No Vancouver Thread?

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

The opening ceremony so far is pretty cool. Not as epic as Beijing, but awesome.


The Aussie reporters are a lot less inane than the NBC idiots. :thumbsup:

[vremya]

I wish I could listen to the Aussie guys! The NBC guys are really irritating.

I'm a total Olympics junkie, even more so with the Winter Games.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

The fiddle/dance thing was fucking epic.

JONI MITCHELL! :love:

[Doctor X]

The opening ceremony so far is pretty cool. Not as epic as Beijing, but awesome.

Canadians do not have slaves, apparently.

--J.D.

[vremya]

I loved the fiddling and dancing, especially the guy tap dancing in boots.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

:sadcheer: The Georgian story is so fucking sad. :(

[Doctor X]

Yeah, that is all kinds of suck.

--J.D.

[vremya]

k.d. lang is singing Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, and I have no idea why.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

They're both Canadian. But who cares? It was major fucking win.

[beyelzu]

Fast-Track Tragedy: Shame on Olympics -- Olympics -- 2010 Winter Olympics from Vancouver FanHouse (http://olympics.fanhouse.com/2010/02/12/a-fast-track-tragedy-shame-on-olympics/?icid=main|main|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Folympics.fanhouse.com%2F2010%2F02%2F12%2Fa-fast-track-tragedy-shame-on-olympics%2F)

[Dingfod]

The fiddle/dance thing was fucking epic.It was fucking awesome!

k.d. lang is singing Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, and I have no idea why.It was fucking awesome!

[vremya]

I think I'm the only person in the whole world who didn't like k.d. lang's Hallelujah.

[Dingfod]

Sucks to be you.

[D. Scarlatti]

When did k.d. lang become Wayne Newton?

[Dingfod]

I wasn't looking at h... er.

[vremya]

This one's my fave:

YouTube- John Cale, Hallelujah

[Dingfod]

YouTube- K.D. Lang 'Hallelujah' 2004

[Watser?]

This one's my fave:

YouTube- John Cale, Hallelujah (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzu4LE667VM)

I've heard him sing that in a church here.

[vremya]

This one's my fave:

YouTube- John Cale, Hallelujah (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzu4LE667VM)

I've heard him sing that in a church here.

*swoon* He hasn't been here is a long time - I saw him in concert ages and ages ago and it was great, one of the best shows I'd ever seen.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Mine is Jeff Buckley.

[Deadlokd]

What's happening in Vancouver?

[viscousmemories]

Lindsay Vonn was injured, but that's probably old news. That's all I know without following it.

[Dingfod]

What's happening in Vancouver?The hell if I know, my redneck shiftmate wanted to watch the Daytona 500 NASCAR race. At least with luge and freestyle skiing they turn both left AND right.

[Dingfod]

Lindsay Vonn was injured, but that's probably old news. That's all I know without following it.Her events have been postponed until maybe Wednesday, giving her an extra few days for recovery. They didn't postpone it for her, it was because it was raining at Whistler.

[Dingfod]

Have I mentioned yet this year how much Bob Costas sucks? Good lord, guy, if you're going bald or gray or both, just go with it, brown is not a hair color, it's a shoe color. Oh, and if contact lenses are going to make your eyes bug out like that, maybe you should break down and get some stylish eyeglasses. That and shut the fuck up when you don't know what you're talking about. I know, I know, pot, kettle, black.

[Demimonde]

:giggle: Last night we played freeze Costas's face and make scathing comments. Unfortunately timed pauses on a DVR can make even the prettiest people look like freaks, but with Costas's it was epic.

[viscousmemories]

Colbert on going to Vancouver for the Olympics:

"I might stab Bob Costas. I'm on vacation!"

[Dingfod]

Paraphrased:

Costas: "Were you worried you wouldn't be able to beat Jen Heil after seeing her great performance?"
*stunned look from Hannah Kearney*
Hannah Kearney: "Uh, I skied for the gold."

Duh.

[Plant Woman]

:olympics:

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Shaun White :shock:

[Dingfod]

Shaun White :shock:Air Shaun White. I mean, did you see that? Apparently so.

