Olympics 2012
That sounds an awful lot like the situation with the Japanese in the men's gymnastics events.
Looks like she did the same mistake in the qualification rounds. Probably needed a higher jump, that's what our commentator said.
There's a womens volleyball named Destiny Hooker and one of the TV commentators said, "Nothing can stand in the way of the six foot four Hooker!"
How rude. Where is the FCC?
How come beach volleyball only has two vs two and floor volleyball has like eight vs eight?
Cuz Top Gun.
Also, sand is easier to dive in. A team with only two is gonna need to dive a lot.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Sand is not easier to dive in or move around in for that matter.
I've dived on sand... and hard wood floor. Yeaaahhh, I'll take the sand.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
I'd rather dive on a floor because sand is fucking disgusting and gets inside you.
You're diving wrong then.
They should have skittle volleyball, where you dive into skittles. Or Jack Daniels volleyball.
That would be fucking disgusting. All those melty sticky skittles.
Apparently Team USA just won the Mars landing game.
Yo I've been wondering this since that new person on the new member's section said she didn't like country and I troll'd her about it, would you do Loretta Lynn?
I mean how she is right now.
Why? What's the gaff?
You're afraid to answer a simple question? C'mon! Loretta Lynn.
Yes.
Hahahaha
What's funny about that? Now I definitely won't answer your first question.
She seems like a very empowered woman, anyway. A proud coal miner's daughter. They didn't have money so he shoveled coal into her. I think that's what she said. She's probably very hardened in the soul now, from all that coal. A life time of coal shoveled into her. So now she's got this impotent jerk-off lover, who's drinking she dun't put up with because it gives him whiskey dick. So she sends him off to the streets with malice. A heart of coal. Add to the fact that she's like fifty years old and I'm not sure you nor I could even please this woman. Maybe together if you show up sober. She don't like us goin' a drinkin'. A coal miner's daughter deserves better than either of us or Whiskey Dick Guy anyway. Though, I don't know enough about these matters to say so given those are the only two songs I was able to put up with. You're hanging out at dive bars too much. Who even thought they had this music up there?
I dive far. Landing prostrate to distribute your weight is a lot less painful on sand. Not much you can say to convince me otherwise.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
This is the only good answer I've had to this question today.
^like
I am proud of the fact that I can live in country where I don't have to watch the olympics, and I can choose to read stories like this in my dirtbook news feed instead.
http://1045theteam.com/american-tv-neglected-the-saddest-story-in-the-ol...
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
Got free tickets for Saturday's Modern Pentathlon event 
http://1045theteam.com/american-tv-neglected-the-saddest-story-in-the-olympics/
Sad story but do you really have to be so fucking cunty and uppity about it?
It's kind of his thing.
This is why we can't have nice things.
I've noticed.
I'm waiting for men's horizontal bar.
EPKE! EPKE! He came first in the qualification round, I really hope he'll do well today as well.
Epke was great, Imke! Well-deserved gold.
Yeah, it was fun! He finally got it!
MMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEXXXXXXXXXIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Si vis pacem, para bellum
I watched a few minutes of that abominable ribbondance yesterday. Every bit as silly as the competitive trampoline if not moreso. Time to put that nineteenth century silliness out to pasture.
This is why we can't have nice things.
I watched a few minutes of that abominable ribbondance yesterday. It is pretty to watch, for sure, but as a "sport" it is every bit as absurd as the competitive trampoline - if not moreso; it is an embarassment upon the human race. Time to put that nineteenth century silliness out to pasture and bring back something with integrity. Surfing, I should think.
This is why we can't have nice things.
I like rhythmic gymnastics. That shit ain't easy.
Yes, they were penalised too little. Winning a medal like this is pretty sad, but that's only because of the two-try system, I guess. The Russian girl at least.. not only did she touch outside the line, but she went off the mattress too. Compared to how much they took away from the girl with the most difficult exercise ever (Dominican Republic), when all she did was lose balance when she landed.
This is not a silver exercise.
From what I've read, nothing about McKayla Mahoney's performance was pathetic. She was awarded the points she got because of the extreme difficultly of her routine. She was considered a shoe in for the gold, until she fell, which is something she seldom does.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
I was lucky enough to go see the basketball, beach volleyball, football and the athletics, featuring the women's 200m final, men's 200m semis with a certain Mr. Bolt, 100m hurdles final, etc.etc.
(Yes, you're right. That is smugness you can detect. Though Hattie still wins the "how much did you see of the Olympics" competition.)
Anyway, best "public event" of my lifetime. Loved it.
