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I mean, here's the Olympics, kind of a big deal, and during the parade of nations, those nitwits were making dergatory comments about practically everyone..."Here come the Estonians...look how dumb they look!" "Yes, Kate, and, once again, it seems unlikely they'll ever win anything..." Maybe this is just me. But I think their behaviour was a little out of line. We're the host country, for godsakes, we could at least pretend to be nice. |
i watch a lot of hockey.....i hear alot of sports announcers and their job by nature is moronic. you could tell Bob Costa got a raging hard on when the Australian team came out and he said "ive been waiting a year and a half to say this, 'live from salt lake city....'" or something like that. due to the fact they Sydney olympics were never live here in the states. I didnt pick up on the ill comments you are speaking of, but i was also consummed with bong hits and beer. I couldnt help but feel a little bad, considering all the controversy surrounding the bribes in Salt Lake that took place to get the Olympics and the pushing of us to do the flag bit and the singing of "God Bless America". Granted we're the host country and should be afforded such extras, but at the same time I couldnt help feel that the Olympics were being bought and sold. I loved the Kandahar-cam crap too. Sam and I joked we wanted to see the Kandahar-cave-cam...."live from Bin Laden's former cave, our Special Forces are drinking his left-behind beer and eating his stash of pistachios" Id actually love to hear the rest of the world's take on the ceremony. I thought of you cat because i remember a year and half ago you were beaming with patriotism and pride at the opening ceremony in your backyard. Im not sure i was beaming with pride. There were some really neat parts during the ceremony indeed, but im a cynic true and true. |
thought. What followed was utter crap, revisionist history on ice. No Blacks allowed in Utah, apparently. And of course we had all those great chinese folks helping out on the railroad...sure. I also enjoyed seeing the absolute maniac protesters outside - with the "God Hates America" and "God's Rod" signs - finally some new updates to the lame old God Hates Fags signs! I knew God had a lot more hate to dish out!! Yay!! The only thing I really look forward to this Olympics is the friendly taunting between my Canadian friend and myself. |
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I think i posted the story about that gay businessman in MI who ran a pledge drive for AIDS charities as long as the Phelps gang stood outside his store protesting. That should be done everywhere they go, so the second they hit the street they are raising money for "god's wrath". |
One of my only vivid memories of 7th grade is when we had to do a month long unit on the Olympics, like learning EVERY damn thing about the host town, the history of the games, the history of the history of every event, and etc....as i'm sure every kid on earth has to do one time or another in school. Anyway, they had us write up a pro and con list about them, mine included: Pro- gives schools excuse to force stupid & useless sports history on us, instead of actually teaching. holy shit. I never got in more trouble than i did that day. That's why i remember it so well. I was 11. I must have kept that paper....somewhere... |
By the way NBC has never been very good with their Olympic coverage. Rember the big mistake they made with the Pay-Per-View events the first time they had them. ABC was much better when they did it. |
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He didn't get any royalties, though. Ever. |
Look what those shits at fox are doing! They're cancelling Futurama!!! THose shits!!!! sign this. http://www.PetitionOnline.com/futufu/ petition.html |
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Im not surprised nor saddened. |
That's cute. |
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This is a frightening world we live in. |
phenom? Three cheers for him! |
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You have no idea of the bullshit i've had to listen to for the past week here.... "blah blah blah medal, blahblahblah tragedy, blah blahblah robbed" blahblahblah FUCK. tv and radio call in shows swarmed by tearfull soccer moms crying into their icecream "boo-hoo i can no longer live my childhood figureskating dream vicariously throught the pretty tv people as long as Russia has a gold medal boo-hoo-hoo!!!" Is there not a pointless war going on right now? people dying, no? no. the world stops when people are unfairly given a large chunk of the wrong coloured medal. It bloody well stops. Yeah, i saw the footage, the Russia guy fucked up, and lets all move on with our lives. no. Damnit, even the canadian team was okay with it. She cried a little, the dude shrugged and took the medal without being a whiney bitch about it, and i say *that's* sportsmanship. Let's