2010 Winter Olympics

So, one guy is already dead, and then there's a major mechanical failure during the torch lighting ceremony. Canada's off to a good start.

Don't forget the rain... Vancouver has the worst climate ever to host Winter Olympics.

Olympics is fucking boring as hell.

  On 2/13/2010 at 6:22 AM, beatfanatic said:

Stephen Harper is fucking boring as hell.

FUCK...I meant to flip on the TV when I got home to watch some...but instead I got sucked into the internets as usual.

i was on msnbc watching a report on the death thing, then flipped over to some chick singing Oh canada, in a pretty good way for that sort of thing i sort (no i didn't want to boink her). But then they wheeled out some natives who started praying to the earth mother or something so i turned off.

only just watched the beginning of the open ceremony and it was a snore-fest. i really wanted something more from it. pacing was just really slow, but the olympic torch was a giant bong so it's understandable.

lol at whistler:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100212-vancouver-2010-warmest-winter-olympics/

it somehow feels that it's all about the men's hockey tournament with some other winter sports on the side.

how did vancouver fool the IOC that they had the climate to organize events that require snow?

I think it's more a question of how much money they paid to the IOC to have it. After the first round of voting, Vancouver was behind South Korea's bid by 11 votes. They won by 3 votes after the second round.

well, it's pretty certain that the vancouver olympics will be an economical failure.

  On 2/13/2010 at 7:00 AM, SPD² said:

only just watched the beginning of the open ceremony and it was a snore-fest. i really wanted something more from it. pacing was just really slow, but the olympic torch was a giant bong so it's understandable.

HAH, the torch looked like like a scaled up feature of something that you'd find passing by on a float, whilst attending a harvest day parade in the main street of some small agricultural town. Replete with aluminium foil over the legs of the torch. It was this ghastly misshapen blob of a thing, thrown together for some purpose, that only the float committee and those that worked on it could divine.

I wonder what the float represented, oh yeah that's right it was the olympics. OH, .. Canada !!

  On 2/13/2010 at 10:27 AM, azatoth said:

well, it's pretty certain that the vancouver olympics will be an economical failure.

fuck yeah. the shenanigans that they pulled off to get this in under "Olymbic budget" while meeting IOC requirements are fucking outstanding examples of bureaucratic virtuosity.

The death of the luger was horrific. I'll be watching intently, love the Olympics.

  On 2/13/2010 at 9:18 PM, Velazquez said:

The death of the luger was horrific. I'll be watching intently, love the Olympics.

did anyone see the video of this? is there one?

yeah. i saw it on liveleak but apperantly its being played on news reports on telly as well :P

oh, i thought they weren't gonna be rebroadcasting it. Well the networks, anything goes on the net. ;-]

It's pretty harsh but here you go...

Winter sports must be more expensive to train for. Skiing was so expensive for me it was just never an option growing up

In a sense that actually taints a sport in my opinion. Being the best at a sport that only about 1 in a 1000 children could afford to practice isn't anywhere near the achievement of being the best footballer or basketball player.

that guy made a pretty IDM sound on his way out

It's a bit like when you read the guiness book of records and someone has the record for swallowing sheep eyeballs. I'm exaggerating but you know what i'm saying...

  On 2/14/2010 at 5:38 AM, lumpenprol said:

that guy made a pretty IDM sound on his way out

the lugerist ?

Please don't sample it and make a song dedicated to his honour. plus i didn't watch the clip, squeemish little girly man right here.

As for the posh dicks getting medals thing, totally agree. Adds sailing, anything involving an horse, rowing. And on and on.

dude just crashed in the luge event but managed to stay on. It was amazing the way he managed it.

I hope the olympics fuck the city up, it'd be nice if I could afford to live there again...