They started today. Are you watching them?
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They started today. Are you watching them?
(Thread and description thanks to Em.)
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yeah for the olympics!
*first post dance*
why is there no description under this thread’s heading? like ‘thanks to em’ or ‘they started to today, are you watching them?’
Sheer laziness.
okay, now everyone is going read this thread and be confused.
no, i’m not watching them. my parents are though. i watched some people ski. usually i watch the skating.
oh yes, i see. you thought ‘olympics thread, good idea’, pushed the button ‘use awesome gapa powers’, and ‘create new thread’ and typed in ‘winter olympics’ and pushed ‘ok’ without even thinking. (i really have no idea how gapas go about creating new threads, but i imagine it goes something like that)
Do the opening ceremonies get more strange every year, or is it just me? Apparently (I was at a sabre class,) they had people dressed up in cow suits dancing around. Cow suits?
Oooh! I did nae know abou the Olympics! How can I find them?
As I am writing this, my brother and dad are watching the Olympics right now, and my dad is critisizing most of the events. (I don’t blame him.)
Oooh, I ♥ the Olympics. I watch ice-skating mostly, although I think down-hill skiing is also fun to watch. Rawr.
The olympics rock. I actually like the summer ones better, but the winter stuff’s cool too.
My mom is freaked out by the skiing. She’s always like “oh they’re gonna die, oh i can’t watch” but she always watches it anyway.
Me loves the skiing.
Skating’s cool too.
i assume you find the olympics by turning on the tv.
Yeah, the cows were pretty random.
Phoenix, you can find them on the NBC news channel, or if you don’t like TVs, I think a few radio stations are doing something about it.
I watch the skating.
I’m kind of sorry for Michelle (Kwan) that she had to drop out, but on the other hand I thought all along that Emily Hughes deserved the spot more.
How about that throw triple axel?
~Luna
Oh-ho. Wait a second here. Michelle Kwan dropped out?
Yes. She announced it today. She has a groin injury and doesn’t think she’d be competitive. Emily Hughes is to replace her but couldn’t fly to Italy right away because of the snowstorm.
Ah. I see.
I watch the hockey(USA won 5-0!!!). And the skiing. And the skating. And the luge(SP?). And a lot more that i cant remember at the moment.
Emily Hughes? Emily Hughes was terrible!
i missed the hockey. *sniff* hockey fun. unfortunately the plague hath come uponeth my mom so she wasn’t letting anybody else near the tv to change the channel…oh vell.
me loves the olympics song! Who else? Wheeeee!!!! da da da da da da da da da da da da da daaaa da da da da da da da da da da da da da daaaa da da da da da da da da da da da da da daaaa da da da da da deeeeeeee dum da deeeeeeee!!!
didnt watch. poor me.
I liked Emily in the competition I saw. I haven’t been following her all season though.
~Luna
There’s hockey in the winter olympics? I didn’t even know that. And I like hockey too. Darn. I like figure skating, snowboarding, and the luge. That just looks like so much fun, sliding about on your gut… Well, I like them all, but those are my favorites. Unless there are more I didn’t know about.
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da daaaa da da da da da da da da da da da da da daaaa da da da da da da da da da da da da da daaaa da da da da da deeeeeeee dum da deeeeeeee!!!
Ahhhhh! Stupid wordpress wont let me go anywhere but here! not that theres anything wrong with here, but ive read everything! Great now it wont even let me snd this. Sigh. ill have to wait. I know! Song time! Da da da da da da da da da da da da da daaaa da da da da da da da da da da da da da daaaa da da da da da da da da da da da da da daaaaa da da da da da deeeeee dum da deeeeeeeeeee!!!
I don’t watch sports. Boring to the mandrill. Ugh.
most are
me watches the olympics!!! me sorry that the people that did the throw triple axel ended up only in 6th place.:(
me watches the olympics!!! me sorry that the people that did the throw triple axel ended up only in 6th place.:(
me watches the olympics!!! me sorry that the people that did the throw triple axel ended up only in 6th place.:(
oops.:oops: double post
Dude, how cool would it have been if that Chinese team had stuck their quad-throw. That would have been amazing. Wow.
Oh, this is embarrassng. (It is embarrrrasssing that I don’t know how to spell embarasing.) I SO watch the Olympics. I watch for the little “up close and personal” thingies in which you see how much the guy or gal has always wanted to win (and the tragedies that they have endured); and I watch because sometimes the commercials are so funny.
And then I make categories:
Events that look way too hard I don’t even want to think about it:
* Figure skating. Ice is cold and hard; I don’t want to wear those tiny skirts.
* Luge. I would want to look up and see where I was going, which I realize would ruin the aerodynamics of it all.
Events that look like a piece of cake:
* Mogul skiing. Like, all you gotta do is make your legs all jelly-like and you’re set!
* Ski jumping. After you slide down that big hill, what ELSE are you going to do besides jump into the air?
Events I would like to see:
• Extreme winterishness, in which participants must make the totally perfect snowball and throw it right in the middle of a friend’s back, then make a perfect snow angel; then run inside and make a perfect batch of hot chocolate that would serve 6.
but that’s just me.
Mae govannen, Nak! Welcome back!
whoah. did ye see how the one from the US made getting up from falling that throw look…almost…gracefull.
YAAAY! You DO love us!!! We feel loved! Woohoo!
I like the snowball fight thing. That would be SO cool as an olympic sport!
