?
Posted by: Les Kinetic at February 21, 2018 02:54 PM (5OEn4)
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I was particularly moved by his emulation of a bird with a broken wing. *NOT*
Posted by: Simplemind at February 21, 2018 02:54 PM (JL099)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 21, 2018 02:54 PM (dKiJG)
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he turned them down when they did not demand he blow them first
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 21, 2018 02:54 PM (PNcou)
Make that jacking off, or in beer. Hopefully even the morons aren't jacking off IN their beer.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2018 02:55 PM (8+Ozj)
Posted by: Marcus T at February 21, 2018 02:55 PM (FpPL1)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 21, 2018 02:55 PM (xfb67)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 21, 2018 02:55 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Surfperch at February 21, 2018 02:55 PM (DN9hz)
And that Rippon guy? Somehow I saw a clip of him complaining about the condoms. I guess he expected them to have a special designs and was hugely disappointed they are just run-of-the-mill. Why you would feel the need to share that, I have no idea."
That shows the stupidity of offering a job to Rippon. Most people are turned off by bitter, angry gay dudes ala Dan Savage. Weir, on the other hand, comes off as a friendly, likeable guy so he is good at it.
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 21, 2018 02:55 PM (OD2ni)
"ice fisting"
???
Well, it fits this year's team...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 02:55 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: the gay olympics at February 21, 2018 02:55 PM (HOIdC)
You may be a raging twink off the ice -- who cares. Don't turn your performance into a freaking DRAG SHOW. /rantoff
Posted by: Simplemind at February 21, 2018 02:56 PM (cHsXl)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 21, 2018 02:56 PM (fA1SL)
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/289307/
Posted by: steevy at February 21, 2018 02:56 PM (LiyEm)
All the news, all the TV, film, schools, sports, shit, what's left?
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Man, are they gonna be butthurt when the GOP holds the House and picks up four seats in the Senate. Then Ruth Bader dies and they commit Seppuku. Good Times.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 02:56 PM (2LelM)
The events actually covered, when, and where among their station lineup - it simply sucks. They need new producers.
Posted by: RioBravo at February 21, 2018 02:51 PM (5NMZN)
Yes, this is exactly what I feel. It is an absolute mess. I don't miss Costa or Lauer, and they could not save the disasterous programming even if they were around.
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 21, 2018 02:56 PM (Oizsv)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 21, 2018 02:56 PM (+F0Wk)
Posted by: zombie
I think zombie just revealed the secret of the Universe.
Posted by: eleven
I'll reveal another one: that wasn't a secret.
Posted by: mikeski at February 21, 2018 02:56 PM (JGBbg)
Television ratings have been down double digits from the Sochi Games and on Saturday hit a low of 13.62 million viewers
That's pathetic when you realize there wasn't much competing against it in the time slots.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February 21, 2018 02:56 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: Don Q. at February 21, 2018 02:51 PM (NgKpN)
Easier to cover might be part of it. For gymnastics you just set up a camera in the gym. For track and field, you've got to have cameras all over the place.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 02:56 PM (pVGtq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2018 02:53 PM (8+Ozj)
That's as good an explanation as any, Fen
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 21, 2018 02:56 PM (ZM2xo)
Just like real life.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2018 02:57 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: mr.tmz at February 21, 2018 02:57 PM (m/Gc2)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 21, 2018 02:57 PM (ptqGC)
54 Adam Rippon said he was upset that everyone was remembering him
for his comments on Pence. He should go back to what he was known for
and put a cock in his mouth.
Posted by: El Carbon Azzprint at February 21, 2018 02:45 PM (foYMy)
I doubt he needs any encouragement in that direction.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 02:50 PM (pVGtq
Maybe that position at CNN is under the news anchors desk.
Posted by: El Carbon Azzprint at February 21, 2018 02:57 PM (foYMy)
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I got the highlight of Vonn crying afterwards because she didn't get the medal she really, really wanted and deserved. Which was about as much as I wanted to see of her.
Posted by: Methos at February 21, 2018 02:57 PM (XQvuQ)
Yeah I think they need to work on different metrics, people are not watching TV as much as they used to, and I think the numbers are really skewed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 02:57 PM (39g3+)
Hey guys, you could watch the Olympics or reruns of NFL games. Its really not a hard choice.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 02:53 PM (2LelM)
Or you could watch cement set.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2018 02:57 PM (Dbv1R)
I don't generally like skating. It's pretty low-T. The men's skating is actually negative-T.
Except for speed skating. Last time I watched a winter olympics, the ladies' speed skating was pretty good. Those chicks have thunder thighs. Bringing one of those gals to orgasm might actually register on the Richter scale. So I'm a fan (of sorts).
Posted by: Leon Botsky, definitely not a paid Russian troll at February 21, 2018 02:57 PM (MWX7h)
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True. As much as it may hurt Scott Van Pelt's feelz I'd opt to read a book.
Posted by: Holier than Thou Asshole Bot at February 21, 2018 02:58 PM (SkuXa)
Food. Soon to be a "Trump free" block on the Food Network...
*kidding. I think*
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 02:58 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: NCKate at February 21, 2018 02:58 PM (XNlzO)
We work hard. We are tired and just want to be f'ing entertained. No lectures and no whining SJW's.
Posted by: Cheri
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Yep. And add in endless Olympic interruptions of those SJW and GW commercials. My wife, who is enamored with women's and pairs figure skating, turned to me last night and said "that's enough commercials for tonight - turn it off please"
Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at February 21, 2018 02:58 PM (9ks3L)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2018 02:46 PM (0jtPF)
This right here. I think he's doing a fantastic job, and is the solo highlight of the entire fiasco. Johnny Weir also does a great job and I don't care what he wears. I think it's funny he's going full-on Hunger Games.
The games feel flat regardless of Team USA winning or losing. I think the atmosphere of the Olympics has been lost; 24 hour sports channels have spoiled the specialness of it, and there's just too much hype.
And like Donna said, starting it off with some asshat who makes a cointoss a racial issue, and a second-tier skater inserting his politics in to it does not help my enthusiasm one iota.
Posted by: Papal Prunes and Prisms at February 21, 2018 02:58 PM (5kfNs)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 21, 2018 02:58 PM (ptqGC)
Does that add to the suck?
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 21, 2018 02:59 PM (PNcou)
I think the highlight of the Olympics for me was the utter humiliation of perky Katie Couric. Utter humiliation.
You see, it doesn't bother her in the least when she is caught in
her lies and deceptions at home. That's just the deplorables that are
outraged. The fashionable set gives her applause and awards! (BAMN.)
But when 'sophisticated' Europeans laugh and point at her for her arrogant imbecility, THAT hurts her deeply.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2018 02:53 PM (0jtPF)
What? Tell me more? I missed this.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 21, 2018 02:59 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Sax at February 21, 2018 02:59 PM (0kCTs)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 21, 2018 02:59 PM (fA1SL)
*makes jerking motion with hand*
Yeah, it sure does honey. Keep telling your mediocre big mouth self that.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 21, 2018 02:59 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 02:56 PM (2LelM)
I wouldn't be cocky if I were you. The Dems are winning special elections in red areas.
You're sounding like the liberals did in October 2016. Just saying...
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 21, 2018 02:59 PM (ZM2xo)
Posted by: gNewt at February 21, 2018 02:59 PM (71o8T)
Somehow curling became kinda popular ... surely Soros has a few million to send in some SJWs to smother it in leftist hate, like with a cloth.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 21, 2018 02:59 PM (bT8Z4)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 02:59 PM (7LY+6)
The biggest problem is that most of the winter Olympic sports seem to suck. The addition of all those asinine winter skateboard "style" events is annoying as all hell.
Further, the coverage is awful. They don't bother to actually cover any of the events - like ... all the heats, from beginning to end without personal sob story bullshit thrown in. ANd NBC has a ton of extra channels to show this stuff on. But all they really cover on TV is the prime time crap - and prime time here certainly isn't prime time in South Korea.
Lastly, NBC has taken up with the Eurotrash method of concentrating on the "national" competitors, as if anyone really gives a shit. The point of the Olympics - or any world championship, is to see the best competing and to see the best win. Who cares if the best is from America or somewhere else? Americans have never been into this asinine sort of faux-nationality. I mean, there are areas where nationality is very, very important, such as in sovereignty issues, war, political organization, commerce, ... but not sports. No nation is defined by how many friggin world championships it picks up. For sports, we have always had professional leagues - and the best professional leagues in the world ... because doing business is the business of America.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 21, 2018 02:59 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Leon Botsky, definitely not a paid Russian troll at February 21, 2018 02:57 PM (MWX7h)
I caught a couple rounds of that. Watched the #2 and #3 skaters wipeout coming around the last turn to the finish line.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 21, 2018 03:00 PM (+F0Wk)
Yep. Or put all the figure skaters out there, and arm them with pipes a la Tonya Harding, and let 'em have at it, destruction derby style.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 03:00 PM (pVGtq)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 02:56 PM (2LelM)
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RBG looks like a vulture now with her broken neck.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 21, 2018 03:00 PM (tcwn1)
Yes. Two girls just won our first ever X-C golds this morning.
Posted by: t-bird at February 21, 2018 03:00 PM (2z74n)
Posted by: steevy at February 21, 2018 03:00 PM (LiyEm)
Yup. Which pretty much guarantees more and more Trump.
And they're stuck in the feedback loop.
Posted by: davidt at February 21, 2018 03:00 PM (djCea)
But they can always win The Bag of Dicks contest with Al Roker.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 21, 2018 03:00 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 21, 2018 03:00 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 21, 2018 03:00 PM (70cRb)
Posted by: El Carbon Azzprint at February 21, 2018 03:01 PM (foYMy)
Yawn. No wonder nobody's watching.
Posted by: pkudude99 at February 21, 2018 02:53 PM (9gNkj)
Pretty much my take. And they don't appear to be showing the awards ceremonies anymore; I think I saw a partial of Shaun White, but that was it.
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 21, 2018 03:01 PM (Oizsv)
Russian bot commentators could do better jobs than Lauer and Costas.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 21, 2018 03:01 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2018 03:01 PM (eSx+E)
Posted by: Caitlyn at February 21, 2018 03:01 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: New Olympian at February 21, 2018 03:01 PM (71o8T)
up four seats in the Senate. Then Ruth Bader dies and they commit
Seppuku. Good Times.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 02:56 PM (2LelM)
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If that happens I will run naked through Times Square playing a trombone.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 21, 2018 03:02 PM (VpIIl)
My thoughts exactly.. Unfortunately I think it's gonna be a while before this one passes...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 21, 2018 03:02 PM (O2RFr)
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/289307/
Posted by: steevy at February 21, 2018 02:56 PM (LiyEm)
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we left Venus for the matriachy.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 21, 2018 03:02 PM (PNcou)
That is super impressive. Seriously, winning cross country over Norwegians and Finns and Russians is truly remarkable. Its like beating Kenyans in a foot race.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 03:02 PM (39g3+)
Considering that a lot of the events I saw were playing to half empty and near empty crowds ... probably not much.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 21, 2018 03:02 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 03:02 PM (7LY+6)
Those two loaves of chocolate peanut butter banana bread aren't going to make themselves.
