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Post by HalcyonDaze on Feb 9, 2018 5:04:30 GMT -5
Because why not?  |
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Feb 9, 2018 5:05:26 GMT -5
First discussion - the fact that 'oily Tongan' in a google search actually works and lets you know that the hot Tongan guy from the Summer Olympics is competing in the Winter Olympics.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 9, 2018 20:01:25 GMT -5
An Oily Tongan sounds like something unsavory from Urban Dictionary.
I managed to watch 5 minutes of Olympics on the office breakroom TV; it was just promo stuff, unfortunately.
We drove by an Ethiopian bar on the way home and they had hockey on the TV, which I thought was fabulous and possibly Olympic?
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Feb 9, 2018 20:35:29 GMT -5
I'm already annoyed with the Australian coverage - instead of showing what is actually happening now (curling) we get replays of skating from yesterday, or in depth interviews with plucky Australian athletes. And when they do show something it is only the Australians in the race.
The one eyed coverage seems to get worse every year.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 9, 2018 20:53:20 GMT -5
Sounds like the coverage here. *yaaaawn*
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 10, 2018 5:05:03 GMT -5
I've set my TVs to record, but will probably delete most of it. Not enough I'm actually interested. Some of the extreme snow sports have gone too far for me!
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 10, 2018 5:51:07 GMT -5
I'm soupporting the Dutch speed skaters.
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Post by Queen on Feb 11, 2018 6:34:06 GMT -5
I'm soupporting the Dutch speed skaters. Easy win  |
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Post by Queen on Feb 11, 2018 6:39:04 GMT -5
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 11, 2018 8:17:13 GMT -5
Two Aussie women in the moguls final, just when I was going to bed.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 11, 2018 8:22:29 GMT -5
Australians 4th and 5th.
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Post by tinaja on Feb 12, 2018 11:24:45 GMT -5
Seems I only get interested after the fact. Like that the kid named Red from the US won gold in snowboarding. Did I see the event? Of course not. And the triple whatever by the US skater? No didn't see it. Have not even seen the replay.
Kudos to Norway on the medal count.
Oh and I found interesting that Russia isn't RU, its something like OAR. Olympic athletes from Russia. I guess over that doping trouble they had. Half listening on that.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 13, 2018 22:24:02 GMT -5
Yeah tinaja, I'm seeing clips on Twitter the next day. The snowboarding is amazing! It's like they're careening, floating in space.
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Post by sophie on Feb 13, 2018 23:32:57 GMT -5
Loved seeing the antics that the Swiss team has been up to.. the one armed hanging on the escalator was amazing!
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Post by Queen on Feb 14, 2018 2:30:18 GMT -5
In more Olympic "News" Katy Couric apologised.... For those not in the Netherlands her comments during the Olympics opening ceremony have been the source of huge amusement here |
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Post by Phar Lap on Feb 14, 2018 5:40:32 GMT -5
The first I heard about Winter Olympics was this afternoon on the radio when the chap on the radio said Australian so and so (can't remember his name) won a bronze medal in snowboarding. A gold medal was won by an American. Then I forgot about it until I saw this thread.
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Post by tinaja on Feb 14, 2018 9:07:05 GMT -5
Well I love Shawn White. Can't help it. Of course two seconds after gold medal people were trashing on him. And well I think I'd probably love any of the snowboarders. Something about that sport is crazy hot. There must lurk inside me a 16 year old girl.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 14, 2018 13:45:45 GMT -5
I like Shaun White but I adore Adam Rippon, who tweeted to his homophobic haters that he was a “glamazon bitch” and I now love him forever. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Feb 15, 2018 0:32:46 GMT -5
Loving the carnage in the snowboard cross (as long as no one is badly inured
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Feb 15, 2018 0:33:23 GMT -5
Ah crap, does look like a bad fall.
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Post by libbyh on Feb 15, 2018 1:49:35 GMT -5
Nah, those boys are tough. Silver for Australia!
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Post by Queen on Feb 18, 2018 2:57:22 GMT -5
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 18, 2018 3:03:16 GMT -5
A race between the Nigerian and Jamaican women?
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 18, 2018 6:36:02 GMT -5
I've stopped watching tonight. Looks like the Australian aerials skier was cheated out of his place in the final!
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Post by sophie on Feb 18, 2018 22:34:34 GMT -5
The ice dancing is fantastic to watch!
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Feb 19, 2018 5:25:14 GMT -5
Catching repeats now - the Canadians were amazing!
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Post by Phar Lap on Feb 19, 2018 20:43:19 GMT -5
It's times like these that I really wish the landlord had fixed the antennae so I could watch "normal" television.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 20, 2018 6:12:35 GMT -5
Phar, have you tried the seven network app? It's free data on Optus.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 20, 2018 7:31:53 GMT -5
One of the Jamaican bob-sled coaches looks like Danny John-Jules (the Cat in Red Dwarf and Dwayne in Death in Paradise).
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 20, 2018 17:30:58 GMT -5
I was watching the women’s biathlon on the treadmill at the gym today; it was very inspiring. Those backpack gun things are crazy futuristic .
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