glory in that, not in the way that the poor french judge was all but forced out of the country. god. What a great lesson for kids: if something unfair happens during a sporting event, the very fabric of time will rupture, so get every fan to bitch about it, get someone fired and eventually you'll be the winner, and that year there will be two first place medals and no 2nd place at all, because 2nd place in the Olympics, yes, even at the damn Olympics, is a big fat disgrace. thank you. p.s. the good part was seeing the head of the skating union, or whoever, at the press conferences. You think that guy could do a twirl, even if you payed him? And who wasn't expecting the king of all the figure skaters to be the biggest bitch on earth? The king of all bitches. That guy rules! |
And did you see that another Aussie got a gold today in the aerial "I-want-to-die-on-tv" section. She was amazing... doing a triple butt twist with double somersault into headjob. You gotta remember that these people train on ice cubes in the backyard or in someone's beer fridge. Anyway. Hey Wisper, you *have* to read this or I'll smack. It's really funny: http://www.satirewire.com/news/feb02/warship.shtml |
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i think "stoked" originated in CA or Hawaii surf culture. you can keep it though and feel free to take "rad" with you too. I've been watching a lot of the Olympic hockey. It doesnt get much better than that. All-star teams made up of the greatest players in the world. US has a good shot at gold too. Cat, are there NO mountaineous regions of Australia high enough to have snow? This may sound like a dumb question, but your island is big enough, i would have guessed that you had some snow caps somewhere. |
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You can not fire a volunteer. She was suspended. Besideds she seems to change her story every time she tells it. |
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the integrity of an already shakey sport to judge would just go to complete shit if you took away awards. |
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The athletes, the judges, the hosts, all of them. I'm telling you, time to start completely over |
You just don't do that. The skaters had nothing to do with the mis-judging as far as we know. |
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in sports....the "ruling on the field" must stand. Otherwise it all goes to shit. |
I realize this is not the athlete's fault, but would you want a medal that you know damned well you didn't deserve, and the people who did deserve it went home with the second best award even though they obviously did better? I wouldn't. I wouldn't want the gold if I didn't truly earn it. Especially if I found out I won because the judging was rigged. I wouldn't want it. |
Just like you don't understand why the rule of law must take precendence in dealing with the priosoners in cuba, you dont understand why the ruling the judges made, though tainted by one, should still stand. They very well can't skate again, and they certainly arent going to take away medals already given. "I wouldn't want the gold if I didn't truly earn it" eri, this is irrealvent as you are not the athletes nor the judges. Im sure the Russians must be a bit bothered by what happened, but at the same time the Russian performance in all of this should not be minimized. They most likely would have gotten a medal anyway. |
I do think that the russians should have a medal. I think that aside from one jump they were very close in scores and technique. I watched them skate. I don't think their perfomance has been minimized. They should have had the silver. As far as my "irrelevent" statement about not wanting something I didn't earn, did you consider the fact that maybe, just maybe, the athletes feel the same? That was the point I was trying to make. But then again, what would I know about figure skaters, right? |
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wrestling. |
Professional wrestling? wtf is that? |
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Don Cherry is a prick. if the Russians pull out of hockey today im gonna be pissed, they're so much fun to watch. |
fantastic. I watched it with a Canadian. It was loud. after they won, he got up and started whooping and hollering. Apparently this is Canada's first hockey gold medal in 50 years. Then he got upset because curling wasn't on. |
you must be mistaken the semi finals are today. no one has won anything yet in hockey. Canada vs Belarus is today as well as Russia vs US then we get the silver and gold matchup from the winners of those two games. |
curling. i always thought that sport looked like something the cleaning crew came up with one night. |
PHURRE! |
hockey? dude. |
goalie was excellent!! There was even some good hits, even though there isn't supposed to be checking in international hockey... |
i heard it was a good match up. good for Canada. good for Gretzky |