And today is Mr. D'oh's birthday! Celebrating tonight.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 21, 2018 03:02 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 21, 2018 02:57 PM (ptqGC)
The US women just won gold in cross country skiing, first ever for the US.
Shaun White dropped in on the final run of half pipe needing to beat a 95.25 to win. He threw down a 97.75. Third gold out of four Olympics.
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe deeply. Namaste. Prayer-hands. Warrior Pose. at February 21, 2018 03:02 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Ice Capades at February 21, 2018 03:02 PM (r9UYA)
Is it safe to turn the TV back on? Are the snowflakes finished lecturing us?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 21, 2018 03:00 PM (ptqGC)
Nope... They are relentless. Like the Devil or wheat rust.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at February 21, 2018 03:02 PM (9nCnN)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 21, 2018 03:02 PM (70cRb)
Does that add to the suck?
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 21, 2018 02:59 PM (PNcou)
I have a problem with any sport that has to be "judged." Officiated, OK, but not "judged."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 03:02 PM (pVGtq)
Is it safe to turn the TV back on? Are the snowflakes finished lecturing us?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 21, 2018 03:00 PM (ptqGC)
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No. You may as well take a long vacation. Their rally is near the end of March.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 21, 2018 03:03 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 21, 2018 03:03 PM (ZM2xo)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 02:56 PM (2LelM)
I wouldn't be cocky if I were you. The Dems are winning special elections in red areas.
You're sounding like the liberals did in October 2016. Just saying...
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 21, 2018 02:59 PM (ZM2xo)
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Yeah, but if we outflank them and get ahead of it, we'll be OK.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at February 21, 2018 03:03 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Hands at February 21, 2018 03:03 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: Under Fire at February 21, 2018 03:03 PM (r9UYA)
"And just how much coverage did it get? "
"Not enough. They had another photo finish for the men, just like last Olympics. They only showed like the last 12 minutes of the race on the main channel. Nbc is run by women and low T men."
AMEN. As a gun guy, I'm biased and was willing to overlook what had appeared to me in the past to be possibly a dull sport to watch. But the events as a whole this year were legitimately exciting. The racing was tight and the shooting was, to use a hugely-overused network TV word) dramatic. The sport deserves a hell of a lot more attention than it gets here.
Unfortunately, the types of things that get attention are the hours-long Lindsey Vonn-centric womens downhill coverage. Embarassing and enormously unfair to Goggia and Wowinckel.
Posted by: Jaws at February 21, 2018 03:04 PM (oOw3I)
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/289307/
Posted by: steevy at February 21, 2018 02:56 PM (LiyEm)
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we left Venus for the matriachy.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 21, 2018 03:02 PM (PNcou)
And Uranus for ... well, you know.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 03:04 PM (pVGtq)
I think the highlight of the Olympics for me was the utter humiliation of perky Katie Couric. Utter humiliation.
Was this about the Netherlands? I didn't see it...I only read about it.
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 21, 2018 03:04 PM (Oizsv)
Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at February 21, 2018 03:04 PM (FQKBL)
Posted by: Olympian 2018 at February 21, 2018 03:04 PM (H8S+R)
Posted by: Marcus T at February 21, 2018 03:02 PM (VpIIl)
You'll fit right in, then.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 21, 2018 03:04 PM (ZM2xo)
Posted by: brak at February 21, 2018 03:05 PM (WjCgM)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 21, 2018 03:05 PM (kqsXK)
Of course now they have to beat Canada again to get into the gold medal match.
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe deeply. Namaste. Prayer-hands. Warrior Pose. at February 21, 2018 03:05 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 03:05 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: SH at February 21, 2018 03:05 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Papal Prunes and Prisms at February 21, 2018 03:05 PM (5kfNs)
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I have a problem with any sport that has to be "judged." Officiated, OK, but not "judged."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 03:02 PM
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Let me at 'em!
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at February 21, 2018 03:05 PM (pMGkg)
Shaun White dropped in on the final run of half pipe needing to beat a 95.25 to win. He threw down a 97.75. Third gold out of four Olympics.
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe deeply. Namaste. Prayer-hands. Warrior Pose. at February 21, 2018 03:02 PM (mf5HN)
But he scored a 98 on the qualifying run. There's something really weird about that scoring.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 21, 2018 03:05 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Trump Nazi at February 21, 2018 03:05 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 21, 2018 03:05 PM (70cRb)
Posted by: steevy at February 21, 2018 03:06 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 03:06 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Simplemind at February 21, 2018 03:06 PM (VDUK2)
Very little attention paid to her on the German feed. They were all about the skiing. Guy was coming out of his chair during the Norwegian's run, as he could tell it was special. I watched the first forty girls.
Posted by: t-bird at February 21, 2018 03:06 PM (2z74n)
I ended up only watching a clip of the South Korea skull sled gold run and the Czech chick in the Super G surprise.
whisper, whisper, whisper......
ITS STILL ON!
Posted by: MAGA at February 21, 2018 03:07 PM (33WtC)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 03:07 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Chris M at February 21, 2018 03:07 PM (eAZVt)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 21, 2018 03:07 PM (VWsDy)
Posted by: East German Olympic Judge at February 21, 2018 03:07 PM (OD2ni)
Really. If anything, Tirico is one of the good things about NBC's coverage. A big upgrade from The Perv and Pinkeye The Pontificator.
Posted by: tu3031 at February 21, 2018 03:07 PM (O5Q3r)
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This is how civilizations stagnate, whither and die.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at February 21, 2018 03:07 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 21, 2018 03:07 PM (4ErVI)
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Victoria Toensing, the attorney for William Douglas Campbell, the FBI informant providing Congressional investigators with information about the Uranium One scandal is demanding the DOJ open an investigation into the falsified leaks to the media by "anonymous federal officials", reported Sara Carter.
Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 21, 2018 03:07 PM (y3aQB)
Posted by: mustbequantum at February 21, 2018 03:08 PM (MIKMs)
Shaun White dropped in on the final run of half pipe needing to beat
a 95.25 to win. He threw down a 97.75. Third gold out of four Olympics.
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe deeply. Namaste. Prayer-hands. Warrior Pose. at February 21, 2018 03:02 PM (mf5HN)
So the opposite of 'threw down' is 'threw up' then? in half pipe vernacular?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 21, 2018 03:08 PM (70cRb)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 21, 2018 03:07 PM (VWsDy)
Well AtC is neither black nor fat, so it wasn't her.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 21, 2018 03:08 PM (ZM2xo)
Posted by: Hands at February 21, 2018 03:03 PM (EzdLW)
I think it's right to keep the professionals out. Sure, the rest of the world always cheated by having professional teams (working for their countries) but that was because they were losers whose entire reason for existence depended on getting medals at the Olympics, as if anyone really gave a shit.
When NBA players started going to the Olympics that was one of the most pathetic things I have ever heard of. Truly pathetic.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 21, 2018 03:08 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at February 21, 2018 03:04 PM (FQKBL)
Probably either NBCSN (which shows curling routinely by the by) or CNBC.
I was channel surfing Monday I think and one of my multitudinous sports channels was showing college swimming and diving championships so I was watching that for the glory of the sport and not the basically naked ridiculously fit people participating in it.
koff
WHICH REMINDS ME whoever came up with that stupid shark skin suit that the swimmers wear now to get the .001 second advantage needs to be taken out and horsewhipped.
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe deeply. Namaste. Prayer-hands. Warrior Pose. at February 21, 2018 03:08 PM (mf5HN)
1. The Olympic sports shown are no longer uncommon, you can see any of them most any weekend during the season.
2. The athletes competing are not the best in the world.
3. The melodramatic, human interest focused coverage appeals only to a subset of the potential audience.
4. There is nothing about these games to compel me to stay inside and watch them on a weekend afternoon.
Posted by: steve walsh at February 21, 2018 03:09 PM (XlouP)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 21, 2018 02:59 PM (ymnmz)
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She was blathering authoritatively about speed-skating and said that the reason the Dutch were so good at it was that Amsterdam had canals that froze over in the winter and people regularly skated to work and shopping.
The Euros absolutely SAVAGED her as an idiot.
Huge embarrassment --- and we have not seen much of her since then.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2018 03:09 PM (0jtPF)
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Biathalon is an amazing thing. They hit a target over fifty yards away size of a quarter - while in the middle of running a marathon.
Posted by: Simplemind at February 21, 2018 03:09 PM (OBE+u)
Posted by: Les Kinetic at February 21, 2018 03:09 PM (5OEn4)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 21, 2018 03:09 PM (kqsXK)
Posted by: steevy at February 21, 2018 03:09 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: Glenn John at February 21, 2018 03:09 PM (LilNs)
Posted by: SpecialEd at February 21, 2018 03:10 PM (T5iHd)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2018 03:10 PM (8+Ozj)
Our new extravaganza will include flaming gay skaters that are actually on fire.
He won gold in the 100m Pryor event. Or would that be the Brando..
Posted by: El Carbon Azzprint at February 21, 2018 03:10 PM (foYMy)
Posted by: steevy at February 21, 2018 03:10 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: Jen the original at February 21, 2018 03:10 PM (QJ4Ki)
Posted by: grammie winger - at February 21, 2018 03:10 PM (lwiT4)
I love x-c skiing, have done it for decades (though not enough, and am geographically challenged for snow so don't get to do much), and have long wished I could have done biathlon. So watching these races is interesting (and torturous) for me.
And while I simply have no interest in watching, never have, and the atmospherics have long been dominated by gay/theater vibes, figure skating is unbelievably athletic and difficult. Have played hockey most of my life, and trust me even the "easiest" moves done by figure skaters are incredibly difficult.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 21, 2018 03:10 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Lester at February 21, 2018 03:11 PM (LfJIn)
1. The Olympic sports shown are no longer uncommon, you can see any of them most any weekend during the season.
2. The athletes competing are not the best in the world.
3. The melodramatic, human interest focused coverage appeals only to a subset of the potential audience.
4. There is nothing about these games to compel me to stay inside and watch them on a weekend afternoon.
Posted by: steve walsh
Ding ding ding! Winner winner chicken dinner!
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:11 PM (0PD0H)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at February 21, 2018 03:11 PM (xInes)
The US had pros, just not from the NHL. They should just go full amateur next time since the college guys like Donato were the stars anyway.
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 21, 2018 03:11 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 21, 2018 03:08 PM (ZM2xo)
Well, I am fat.
*hitches up pants leg*
*lets sun glare off leg blind a city block*
Black not so much.
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe deeply. Namaste. Prayer-hands. Warrior Pose. at February 21, 2018 03:11 PM (mf5HN)
It's unwatchable.
