Olympic Excitement

[Jacob]

And then there's the professional protesters coming to town, looking to turn the Olympics into a WTO meeting or something.

Yeah.

I was kind of grumpy about the Olympics for a while, and it looks like they fucked up the finances so taxes are going to go up, but I find it hard not to enjoy all the people coming to visit.  The "anti-everything" protesters are pretty shit though.  We'll see how it goes.

[Jacob]

You know, if it wasn't for foreigners on web forums I would have no idea there is a winter olympics coming up.   Excitement seems to be nil in the real world.

Have you even been to the real world?

[Ed Anger]

Boing. Naughty SI.

[Josquius]

One can forgive those little* wintry countries this foible, just as one forgives British people for thinking riding a bicycle along a short indoor track is an important sporting event.

*populationwise

p.s. The only winter olympic sport that matters is speed skating. :usa: 

Its odd though, the winter olympics are Sweden's time to shine. All their obscure little sports that normally only the Nordics, Canada and the Russians care about (or even less than that). I'd have thought it would be like the world cup to them.

[Eddie Teach]

Well, the people most interested on Languish are the ones who live near Vancouver. They probably aren't usually that excited about the Winter Games either.

[Josephus]

Yeah.

I was kind of grumpy about the Olympics for a while, and it looks like they fucked up the finances so taxes are going to go up, but I find it hard not to enjoy all the people coming to visit.  The "anti-everything" protesters are pretty shit though.  We'll see how it goes.

Meh...Once the "anti-everything" protesters get fed some of that famed BC weed, they'll be too mellow to protest anything.

[Josephus]

Well, the people most interested on Languish are the ones who live near Vancouver. They probably aren't usually that excited about the Winter Games either.

I tried saying that earlier in another thread, but a renowned BC Languishite shot me down. I'll say it again, The Winter Olympics do not get half the attention in the rest of the world that the Summer Olympics or the World Cup get. That's why the media normally have to create something like a silly English, sorry British, ski jumper, or a bobsledding team from the Caribbean. Anything to keep people tuned in.

Saying that, I do know that figure skating seems to attract attention, but that's probably because of the model-like star quality of some of the "athletes". And there have been some hotties in the past.

I'll also watch some of the hockey games, if they don't go past my bedtime;

[Agelastus]

Well, the people most interested on Languish are the ones who live near Vancouver. They probably aren't usually that excited about the Winter Games either.

Given the content of my previous post in this thread, I must respectfully but forcefully disagree with you. I only live near Vancouver in the same sense that the Mars is near to the Earth.

[Eddie Teach]

Aha, so the British anime nerd demographic is split.

[Agelastus]

Aha, so the British anime nerd demographic is split.

"Anime nerd" and "Winter Sports viewer" do not normally mix, I agree.

[katmai]

I'll be watching to see how the handful of Alaskans do.
Mostly in Cross Country, but also Women's Hockey and Snowboarding.

[Jacob]

Are people really trying to tell me that the preliminary round of curling featuring Denmark vs China will not keep billions of viewers rivetted to the screen?

It's hard to believe....

[Neil]

Are people really trying to tell me that the preliminary round of curling featuring Denmark vs China will not keep billions of viewers rivetted to the screen?

It's hard to believe....

There will be at least one billion, since not cheering on Chinese Olympic curlers would be considered counter-revolutionary, and any Chinese automaton who doesn't tune in will be sent to the salt mines.

[Barrister]

Are people really trying to tell me that the preliminary round of curling featuring Denmark vs China will not keep billions of viewers rivetted to the screen?

It's hard to believe....

I'll watch. 

I'm watching a fascinating game in the Scotties semi-final between Ontario and PEI right now.

[Agelastus]

Are people really trying to tell me that the preliminary round of curling featuring Denmark vs China will not keep billions of viewers rivetted to the screen?

It's hard to believe....

There will be at least one billion, since not cheering on Chinese Olympic curlers would be considered counter-revolutionary, and any Chinese automaton who doesn't tune in will be sent to the salt mines.

I thought the traditional punishment for counter-revolutionaries was "Introduction to a bullet 101".