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That biathlon was brutal. Also, Canada's women's hockey team over Slovakia?  |
Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Why the hell is NBC showing so much women's hockey. It's unwatchable and yet they have it on TWO channels.
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Even we don't generaly watch Women's hockey untill it gets to Canada vs USA.
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Why the hell is NBC showing so much women's hockey. It's unwatchable and yet they have it on TWO channels.
Not as much going on right now. we've had two days of skiing cancelled. That was the premier sport early on. and biathalon was very brutal, Announcers were continually saying, OH, it's over. Oh it's over, eventually if everyone screws up it loses something. except for that one guy who was a slow skier :) |
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All of Canada can now breath a sigh of relief as we finally win a gold (Men's Moguls). For those of you who didn't know, we had never won an Olypic gold on home soil (despite hosting two previous games).
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Azaroth
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That figure skating pair from France was fucking awesome. Gold medal.
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Wait, you actually watch figure skating?
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Apparently not. They were owned score-wise by the very next pairing. Whatever, I liked them better.
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Lots of miscues this Olympics. This whole thing is leaving a meh taste in my mouth and I'm one of those people who completely geek out on such things.
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Pairs Figure Skating was won by Chinese teams who didn't fall down. It was really shitty.
I never like to see the Chinese win anything, but still everyone was diving like Italian soccer players.
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Vancouver is stunning and the games I've seen have been pretty cool but it keeps getting fucked up through the cameras of NBC and their fucktard commentators. Their best, Al Michels, is inside doing interviews. I hope they have him lined up to call some hockey.
It's just shit coverage so far.
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Snowboard rarely disappoints. Another gold gets away from Canada but it was a great race. Sounds like the U.S. viewers are suffering. We've got 3 channels doing wall to wall coverage.  Only drawback is if there's a lull in the action then it's 3 channels of wall to wall schmaltz. |
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Well, as much as I have a soft spot for Women's Hockey, let's bring on the men! |
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Ah, men's figure skating.   |
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Jesus.
Now I know what my friend was babbling about on ventrilo. That is the most hideous "trying too hard to be flamboyantly gay" outfit I have ever seen.
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Do they get Bonus points for that or something?  Snowboard rarely disappoints. Another gold gets away from Canada but it was a great race.
I still don't understand how we didn't win that race, he was miles ahead with nothing going wrong then a total slowdown and 2nd place >< |
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Thoughts so far:
I think Weir is hilarious.
I'm a little dubious about any sport where "stand in the back and wait for everyone else to fall down" is a reasonable strategy. The worst offender here is short track skating, which I could never take seriously at all, but it also applies somewhat to snowboard cross (which I have trouble taking seriously due to the name, but then again I'm an old fuddy-duddy).
I never heard of the "Parenthood" TV show or the "How to train a dragon" movie, but I want to murder every person involved with either one right now. Every. Fucking. Commercial. Break.
I also want to murder Costas, but I've felt that way for years. Did anyone catch him saying that he didn't want to talk about redemption because redemption in sports is such a cliche? I don't think that man has uttered a sentence without a sports cliche -- most frequently that exact one -- in his life.
I felt kinda bad for the guy who came in 3rd in the mogul event. Usually, NBC devotes almost all of its coverage of any event to US competitors, even when they are in 500th place (which I find annoying, but I assume it's that way in most places). But this guy, even when they were actually putting the bronze medal over his head, Costas was talking about the Canadian winner (and likely how this redeemed Canada and maybe even made up for Barry Bonds skullfucking Costas' dad's corpse, if my brain didn't mercifully filter out his voice so often). Sure, the Canada-finally-wins-on-home-snow story was the story of the Olympics to that point. But I'm sure that US guy had some third-cousin with Downs syndrome, or at least a parent who got up early to take him skiing as a kid, that NBC could've cranked into a Standard 60-Second Feel Good Olympics Story. How is this kid gonna nab local car dealership commercials when we barely heard his name? A crime I tell you.
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Considering what a big deal the Gold was here, CTV's coverage actually did a fair job of appreciating the American's effort in the bronze, since he finished well ahead of where he was expected to. Of course we did our best to ignore Begg-Smith's silver becuase he's a fucking malware king, despite being born in Vancouver.
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Oh. When they said "controversial internet business" on the TV, I just assumed porn.
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Oh. When they said "controversial internet business" on the TV, I just assumed porn.
Nah. Porn we can respect. He's a malware spambot king. We try hard to pretend he's not really from here. The aussies can't stand him either fwiw. |
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Man, Shuster has 3 straight opportunities with last rock to win matches and botches every one of them.
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Yeah...can't believe I was riveted by a fucking Curling match. |
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I really dig Curling. It's like chess on ice with big rocks.
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Shaun White is ridiculous.
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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..I want to see gamma rays. I want to hear x-rays. I want to...smell dark matter...and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me...
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I really dig Curling. It's like chess on ice with big rocks.
It hurts pretty bad as a skip when you get two chances to win a game and the brushers blow it both times. There was no good excuse on the second one either, as they could have brushed that rock to go 10 feet further and it still would have hit the other teams rock and counted. Only tickets I actualy have for the games are Men's curling semi's. (yes, I curl, and yes, it's an awesome sport.) |
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Women's downhill and Women's Moguls have produced some good crashes. Go women!
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Despite NBC's best efforts, I am actually rather enjoying these games.
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Good god the American curling skip is either really shitty or really unlucky. |
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Tannhauser
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All of these events are getting in the way of commercials!
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Colbert's interview with costas last night was fucking brilliant, when he crawled into the fireplace I lost it.
Also <3 the women's downhill crashes, and I'm wondering why luge, and specifically doubles luge are sports. Luge doubles may possibly beat out men's figure skating for gayest event in the olympics.
(I'm not saying it doesn't take skill, but we don't have professional watersliding in the summer games for good reason)
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we don't have professional watersliding in the summer games for good reason
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