In eight years we'll be reading about Amazon's Bezos buying NBC for a dollar and a curler to be named later.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 21, 2018 03:11 PM (H8S+R)
Posted by: concrete girl at February 21, 2018 03:11 PM (SJBL7)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 21, 2018 03:11 PM (PNcou)
Posted by: French Jeton at February 21, 2018 03:11 PM (Fjvqd)
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Ha! Republicans keep the house and the senate.
Two Scoop triumphs in 2020.
Posted by: Bois D'Arc at February 21, 2018 03:11 PM (71o8T)
And if they miss, they have to run even more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 03:12 PM (39g3+)
Gary Coleman?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing"
Beetlejuice?
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 21, 2018 03:12 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 21, 2018 03:12 PM (n6W6z)
reason the Dutch were so good at it was that Amsterdam had canals that
froze over in the winter and people regularly skated to work and
shopping.
The Euros absolutely SAVAGED her as an idiot.
Huge embarrassment --- and we have not seen much of her since then.
In my defense, I was freezing my ass off. And drunk. And I'm really fucking stupid!
Posted by: Perky Katie Couric at February 21, 2018 03:12 PM (O5Q3r)
Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 21, 2018 03:12 PM (y3aQB)
Posted by: bicentennialguy at February 21, 2018 03:12 PM (vg8iE)
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Our new extravaganza will include flaming gay skaters that are actually on fire.
He won gold in the 100m Pryor event. Or would that be the Brando..
Posted by: El Carbon Azzprint at February 21, 2018 03:10 PM (foYMy)
Sorry, the Brando would be a team event.
Posted by: El Carbon Azzprint at February 21, 2018 03:12 PM (foYMy)
Posted by: steve walsh
ANd the coverage is much better. Actual racing and shit.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 21, 2018 03:12 PM (8gDQu)
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Good point - I was probably searching for a descriptor like "x games" my alzheimers/world salad gets stirred up in the winter. Lack of vitamin D maybe.
Posted by: Simplemind at February 21, 2018 03:13 PM (qO5s2)
Posted by: SH at February 21, 2018 03:13 PM (sX1BW)
Our new extravaganza will include flaming gay skaters that are actually on fire.
He won gold in the 100m Pryor event. Or would that be the Brando..
His flaming double axle was marvelous at Brando.
Posted by: Under Fire at February 21, 2018 03:13 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 21, 2018 03:13 PM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Bill R. at February 21, 2018 03:13 PM (IuYIh)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
No. Came in like 119th.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:14 PM (0PD0H)
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe deeply. Namaste. Prayer-hands. Warrior Pose. at February 21, 2018 03:14 PM (mf5HN)
You skate like a fag and your shits all retarded
Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 21, 2018 03:14 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 21, 2018 03:07 PM (y3aQB)
I like VT but her Hubby are a couple of Vampire Killers.
Posted by: REDACTED at February 21, 2018 03:14 PM (VWsDy)
reason the Dutch were so good at it was that Amsterdam had canals that
froze over in the winter and people regularly skated to work and
shopping.
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That really is an odd story to come up with. It is almost like it was something she thought up as a child.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 21, 2018 03:14 PM (tcwn1)
Biathlon in particular is a very dramatic, watchable event. A unique combo of sprint, or medium-distance, racing - with precision shooting. The most aerobic exercise there is (more than swimming), combined with a discipline where breath control and calm are the keys. A fantastic athletic challenge.
And the mechanics are key to the drama. One or two missed targets out of 20 can take the fastest skier to 10th place. In the best races, everything comes down to the 4th (last) shooting session. It's fantastic.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 21, 2018 03:14 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: French Jeton at February 21, 2018 03:14 PM (Fjvqd)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 21, 2018 03:14 PM (70cRb)
Posted by: wth at February 21, 2018 03:14 PM (HgMAr)
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Next you will tell us Johnny Weir is too
Posted by: DeploraBOT
And may the odds be ever in your favor!
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:14 PM (0PD0H)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 21, 2018 03:08 PM (8gDQu)
I agree. Most people I knew thought it was great. To me it undermined the games enjoyment. I mean, why watch when they were obviously going to win. How Anticlimatic. The opponent teams had to have felt diminished too. I mean, why bother even playing. Hated it.
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 21, 2018 03:15 PM (Oizsv)
Posted by: DeploraBOT"
A straight dude would be all over that little hottie Tara Lipinski like white on rice.
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 21, 2018 03:15 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 03:15 PM (39g3+)
172----What? Tell me more? I missed this.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 21, 2018 02:59 PM (ymnmz)
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She was blathering authoritatively about speed-skating and said that
the reason the Dutch were so good at it was that Amsterdam had canals
that froze over in the winter and people regularly skated to work and
shopping.
The Euros absolutely SAVAGED her as an idiot.
Huge embarrassment --- and we have not seen much of her since then.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2018 03:09 PM (0jtPF)
OMG---- I heard that little bit live while I as doing something around the house. I peeked in and saw Katie's botox filled prune face and thought, pull the camera back, then I never saw her again. Wasn't aware that it was such a bomb. Just too bad. So sad, So sad.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 21, 2018 03:15 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2018 02:53 PM (0jtPF)
What? Tell me more? I missed this.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 21, 2018 02:59 PM (ymnmz)
I missed it too but she said something witless about the Dutch being so good at skating because they use the frozen dikes as a major way of getting to and from work like the whole population does. She got called out for being a brainless idiot for that witless stereotyping almost immediately, with some shots thrown in that their wooden shoes are difficult to attach skates to. It was humiliatingly great.
Posted by: Captain Hate at February 21, 2018 03:15 PM (y7DUB)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
No. Came in like 119th.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:14 PM (0PD0H)
Should've had a cop on skates chasing him for motivation.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 03:16 PM (pVGtq)
You skate like a fag and your shits all retarded
It's like someone at NBC decided that Gay Twinks on Ice was their path to Ratings Gold.
and nobody above them can countermand it.
I swear they would get better ratings if they ran an Adam West Batman marathon instead.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2018 03:16 PM (k1TUh)
So, Bangladesh should win all the swimming and water events in the Summer Olympics ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 21, 2018 03:16 PM (8gDQu)
Now its just Mountain Dew, environment, screw Trump, etc.
Posted by: SH at February 21, 2018 03:16 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Adam Rippon, UCF Alumnus at February 21, 2018 03:16 PM (6BVGb)
Posted by: Frank Rizzo at February 21, 2018 03:16 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: WOPR (Russian BOTS are pikers) at February 21, 2018 03:16 PM (J70i0)
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It's the narcissism component.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at February 21, 2018 03:16 PM (vg8iE)
The problem is that he was never in medal contention for a men's medal, despite NBC pumping him up as this skating wunderkind. Only triples, no quads? He skates pretty programs but IMO needs the athleticism to land a quad if he's going to spout off like he does.
Posted by: LizLem at February 21, 2018 03:17 PM (hvf9s)
Spring Training in MLB going on now.
Is it winter or spring? I'm so confused. Must be because Trump pulled us out of the Paris Climate Accord!!! *hair on fire*
Posted by: Hands at February 21, 2018 03:17 PM (EzdLW)
I will not be lectured by a bunch of uptalking Tide Pods.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 21, 2018 03:17 PM (fA1SL)
I don't worry too much about who wins or loses because judges are.....subjective. (Yeah, the French should have won the ice-dancing gold over the Canadians, but..... that's the way it goes.)
But I can remember when the coverage was much better. They would at least tell you what music the performers were using. Now they blather on about the skaters "interpreting the story" when I don't even know what the "story" it is.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2018 03:17 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 03:15 PM (39g3+)
The thing I don't get is the attraction toward hair dressing, interior decorating, ballet, and of course figure skating.
You'd think they'd be big on wrestling or something.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 03:18 PM (pVGtq)
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 21, 2018 03:15 PM (Oizsv)
Except when Allen Iverson and that bunch of losers went and lost. Now, that was funny.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 21, 2018 03:18 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 03:18 PM (39g3+)
Second the announcers and personalities are all over the map. Some teams are great and others are terrible. Does NBC really believe that people watch Lapinski and Wier to see their outfits? Their commentary is awful.
Much of the NBC commentary is one cliche after the next.
Sure the US team has had some poorer performances, and we have a lower metal count, but ~ 24 US folks have come in 4th/5th/6h in many events.
Posted by: standfast24 at February 21, 2018 03:18 PM (PNFIr)
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So much of what they think they know is just not true. Its freaky really.
See also, Wolf Blitzer competing on Jeapardy - its on Youtube. Total moron, convinced he's the smartest guy in the room. Buzzed in first every time, smug, and wrong like EVERY single time.
Posted by: Simplemind at February 21, 2018 03:18 PM (BrgSe)
Posted by: SH at February 21, 2018 03:18 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
No. Came in like 119th.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:14 PM (0PD0H)
Should've had a cop on skates chasing him for motivation.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
When you come in 119th out of a field of 15, I don't think motivation is the key.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:18 PM (0PD0H)
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It's the narcissism component.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at February 21, 2018 03:16 PM (vg8iE)
I also wonder about some insecurity. So the display is only partly for the outside world.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2018 03:18 PM (ycWCI)
Which envy is it that Rippon suffers from, 'penis' or 'Pence'?
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Yes.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at February 21, 2018 03:12 PM (vg8iE)
He's pissed because Pence got a silver.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 21, 2018 03:18 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 03:19 PM (pVGtq)
What really would be nice would be a site where one could go, for a reasonable small fee, to have access to the entire feed menu, and just pick from the buffet as you choose. Sort of like the execs from national broadcasters with broadcast rights have.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 21, 2018 03:19 PM (QDnY+)
reason the Dutch were so good at it was that Amsterdam had canals that
froze over in the winter and people regularly skated to work and
shopping."
Don't get me started on those 1%ers and their silver skates.
Posted by: Hans Brinker at February 21, 2018 03:19 PM (djCea)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2018 03:18 PM (ycWCI)
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That too.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at February 21, 2018 03:19 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 03:19 PM (L78vw)
Football, all those muscular guys in tight uniforms patting rear ends, and that Quarterback crouch.
I mean normal guys love beach volleyball and curling, it makes sense.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 03:19 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Monty James at February 21, 2018 03:19 PM (gKOMX)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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This is where Drama Queens originated.
Posted by: gNewt at February 21, 2018 03:19 PM (71o8T)
In fairness, if all my knowledge of Holland came from Disney's version of Hans Brinker I might think the same thing.
Posted by: Grump928(C) can likewise assert at February 21, 2018 03:20 PM (QQ+il)
You'd think they'd be big on wrestling or something.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 03:18 PM (pVGtq)
You savage.
Posted by: Johnny Weir at February 21, 2018 03:20 PM (70cRb)
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In the past I know Figure Skating got the biggest ratings in the Winter Olympics
Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 21, 2018 03:20 PM (y3aQB)
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Could apply that to all the events (other than biatholon). Drunk luge would be fascinating.
Posted by: SH at February 21, 2018 03:20 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille
It's a story,
Of a man named Brady....
Posted by: Bruce at February 21, 2018 03:20 PM (8ikIW)
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Uh, oh....uh.....excuse me for about 30 seconds....
Posted by: Shep! at February 21, 2018 03:20 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 21, 2018 03:12 PM (y3aQB)
That was my thought. I was happy they weren't going, but the radio guys were bemoaning it and all pissed off.
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 21, 2018 03:20 PM (Oizsv)
Posted by: wth at February 21, 2018 03:21 PM (HgMAr)
"Not too many from gen x competing these days..."
We Xers are in that awkward transition period between totally radical cab double cork 1440's and a Fractured Pelvis.
Bummer, dude.
Posted by: Jaws at February 21, 2018 03:21 PM (oOw3I)
Posted by: Apolo Ono at February 21, 2018 03:21 PM (r9UYA)
If I were king I would require a rule in curling that after each round , every participant had to drink a 16 oz beer.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 03:19 PM (L78vw)
Ties are settled with derringers.
Posted by: Johnny Weir at February 21, 2018 03:21 PM (70cRb)
"Next you will tell us Johnny Weir is too
Posted by: DeploraBOT"
A straight dude would be all over that little hottie Tara Lipinski like white on rice.
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unless Tara doesn't like the D.
Posted by: El Carbon Azzprint at February 21, 2018 03:21 PM (foYMy)
Who'da thunk it?
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at February 21, 2018 03:21 PM (roQNm)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 03:18 PM (39g3+)
Meh, I do really well with one at a time. With two it's like not knowing what to grab in the buffet line.
Posted by: Bill R. at February 21, 2018 03:21 PM (IuYIh)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor"
Wiki says she is 5'1" which is a few inches taller than I thought. She is hot though.
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 21, 2018 03:21 PM (OD2ni)
You'd think they'd be big on wrestling or something.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 03:18 PM (pVGtq)
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I can't make any sense out of it.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 21, 2018 03:21 PM (tcwn1)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
Just like bowling.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:21 PM (0PD0H)
And that was back when they had to do those compulsory exercises, like "skate a perfect figure 8 in reverse." Really hard to do but really dull to watch.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 03:21 PM (39g3+)
They were posting the music in the chyrons with the skater's names at one point, but they didn't do it for the ladies short last night/
Possibly because most of them usually skated to Carmen, Sleeping Beauty or Swan Lake? /s
Posted by: Papal Prunes and Prisms at February 21, 2018 03:21 PM (5kfNs)
So, Bangladesh should win all the swimming and water events in the Summer Olympics ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 21, 2018 03:16 PM
And
Ireland should win all the boxing events.
Japan should win all the judo events.
Greco-Romans should win all the greco-roman wrestling.
Bob should win all the bobsled events.
Posted by: Hands at February 21, 2018 03:21 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: zombie at February 21, 2018 03:22 PM (42M22)
Posted by: SH at February 21, 2018 03:20 PM (sX1BW)
Strip curling has possibilities. Lose a round, lose some duds.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 03:22 PM (pVGtq)
Many years ago I was a fair-to-middling target archer, and in college in those days you had to have so-many phys ed credits to prove sound mind/sound body theory. The whole system sucked: early in my career, you needed seniority for sign-ups, so I couldn't get fencing. Later, when I had seniority, they changed the system, and I still couldn't get fencing. So, after one POW quarter in volleyball because that's what was open, archery it was.
Archery always sucks hind tit, and where they had for us to shoot was in the Ice Arena, just over the hockey barrier from Little Scotty Hamilton's daily workout. Two things, Scotty's blades could make it snow on the other side of that barrier, and he had no compunction at all about slamming into the boards at the end of a follow-through. It was hard to believe he didn't hurt himself, because he hit them HARD, but, of course, that would spoil your shot, and how did we know he was going to be a big star?
Anyway at the other end of the arena they had a curling alley. We were a hockey power back then, had a load of Canucks in the mid-70's on scholarship, and nobody but nobody took this shit seriously. I had to have it explained to me how important Molson was to the sport, and then it looked like it might not be any screwier than bowling, as en excuse to drink.
I do not know when the hot chicks showed up. Seems to have changed everything. Who knew.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 21, 2018 03:22 PM (H5rtT)
I am always kind of mystified by 'sports' people do not really play. Skiing, shooting, snowboarding, etc, yep people do because they enjoy it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2018 03:22 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 21, 2018 03:22 PM (kqsXK)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 03:22 PM (L78vw)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 21, 2018 03:22 PM (H8S+R)
Posted by: Roland THTG at February 21, 2018 03:23 PM (xBSm0)
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 21, 2018 03:15 PM (OD2ni)
...........
she doesn't look too thrilled to have to sit so close to him.
Posted by: wth at February 21, 2018 03:23 PM (HgMAr)
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the Dutch being so good at skating because they use the frozen dikes
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Frozen Dykquiris! YUM!!
Posted by: Hic' Hillary at February 21, 2018 03:23 PM (pMGkg)
Could apply that to all the events (other than biatholon). Drunk luge would be fascinating.
Posted by: SH at February 21, 2018 03:20 PM (sX1BW)
....with derringers. Everything could be improved with some shooting of stuff.
Posted by: Johnny Weir at February 21, 2018 03:23 PM (70cRb)
Posted by: Under Fire at February 21, 2018 03:23 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 03:19 PM
You mean that's NOT a rule???
Posted by: Diogenes at February 21, 2018 03:23 PM (0tfLf)
reason the Dutch were so good at it was that Amsterdam had canals that
froze over in the winter and people regularly skated to work and
shopping."
Katie should be subjected to a few Dutch Ovens to atone for this.
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 21, 2018 03:23 PM (OD2ni)
Gary Coleman?
or maybe Danny Devito in blackface?
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2018 03:24 PM (k1TUh)
Posted by: zombie at February 21, 2018 03:22 PM (42M22)
But he would have gotten killed as a pro.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 21, 2018 03:24 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: rhomboid
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The Olympic committee could market it through a third party vendor such as NetFlix or Amazon.
Oh, speaking of Bezos; He's building a mechanical five thousand year clock into a mountain in Texas. ... Extrapolate that one.
Posted by: gNewt at February 21, 2018 03:24 PM (71o8T)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 21, 2018 02:59 PM (ymnmz)
Yeah the Dutch thing was dumb.
Another bit of Katie fail was where she interviewed Mikaela Schiffren and her mom/coach, and asked them with a twinge of jealousy how their mother/daughter bond was so strong when there are days her daughter doesn't even want to be in the same zip code as her. MAYBE DON'T TALK ABOUT HER LIKE THAT ON NATIONAL TV, FOR A START. Might help. Also, those pics of you dancing drunk that I'm sure her friends have shown her don't help either.
https://tinyurl.com/y7faklex
Posted by: LizLem at February 21, 2018 03:24 PM (hvf9s)
It's Pinkeye and the Perv.
It's Pinkeye and the Perv.
One's head is up his ass the other's just..(what rhyme's with perv)
Posted by: El Carbon Azzprint at February 21, 2018 03:24 PM (foYMy)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 03:25 PM (L78vw)
Posted by: Jen the original at February 21, 2018 03:10 PM (QJ4Ki)
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THIS.
That Russian dude who competed in 3 or 4 Olympics, Viktor Whatshisnameinov, was very masculine. (Okay, also a hetero, but still.....)
Ahhh. I remember from way back Toller Cranston of Canada. Very powerful in his routines though a private poofter.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2018 03:25 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Bruce Jenner at February 21, 2018 03:25 PM (HgMAr)
Darts.
Now that's a sport. Right up there with Lighting Farts On Fire.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 21, 2018 03:25 PM (H8S+R)
Posted by: Roy at February 21, 2018 03:25 PM (7n4KQ)
she doesn't look too thrilled to have to sit so close to him.
Posted by: wth at February 21, 2018 03:23 PM
It's like they're in a contest over who has prettier makeup and more sequins.
Posted by: Hands at February 21, 2018 03:25 PM (EzdLW)
Bummer, dude.
Posted by: Jaws at February 21, 2018 03:21 PM (oOw3I)
Yup.
There was a great thread up at the Chive with tweets from people about being old and the best one was "Is it just me getting old or is the grocery story playing awesome music now?"
That one left a mark.
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe deeply. Namaste. Prayer-hands. Warrior Pose. at February 21, 2018 03:26 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth"
So drunk, hot Russian girls. I could watch that.
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 21, 2018 03:26 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 21, 2018 03:23 PM (0tfLf)
Its implied.
Posted by: Johnny Weir at February 21, 2018 03:26 PM (70cRb)
See also, Wolf Blitzer competing on Jeapardy - its on Youtube. Total moron, convinced he's the smartest guy in the room. Buzzed in first every time, smug, and wrong like EVERY single time.
Posted by: Simplemind at February 21, 2018 03:18 PM (BrgSe)
I don't think Alex Trebek would be so smart and smarmy without having all the answers. I bet he wouldn't have been such a great contestant himself. But he has the illusion of being smart bcz he is the host...even though other people write the questions. He just acts superior. Doubt he really is.
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 21, 2018 03:26 PM (Oizsv)
had stopped on a corner. I was looking around and then I looked down. At
my waist ( I'm 6'3") was this fat little black midget. Guess who that
was ??
So are we gonna get an answer to this or what?
Posted by: tu3031 at February 21, 2018 03:26 PM (O5Q3r)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 03:25 PM (L78vw)
Fall in the water hazard next time. Easier to take a piss without people noticing.
Posted by: Roy at February 21, 2018 03:27 PM (7n4KQ)
Posted by: Eromero at February 21, 2018 03:27 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 21, 2018 03:27 PM (4Q3e4)
It looked more like a Halloween costume than anything else.
Posted by: Simplemind at February 21, 2018 03:27 PM (ISVHN)
Posted by: WisRich at February 21, 2018 03:27 PM (G0vdT)
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I played a round of golf where you had to drink a can of beer after
every hole. On the 11th hole I fell in the sand trap and it took a
while and a lot of laughs before I could get up.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 03:25 PM
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You mean that's not a rule??
Posted by: Amy Schumer at February 21, 2018 03:27 PM (pMGkg)
this something a bunch of beered up guys do on a hockey rink when there
isn't a game going on?
I am always kind of mystified by 'sports' people do not really play.
Skiing, shooting, snowboarding, etc, yep people do because they enjoy
it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2018 03:22 PM (ycWCI)
Believe it or not, most towns have actual curling rinks. Hockey ice won't do. Curling ice has a pebbled texture on its surface. It's a very sociable sport.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2018 03:27 PM (Dbv1R)
Posted by: Leon Botsky, definitely not a paid Russian troll at February 21, 2018 03:28 PM (MWX7h)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2018 03:28 PM (8+Ozj)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
We'll never know. He never fought any of the American champions, stayed amateur his whole life because he was a loyal Cuban communist. Oh well. I imagine Cassius Clay (with speed) or George Foreman (with power) probably could have beaten him, but without a head-to-head, it will forever be speculation.