[Dingfod]

French Olympic team surrenders after downhiller crashed five seconds into her run. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/winter-olympics/7262305/Winter-Olympics-2010-French-skier-Marion-Rolland-crashes-five-seconds-into-downhill.html)

Well, maybe not surrender, but morale is not good.

[Watser?]

Ok, I don't like speed skating, but this guy is pretty kewl: Sven Kramer To Reporter: 'Are You Stupid?' (VIDEO) (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/18/sven-kramer-to-nbc-report_n_467154.html)

YouTube- Sven Kramer interview (volledig fragment) (with subtitles)

[erimir]

Now I see why they say that Dutch is not so much a language but a throat disease.

I hadn't really heard much conversation in Dutch before watching that video lol

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

:swagman::australia:!

Erimir, one of the speed skating commentators here is a Dutch woman. Her voice is very high-pitched and very, very annoying.

[Dingfod]

Awesome Aussies are awesome, Torah Bright in the Half Pipe.

[Watser?]

Now I see why they say that Dutch is not so much a language but a throat disease.

I hadn't really heard much conversation in Dutch before watching that video lol

Ah yes, those are what we call 'hard g'. In the southern provinces of Brabant (which is where I'm from) and Limburg and in Belgium they speak with a 'soft g'. Major difference.

[JoeP]

Afrikaners all speak with that guttural g.

[Watser?]

The way I understand it Afrikaans was derived from the dialect of Zeeland. And yeah, they have that g too.

[livius drusus]

The twenty funniest figure skating faces (http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-20-funniest-figure-skating-faces/).

My favorite:

http://s-ec-sm.buzzfeed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2010/2/19/13/enhanced-buzz-11335-1266602614-0.jpg

[Crumb]

http://s-ec-sm.buzzfeed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2010/2/19/13/enhanced-buzz-11302-1266602598-0.jpg

Zombie Figure Skating! :panics:

[Dingfod]

Is Vancouver the Olympic apocalypse? Death, no snow, leprosy, someone not doing a quad winning gold in men's figure skating, when will it end?

Wait, a flesh-picking minute, leprosy? (http://www.timescolonist.com/health/Leprosy+diagnosed+Olympic+security+cruise+ship/2588817/story.html)

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

:shock:

So one of Australia's athletes, an aerial skier, broke her neck in 2002 and required knee reconstruction in 2007. She's 28.

[Crumb]

So another Nederlander won gold. Crazy furriners. Poor Ohno can't seem to get a gold. :sadno:

[inland wave]

Ski Cross? Really.....The course looks hard enough with just one skier at a time, but four? Sounds dangerous to me.

[Watser?]

Ooops...

The biggest blunder of speed skater Sven Kramer's career cost him a second Olympic title and handed South Korea's Lee Seung-hoon the most unexpected gold medal of the Vancouver Games on Tuesday.

Favourite Kramer was disqualified despite posting the fastest time in the 10,000 metres after failing to switch lanes properly, an elementary error unprecedented for a skater of his stature at the Olympics. nrc.nl - International - Kramer disqualified after posting best time (http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2490919.ece/Kramer_disqualified_after_posting_best_time)

It seems his coach pointed him to the wrong lane.

[Stormlight]

:hoot:

[Crumb]

I'm guessing he will get a different coach soon.

[Watser?]

This guy has been the national coach for some time if I am not mistaken.

But yeah, not for long anymore I bet.

[Crumb]

He may also want to stay in Canada. :chuckle:

[Watser?]

That could be wise. I read 6.7 million people (out of a total population of 16) watched it live on tv.

[Adam]

A Canadian fan comments on their hockey team's loss to the US:

http://crooksandliars.com/files/uploads/2010/02/canadalosesathockey_1693e.jpg

:sadcheer:

[Dingfod]

And they can spell better than teabaggers.

[Dingfod]

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/epic-fail-bike-win.jpg

[Dingfod]

Canucks beat the USAers in overtime period 3 to 2.

[Watser?]

Meanwhile a Netherlander won a gold medal in the Winter Olympics in an non-skating event for the first time ever :gasp:

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

The ceremony is awesome and the Dutch men are hot as hell.


Russian anthem a capella! :faint: