The Sphere
General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: B E C K on Jul 31, 2012, 08:59:20 PM
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Because they're the sexy Olympics. But really, the coverage here really sucks. The worse part is not being able to watch shit online on an official source without resorting to some sneaky-shit to do it. Apparently, even if you are able to watch, it's still a cluster fuck in trying to find the right event and then some of the stuff's not even live when it says it is. Americans need a damn cable account. Fucking NBC.
Anyway, late making this topic but so what?
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It's fucking dumb as shit.
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Ten to a room and one shower for 75 people: Inside the 'slum' camp for Olympic cleaners
•They sleep in portable cabins, some of which have been leaking in the rain, at the campsite in East London
•The bad weather has left the site flooded with stagnant water, forcing the cleaners to use abandoned crates as makeshift ‘stepping stones’
•‘It is like a slum inside,’ says one worker from Hungary
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174034/London-2012-Olympics-10-room-1-shower-75-people-Inside-slum-camp-Olympic-cleaners.html)
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Above quote is clickable.
Anyway, I do watch it and just don't get the idea of delaying coverage. Show us as many events as possible asap and rerun the shit people really want to see in prime time. And stop jerking off Michael Phelps. Isn't that what the post-Olympics programming is for? To do interviews and shit? I'm annoyed they're aren't squeezing in as many events as possible just so fucking Comcast-NBC can spread everything out on all of their jerkwad cable channels. Entire water polo matches, NBC? Do we really need that? Really?
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There are showing the Olympics in 3 different channels over here. (national channels btw, no cable)
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That's fuckin' cool.
Re: Olympics... I think it's hilarious there can be a cheating scandal involving badminton. :poo:
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They put the bad in badminton.
I hate the Olympics. I'm just glad they suck that shit on already shitty NBC.
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They put the bad in badminton.
I hate the Olympics. I'm just glad they suck that shit on already shitty NBC.
They also put the mint in there. They all have excellent dental hygiene.
lol "suck that shit." Fucking shitsuckers.
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I don't mind people not wanting to watch, disliking or hating the Olympics. But the other day, at work, I went to the break room to watch some events during my lunch and there was some TLC show or something on that nobody appeared to be paying attention to. So I'm like "Is anybody watching this and if not, can I change it?" And the two guys there are like "nope" and this girl on her phone decides to butt in and go "anything but Olympics". Apparently, the guys also wanted to see the Olympics but the girl was there first and told them they couldn't watch Olympics. Teh fuck? Firstly, this chick's on her phone chattering away. She's barely watching TV. Second, it's not as if she wanted to see something over the Olympics. It'd be different if she had some show she really wanted to watch. But she couldn't care less what was on except for that one thing. She's basically holding the only TV we have that we're supposed to share hostage because she doesn't like Olympics. Go to another part of the fucking building if you don't want to watch. And she was all "it's on upstairs". It actually took me a minute to understand what she meant. On our floor, we have a large TV hanging from the ceiling that's apparently on the Olympics but it's muted. Also, I SIT BEHIND THAT TV. So I don't get to watch shit. I didn't even know it was playing until she said that. But anyway, my presence made 3 ppl out of four in the room who wanted to watch the Olympics so she relented and let me change it to women's volleyball.
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women's volleyball.
HOT
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They also put the mint in there. They all have excellent dental hygiene.
lol "suck that shit." Fucking shitsuckers.
Heh...auto-correct strikes again.
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Heh, XXX. I didn't even notice until now.
There's a guy my mother knows who's swimming in the Olympics. He was training at the same place where Phelps did for a while.
The coverage is kind of annoying. I'd like to see more of non-popular sports shown. Like shooting or kayaking or sailing or something. Constant swimming coverage gets boring after a while. Yea I get it everyone is obsessed over fucking Phelps.
I do think it's pretty great that in Gymnastics, the girl who won was a black girl in a sport dominated by whites (and Asians who are pretty white anyway).
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Heh, XXX. I didn't even notice until now.
There's a guy my mother knows who's swimming in the Olympics. He was training at the same place where Phelps did for a while.
The coverage is kind of annoying. I'd like to see more of non-popular sports shown. Like shooting or kayaking or sailing or something. Constant swimming coverage gets boring after a while. Yea I get it everyone is obsessed over fucking Phelps.
I do think it's pretty great that in Gymnastics, the girl who won was a black girl in a sport dominated by whites (and Asians who are pretty white anyway).
I agree. They need to stop talking about her hair, though.