Posted by: zombie at February 21, 2018 03:28 PM (42M22)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 21, 2018 03:27 PM (4Q3e4)
That is why the Russians would be undefeated world curling champions under my rules.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 03:28 PM (L78vw)
Posted by: Sean Connery at February 21, 2018 03:28 PM (k1TUh)
Nah. Some other dude. Been at it for some time. JB just tossed some cash his way...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 03:28 PM (7LY+6)
offered by sheriff in Ohio ... 50 open spots
twitter.com/Thomas1774Paine/status/966383296274948103
Posted by: illiniwek at February 21, 2018 03:28 PM (bT8Z4)
all the answers. I bet he wouldn't have been such a great contestant
himself. But he has the illusion of being smart bcz he is the
host...even though other people write the questions. He just acts
superior. Doubt he really is.
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In many ways, this is the story of Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: davidt at February 21, 2018 03:28 PM (djCea)
New Summer Olympic event, Monument Tumbling.
Posted by: Under Fire at February 21, 2018 03:28 PM (r9UYA)
Hey, world: See how dumb Couric is? Well, she's no dumber than most other American "journalists." And your "journalists" take their cues about US news from our "journalists."
That's why you think everyone in America is dodging bullets every time they walk outside and 9 year olds can buy guns. So don't listen to "journalists."
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 21, 2018 03:29 PM (ZM2xo)
At my waist ( I'm 6'3") was this fat little black midget. Guess who that was ??
Posted by: REDACTED at February 21, 2018 03:07 PM
If you're 6'3'', that might not be a midget.
Posted by: Hands at February 21, 2018 03:29 PM (EzdLW)
Ahhh, the "Homer Simpson" technique. It works until you meet Drederick Tatum.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 21, 2018 03:29 PM (H8S+R)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth"
So drunk, hot Russian girls. I could watch that.
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You know by the 6th end there'd be fighting. Yeah, I'd watch too.
Posted by: Simplemind at February 21, 2018 03:29 PM (DNgch)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 21, 2018 03:29 PM (4Q3e4)
It's NASCAR on ice.
Posted by: WisRich at February 21, 2018 03:27 PM (G0vdT)
Yup. With two foot long honed blades slamming into human flesh.
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe deeply. Namaste. Prayer-hands. Warrior Pose. at February 21, 2018 03:29 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Leon Botsky, definitely not a paid Russian troll at February 21, 2018 03:29 PM (MWX7h)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 03:29 PM (L78vw)
Gary Coleman?
or maybe Danny Devito in blackface?
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2018 03:24 PM (k1TUh)
Al Roker?
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 21, 2018 03:29 PM (Oizsv)
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Ha! Jagged Edge with Glenn Close was on the other night. I hadn't seen it for years and thought, what the hell?
There is one suit she wears that looks exactly like a couch my parents had. Straight-up upholstery.
Ah, 1985.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at February 21, 2018 03:29 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Frank Rizzo at February 21, 2018 03:16 PM (OD2ni) "
LOL! Classic.
Posted by: Chris M at February 21, 2018 03:30 PM (eAZVt)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth"
So, like Darts.
Posted by: WisRich at February 21, 2018 03:30 PM (G0vdT)
It's NASCAR on ice.
Did that Apollo guy finally age out?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 21, 2018 03:30 PM (QQ+il)
It looked more like a Halloween costume than anything else.
Posted by: Simplemind at February 21, 2018 03:27 PM (ISVHN)
..............
He's obviously a Big Mooch fan.
Posted by: wth at February 21, 2018 03:30 PM (HgMAr)
>>> What? Tell me more? I missed this.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 21, 2018 02:59 PM (ymnmz)
Yeah the Dutch thing was dumb.
Another bit of Katie fail was where she interviewed Mikaela
Schiffren and her mom/coach, and asked them with a twinge of jealousy
how their mother/daughter bond was so strong when there are days her
daughter doesn't even want to be in the same zip code as her. MAYBE
DON'T TALK ABOUT HER LIKE THAT ON NATIONAL TV, FOR A START. Might help.
Also, those pics of you dancing drunk that I'm sure her friends have
shown her don't help either.
https://tinyurl.com/y7faklex
Posted by: LizLem at February 21, 2018 03:24 PM (hvf9s
Wow. She's an opinion shaper? Once in charge of the CBS news?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 21, 2018 03:30 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
With two circles at the end instead of a line.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:30 PM (0PD0H)
this something a bunch of beered up guys do on a hockey rink when there
isn't a game going on?
Beer buddy of mine sets up a curling rink in his backyard during winter. Uses empty kegs as the stones.
In the summer, he has a full yard sized beer-pong game with 20 large plastic garbage cans and volleyballs.
Posted by: Roy at February 21, 2018 03:30 PM (7n4KQ)
Posted by: Fritz at February 21, 2018 03:30 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at February 21, 2018 03:30 PM (k1TUh)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 03:31 PM (2LelM)
Forget about "after each round". I want to see them all wearing wearing Beer Helmets and guzzling suds WHILE working the broom.
Posted by: Jaws at February 21, 2018 03:31 PM (oOw3I)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 21, 2018 03:07 PM
Oprah?
Posted by: LizLem at February 21, 2018 03:31 PM (hvf9s)
No interesting personalities to follow, boring nordics and Asians are winning all the events.
Too many commercials.
If you watch too long, you have to get tested for hiv.
No focus, they run one event then another without context.
Racism.
Posted by: Jihadi at February 21, 2018 03:31 PM (Br0mc)
___________________________________
Eddie Smurphy?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2018 03:31 PM (MnkFD)
My total speed skating experience consists of 1 hour on rented skates going around the oval at Lake Placid where Eric Heiden did his thing - but something about the power and geometry of speed skating that I've always liked.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 21, 2018 03:31 PM (QDnY+)
Dr. Disrespect's return doesn't come close to those numbers, but he's highly entertaining....
DRDISRESPECT FIRST GAME BACK OF PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNKeVynq2OI
Doc's Funniest Game Ever on PUBG with Random Kid!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHkcnxp4250
haha
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 21, 2018 03:31 PM (fceHP)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 21, 2018 03:30 PM (QQ+il)
Yeah, he's one of the announcers for the speed skate events.
Posted by: WisRich at February 21, 2018 03:32 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 03:32 PM (7LY+6)
============
Is this going to be revealed?
Posted by: bicentennialguy at February 21, 2018 03:32 PM (vg8iE)
--
In the summer, he has a full yard sized beer-pong game with 20 large plastic garbage cans and volleyballs.
Posted by: Roy at February 21, 2018 03:30 PM
------------------------------------
Daaayumm. I thought I could drink beer.
Posted by: irright at February 21, 2018 03:32 PM (pMGkg)
Posted by: gNewt at February 21, 2018 03:32 PM (71o8T)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine
Tequila shots!
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:33 PM (0PD0H)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 03:33 PM (2LelM)
Call Corporate! That sounds like a huge ratings booster!
Posted by: NBC at February 21, 2018 03:33 PM (O5Q3r)
Daaayumm. I thought I could drink beer.
Posted by: irright at February 21, 2018 03:32 PM (pMGkg)
Gotta make those empty keg "stones" somehow.
Posted by: Roy at February 21, 2018 03:33 PM (7n4KQ)
I actually used to follow the winter Olympics more than the summer because I always thought the winter sports were, generally, more entertaining. I honestly couldn't care less about the Olympics now. I'm actually quite happy to see some of the loudest and most obnoxious virtue signallers taking it in the shorts this go-around, though. And NBC/Comcast/Universal can't take a big enough beating.
Posted by: DocJ at February 21, 2018 03:33 PM (7bkOX)
Posted by: Johnny Weir at February 21, 2018 03:34 PM (70cRb)
from people about being old and the best one was "Is it just me getting
old or is the grocery story playing awesome music now?"
That one left a mark.
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe deeply. Namaste. Prayer-hands. Warrior Pose. at February 21, 2018 03:26 PM
Ouch. I resemble that remark.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 21, 2018 03:34 PM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: Cowboy Blobert at February 21, 2018 03:34 PM (0CeRG)
I'd rather watch The Highland Games. They may compete in skirts but they have manly sports like the Caber toss and Lazy Stick
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February 21, 2018 03:34 PM (lKyWE)
had stopped on a corner. I was looking around and then I looked down. At
my waist ( I'm 6'3") was this fat little black midget. Guess who that
was ??"
============
Is this going to be revealed?
Forget it. I don't care any more.
Posted by: tu3031 at February 21, 2018 03:34 PM (O5Q3r)
My total speed skating experience consists of 1 hour on rented skates going around the oval at Lake Placid where Eric Heiden did his thing - but something about the power and geometry of speed skating that I've always liked.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 21, 2018 03:31 PM (QDnY+)
--------
The Long Track speed skating had to keep up with short tracks popularity so they had a least one mass start event.
I'm glad they did. The more skaters on the track at one time the better.
Posted by: WisRich at February 21, 2018 03:34 PM (G0vdT)
============
Oh Gawd
*wheeze wheeze*
Gonna bust a gut
Posted by: Simplemind at February 21, 2018 03:34 PM (1a9KX)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 03:22 PM (L78vw)
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Doesn't matter as far as her humiliation is concerned. She respects the Euros because they are anti-American in the same way she is.
For her, having the Euros lump her in with dumb Americans brings the ultimate pain. She believes whole-heartedly in her superiority to us and this had to cut deeply.
She respects the Euros because they are anti-American.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2018 03:34 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: X-ray at February 21, 2018 03:34 PM (4fiCC)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 03:35 PM (2LelM)
Posted by: Cowboy Blobert at February 21, 2018 03:34 PM (0CeRG)
Must be that special channel where NBC highlights all the American medal winners
Posted by: Roy at February 21, 2018 03:35 PM (7n4KQ)
Posted by: zombie at February 21, 2018 03:35 PM (42M22)
She wants to be a Euro because they're anti American...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 03:35 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Fritz at February 21, 2018 03:35 PM (2Mnv1)
..........
Or maybe snow angels.
Posted by: wth at February 21, 2018 03:35 PM (HgMAr)
Actually the NASCAR/short track comparison is appropriate in a funny way.
It's plausible you'd watch it just for the crashes. The team events/relays in short track seem to feature crashed 75% of the time. So the skating is secondary - what matters is how the judges sort out the merits of the crash on the replay tape. Kind of stupid, but unavoidable I guess. Think "too many automatic reviews" problem with the NFL, but extended to even more of the game, and usually determining the winner.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 21, 2018 03:35 PM (QDnY+)
Yeah, when I was a kid and you could ONLY watch figure skating 2 or 3 times a year on Wide World of Sports (U.S. and World Championships, plus maybe a special exhibition around Christmas), the Winter Olympics were like a feast in between 4 years of nearly complete famine. My mom and I loved watching Dorothy Hamill, Janet Lynn, Scott Hamilton, etc., but today, I couldn't care less.
Posted by: Secret Square at February 21, 2018 03:36 PM (+HoK2)
Or maybe snow angels.
Posted by: wth at February 21, 2018 03:35 PM (HgMAr)
Rippon would have a gold at least.
Posted by: Roy at February 21, 2018 03:36 PM (7n4KQ)
Posted by: Holier than Thou Asshole Bot at February 21, 2018 03:36 PM (SkuXa)
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February 21, 2018 03:34 PM (lKyWE)
World's Strongest Man used to be one of the funnest competitions to watch. But then CBS took it over and it's all "personal interest stories" now. They only show something like 15% of the actual events. I think that transition happened a couple of years ago and I haven't watched it since. What a shame because it used to be really good.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 21, 2018 03:36 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic
Who hasn't thrown a telephone pole around before?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:36 PM (TAu/7)
LOL! Yeah, Trader Joe employees are mainly millennials and the music you here is always "Greatest hits of (pick a year between 1968 and 1980)"
After 2 weeks, Those millennials - even the nicer ones - undoubtedly dream of unleashing the Death Squads on Baby Boomers .
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 21, 2018 03:36 PM (ZM2xo)
Posted by: Roy at February 21, 2018 03:36 PM (7n4KQ)
=========
He screws up the dismount. Every time.
Posted by: Shep! at February 21, 2018 03:37 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 21, 2018 03:37 PM (U+nHb)
Posted by: X-ray at February 21, 2018 03:34 PM(4fiCC)
.............
he must have been on heroin
Posted by: wth at February 21, 2018 03:37 PM (HgMAr)
OT Question-Where did you see the icon you mentioned-was it ini Mass or PA. I wasn't sure if a church showed it regularly at their services. Thx.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2018 03:37 PM (8+Ozj)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 03:31 PM (2LelM)
Saw Johnny Mosley talking about his Olympic days and training and how you have to be totally focused on your sport. That'd he'd even turn off his phone.
Today's athletes spend a lot of time on social media. I was surprised to see how much. Not just during the games but all the time. It's like they are instagram stars as well as athletes. Always in the spotlight. I don't know if that has anything to do with it, but I was struck by the difference. Bcz yes, we are sucking. And the attitudes of a lot of our athletes also suck.
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 21, 2018 03:37 PM (Oizsv)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 21, 2018 03:30 PM (QQ+il) Yeah, he's one of the announcers for the speed skate events.Posted by: WisRich at February 21, 2018 03:32 PM (G0vdT)
I miss him skating! He build a very good brand for himself with his golds and Dancing with the Stars helped.
There was a black female speed skater for USA that was infectiously energetic and sweet. The anti Shani Davis. Totally failed in her first race. She was obviously stunned, but admitted she underestimated her opponents and didn't skate like she normally does. No racism crap, no excuses. She's young, so I look forward to her getting her game face on and returning in 4 years.
Posted by: LizLem at February 21, 2018 03:37 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 21, 2018 03:37 PM (mPeei)
O.K., I admit I have not followed the Olympics this year, but I have seen so many negative comments here about someone named Vonn, that I have to ask what she did or said.
Posted by: girldog at February 21, 2018 03:38 PM (g5YYQ)
Posted by: Zombie Paul Harvey at February 21, 2018 03:38 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: X-ray
Geez. Curling is like bowling. If you have to dope for it....
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:38 PM (TAu/7)
Posted by: gNewt at February 21, 2018 03:38 PM (71o8T)
Posted by: auscolpyr at February 21, 2018 03:38 PM (suO/a)
offered by sheriff in Ohio ... 50 open spots
twitter.com/Thomas1774Paine/status/966383296274948103
Posted by: illiniwek at February 21, 2018 03:28 PM (bT8Z4)
More of this, please.
Posted by: joncelli, nominal Lutheran at February 21, 2018 03:38 PM (RD7QR)
Plus they drink a lot. a LOT. It's kind of a requirement.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2018 03:39 PM (k1TUh)
You could always give up aborting babies for Lent.
Posted by: Under Fire at February 21, 2018 03:39 PM (r9UYA)
The left ruins everything they touch.
Posted by: Chris M at February 21, 2018 03:39 PM (eAZVt)
I'd rather watch The Highland Games. They may compete in skirts but they have manly sports like the Caber toss and Lazy Stick
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February 21, 2018 03:34 PM (lKyWE)
Wide World of Sports once ran a show about British ( I think) cannon teams that had to pull cannons across an obstacle course, over hedge rows and shit then fire it three times (muzzle load) and then retreat back over the course. People would get crushed under the wheels and just jacked all around.
No judges required.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 21, 2018 03:39 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: The Unknown Fat Black Midget in NYC at February 21, 2018 03:39 PM (djCea)
Writing Your Name in the Snow With a Stream of Pee
Making Snow Angels
Chainsaw Ice Sculpture
Tobagganing (age limit for athletes: 8 years old)
Walking Down a Frozen Sidewalk in Strong Wind Without Slipping
Seducing Ski Bunnies at the Lodge
Posted by: zombie at February 21, 2018 03:39 PM (42M22)
so many negative comments here about someone named Vonn, that I have to
ask what she did or said.
She cried. A lot.
Posted by: tu3031 at February 21, 2018 03:39 PM (O5Q3r)
Have you noticed -- there is a design right on the chest that looks like it should be on an 18 wheeler's mudflaps.
Posted by: Simplemind at February 21, 2018 03:39 PM (Q3orj)
offered by sheriff in Ohio ... 50 open spots
Posted by: illiniwek at February 21, 2018 03:28 PM (bT8Z4)
More of this, please.
Posted by: joncelli, nominal Lutheran at February 21, 2018 03:38 PM (RD7QR)
That's the way you do it. You want fewer school shootings? Make them harder targets.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 21, 2018 03:39 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2018 03:39 PM (k1TUh)
Posted by: girldog
Wouldn't go to the White House because anti-trump, then didn't medal.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:39 PM (TAu/7)
Posted by: tu3031 at February 21, 2018 03:40 PM (O5Q3r)
Well played.
You may pick up ampersand privileges at the AoSHQ collection window.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 21, 2018 03:40 PM (H8S+R)
Have you noticed -- there is a design right on the chest that looks like it should be on an 18 wheeler's mudflaps.
Posted by: Simplemind
Chrome nekkid girl?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:40 PM (TAu/7)
Posted by: Holier than Thou Asshole Bot at February 21, 2018 03:40 PM (SkuXa)
Plus they drink a lot. a LOT. It's kind of a requirement.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2018 03:39 PM (k1TUh)
It's like a drunken strongman competition. It's a lot of fun.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 21, 2018 03:41 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: gNewt at February 21, 2018 03:41 PM (71o8T)
so many negative comments here about someone named Vonn, that I have to
ask what she did or said.
She cried. A lot.
==========
Really. Was it full on keening and wailing with snot coming out her nose? I might have to check the stream for that. . .
Posted by: tiger wood's ex at February 21, 2018 03:41 PM (Iqk+R)
PR staffers. Well, for the better paid ones, at least.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 03:41 PM (7LY+6)
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Hmmm, reminds me of my favorite part of Serial Mom:
Kathleen Turner (masquerading as phone company): Tell me what this sick individual said to you?
Dottie Hinkle: "cocksucker." She said "cocksucker."
KT: Listen to your filthy mouth, you f*cking whore!!!
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at February 21, 2018 03:41 PM (vg8iE)
Thought that was a link to drunk Couric scissoring with Hillary.
Posted by: gNewt
___________________
I've got that video in my 'private' collection. Huma does surprisingly well with the camera....
*hic*
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 21, 2018 03:41 PM (mPeei)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:41 PM (TAu/7)
Posted by: Simplemind
Chrome nekkid girl?
====
pretty much. Two girls, sitting back to back in profile. Kinda weird for a national uni . . .
Posted by: tiger wood's ex at February 21, 2018 03:42 PM (si5cc)
Being a world-caliber athlete (or just about anything else, especially stuff that matters) requires focus, dedication, focus, determination and focus.
So yeah, I'm not optimistic we're going to see a bumper-crop of world-class anything from Millennials aside from whining, pant-wetting, and tide-pod challenges.
Posted by: DocJ at February 21, 2018 03:42 PM (7bkOX)
Speaking of Tonya Harding, I've heard, from a friend, that her old sex tape is pretty...well, let's just say ol' Tonya REALLY knows her way around a bed. Con gusto. I also heard from a friend that said tape is on PronHub. Allegedly.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 21, 2018 03:42 PM (juCZM)
Posted by: rhomboid at February 21, 2018 03:43 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:39 PM (TAu/7)
Can you say "giving hostages to Fortune?"
I can.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 03:43 PM (pVGtq)
_____________________________________
Snow White's Eight Dwarf.
Funky.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2018 03:43 PM (MnkFD)
Posted by: simplemind at February 21, 2018 03:44 PM (cHsXl)
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at February 21, 2018 03:44 PM (xQfPr)
--
Just got an email saying the local school district
is spending 80% of its budget on salaries (somehow I don't they
considered all the new athletic facilities it just built and the new HS
that it is still paying off). I doubt the central admin will cull
themselves as the email implied.
Posted by: auscolpyr at February 21, 2018 03:38 PM
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1. Is that Teachers' salaries or does it include admin?
2. Schools have a few "budgets". That one contains mostly salaries so that it allows them to say what they said.
Posted by: irright at February 21, 2018 03:44 PM (pMGkg)
Posted by: rhomboid at February 21, 2018 03:43 PM (QDnY+)
I am NOT poorly informed, dammit!
Posted by: Insomniac at February 21, 2018 03:44 PM (NWiLs)
Writing Your Name in the Snow With a Stream of Pee
Making Snow Angels
Chainsaw Ice Sculpture
Tobagganing (age limit for athletes: 8 years old)
Walking Down a Frozen Sidewalk in Strong Wind Without Slipping
Seducing Ski Bunnies at the Lodge
Posted by: zombie at February 21, 2018 03:39 PM (42M22)
.............
Seducing Skate Dudes at the Rink
Posted by: wth at February 21, 2018 03:44 PM (HgMAr)
353 Unfortunately the Euroweenies used Couric to call America and Americans dumb, not just her. Fuck them.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 03:22 PM (L78vw)
-----------------------------
Doesn't matter as far as her humiliation is concerned. She respects
the Euros because they are anti-American in the same way she is.
For her, having the Euros lump her in with dumb Americans brings the
ultimate pain. She believes whole-heartedly in her superiority to us
and this had to cut deeply.