Maybe next time let's not let George Michael launch his dirgey new song in the closing ceremony though. Or let Russel Brand vomit all over our childhood memories of Willy Wonka. Or give every other song to Jessie Effing J.
But that's just nitpicking.
Neat! ..Is it expensive to get tickets for those things?
Wow! you must've spent thousands on tickets, Gimp??? Seriously jealous that you got to see all those.
Modern pentathlon was really good in the flesh. We had really good seats but unfortunately had Mr Essex Man and his family of brats behind me, who insisted on giving an ongoing commentary for the first hour or so. Boyfriend asked if he had special needs, which shut him up.
Thought the Charles Dawin jump was really cool (sorry it's a bit blurred):
Maybe next time let's not let George Michael launch his dirgey new song in the closing ceremony though. Or let Russel Brand vomit all over our childhood memories of Willy Wonka. Or give every other song to Jessie Effing J.
But that's just nitpicking.
Ahaha, I thought Russell Brand singing that Willy Wonka song was hilarious. It came at a good time in the ceremony too, I was getting seriously bored of all the montages of crying athletes and Emeli Sande, yawn (and why did she have the privilege of singing that same song twice?).
Jessie J was obviously there to justify all the money spent on that BBC Show, The Voice. I don't know about George Michael though - I thought he was supposed to be strapped to a life support machine, still?
I was just really, really lucky. Two different friends, my sister and my dad all got tickets and each decided to give me one. Being the Olympic champion blagger I am, they were all free
But tickets were, in general, very expensive. Depends on where you're seated of course.
Hattie - I like Russell Brand, but his voice was all over the shop. With Jessie J - I get the feeling that lots of powerful people think "she could be a global star!" so they keep pushing her onto high-profile stages such as the Jubilee and the closing ceremony, despite the fact that she really only has one song to sing.
Get the songs first, fuckwads, then offer the stage.
Agree entirely about Emile Sande. Why so prominent?
Personal highlights:
Eric idle emerging from that group of bangra dancers to the line "life's a piece of shit".
The inclusion of Rodney and Del Boy with no explanation whatsoever in an apparent attempt to baffle the fuck out of the rest of the world.
The pentathlon looked brilliant. And what a way to end.
Team GB, Giggan. Team GB. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I've always had little respect for Russell Brand until last week on Newsnight, where he took down Peter Hitchens and his view on the treatment of drug addicts:
I've always liked Russell Brand, and I don't know much about that Peter Hitchens fellow, but I'm well convinced that he's a cunt.
Sorry Hattie - I think he comes across as a bit of a berk in this. His point might be valid, but he argues in a really irritating way. All that calling Hitchens a homophobe and a Victorian throwback doesn't really answer the question or make a case. A lost opportunity.
But he's a lively little chap, and he can be very funny!
Dear Britains, Great and Small;
Re: Jesse J.
When a young girl in a skintight bodysuit can be upstaged by a video projection of an old dead Queen, she is not ready.
&re: The Black Guy In The Car (?)
It is, however, nice to see that rappers in the UK have as little concept of "stage presence" as those in the US. Until they understand fully that moving one's hands back-and-forth rhythmically while talking is not "performance", hip-hop remains on the B-List.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Fair enough, Gimp.
However, I think that it is quite clear, that Hitchens is the first to take it away from the debate and turn it into a personal attack. Even if there is some name calling, Brand nevertheless still manages to get his point across and most people will see Hitchens' view as being draconian.
Sorry for the thread derail everyone!
However, I think that it is quite clear, that Hitchens is the first to take it away from the debate and turn it into a personal attack. Even if there is some name calling, Brand nevertheless still manages to get his point across and most people will see Hitchens' view as being draconian.
Sorry for the thread derail everyone!
Good points!
ALSO SORRY FOR THREAD DERAIL!
I was sad about the Willy Wonka bit myself. Dressing up and acting like Wonka is one thing trying to sing Gene Wilder's version of Wonka is another.
Oh and the closing ceremony was a giant rave concert? It was wonky but I think I enjoyed it more than the opening ceremony.
GiantInflatableOctopus FTW.
Also. I was thinking I needed a BriteBlueLitebulbBowler, but I've decided that Noah needs one more.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Yes, they were penalised too little. Winning a medal like this is pretty sad, but that's only because of the two-try system, I guess. The Russian girl at least.. not only did she touch outside the line, but she went off the mattress too. Compared to how much they took away from the girl with the most difficult exercise ever (Dominican Republic), when all she did was lose balance when she landed.
This is not a silver exercise.