Winter Olympics 2010

[CT III]

Is Lindsey Vonn hot or just Olympic hot? I'm leaning toward the latter - I don't think she's anything special. Just happens to be a thin blonde who wears a ton of make up.

I don't know, but this "We Are The World" cover may actually be more insufferable than the original.

[Slaky]

Is Lindsey Vonn hot or just Olympic hot? I'm leaning toward the latter - I don't think she's anything special. Just happens to be a thin blonde who wears a ton of make up.

I haven't been watching any TV for the past month or so, but when did homeliness become an Olympic sport?

Proof! Thanks - I feel good about my decision.

[Internet Apex]

Is Lindsey Vonn hot or just Olympic hot? I'm leaning toward the latter - I don't think she's anything special. Just happens to be a thin blonde who wears a ton of make up.

I haven't been watching any TV for the past month or so, but when did homeliness become an Olympic sport?

Proof! Thanks - I feel good about my decision.

I'm going with incredible body and hot. Anybody can take one bad picture.

[MAD]

You know, I do blame Canada for this.

Georgian luger dies after horrifying crash at Whistler track.

Especially when there are METAL POLES ON THE TRACK.

Oh, and not letting the athletes practice at the facilities before the games, because of some stupid jingoistic ideal that I thought was beneath them.

Raney, who spent more than seven years living in Canada and training with the Canadian national team, was told after the 2006 Olympics that the Canadians did not want foreign athletes training with them leading to the 2010 Games in Vancouver.

The target is 35 medals, 11 more than Canada won in 2006 in Turin, Italy. Canada's Own the Podium program is pumping $110 million into the medal push, focusing on athletes most likely to finish in the top three. Alpine skiers, for example, are being counted on to win two medals. Besides gold medals in hockey and curling, Canada expects big hauls from speedskating and the sliding sports.

Own the Podium emphasizes the advantage gained by giving athletes time to acclimate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/sports/21olympics.html?_r=1

1. Build an insanely over-the-limit course.
2. Only allow your guys to practice on it because of some stupid idea.
3. Eliminate the competition...literally.
6. PROFIT.

Fuck Canada.

I have no problem with most of this, but I find the complaint--here and elsewhere--that having exposed metal poles, or at the least, unpadded metal poles, faulty.  If you're whizzing around at 90 miles an hour it wouldn't matter what the hell was surrounding the track.  You'd be pretty much dead--or at least a brain-dead PANK eating food out of a straw for the rest of your life-- if you drifted off course at that speed.

[Gilgamesh]

You know, I do blame Canada for this.

Georgian luger dies after horrifying crash at Whistler track.

Especially when there are METAL POLES ON THE TRACK.

Oh, and not letting the athletes practice at the facilities before the games, because of some stupid jingoistic ideal that I thought was beneath them.

Raney, who spent more than seven years living in Canada and training with the Canadian national team, was told after the 2006 Olympics that the Canadians did not want foreign athletes training with them leading to the 2010 Games in Vancouver.

The target is 35 medals, 11 more than Canada won in 2006 in Turin, Italy. Canada's Own the Podium program is pumping $110 million into the medal push, focusing on athletes most likely to finish in the top three. Alpine skiers, for example, are being counted on to win two medals. Besides gold medals in hockey and curling, Canada expects big hauls from speedskating and the sliding sports.

Own the Podium emphasizes the advantage gained by giving athletes time to acclimate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/sports/21olympics.html?_r=1

1. Build an insanely over-the-limit course.
2. Only allow your guys to practice on it because of some stupid idea.
3. Eliminate the competition...literally.
6. PROFIT.

Fuck Canada.

I have no problem with most of this, but I find the complaint--here and elsewhere--that having exposed metal poles, or at the least, unpadded metal poles, faulty.  If you're whizzing around at 90 miles an hour it wouldn't matter what the hell was surrounding the track.  You'd be pretty much dead--or at least a brain-dead PANK eating food out of a straw for the rest of your life-- if you drifted off course at that speed.

See, at first, I kind of agreed with that sentiment, but imagine if there was a wall in place, other than these poles.  Sure, he'd probably be paralyzed, but that's better than not being alive.

Then, he can compete in the Paraylmpic Winter Games!

[ChuckD]

You know, I do blame Canada for this.

Georgian luger dies after horrifying crash at Whistler track.

Especially when there are METAL POLES ON THE TRACK.

Oh, and not letting the athletes practice at the facilities before the games, because of some stupid jingoistic ideal that I thought was beneath them.

Raney, who spent more than seven years living in Canada and training with the Canadian national team, was told after the 2006 Olympics that the Canadians did not want foreign athletes training with them leading to the 2010 Games in Vancouver.

The target is 35 medals, 11 more than Canada won in 2006 in Turin, Italy. Canada's Own the Podium program is pumping $110 million into the medal push, focusing on athletes most likely to finish in the top three. Alpine skiers, for example, are being counted on to win two medals. Besides gold medals in hockey and curling, Canada expects big hauls from speedskating and the sliding sports.

Own the Podium emphasizes the advantage gained by giving athletes time to acclimate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/sports/21olympics.html?_r=1

1. Build an insanely over-the-limit course.
2. Only allow your guys to practice on it because of some stupid idea.
3. Eliminate the competition...literally.
6. PROFIT.

Fuck Canada.

