Dolfan in NYC Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 From Reddit. "Why Hoth was denied the Olympics" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I want to play that video game so bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Women's snowboarding half pipe final is live streaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Deadspin dug this up from ten years ago. Absolutely hilarious. That's what happens when Lewis Black writes your badminton copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 So, anyone else have the Pink Panther theme stuck in their head since last night? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 The Mary Carillo thing is really magic. I've watched it about five times already. It's a legitimately great.I love how it builds. It is something that's a textbook Olympic piece for the differences between the recreation sports -- badminton, table tennis, kayaking -- that we play and the stuff the experts actually use. And then the transition is brilliant -- "However, THIS birdie has a tree-seeking device" and off she goes into this ridiculously detailed rant about backyard badminton. Her dropping names -- Christopher Burr, it's ALWAYS Christopher Burr -- is what puts this over the top. No one's watching at 3 AM when this aired. No one gives a crap about badminton. Why not make the three minutes you have to fill something that we can all understand but not express in this brilliant, insane way?Man, this is seriously epic and I'm stealing so much from this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirFozzie Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Gotta love the trogolodytes over at the ESPN comments. On an article about the USA (spoiler) winning gold and bronze in the women's snowboard halfpipe "All of our golds have been won in stoner events and our political statement is standing up for homosexulatiy. Wow. What a nation." I told them that he was a dinosaur, and just like the dinosaur, he was soon to be extinct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Deadspin dug this up from ten years ago. Absolutely hilarious. That's what happens when Lewis Black writes your badminton copy. Or Neil Brennan. FUCK YO COUCH~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 do football and basketball also qualify as stoner sports when you consider the estimates you hear about how many people smoke marijuana in the NFL and NBA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I've watched like 3 non-Raptors baskebtall games this year and one of them featured the NBA panel making a puff puff pass joke because that's okay now. There's barely even a stigma with it at this point, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Jennifer Jones is having one of those mysterious "bad Jennifer Jones" ends to open her curling match with Denmark tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirFozzie Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Great Britain win on the final shot this time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie M. Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Austria? Am I going to have to stay up and watch this game now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirFozzie Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Oh, Team Luge is on today. That should be awesome (as you cross the finishline, you have to sit up and hit a touch pad to open the gate to allow the next luger to go.. miss the touch pad and your team is DONE. No pressure eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 13, 2014 Author Share Posted February 13, 2014 Finland rolling, but Teemu injured? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Okay - John Schuster's kid is like the most adorable thing ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 God the US loves to not score points when they have the hammer. I mean I could probably do better than 30% - and I clearly would fall on my face on the ice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 God the US sucks... though at least no one choked like the guy on Denmark EDIT - And again - Good Lord, Denmark clearly didn't want to win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Oh and as a reminder - the hockey talk is over in the hockey folder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipGofern Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 US Men definitely played like shite this morning but I think their inability to score was also also due to GB's style. Evidently Britain employs the curling equivalent of the neutral zone trap. What a boring match. Just shot-peel-shot-peel rinse, wash, repeat. I caught the GB-Canada Women's match when I got home from work yesterday and that was some top-notch curling. Not to pile on the US Women but watching Britain and Canada, it's like they're playing a totally different game. Jones would hit a crazy peel back double, then two ends later EVE~! would hit a clutch runback save and back and forth it went. Just an absolutely awesome match. And I know it's prelims but what guts on EVE~! to go for the insane triple knock out for the win instead of just laying up for the tie after Canada completely bungled the final end. I hope those two teams meet again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Awww... Eve breaks China's heart's in the extra end. I approve of more time on my TV for Eve's eyes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Johnny Weir is testing sure as hell testing Russia's tolerance laws with his necklaces every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 This is turning out to be a great snow day. First, I was able to catch some prelim Men's hockey and now Women's curling is on. Plus, I believe the mixed luge will be starting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 NBC's totally fucked for the night Figure Skating programs as far as storylines are concerned. Plashinko tweaks his back in warmup and withdrawls, removing the odds on favorate and "one last run" story. And then our skater, Jermery Abbott wipes out early and takes 15 seconds to get up. At least right now, Abbott has a score high enough to make out a redemption story for tonight/tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirFozzie Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 USA do something that's only been done twice before in US Winter Olympic History.. They sweep the podium in Skiing Slopestyle! (other times it's been done: 1956 men's figure skating and 2002 men's halfpipe snowboarding) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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