Medal round 230 sunday, is that correct? Maybe I will be actualy be able to watch it! |
Naturally yesterdays game was a bummer....Canada though was just one step ahead the whole game. We went to the local tavern had lunch and got drunk by 3pm. Nothing like walkin out of a bar when its still sunny and beautiful out. |
it got to the point where I was wishing the american's would get another goal, just because I felt sorry for them. Did you see how happy Wayne was? Muh boy. |
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you see, I'm implying in my oh-so-subtle way that you too are a whiny bitch. see how funny, yet poignant that was? don't I get a hug? |
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Gee, why do you disappear for so long? We need you here. |
you only hurt the ones you love, Patrick. |
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if you came to visit me I'd hug you, and if you died I'd be sad. does that cheer you up? |
i love white extra sharp canadian cheddar as much as i love you gee. |
How has school been going? |
... 45) feta cheese ... 89) patrick ... About right? |
you just wait your turn and stop goal robbing the little bit of love i get around here. |
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like gee a whole bunch. |
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School is sometimes fun, sometimes really annoying. I have to start thinking about my topic for my research essay in my Greek myth class. What do you think I should write about? Last term I wrote about Medea, who is probably my favorite character in greek myth. who do you think is really interesting? I can write about anything I want. I'm so looking forward to the summer. oh really, I am so much. It's going to be nice. |
My favorite character in Greek myth is Athena, but she can't be too exciting of a paper topic. I also like Orpheus, but....eh. Who was the guy who killed his enemy's children and fed them to him in a pie? I thought that was Tantalus, but my Google searches tells me he's the one who stole the gods' nectar and ambrosia. Is it the same guy? ...Or did he cut out someone's tongue? Did he rape his enemy's wife and cut out her tongue? Now I'm getting all mixed up. |
******************* Philomela and Procne were the daughters of Pandion, king of Athens. When war broke out between Athens and Thebes, Pandion asked Tereus, the king of Thrace, for his assistance. Tereus duly obliged and the Athenians were successful. In return for his help Pandion offered Tereus the hand of his daughter Procne in marriage. Procne went with Tereus back to Thrace in Northern Greece, but she missed her sister Philomela. Tereus promised to go to Athens to bring Philomela to Thrace so that the two could be reconciled. He travelled south and brought Philomela towards Thrace to be reconciled with her sister. But on the journey Tereus lusted after Philomela and raped her. Fearing that she should tell anyone he had her tongue cut out and arrived in Thrace with her unable to divulge any information. But she found a way around Tereus' treachery and embroided the secret on a piece of cloth for her sister Procne. Procne was horrified and immediately plotted a revenge to punish Tereus. She boiled her own son Itys and served him to his father. As he prepared to eat the two sisters fled. When Tereus realised what had been prepared for him to digest he pursued the two women enraged. He caught up with both of them and threatened to kill both with an axe. But before he could do so the women prayed to the gods to save them and they replied by turning Procne to a nightingale, Philomela to a swallow and Tereus to a hoopoe. ************** Wow! Here are two other links: http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Tereus1.html http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/GoodWomen/philomela.html |
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You've got torture, rape, murder, and cannibalism....all in one story. You can't get any more lurid! |
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I always thought it was interesting that when you have a god mating with a mortal woman the result can be a demi-god, but as far as I know there has never been a demi-god as a result of a goddess and a mortal man. I could try to find out why that is, but that might be too predictable. maybe I could compare variations of myths. Like for example, did Persephone eat the pomengrant seeds because she was tricked into doing so, or was she just stupid? Different myths say different things. how about an analysis of the morals of the ancient Greeks? They had really different morals than we do, and it's reflected in their myths. What do you think, Rhiannon? maybe I'll explore each topic a little bit and see which one bites at me. I'd like to know what you think, though. |
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I'm still thinking about it. |
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