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kinghendrix

Inconspicuous Olympics on BBF !

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Aug 15 12 1:39 PM

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It seems that Olympics Games didn't fascinate bbfer's very much. I watched quite a lot. I just want to say here my admiration for the organization of the event. /appl.gif

to Great Britain for having done it so well !

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TheClubman

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Aug 15 12 3:23 PM

I did watch the US vs. Russia Men's Volleyball.

At first I was wondering why there was an American playing on the Runssian team and a Russian playing on the American team. Then after looking closer I realized those people's uniforms were not quite the same.

My daughter played volleyball in high school, Junior Olympics and in college, so I called her and she told me there was now a player called the libero, who is a defensive specialist. The libero cannot serve and can replace any back-row player anytime the ball is not in play and does not count against the amount of subs a team can take. The person replaced by the subbing libero must replace the libero when he/she is subbed out. Due to the special rules pertaining to the libero, he/she must wear a contrasting jersey so judges can track them.

Another change was using the feet to save a spike, though I didn't find this rule anywhere.

Also, serving into the net is acceptable as long as the ball goes over the net into the opponent's court.

I had no idea!

I also watched seom "Race walking" and mountain biking...

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bluesslave

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Aug 15 12 5:35 PM

I watched the Olympics alot this time, thoroughly enjoyed the games.

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Taff

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Aug 15 12 5:40 PM

QUOTE (kinghendrix @ August 15, 2012 01:39 pm)

It seems that Olympics Games didn't fascinate bbfer's very much. I watched quite a lot. I just want to say here my admiration for the organization of the event. /appl.gif

to Great Britain for having done it so well !

I think some/most members refrained from making comments about sports in different countries due to the fact in MAY turn Political.......Just a thought.
I enjoyed the Boxing and Beach Volley Ball,

could not watch the opening/closing ceremonies.....Way over the Top on Patriotism.

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chris olivarez

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Aug 15 12 6:52 PM

Didn't care. Didn't watch.

Everybody looks good at the starting line. Get on your mark,get ready but you better keep this in mind. You can hit the ground running like you're shot from a gun but going the distance is the hard part son. Everybody looks good at the starting line.

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Sherman

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Aug 15 12 7:30 PM

QUOTE (chris olivarez @ August 15, 2012 02:52 pm)

Didn't care. Didn't watch.

I don't like your attitude, young man!

Speaking of attitude, here's a few Olympic “Sports” I could do without (typed with my tongue firmly planted against my cheek)

BEACH VOLLEYBALL
I used to like this. We have Internet porn now. I don't need this anymore.

WEIGHT LIFTING
No one cares which roidmonkey with no neck from Turkey ends up winning the gold. The only reason anyone watches weightlifting is because they're waiting for some poor bastard to snap his humerus in eight places while trying to clean and jerk a bar with 30 plates on each side.

EQUESTRIAN
See now, the horse is doing all the fucking work! Do you realize that horses don't get medals for equestrian events? Only the jockey gets the medal. THAT IS CRAP

WRESTLING
Let's all just admit that “professional wrestling” is vastly superior. Watch amateur wrestling for three minutes and you'll quickly understand why. Pro wrestlers know full well that you don't want to watch one guy try and give another guy a “reacharound” for three straight minutes.

WATER POLO
Total asshat sport. AND it's unwatchable. Throw a 3-year-old in the pool and you get roughly the same viewing experience. Lots of splashing.

BADMINTON
It's the kind of “sport” that people play while shitfaced, waiting for the steaks to finish grilling the, it's not a real sport. I eagerly await the IOC's decision to approve plastic horseshoes as a sport in 2016.

BOXING
It's borderline criminal that a sport as violent and ruthless as boxing is so often decided by a gang of corrupt judges who happily ignore Compubox stats. Soccer has shootouts. Why doesn't Boxing have punch-outs? At the end of 12 rounds, each boxer gets a free shot at the other's face. First one to drop, loses. (Or dies. They'd probably die). Sport: IMPROVED.

FENCING
You're not fooling anyone, fencers. I know you want everyone to think you're Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride.

TABLE TENNIS
I can't even see the damn ball. For all I know, you people are just staging an elaborate pantomime routine in order to justify your Olympic status. It's like a rec room game for premature ejaculators

Rebecca, Rebecca, get your big legs off of me,
Rebecca, Rebecca, get your big legs off of me,
It may be sending you baby, but it's worrying the hell out of me.

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hollowbody

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Aug 15 12 9:30 PM

bravo

well said Sherman /appl.gif

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chris olivarez

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Aug 16 12 2:18 AM

That's priceless Sherman.

I saw Misty May Treanor on the "Daily Show" the other night. While not as funny as Jon Stewart she does have a good personality.

Everybody looks good at the starting line. Get on your mark,get ready but you better keep this in mind. You can hit the ground running like you're shot from a gun but going the distance is the hard part son. Everybody looks good at the starting line.