She respects the Euros because they are anti-American.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2018 03:34 PM (0jtPF)
Please, please tell me that bedtime story again.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 21, 2018 03:44 PM (ymnmz)
Still down with the murdering of babies in the womb 24/7/365, though.
Posted by: DocJ at February 21, 2018 03:44 PM (7bkOX)
Posted by: rhomboid at February 21, 2018 03:45 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2018 03:39 PM (k1TUh)
------------------------
Cancer will do that.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2018 03:45 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 21, 2018 03:45 PM (fA1SL)
ask what she did or said.
Full of herself skiier and NBC darling that dissed POTUS and got bitten by the Trump curse.
Also, and this annoyed me the most for some reason, kept saying over and over and over, media lapping it up, that she was going to win a medal for her grandpa that served in the Korean War, so excited to be here where he served, etc. I think it annoyed me because it was blatant virtue signaling and using a veteran as a prop. Selective patriotism. Wonder what her grandpa thinks about her turning down the chance to go to the WH had she won a gold.
Posted by: LizLem at February 21, 2018 03:45 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February 21, 2018 03:45 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: DocJ at February 21, 2018 03:42 PM (7bkOX)
It's kind of like STEM subjects. I don't know if you have to be on the Aspie spectrum, but it sure helps, if nothing else to fit in with everyone else there.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 03:45 PM (pVGtq)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 21, 2018 03:45 PM (juCZM)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2018 03:46 PM (MnkFD)
Posted by: LizLem at February 21, 2018 03:45 PM (hvf9s)
She didn't win a gold, she won a crushed beer can medal.
You have to laugh.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 03:46 PM (pVGtq)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 21, 2018 03:47 PM (6BVGb)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 21, 2018 03:47 PM (juCZM)
464 391 250 teachers sign up for concealed carry class
offered by sheriff in Ohio ... 50 open spots
Posted by: illiniwek at February 21, 2018 03:28 PM (bT8Z4)
More of this, please.
Posted by: joncelli, nominal Lutheran at February 21, 2018 03:38 PM (RD7QR)
That's the way you do it. You want fewer school shootings? Make them harder targets.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 21, 2018 03:39 PM (NWiLs)
Next thing you know they'll be getting an ammo stipend and two days of a year for re cert. ( I kid I kid)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 21, 2018 03:47 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February
The Sheep Toss is my favorite.
Posted by: Roland THTG at February 21, 2018 03:47 PM (xBSm0)
Posted by: DocJ
And just a smidgen of God given talent. But mostly God given talent.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:47 PM (0PD0H)
Isn't picking something you like to do kinda the point of giving up for Lent?
Posted by: X-ray at February 21, 2018 03:47 PM (4fiCC)
Posted by: maddogg at February 21, 2018 03:47 PM (9Vruh)
Sen Gillibrand: Trump Makes It Hard to Give Up Cursing for Lent
Still down with the murdering of babies in the womb 24/7/365, though.
Posted by: DocJ at February 21, 2018 03:44 PM (7bkOX)
Wow. Just wow. This is how she wants to showcase her presidential qualities and aspirations?You have to love how Trump lives rent free in these libtard heads.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2018 03:47 PM (jxbfJ)
Probably doesn't care since he's dead.
Posted by: tu3031 at February 21, 2018 03:47 PM (O5Q3r)
Posted by: Marmo, this is not the woke you're looking for... at February 21, 2018 03:48 PM (fq72/)
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February
The Sheep Toss is my favorite.
Posted by: Roland THTG
That loud "pop" as they come off the D is amazing.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:48 PM (0PD0H)
Posted by: Chris M at February 21, 2018 03:48 PM (eAZVt)
Isn't picking something you like to do kinda the point of giving up for Lent?
Posted by: X-ray at February 21, 2018 03:47 PM (4fiCC)
Yes. Lent is not a self help exercise.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2018 03:48 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: LizLem at February 21, 2018 03:45 PM (hvf9s)
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Yeah, and she only started that spiel after she got blowback for her political blathering.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2018 03:48 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Jaws at February 21, 2018 03:04 PM (oOw3I)
Actually, that was one of the funnier episodes of the games. Vonn had just finished telling the NBC commentator that she was pretty sure she had the silver all sewn up and, not two minutes after that, Mowinkel skis her run and knocks Vonn down to third. THAT is why Vonn was crying so much.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 21, 2018 03:49 PM (8gDQu)
Isn't picking something you like to do kinda the point of giving up for Lent?
Posted by: X-ray at February 21, 2018 03:47 PM (4fiCC)
Yes. Lent is not a self help exercise.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2018 03:48 PM (ycWCI)
Well, IT IS. It is just about more self denial than "I want to give up this destructive habit I should give up the other days of the year anyway to be a better person."
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2018 03:49 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:47 PM (0PD0H)
Yeah, but they've all got that. I suspect the difference between them is in dedication and focus, ranging from extreme to outrageous.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 03:50 PM (pVGtq)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 03:50 PM (L78vw)
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I'm so popping some popcorn for THAT!
Posted by: tiger wood's ex wife at February 21, 2018 03:50 PM (Or06T)
"He insisted on racial integration for his revivals and crusades in 1953 and invited Martin Luther King Jr. to preach jointly at a revival in New York City in 1957. Graham bailed King out of jail in the 1960s when King was arrested in demonstrations."
A lot of people jumped on the MLK bandwagon later. To do so in the 1950s was truly progressive.
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 21, 2018 03:50 PM (n+6mJ)
503---......kept saying over and over and over, media lapping it up,
that she was going to win a medal for her grandpa that served in the
Korean War, so excited to be here where he served, etc. I think it
annoyed me because it was blatant virtue signaling and using a veteran
as a prop......
Posted by: LizLem at February 21, 2018 03:45 PM (hvf9s)
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Yeah, and she only started that spiel after she got blowback for her political blathering.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2018 03:48 PM (0jtPF)
Watching her cry over her bronze medal was nice. With the announcer making shit up as he went along.
Hey Nobody cares! Ski faster, less jibber jabber.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 21, 2018 03:50 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Eli Cash at February 21, 2018 03:50 PM (6qbw0)
Posted by: rhomboid at February 21, 2018 03:50 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Chrissy Cuomo at February 21, 2018 03:51 PM (MWX7h)
Posted by: Chris M at February 21, 2018 03:48 PM (eAZVt)
You should see how the northern retirees drive down here when the roads are even slightly snowy/icy. It's hilarious.
"WHY DON'T YOU PEOPLE HAVE SNOWPLOWS???!!!!?"
And I have never, ever had a problem driving in the frozen stuff either here, or up north.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 21, 2018 03:51 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:47 PM (0PD0H)
Yeah, but they've all got that. I suspect the difference between them is in dedication and focus, ranging from extreme to outrageous.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
True. 22 hours a day for a Russian gymnast is outrageous.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:51 PM (0PD0H)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 21, 2018 03:45 PM (juCZM)
............
Prius Division
Posted by: wth at February 21, 2018 03:51 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: auscolpyr "
Probably those physical-plant things are on a separate budget - maybe they were financed on bond issues rather than tax revenue or something like that.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at February 21, 2018 03:51 PM (H0hPC)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:47 PM (0PD0H)
Well of course, man! That parts a given.
But the world is full of people with a whole lot of God-given talent who went on to medal in bong therapy. Just saying.
Posted by: DocJ at February 21, 2018 03:51 PM (7bkOX)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 21, 2018 03:51 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: rhomboid at February 21, 2018 03:52 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 03:52 PM (L78vw)
--
Well, IT IS. It is just about more self denial than
"I want to give up this destructive habit I should give up the other
days of the year anyway to be a better person."
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2018 03:49 PM
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Trouble is, our destructive habits ARE the things we least like to give up.
Posted by: irright at February 21, 2018 03:52 PM (pMGkg)
Posted by: Robertski at February 21, 2018 03:52 PM (ayUOl)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 21, 2018 03:53 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 03:53 PM (2LelM)
Posted by: tu3031 at February 21, 2018 03:39 PM (O5Q3r)
Wouldn't go to the White House because anti-trump, then didn't medal.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:39 PM (TAu/7)
So, she's a Trump hater who cries a lot. But that's redundant.
Posted by: girldog at February 21, 2018 03:53 PM (g5YYQ)
I truly hope no one in his family see any of the tweets the libs are spewing.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 21, 2018 03:53 PM (ptqGC)
People say "Californians don't know how to drive in rain/snow."
WTF? 90% of the people here MOVED here from rainy/snowy places. Did they forget how to drive in rain/snow when they crossed the state line?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 03:53 PM (pVGtq)
Posted by: wth at February 21, 2018 03:44 PM (HgMAr)
Some site I was reading kept referring to the "heterosexual pair figure skating". Which led me to believe someone was pushing for the homosexual, or same sex, figure skating pair. Bcz heterosexual usually goes without saying.
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 21, 2018 03:54 PM (Oizsv)
I'd rather watch The Highland Games. They may compete in skirts but they have manly sports like the Caber toss and Lazy Stick
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February 21, 2018 03:34 PM (lKyWE)
Those aren't skirts... they are kilts and very attractive on the men competing:-)
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at February 21, 2018 03:54 PM (9nCnN)
Posted by: Marmo, this is not the woke you're looking for... at February 21, 2018 03:48 PM (fq72/)
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Well, you should have seen the rooting section for the I'm-Gay-Watch-Me-Kiss-My-Boyfriend skier. (Gus Kenworthy or Ken Gusworthy. I can't remember.)
All rainbow flags and zero red,white, and blue.
Why should I root for him?
So glad to see him bomb, while a kid from Indiana that no one had even talked about won the silver.
His rooting section had (gasp!) USA stuff.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2018 03:54 PM (0jtPF)
I expect they'll see it and not be surprised, and do some praying for those folks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2018 03:54 PM (8+Ozj)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 03:52 PM (L78vw)
Right back at ya, honey.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 03:54 PM (pVGtq)
Posted by: rhomboid at February 21, 2018 03:52 PM (QDnY+)
She was supposed to compete in the Super-combined.
She annoys me but she is a big deal in world cup skiing. WInningest female skier ever. By miles. And Michaela SHiffrin is probably going to surpass her.
But Julie Mancuso is the greatest American female skier - at the Olympics. I think she might have been in an event this olympics, too.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 21, 2018 03:55 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Roland THTG at February 21, 2018 03:55 PM (xBSm0)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 03:55 PM (2LelM)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 21, 2018 03:55 PM (hqZPQ)
I truly hope no one in his family see any of the tweets the libs are spewing.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 21, 2018 03:53 PM (ptqGC)
Seriously? That is a travesty.
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 21, 2018 03:55 PM (Oizsv)
*hits off button again*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 21, 2018 03:55 PM (ptqGC)
And Vonn will use the excuse that the subsequent ridicule by people is the reason she now hates America.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 03:52 PM (L78vw)
You know what's funny, how being cute blondie able to ski real fast gives you a big mega phone to be a political D-bag, but being a political D-bag with an outsized mega phone doesn't help you ski fast.