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They've shown some kayaking and sailing along with rowing during the day along with full water polo matches and volleyball. I think they should show the major events live and splice in coverage of some of the less popular events like the water polo. Full water polo matches that aren't for medals are really a cable thing if they don't have room. And then package the entire days events nice and neat and abbreviated for evening for people who have work/school and couldn't watch daytime coverage. It's all very... uneven. Especially when most of the people interested in the Olympics will see the news about the medals on the internet whether they want to or not. So the fake suspense during the evening is ridiculous.
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And why the fuck are you interviewing Shaun White AGAIN?
Bob Costas: "Well, Shaun White, what'd you think of that trampoline event?"
Shaun White: "I had one as a kid it was fun."
Bob Costas: "Do you use it to practice snowboarding?"
Shaun White: "Not really. It's very vertical. So here's footage of me trying to fence."
Bob Costas: "Ho ho, D'artagnan you ain't."
Shaun White: "I'm gonna go for two medals in the winter. Here's some footage of me snowboarding."
Bob Costas: "This Olympics makes you competitive, doesn't it?"
Shaun White: "Yeah, it's like they're gonna give me a ball or something."
Bob Costas: "Har har."
:joe:
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Shaun White was hilarious in that JT and the 70s show girl movie
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Shaun White's face should have been exhibit A in the Scopes Monkey Trial.
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Shaun White was hilarious in that JT and the 70s show girl movie
70's show girl? There were multiple females on that sow. I assume you mean Mila Kunis.
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There were multiple females on that sow.
I'm picturing all sorts of bizarre mental images right now.
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There were multiple females on that sow.
I'm picturing all sorts of bizarre mental images right now.
My god .... what have I done?
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There were multiple females on that sow.
I'm picturing all sorts of bizarre mental images right now.
lol'd
Yeah Mila. I couldn't remember her name
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Goddammit! Beach volleyball gold medal match for the US ladies and Sanya Richards-Ross's final tonight and I'm gonna miss both of them. =p
I did find a positive to NBC's shit coverage. Read spoilers online and waste less time watching the events on tv. If they would show the beach volleyball live--no, wait, I'd be missing that shit anyway since that's @ 3 central time. Oh well, I was screwed either way.
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Oh, well, I get to watch the live beach volleyball bronze match between the Brazilians and the Chinese. The Chinese players actually have height advantage over the Brazilians.
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Apparently Durex is the official condom of the Olympics. Outsiders are not welcome: http://www.wbur.org/npr/158416801/rogue-condoms-appear-in-olympic-village-organizers-take-action
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Apparently Durex is the official condom of the Olympics. Outsiders are not welcome: http://www.wbur.org/npr/158416801/rogue-condoms-appear-in-olympic-village-organizers-take-action
Damn, I guess I should have been an athlete after all.
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Oh, well, I get to watch the live beach volleyball bronze match between the Brazilians and the Chinese. The Chinese players actually have height advantage over the Brazilians.
It is so sad they are are just proving that age old stereotype of extremely tall Asians.
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Oh, well, I get to watch the live beach volleyball bronze match between the Brazilians and the Chinese. The Chinese players actually have height advantage over the Brazilians.
It is so sad they are are just proving that age old stereotype of extremely tall Asians.
ROFLCOPTER
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One of them's 6'3". Anyway, they lost. Which I'm glad for because I wanted the Brazilians to get a medal. That Chinese team already had a bronze from the last Olympics while the Brazialian team that was playing had never been awarded one.
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One of them's 6'3". Anyway, they lost. Which I'm glad for because I wanted the Brazilians to get a medal. That Chinese team already had a bronze from the last Olympics while the Brazialian team that was playing had never been awarded one.
Because we all know competition is about everybody being a winner!
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Exactly! Glad you understand, bro.
Anyway, I got to see most of the gold medal match after all so I is a happy camper.
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I was watching the tae kwon do match, and remembered why I never liked it to begin with. Stupid as hell
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I saw some Women's Judo and it looked like a pair of gorillas awkwardly trying to mate.
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Where they fake each other out and then awkwardly try to land a kick on one another?
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It's funny how when guys fight in these tournaments, they are "cool" about it, but women just want to murder each other
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They should have street "judo": where the girls wear club-outfits and pull each other's hair and earrings.
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There were no kicks as far as I could tell.
I don't think there even are punches or kicks in Judo, it's all holds and throws.
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when I said kicks I was talking about tae kwon do, not judo
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Yeah, I meant the taekwondo. Whoops-a-doo.
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It's all lame. Olympic martial arts are ridiculous and unwatchable.
