Winter Olympics - Vancouver 2010 - WHOSE GAME IS IT, BITCHES (Shin has no teeth)
 

So, pretty much the Olympics are well on their way especially after a beautiful opening ceremony last night, didn't know deni had the same style as our Canadian poet. I didn't manage to catch the whole thing because by the time I got home last night the majority of it was over.

To us, the GFF community who loves watching the Olympics. This is the thread for it. What are going to be some of your favorite events to watch during the Winter Olympics. Which members are going to have bragging rights for their country winning the most medals.

On a sad note, it the with my greatest condolences that a luge skater by the name of Nodar Kumaritashvili from the Country of Georgia had lost his life the other day during his luge training run. Nobody ever goes to these games to live their Olympic dream to end up being killed even though some of these sports have their associated risks. I commend the Georgia team for making it to the opening ceremonies, despite the tragic loss they went through. I wish nothing but the best for their country during this tragic event. I'm sure people on this site has seen the video, but I won't post it here out of respect.

It isn't really surprising to see Vancouver and the surrounding areas get a rainfall warning for the Olympics. They've had to postpone some of the events today.

For myself, I'm obviously very excited about the Olympic Hockey this year because the competition this year is going to be incredibly fierce. I'm also a big fan of watching sports such as the freestyle moguls, and the freestyle aerials.

I'll be home for the first 8 days of the Olympics, then its back to work, but our workplace promised to let us take off work to watch some Olympic Hockey if Canada gets really far in the Olympics this year.

Also for any Canadian who wants to check out the Olympics online, you can get a live stream of Olympic coverage from:

Canadian Olympic Coverage

Let us enjoy the Winter Olympics together.

So who else buys into the theory doing the rounds that it was lack of practice time that led to the Georgian dude getting killed? Practice time limited by the Candian team using the course all the time so they can win a load of medals. Apparently quite a few other luge type athletes have said the course is (literally I guess) a deathtrap.

The winter olympics have always largely passed me by, primarily because we simply don't so any winter sports over here except curling, and that's gay.

It doesn't matter what you're doing, whenever you are less experienced you run a more significant risk of injury. That rider was quite young, and yeah, with more practice it's likely he would've known the intricacies of the track a bit better.

That said, though, can anyone find any information on if foreign athletes have been limited to fewer practice runs as compared to past Olympics? I saw a guy say in an interview that Canada's allowed more practice runs involving other countries to take place than in any past winter games, though I haven't been able to find anything confirming that. If that is the case, though, everyone talking about how Canada's a bunch of assholes for limiting practice time can suck countless dicks.

On another topic, why does ski-jump have a style component? With all the disdain people have for subjective scoring (a feeling I share) why do things like this persist? Ski-jump is a perfect sport for a purely objective scoring system. If you go further than the other guy, you win. Why should anyone give a shit about style?

Because if you can ski jump seventy meters, that's good.

If you can ski jump seventy meters while flashing goat horns, you're just that much more awesome.

I like watching Curling :(

Ciao.

Actually, if you can ski jump 70 meters, that's rubbish.

If you can ski jump 108 meters, that's pretty awesome.

Pssssh.

What chance of medalling did he have if he can't even survive the course?

I dunno. Do they still award medals to a corpse that somehow manages to finish in good time? Is there anything in the rule book that requires an athlete to be alive when they pass the finish line?

I think we've hit a very exploitable loophole here. I say, in 2014, that the American luge team should consist of hollowed out corpses, and one living player to mount them on the luge. Hell, they won't even need protective gear adding weight and slowing them down. Maybe we could just strap a fetus to the luge and give it a good, swift kick.

I would pay good money to see the Americans hoist a dead baby with a gold medal around its neck as they carry it around the course in celebration. Fuck you, Russia. You got beat by an abortion. How does that feel?

I barely settled down to watch the highlights from today and caught this news. It's fucked up but, you know, what are you gonna do. I know most people consider a lot of these games boring but you never really wanna hear this kind of stuff in any case; much less before the games even get into their full swing.