Paul Thorn

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Sassie

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Aug 16 12 2:43 AM

I don't generally watch muh of it, but I did this time. And I was quickly reminded why I don't watch much of it

I especially didn't "get" the opening ceremony, but thought the My WebpageBeijing one was pretty spectacular.

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Blues Shark

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Aug 16 12 6:33 AM

Thought the whole thing was brilliant, and can't wait for the Paralympics either.

I approached the Games as a huge cynic but came away as a huge fan and as a (Near London) Brit was extremely proud of how well we hosted the thing.

Didn'ttalk about it here because

1) I'm not round here so much anymore anyways
2) the Sports section here seems to have fallen (mostly) into disuse.

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Blue Carr

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Aug 16 12 11:45 AM

THIS is brilliant Sherman. merci

TABLE TENNIS
I can't even see the damn ball. For all I know, you people are just staging an elaborate pantomime routine in order to justify your Olympic status. It's like a rec room game for premature ejaculators

As for me my buddy of many years Veronika was there to take part as a dancer for the opening ceremonies, even then I didn’t watch. Doping is for dopes!

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hollowbody

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Aug 16 12 1:31 PM

QUOTE

I especially didn't "get" the opening ceremony, but thought the My WebpageBeijing one was pretty spectacular.

Sassie, I think thats what the director of the opening ceremony was trying to achieve, ie: appealing to a home UK audience with little thought for how any other country would view it

Danny Boyle had a big hit with his film Slumdog Millionaire and so this ceremony was an attempt to give recent British history the Bollywood treatment.
Britain was never going to spend the money China spent on their opening ceremony so she went for this slightly oddball spectacle

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Blues Shark

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Aug 16 12 8:59 PM

Have to disagree about the opening ceremony, which I thought was brilliantly British - hugely eccentric, slightly introverted and mostly incomprehensible to everybody else - I think a great deal of attention went into how others would view it and then it was decided - 'it's our games, in our town, we'll do it for us'. Loved every minute of it.

I'd hate to think that Beijing's regimented attempt was the only way to do an Olympics Ceremony, because no one is ever going to be able stage a ceremony like that again for any number of reasons beginning with unlimited cash and ending in unlimited labour.

Probably didn't help US comprehension that NBC apparently cut large chunks of it anyway as they weren't showing it (or any of the sport itself I believe) live.

"And I was thinking how the world should have cried, on the day Jack Kirby died"

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Bluejay

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Aug 23 12 11:38 PM

Having seen a few episodes of pageantry during my year in China, I can assure you that the Olympic ceremonies were only a larger and more elaborate example of something the Chinese do all the time, from the local level on up. They start doing this stuff as little kids -- really, not a joke, though the changing nature of Chinese society may undermine that for the future. Mary and I knew when Beijing got the games exactly what the approach to the ceremonies would be.

Have to say, the London approach was somewhat suspenseful and edgy as it did change up the Olympic playbook, and of course, the home team's songbook is pretty dang deep to draw on. When I think about it, the opening and closing ceremonies were more akin to giant versions of how West End musical theater productions (and those on Broadway, too) are trending. Just thinking of the giant high-heeled shoe above the marquee for "Priscilla..." when Steve and Sara took me through London -- it would have worked right into the London games.

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Blues Shark

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Sep 4 12 6:04 PM

Well, that one would be for cousins in Oz, Jeff! Priscilla is an Australian show after all (and a very fine one - we went to see it last year and had a blast).

I greatly enjoyed the opening ceremony for the Paralympics as well.

"And I was thinking how the world should have cried, on the day Jack Kirby died"

Now down in Black Bottom, that is so they say
They drink good moonshine and stay drunk all day.

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Sep 9 12 6:24 PM

On a different, slightly more tongue-in-cheek note, did you see the start of the Tourettes 500 metres race?
On your marks......get set......f*ck!

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Sassie

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Sep 10 12 5:30 PM

Never put off til tomorrow what you can do the day after.

Colorado, USA

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Sherman

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Sep 11 12 4:32 PM

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TABLE TENNIS
I can't even see the damn ball. For all I know, you people are just staging an elaborate pantomime routine in order to justify your Olympic status. It's like a rec room game for premature ejaculators

I rest my case.
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Rebecca, Rebecca, get your big legs off of me,
Rebecca, Rebecca, get your big legs off of me,
It may be sending you baby, but it's worrying the hell out of me.

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Sherman

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Sep 11 12 4:36 PM

A very excited Olympic Volunteer

"Can you point me in the direction of.......um...nevermind"
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Rebecca, Rebecca, get your big legs off of me,
Rebecca, Rebecca, get your big legs off of me,
It may be sending you baby, but it's worrying the hell out of me.

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Sherman

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Sep 11 12 5:21 PM

Remember in The Sound of Music when the Von Trapp family threw some shrimp on the barbie?
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Rebecca, Rebecca, get your big legs off of me,
Rebecca, Rebecca, get your big legs off of me,
It may be sending you baby, but it's worrying the hell out of me.

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Sherman

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Sep 11 12 5:36 PM

Olympic Diving

I’m reminded of the time I ate a street taco in Tijuana

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