I have no problem with most of this, but I find the complaint--here and elsewhere--that having exposed metal poles, or at the least, unpadded metal poles, faulty.  If you're whizzing around at 90 miles an hour it wouldn't matter what the hell was surrounding the track.  You'd be pretty much dead--or at least a brain-dead PANK eating food out of a straw for the rest of your life-- if you drifted off course at that speed.

See, at first, I kind of agreed with that sentiment, but imagine if there was a wall in place, other than these poles.  Sure, he'd probably be paralyzed, but that's better than not being alive.

Then, he can compete in the Paraylmpic Winter Games!

Why don't they just build the entire luger out of exposed metal poles!?!?!?

[Canadouche]

You know, I do blame Canada for this.

Georgian luger dies after horrifying crash at Whistler track.

Especially when there are METAL POLES ON THE TRACK.

Oh, and not letting the athletes practice at the facilities before the games, because of some stupid jingoistic ideal that I thought was beneath them.

Raney, who spent more than seven years living in Canada and training with the Canadian national team, was told after the 2006 Olympics that the Canadians did not want foreign athletes training with them leading to the 2010 Games in Vancouver.

The target is 35 medals, 11 more than Canada won in 2006 in Turin, Italy. Canada's Own the Podium program is pumping $110 million into the medal push, focusing on athletes most likely to finish in the top three. Alpine skiers, for example, are being counted on to win two medals. Besides gold medals in hockey and curling, Canada expects big hauls from speedskating and the sliding sports.

Own the Podium emphasizes the advantage gained by giving athletes time to acclimate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/sports/21olympics.html?_r=1

1. Build an insanely over-the-limit course.
2. Only allow your guys to practice on it because of some stupid idea.
3. Eliminate the competition...literally.
6. PROFIT.

Fuck Canada.

Dude, relax.  He was just from Georgia the country, not Georgia the hick US State.  'sides.  The pole was Canada's way of stepping up the excitement.  It's the Olympics... with death traps. 

[Pre]

I'm going with incredible body and hot. Anybody can take one bad picture.

She's good looking.

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

I'm going with incredible body and hot. Anybody can take one bad picture.

She's good looking.

Still outclassed by the female Winter Olympians from Argentina and Chile.

Adding: Lindsey Vonn isn't a snowboarder. Who's that?

Adding more: that's Hanna Teter.

[Wheezer]

Is Lindsey Vonn hot or just Olympic hot? I'm leaning toward the latter - I don't think she's anything special. Just happens to be a thin blonde who wears a ton of make up.

I don't know, but this "We Are The World" cover may actually be more insufferable than the original.

"We Are the World" is nowhere near as bad as Bob Geldof's failure to realize that, yes, Ethiopia probably had a really fucking good idea that it was Christmas.

[CT III]

Is Lindsey Vonn hot or just Olympic hot? I'm leaning toward the latter - I don't think she's anything special. Just happens to be a thin blonde who wears a ton of make up.

I don't know, but this "We Are The World" cover may actually be more insufferable than the original.

"We Are the World" is nowhere near as bad as Bob Geldof's failure to realize that, yes, Ethiopia probably had a really fucking good idea that it was Christmas.

I don't know if I'm getting smarter or if Wheezer's talking down for my benefit, but...awesome.

[Gilgamesh]

You know, I do blame Canada for this.

Georgian luger dies after horrifying crash at Whistler track.

Especially when there are METAL POLES ON THE TRACK.

Oh, and not letting the athletes practice at the facilities before the games, because of some stupid jingoistic ideal that I thought was beneath them.

Raney, who spent more than seven years living in Canada and training with the Canadian national team, was told after the 2006 Olympics that the Canadians did not want foreign athletes training with them leading to the 2010 Games in Vancouver.

The target is 35 medals, 11 more than Canada won in 2006 in Turin, Italy. Canada's Own the Podium program is pumping $110 million into the medal push, focusing on athletes most likely to finish in the top three. Alpine skiers, for example, are being counted on to win two medals. Besides gold medals in hockey and curling, Canada expects big hauls from speedskating and the sliding sports.

Own the Podium emphasizes the advantage gained by giving athletes time to acclimate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/sports/21olympics.html?_r=1

1. Build an insanely over-the-limit course.
2. Only allow your guys to practice on it because of some stupid idea.
3. Eliminate the competition...literally.
6. PROFIT.

Fuck Canada.

Dude, relax.  He was just from Georgia the country, not Georgia the hick US State.  'sides.  The pole was Canada's way of stepping up the excitement.  It's the Olympics... with death traps. 

Yeah, I was mostly doing it to get your goat.

And I don't know about you, but Georgia, home of American peach production and President Jimmy Carter ["He's history's greatest monster!"], is the first place I think of when I see the name Nodar Kumaritashvili.

[Wheezer]

And I don't know about you, but Georgia, home of American peach production and President Jimmy Carter ["He's history's greatest monster!"], is the first place I think of when I see the name Nodar Kumaritashvili.

Racist.

[Wheezer]

DPD. I think there is some chance that the Cocker-Pavarotti instantiation gets short shrift.

[Plus, the long shots of the audience are like a tray of Lit'l Smokies that has been forgotten on the back porch.]

[Gilgamesh]

On a complete side note, how much sex do you think there is to be had at an Olympics, even the Winter Games?