I watched the 5,000 metres (I think) speed skating last night and the Dutch guy who won it did so by a country mile. It's not even his strong distance apparently. It's horrible to watch though because even though the guy's a clear 6 seconds up on the nearest competition, he's still got to make it the distance without falling over. I'm sure that professional speed skaters (Well, very good amateurs, who'd ever let a professional sportsman in the Olympics?) hardly ever fall over but I suspect it happens to them more often than it happens to runners.

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Man, if that doesn't lead to a lifetime of bitterness I don't know what will.

Damn they took it down. What was that? Was that the downhill skier who took a dive right out of the box?

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I saw that. Yet, clumsy ass Vonn managed to not only make it but win. Good for her.

Lindsey Vonn. A respected female athlete. Famous for no other reason.

PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE.

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ATHLETE.

She's kind of like Gina Carano that way except she's actually good at what she does.

http://www.yorkblog.com/mma/gina-carano-perfect-5.jpg

I'm cool with her sucking at whatever she does, to be honest.

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If we want to start picking on female athletes who are clearly not famous for being athletes, I vote we start with the queen:

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Not sure exactly what you're trying to get at here. At least Lindsey Vonn is actually very good at what she does.

My initial point is that Lindsey Vonn is not famous because she's good.

And then there were pictures of hot chicks.

What are you, queer?

Fuck Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3-0 Canada not even the first period is over yet.

Yeah, but its Miller Time.

Yeah, if we had only one card to play repeatedly that happened to share it's name with a shitty beer we'd be harping that point endlessly too.

Sound a little bitter there, Skills.

Miller did win us the game, but don't act like we weren't able to put up four goals of our own against Brewdeur. Hopefully we'll have the chance to prove it wasn't a fluke this weekend.

What no one saw in the dressing room was Brodeur taking off his jersey to reveal an American one, saying "AHA, I AM A SPY FOR THE OTHER SIDE" as he ran around.

To be honest I am happy with taking Lenin down a peg. TAKE THAT COMMUNISM.

I guess that explains the whole "fatso" deal.

Don't act like Brodeur didn't do his damndest to help you out with those goals.

Man. Was Rochette really deserving of the bronze? Feels like the judges bought into the hype/stories all around.

Her and the yank both made some minor errors, but the routines were both fine and in the end quite similar. I don't think there was much in the way of pity points. Despite everything her run was still pretty solid.

Alright you Americans, we will see you Sunday Afternoon to give you a well deserved ass-kicking.

see, i would be saying things like that, but as a Rider fan i know better.

IT'S ON LIKE FUCKING DONKEY KONG

Hawkeye, as a Canadian you know who really cares. This is going to be pretty much a great end to an awesome Olympic tournament. Its like Salt Lake City over again. Who knows, back in 2002, we won the gold medal in the American territory, it could be the American's time to take the gold medal from Canadian territory.

Canada vs. USA is the new biggest hockey Olympic rivalry. I expect this to be a really good back and forth game.

All I know for sure is that Sunday Afternoon, work is going to be shut down for all of us to watch that gold medal game. I'll be one of the loudest guy's there, and I'll be cheering for Canada non-stop.

If we lose, which I don't think we will, I will accept defeat and take grilling from a lot of people on the forum and even on my worksite (we have a lot of Americans working with us). All in all; its all in good fun.

We're getting our revenge you better watch out.

By the way Hawkeye you still need to get your game choice in to me.

Won't lie, part of me wanted Solvakia to win, then win the gold. How unexpected would that have been? I mean... crazy right?

It's good to know that the Canadian women have already secured Gold.

Honestly though, i will only be truly upset if Martin doesn't walk away with Gold in Men's Curling. Yes. I'm following curling closer than hockey.

To be honest, I want the Canadian hockey team to lose too, but because Canadians are such smug fucking cunts about hockey, and I hate it. The nationalism that suddenly spews out of this country whenever somebody starts skating is fucking disgusting.

How dare we have national pride about something. :(

There is something wrong with our self image if we don't like being fucking patriotic from time to time. Like at the olympics. That we're hosting.

It's like we're a country of self-hating jews. The fuck is wrong with you? Christ. Ignore the trash talk coming out of both camps if you want but jesus shit what a crybaby.

I don't understand being proud of athletes that I've never met and have nothing to do with.

If you want to be proud of the country, alright, there's plenty to be proud of. That some strangers skate real good doesn't strike me as a good reason.

You can just say that you don't like or understand sports, you know. It's cool. Some people aren't into athletics.

I do like and understand sports, though.

I don't like or understand being proud of other people being good at sports.

So what can we be proud of? I don't know many of the politicians in office, so I can't be directly proud of the government in this country, I guess.

I'm not in the armed forces, nor do I know many soldiers, so can't be proud of how we are acting in the middle east. I pay taxes I guess, so maybe that's a tenuous enough link for you.

I voted, but the party I voted for lost, so I can't really be proud of the prime minister at all, hmm?

Because I don't know some fuckers who represent this country in some way, shape, or form, I'm not allowed to be proud of the job they're doing?

Lick my balls.

Then the Olympics are not for you. Enjoy the next two years without them.

So if some dude was struck by a train and had nearly every bone in his body broken, then spent the next five years relearning how to do fucking everything - the simplest task like eating breakfast becoming a grueling trial of pain and frustration every single day - but stuck with it and worked every day to become stronger until, in a triumphant display of willpower and determination, he completed a marathon...

...you couldn't be proud of someone like that because fuck all what's he got to do with anything in your life?

Man, you are fucking cold. No wonder God put you in Canada. You're refrigerating the place!

Let's define the word "proud".

from the dictionary:
feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth

No, I don't measure my own self-worth by what other people do, because that's fucking stupid. If some guy broke all his bones and worked his way back, he should be proud of that feat. I would not be proud, because I didn't have anything to do with it. The actual athletes who are competing in the olympics, and their trainers, and their families, you know, people who might have actually influenced them in some way, they should be proud. I would not expect an average Canadian to feel pride in a Canadian athlete anymore than I'd expect someone from Nigeria to feel pride in a Canadian athlete, as they both have done the same amount of work to further that athlete's progress.

Fuck it, I just want examples of what's acceptable, here.

Not being the United States of America.

Your nation does pride itself in that aspect often.

Apparently not. I have had absolutely nothing to do with making this country not an American state, so I can not think that way.

Sorry Amerijerks. I've been wrong all these years :(

If you can feel ashamed that you're from the same country as Skills, then you damn well can take pride in the achievement of a random Canadian athlete as well.

It's quite acceptable to take pride in your self-worth for being human enough to respect another person whose accomplishments cause you to feel better about the world in general.

Who the hell dissed this

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O, but I would. I so would.

Well, no. You can't.

You can respect them

Or admire them

or idolize them

or fetishize them, in some cases.

But you can't be proud of them, because words mean things.

Nobody's telling you guys that you can't feel the way you do, they're just saying that it's not pride. Pride necessarily involves the self.

If I mow the lawn, I can be proud of how well I mowed the lawn.

If I pay some kid to mow the lawn, I can still (tangentially) be proud of myself for indirectly causing the lawn to be mowed.

If I just show up at home and find that some random samaritan has mowed my lawn, I have nothing to be proud of. However, I can still be happy about the new state of the lawn, and I can admire the excellent job this lawn-mowing stranger has done for me.

It's just grammar, kids. No need to get so butthurt over it because you're not good at it.

I guess national pride is a myth then.

Thanks for debunking that Gamingforce, whatever would I do without you?

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Hey CAPO, I got 6 words for you and the rest of the GFF American hockey fans.



Fuck, what a game. Sidney Crosby, just amazing.

That was a great hockey game. Or at least I think it was, since I pay zero attention to hockey most of the time. Can't believe the NHL wants to pull out of the Olympics, what with all this positive publicity and all.

I kind of want to watch the closing ceremonies, but really, NBC. I don't know if I want to sit through tape-delayed nonsense with cuts to commercial breaks every 5 minutes. If I see that McNugget commercial one more time...

Right, give us the grammar lesson because GFF is the first and only people to take pride in someone else's actions.

I'm just not really clear on why "admiration" is a really shitty emotion that we shouldn't admit to feeling, to the point that we have to substitute something else.

This willful ignorance is making it hard for me to be proud of you guys

Nah that's called patriotism and it makes a lot more sense because your nationality legitimately has something to do with you

See, if we use the word "pride" instead of "admiration", then we imply by extension that we DO have something to do with the individual or individuals currently being exalted, and in the bargain seek to exalt ourselves. We cannot simply be happy for a hockey team, for this gains us nothing. We must seek to tie our own individiual identities to said hockey team, and in so doing provide ourselves the illusion that we, too, are exalted.

Posting in a Canada thread because I need to be adorned with northern glory.

You're having a hard time understanding that having pride indicates an admiration in actions?

Yes, pride is a form of admiration. A specific form.

Similarly, all oranges are fruit but not all fruit is in the form of oranges. If you claimed to be eating an orange, and I looked and saw that you were in fact eating a banana, I would rightfully point out that it was not an orange whereupon you would get all indignant for some reason which would be kind of baffling to me

But this entire derail is actually kind of spergy when I look at it so pffft

V I do actually, just not this massive grand-scale bullshit. Sorry for being interested in what things mean? :shrug:

Well, I'm a little disappointed by the way that game turned out, but I can't say I felt that the US had the better squad. As crazy as this might seem, I was sort of rooting for the Russians the whole way just because they carried players from the Washington Capitals.

Also fuck Sidney Crosby; what a whiny bitch.

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I already conceded, you know.

where would I be without beating dead horses, Pang

where

No, you don't. Pretend it ends with Neil Young.

Ahahaha typical Capitals fan (or Flyers - they're basically the same kind of person).

Hmm, well google seems to agree as well:

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Also, a great survey amongst NHL players really breaks it down. Check out questions 3 and 4.

Sidney Crosby's a hell of a player, but he's a bit of a prima donna. Ovechkin on the other hand, is somewhat of a badass.

Crosby wins championships.

Ovechkin goes out of his way to shove girls to the ground.

I have to give Ovechkin credit, at least he managed to last the entire game before storming off in a fit. He's come a long way since the World Juniors.

Well Diss, there was no Phaneuf to put him into the first row this time.

On a positive note: this hockey final could not been anymore special. Both teams deserve praise but as a Canadian... YEAH GO CANADA HAHAHAH.

It would've been great if the closing ceremonies didn't suck really badly. :(

I just stopped after Young is finished.

Just heard later on that after him, everything went downhill. Fast.

Well at least they lit the fourth flame this time

Congratulations Canada and all that but Unicorns? You know y'all gay, right? Like, Shin levels of gay.

You don't want that kind of gay.

So I take it Canada won the ice hockey then? I've never really watched ice hockey but I saw the womens' final which was entertaining enough. Not so much that I'd start watching NHL or anything but I'll keep an eye on it next time the Olympics are on.

If you thought Canada put on a shit closing ceremony, just wait until London hosts the 2012 Olympics, it's guaranteed to be a farce from beginning to end. The way things are going it'll be a miracle if there's a stadium to host the athletic events, the Olympic village won't be finished and the public transport in the area (Which is currently one of the highest crime-rate areas in the country) is laughable. We'll probably have similar weather to these Olympics too.

Also ALL THIS DISCUSSION ABOUT GRAMMAR AND NOBODY POINTS OUT THE WHO'S

what is wrong with all of you

skills is DUMB holy shit

Skills wanted a new banner. Give it a click, Tails. c:

Yeah, I hear that shit enough at work. No offense to Erasure or anything but fuck you guys. :mad:

(I was wondering why it wasn't doing anything for a second or two because my speakers are usually off)

e: lol though, but still fuck you for making me listen to that again

Whoever did that mash-up, it's pretty seamless, good job.

lol Shin it was pretty much just that. I mashed three versions of Oh Canada into Always and made a few volume adjustments. =')

You should've watched the mens hockey, there was almost no other game like it. It was on a level of epic on its own.