Whaaaaaa.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 21, 2018 03:55 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: rhomboid at February 21, 2018 03:52 PM (QDnY+)
..............
Bronze in the downhill which she thought she was queen of. Snif.
I think she still has the "combined" downhill and slalom? Break a leg Lindsey!
Posted by: wth at February 21, 2018 03:56 PM (HgMAr)
On a related note, Obama said some very nice things about him on Twitter. Alas, Twitter is the bathroom stalls in a dive bar of the Internet. The responses he got back were,,,,,,illuminating. Over at Twitchy if your interested.
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 21, 2018 03:56 PM (g6GOb)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 21, 2018 03:56 PM (fA1SL)
I truly hope no one in his family see any of the tweets the libs are spewing.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 21, 2018 03:53 PM (ptqGC)
Bless their hearts, they wouldn't know a good man if one dropped on them from Heaven. All I can do is thank God that Billy Graham raised his son right and that Franklin is carrying on the good work.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at February 21, 2018 03:57 PM (9nCnN)
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 21, 2018 03:55 PM (Oizsv)
Lauren Duca, a writer for Teen Vogue, tweeted she hopes Billy Graham is in hell.
I can't even imagine that kind of sick, twisted mind. He would pray for her, though. I'm trying to.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 21, 2018 03:57 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Marmo, this is not the woke you're looking for... at February 21, 2018 03:48 PM (fq72/)
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Well, you should have seen the rooting section for the I'm-Gay-Watch-Me-Kiss-My-Boyfriend skier. (Gus Kenworthy or Ken Gusworthy. I can't remember.)
All rainbow flags and zero red,white, and blue.
Why should I root for him?
So glad to see him bomb, while a kid from Indiana that no one had even talked about won the silver.
His rooting section had (gasp!) USA stuff.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2018 03:54 PM (0jtPF)
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I was happy to read about the anti-Trump karma biting so many in the ass.
Posted by: Marmo, this is not the woke you're looking for... at February 21, 2018 03:57 PM (fq72/)
Whatever, at least we got to see Vonn lose
Posted by: Lord Culvert at February 21, 2018 03:57 PM (2FjCs)
Posted by: Roland THTG at February 21, 2018 03:57 PM (xBSm0)
Those dissing curling don't know what you are missing! But I'll admit that, like baseball, it is much more gripping when you see it live.
Posted by: LizLem at February 21, 2018 03:58 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2018 03:58 PM (aC6Sd)
Still didn't stop me from cracking up my beloved pickup after hitting a patch of black ice several years back.
And I had just watched the car in front of me hit it and spin out. So I KNEW it was there, and I carefully tapped the brakes down to about ten MPH. And I STILL wiped out.
Black Ice is a cruel bitch.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 21, 2018 03:58 PM (juCZM)
Posted by: zibbly wibbly at February 21, 2018 03:58 PM (V3U1L)
Not the Lefts favorite person.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 03:58 PM (L78vw)
"The 2018 Winter Olympics have produced few medal winners"
Whatever, at least we got to see Vonn lose
Posted by: Lord Culvert at February 21, 2018 03:57 PM (2FjCs)
Nope
Posted by: Wheaties Box at February 21, 2018 03:58 PM (ymnmz)
The bobsled thing where Germany and Canada tied, after four runs each measured in the hundredths of a second, even though Germany crashed over the finish line in one.
A French girl fell out of her ice dancing dress.
There's good stuff going on here.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 21, 2018 03:58 PM (fuK7c)
"The 2018 Winter Olympics have produced few medal winners"
Whatever, at least we got to see Vonn lose
Posted by: Lord Culvert at February 21, 2018 03:57 PM (2FjCs)
Yep
Posted by: Kaboom Box at February 21, 2018 03:59 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: zibbly wibbly
It's not. Not when you have photo proof.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 03:59 PM (0PD0H)
Posted by: Roland THTG at February 21, 2018 03:57 PM (xBSm0)
.............
Awesome.
First rule of MWO, don't you eat that yellow snow.
Posted by: wth at February 21, 2018 03:59 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: LizLem at February 21, 2018 03:58 PM (hvf9s)
I've seen curling and I know exactly what I'm missing, which is why I'm missing it.
The only interesting thing in curling is Anastasia Bryzgalova.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 21, 2018 03:59 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 03:59 PM (L78vw)
If she wants to be NBC's color commentator on woman's skiing she won't. It's not like she'll be doing much else.
Posted by: tu3031 at February 21, 2018 03:59 PM (O5Q3r)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 21, 2018 03:59 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 21, 2018 04:00 PM (g6GOb)
Why? Fewer competitions or something?
Heh
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 04:00 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Olympic Death Match at February 21, 2018 04:00 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2018 03:58 PM (aC6Sd)
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That might help the Olympics' ratings a little bit, I guess!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2018 04:00 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 21, 2018 04:00 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Roland THTG
Slam four tequila shots, run to back pasture, try to shoot wild hog.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 04:01 PM (0PD0H)
Posted by: Roland THTG at February 21, 2018 03:57 PM (xBSm0)
............
Womens Tube Top Snow Angels
Posted by: wth at February 21, 2018 04:01 PM (HgMAr)
I can't even imagine that kind of sick, twisted mind. He would pray for her, though. I'm trying to.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 21, 2018 03:57 PM (ptqGC)
And they wonder why kids are shooting up their schools
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February 21, 2018 04:01 PM (lKyWE)
Its the same reason Wonder Woman became the super grrl power women event and Black Panther the super black power Africa event. If you can turn the show into a Socially Important Event then it gets tons of publicity and excitement.
Its about getting notice and ratings. But they misfired, presuming that a super tiny group whose behavior many people find at best distasteful was going to be the next hawt cause.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2018 04:01 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 04:02 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: andycanuck at February 21, 2018 04:02 PM (ewxPW)
Her photo shows her to be outwardly pretty but beneath that has to be a rotting core. Do what you do best Lauren and conjure up some more sex articles for teens.
Posted by: Cheri at February 21, 2018 04:02 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 21, 2018 03:58 PM (juCZM)
Word.
And like you said, even when you know.
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 21, 2018 04:02 PM (Oizsv)
Posted by: Roland THTG at February 21, 2018 03:57 PM (xBSm0)
Grilling steaks outdoors during a snowstorm while sipping bourbon.
Good old snowball fights, free-for-all.
Posted by: PugBot Mahon, Truly, Madly, Deeply Concerned at February 21, 2018 04:02 PM (xPJvm)
Posted by: zibbly wibbly
It's not. Not when you have photo proof.
Posted by: rickb223
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and yet, did I read it right...some congresscritter fired a staffer who pointed this out?
I notice my globohomo news feed is particularly incensed about this.
Posted by: zibbly wibbly at February 21, 2018 04:03 PM (V3U1L)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
So thats her name. I was channel surfing, saw Curling, was about to continue channel surfing and then saw her. Stayed on Curling. She is smoking hot!
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 21, 2018 04:03 PM (g6GOb)
A mass of beer bottles thrown at you.
Your broken body is swept to the curb.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at February 21, 2018 04:03 PM (e1mEI)
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"The 2018 Winter Olympics have produced few medal winners"
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I'm pretty sure it's always three for each category.
Posted by: Snarky McSnarkface at February 21, 2018 04:03 PM (pMGkg)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 21, 2018 04:03 PM (hqZPQ)
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 21, 2018 04:03 PM (g6GOb)
Yep. Smoldering.
I'd watch her paint walls ... for hours.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 21, 2018 04:04 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 21, 2018 03:49 PM (8gDQu)
Trying to find that video
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 21, 2018 04:04 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 21, 2018 03:53 PM (pVGtq)
Pfft, that's nothing. We've got people who forgot how to drive in snow since the last snowfall. Which was yesterday.
Posted by: all doubt removed at February 21, 2018 04:05 PM (xj0OI)
"If you boo athletes because of their beliefs--if you, let's be clear here, root for American athletes to lose to foreign countries simply because of what they've said--well, you surrender any moral high ground. You don't get to call your political enemies "un-American." You don't get to claim that NFL players kneeling during the anthem are "disrespecting America." You don't get to call yourself a patriot. Party or country, make your choice."
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y747g4vz
Posted by: LizLem at February 21, 2018 04:05 PM (hvf9s)
I happened to catch a little of Glen Beck's show in the car today. It was extremely self serving and IMO disgusting.
Posted by: X-ray at February 21, 2018 04:07 PM (4fiCC)
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at February 21, 2018 04:10 PM (jWe5r)
These people are delusional and or ignorant. An athlete can run his mouth against at least 50% of his fellow countrymen but any push back is UnAmerican? All one can say is Fuck you.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 04:12 PM (L78vw)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 21, 2018 04:04 PM (dKiJG)
I can't find the video anywhere. The only reference to it that I could find is in this article:
https://tinyurl.com/y8896u7j
and even he glossed over what actually happened:
Italy's Goggia finished with a time of 1:39.22. Vonn was 0.47 seconds behind, which placed her second for a while until she was surpassed by Norway's Ragnhild Mowinckel.
Vonn said at the time that she was optimistic her time would stick so she could claim silver. Even though she knew she would not be winning gold, Vonn was proud of how she did.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 21, 2018 04:13 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 21, 2018 04:16 PM (y3aQB)
Slacker.
Even Hillary got silver.
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at February 21, 2018 04:10 PM (jWe5r)
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This comment is delicious.
Posted by: bluebell at February 21, 2018 04:20 PM (kNasr)
Posted by: Nelson Muntz at February 21, 2018 04:23 PM (r+sAi)
Those dissing curling don't know what you are missing!
Posted by: LizLem at February 21, 2018 03:58 PM (hvf9s)
I've seen curling and I know exactly what I'm missing, which is why I'm missing it.
The only interesting thing in curling is Anastasia Bryzgalova.</quote>
<ul>
<li>Jennifer Jones</li>
<li>Lene Nielson </li>
<li>Jessica Schultz </li>
<li>Rachel Homan </li>
<li>Eve Muirhead </li>
<li>Giorgia Apollonio </li>
<li>Anna Sloan </li>
<li>Ekaterina Galkina </li>
<li>Anna Sidorova </li>
<li>Alexandra Saitova - google this one! </li>
</ul>
Posted by: pete at February 21, 2018 04:24 PM (meg+g)
Posted by: pete at February 21, 2018 04:25 PM (meg+g)
This Canadian last night was robbed of a Gold. She was perfect.
Watched some 20-something snowboarders launch themselves into the air . . . cheered when they landed on their faces.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at February 21, 2018 04:26 PM (8Ls/+)
You have no idea just how dumb I think you are. Even if you're smarter than how dumb I think you are, you're still dumber than you think I think you are.
Posted by: WaldoTJ at February 21, 2018 04:53 PM (M1MpJ)
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