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OMG BORING: NBC is showing, like, an hour special about Britain in WW2. Did I want a fuckin' history lesson? No, I want sum fuckin' 'lympics, motherfucks. :goddammit:
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I saw absolutely nothing of the Olympics :headbang:
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I missed the awesomest moment in men's volleyball where Russia turned the tide completely and whooped Brazil. :(
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I think I might start watching the Olympics tonight. Hope I didn't miss anything.
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I think I might start watching the Olympics tonight. Hope I didn't miss anything.
Nothing important.
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They cut off the end of the closing ceremonies yesterday for the commercial-free premiere of Animal Practice. FUCK NBC.
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Ohhhhhhhhh Animal Practice. I gots to see that.
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I think I might start watching the Olympics tonight. Hope I didn't miss anything.
THE SPICE GIRLS MUTHAFUCKAAA
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I got myself access to the BBC online feed for most of the Olympics. Full access to streaming coverage of every event plus all the archived video. I wish they would have shown me some ads or something so I wouldn't have felt somewhat guilty about stealing their bandwidth.
It's just that NBC sucked so much. There was no choice. I wanted to see something other than the USA swimming, beach volleyball, and gymnastics matches.
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It's all lame. Olympic martial arts are ridiculous and unwatchable.
I hope you're not including fencing in this statement. Fencing is awesome. Especially with the super duper slow motion replays.
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I was hoping to see some fencing and nada.
And damn, Olympic coverage's gotten worse when it comes to the medal ceremonies, too. Used to be we'd see other countries getting an anthem and in my viewing I saw only three non-US ceremonies for the entire two weeks and I'd watch something every day. And then, in several of the US ceremonies I saw, the camera would literally zoom into the crying athelete's gross, sobbing face and STAY THERE THE ENTIRE TIME. FUCK NBC.
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It's all lame. Olympic martial arts are ridiculous and unwatchable.
I hope you're not including fencing in this statement. Fencing is awesome. Especially with the super duper slow motion replays.
lol fencing is so gay
inb4 bruce lee reference
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Too bad they didn't show anything from the Paralympics. I think I'd actually prefer watching that. It's all good if someone can throw a shot putt across a field, but is more interesting when the man has no ARMS! But NBC's all like "lol cripples" and I guess being crippled doesn't sell to advertisers. The BBC did have some stuff on it but it was their home turf.
Apparently Durex is the official condom of the Olympics. Outsiders are not welcome: http://www.wbur.org/npr/158416801/rogue-condoms-appear-in-olympic-village-organizers-take-action
There was a big hooplah about McDonald's being the only fries (or 'chips' as they call them in Britain... so what do they call Lays and Doritos???) at the olympics, and there being some kind of strictly enforced brand law that only allowed official sponsors in and around the olympic grounds.
http://sparksheet.com/mcdonalds-french-fry-controversy-shakes-up-brand-olympics/
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Noone in Britain calls McDonals's fries chips.
Chips have a bit more potato on their bones
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Too bad they didn't show anything from the Paralympics. I think I'd actually prefer watching that. It's all good if someone can throw a shot putt across a field, but is more interesting when the man has no ARMS! But NBC's all like "lol cripples" and I guess being crippled doesn't sell to advertisers. The BBC did have some stuff on it but it was their home turf.
Apparently Durex is the official condom of the Olympics. Outsiders are not welcome: http://www.wbur.org/npr/158416801/rogue-condoms-appear-in-olympic-village-organizers-take-action
There was a big hooplah about McDonald's being the only fries (or 'chips' as they call them in Britain... so what do they call Lays and Doritos???) at the olympics, and there being some kind of strictly enforced brand law that only allowed official sponsors in and around the olympic grounds.
http://sparksheet.com/mcdonalds-french-fry-controversy-shakes-up-brand-olympics/
I heard about the brand law, but only in regards to condoms.
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so what do they call Lays and Doritos???)
Crisps.
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Oh and something I thought about during the Olympics:
NBC seems to really go on about the "triumphs" of the Olympics and how people are realizing their dreams and winning, and they focus on people who have won and how far they've come as if to trumpet some kind of "rags to riches" story. "This person started out in the ghettos of Chicago and is now winning gold..." ect ect.
That's all fine and good and I wish they'd shut the hell up about all of that, but what about everyone else? Remember, only a small percentage of the thousands of people who go there actually win a medal. Everyone else is just a loser. Sorry, you got this far but failed at the end. I remember seeing this look of horror at some guy dead last in some sprint. And you think some of these people devote their entire life and money to trying to get there and fail.
"This guy from Ethiopia sold his children into slavery and his wife left him, he ate bread crumbs and out of dumpsters, and practiced every single day for this chance...Aww, he came in last. Better luck next time."
"But there won't be a next time! I have no money left!"