Why just 6 though?
i didn’t watch the olympics yesterday. i watched ivanhoe.
Did anyone watch curling? That’s gotta be the most bizarre display of pointlessness I’ve ever seen.
arrggghhh!!! wamnaka came back and i didn’t even notice! bad em!
Mr. Pittner, our LA teacher, will give us extra credit if we find out where curling originated.
Scotland, Jadestone. Don’t ask how I know this.
Hello, Nak! Are you Nak Attack? Telling us things would be Nak Ed, and things you hate could be Nakky Dreads. I could have FUN with this.
How are the Olympics going
I haven’t been able to watch any of the events or anything, for that matter. 
Maybe someone could tell me!! 
Well duh!! 
Just an idea…
SHAUN WHITE!! WHOO! GO FLYING TOMATO!!!! YAY!!!
No he’s definitely rupert grint in a rather uneffective disguise…
lol
YES! That is how Ron Weasley is supposed to look like. Although Rupert Grint is cool…
SHAUN WHITE IS BETTER!!! YAAAAY!!
THE FLYING TOMATO!!!
SNOW DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
im not affiliated w/ any sports whatsoever… think the only exercise i get is typing this stuff………….
Tut tut. You wil grow lazy like that.
i don’t watch the olimpics except for the skating…. sometimes… i am going to go eat choklit….
i gots some… and a lollipop!!!
Kricket, every time I read one of your posts, which are invariably guilty of a range of grammatical errors impressively wide and hairy, my liver starts to crunch. “I gots some”? That’s just painful. Sadomasochistic.
Me gots some too! Aint i jus’t the bestest grammatical person ever!
You may gots some, but me haves a lots! And I are more grammaticaller than you.
honestly…… i should learn yous guys how to be more eddicated…
oh god… shawn white. he looked like an absolute dope. but the new thing is johnney weir and is he gay or not, and it doesn’t matter because half the world has decided that he is so he may as well be. this irritates me to no end. why does everyone have to accuse everyone else of being gay?
I watch stuff. Yeah. Stuff. Who saw that snowboard cross girl attempt that trick and then fall? Stupid, if you ask me. She had gold all wrapped up, too. But then she just has to show off, and she loses first place. Smaaaaaart.
Who cares if Johnny Weir is gay? Get a life, people, and get out of his. He’s a good skater. End of story.
*weeps*
You wreck me! My liver is soooooo painful…and I have a headache-I’m going up to my room now.
(54)Yeah that was preety stupi. She was showing off and got what was comming to her.
The AHHH! and I have this really huge fan club for Shaun White… The members are her and I. Like I said… A really HUGE fan club.
i appear to be lost. where am i?
The olimpics page. Or maybe the Shaun White club.
Leave Lindsay J. alone. She has enough problems. I mean, the news people kept following her around and going on about how she was crying…. If that was me I’d kick their cameras out of their hands and snowboard over them.
And Johnny W. too. Who cares?
Man, did you see that costume that Johnny Weir was wearing at the US Championships? The swan one? That was fairly… um.. hideous.
yikes!
I’ll take your word on that. I didn’t see it and don’t want to.
Did you see? Italy finally won a gold medal! In cross-country skiing! I bet they’re happy!
Japanese male figure skaters= yes.
(66) Indeed.
Oookaayy…………
Have you been watching women’s hockey? the USA was in the semifinals but they lost to Canada….they still got the bronze though. My sister once met Cammi Gronato, one of the players for the US. And I met Sarah Tooting, a goalie. Jadestone plays hockey so she’s into that stuff.
I got hit on the head with a hockey stick once. That ruined the glamor for me. Ow.
I love field hockey but i can’t skate.
I played a long time ago but quit because I didn’t have enough time.
who won the women’s figure skating yesterday?
i dunno, but Emily Cohen got silver in something.
ho-kay. Are you guys as DONE with the O-pics as I am? I can’t wait to have my evenings back. Chad, Shani, Kimmie, Sasha, Ms. Slutskaya, Mr. Tomato — I love them all, but come ON.
(Actually, it’s the frequency of commercials that is wearing me down. And I even LIKE some of them… )
Last night, we turned the sound off on the TV and played modern classical/jazz music instead, and it was GREAT! The skaters seemed to be dancing to OUR music. If I ever watch TV again, this is what I’ll do.
Here I go: I am officially saying I don’t care if I ever see another image of Olympic-ness again. EVER!!!! (Until 2008.)
oh, and ANOTHER thing (but I really am done with the Olympics) — would somebody PLEEZ tell the skaters we are SO done with the teensy “raggedy” looking teensy skirts? Go PANTS!
um. that’s all.
back to you all,
Nak
I agree with the pants. Jeans rule!
Can’t skate in jeans.
But yes, it would be nice to see some pants.
The spandex bugs me too though.
Ah well…
Tonight was depressing. so many people got disqualified!
Who’s watching closing ceremonies tomorrow? (Me! Me!)
I like seeing the Olympics. But yeah, the outfits get kinda weird. Some of them look like bikinis with skirts.
I just saw some US speedskater win a gold medal! Yay!
Which one?
Wait…Never mind, Apollo Aton Ono was the only US speedskater who won a gold medal today.
I mean yesterday
0_0 did anyone see the closing ceremony. i was almost crying i was laughing so hard at the clown dudes. xD
I’m proud of the cross country skier #4 who fell in the beginning but then made it to 3rd place or something
i saw the clowns. they were cool.