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He did it!
| Message Board > General Chitchat > He did it! |
| trevor corey User Info... | Eight gold medals. - Sat, 16 Aug 2008 8:17pm | ||
| Chopper User Info... | f-f-f-f-fuck the Olympics. - Sat, 16 Aug 2008 9:56pm | ||
| trevor corey User Info... | f-f-f-f-fuck the politics. The Olympics showcase humanity's finest athletes. I am happy that Canada finally has more medals than Ethiopia, and Mongolia. - Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:13am | ||
| Chopper User Info... | And I'm sure you'd feel the same way if you were forced from your home with no recompense. Like more than a few Chinese nationals have. Not to mention all the other travesties that go on daily there. - Sun, 17 Aug 2008 1:37am | ||
| round em up User Info... | Meds keeping you up at night again Chopper? The world is full of injustice. Either get used to it, or do something else about it besides preaching on top of your Florence Nightingale soap box on the internet. - Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:46am | ||
| Chopper User Info... | 'Meds keeping you up at night again Chopper?' Yeah I guess anyone that has issues with human rights abuses must have mental issues. Nice attempt at a troll, but that didn't even remotely bother me. 'The world is full of injustice. Either get used to it, or do something else about it besides preaching on top of your Florence Nightingale soap box on the internet.' Thanks for the advice, but unlike the majority of sheep that frequent these boards, I already am involved. I've been involved with Amnesty International since I was 15 (30yrs ago). If you support the Olympics, then you are just as bad as China is. You support what they do to their own people by supporting it. - Sun, 17 Aug 2008 1:00pm | ||
| Jl User Info... | "If you support the Olympics, then you are just as bad as China is. You support what they do to their own people by supporting it." I support the athletes that spend their lives training to compete on the highest stage. While shit happens surrounding the big games; I still support the athletes. I see your point chopper; and call me what you want, but it still wont take away from my respect for the athletes. - Sun, 17 Aug 2008 8:37pm | ||
| DOOMHAMMER User Info... | They blurred all the swimmers belly buttons as they got out of the pools. I dont support any olympics that so blatantly censors peoples most erotic parts. - Sun, 17 Aug 2008 8:59pm | ||
| Spinvis User Info... | I love watching the Olympics! Those athletes are amazing, especially the gymnastic events. the women weightlifters are kinda scary lookin' but they are so good hehe. - Sun, 17 Aug 2008 8:59pm | ||
| KRIEG User Info... | I support the Chinese by drinking Tsingtao and Zhujiang. Don't believe the lies UTA Mike spreads about Chinese beers! - Sun, 17 Aug 2008 9:03pm | ||
| Aidan Logins User Info... | Tsingtao is proof that good things can come from fascist rule. (and I realize they call themselves communists. But they don't do anything communist... they're just not communists. They don't... well they don't follow any communist doctrines. So I call them fascists.) - Sun, 17 Aug 2008 9:56pm | ||
| Mike User Info... | "I support the Chinese by drinking Tsingtao and Zhujiang. Don't believe the lies UTA Mike spreads about Chinese beers! " Truth: Tudor House beer store are selling the official beer of the Beijing Olympics.. the name escapes me at the moment. But its not either of the two polluted river beers. - Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:48am | ||
| devin User Info... | China isn't ready to join the civilized world yet. I don't support any athlete whose participation condones the way that country carries on for the sake of winning a medal and making a name for themselves. That's wrong. - Mon, 18 Aug 2008 2:29pm | ||
| Jl User Info... | "China isn't ready to join the civilized world yet." and you are? fucking loser. - Mon, 18 Aug 2008 2:35pm | ||
| Jl User Info... | Just to follow your logic Devin; did you know that in 1968 Mexico, 2 days before the Olympics took place, gunned down almost 500 people that were part of a student protest? Or how about Seoul displacing 3/4 million "undesirables"? And to not support any athlete who's country seeks to do well in the olympics? Canada for instance; we are hosting the Winter olympics in 2010(incase your ignorant mind hasn't heard); we aim to be a top contender. By your logic all 3 countries that I've just spoken of aren't "ready for civiliztion" as YOU know it. So, my question to YOU is; who is ready for "civilization" then? Have you ever supported Canada in its quest to the gold medals in hockey? if so, then your supporting the same cause as China. You seem to think you know all; but at the end of the day, your broad sweeping statements like that, make you look like a fucking idiot. - Mon, 18 Aug 2008 2:55pm | ||
| devin User Info... | http://china.hrw.org/ http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/asia-and-pacific/east-asia/china http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/human-rights-crackdown-in-china-even-worse-during-olympics-activists-disappear/ And furthermore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989 Human rights are extremely important, and they take precedence over athletic competitions. If you'd like to argue that point, you're going to fail no matter who you're arguing with. - Mon, 18 Aug 2008 2:58pm | ||
| Jl User Info... | yeah great; but by your logic NO country invovled in the olympics is "ready" for your type of civilization. Simply put. And who are you to say who's "ready for civiliation" when the heritage/culture you speak of is deeper than yours could ever be? I get pissed off because people like you and many others consider China to be like the outcast; when Vancouver is doing the same thing, and so did Korea... just imagine what London is gunna do with the "undesirables". Stop acting like China has been the only wrong doers... cause they haevn't. Why dont you shit on vancouver? korea? or england? or mexico? how about the USA for salt lake city? - Mon, 18 Aug 2008 3:24pm | ||
| devin User Info... | The Olympics are bad for poor people wherever they are held. In any of your examples, the athletes benefited from the subjugation/execution of the host country's citizens when they attempted to argue that the country had better things to spend their money on than the Olympics. This is what is happening in China, and ignorance on the part of the athletes is really weak excuse for contributing to the abuse. It'll be the same for Chinese athletes coming to Vancouver as well. They'll fuck the poor as much as Canadians in China. - Mon, 18 Aug 2008 3:50pm | ||
| Jl User Info... | ok whatever; its no use arguing about this... neither of us are gunna change our minds. on a side note that actually relates to the original post... we're 15th in the medal standings!!! - Mon, 18 Aug 2008 4:14pm | ||
| Brayden User Info... | Ahh, [the Olympics]...the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems. - Tue, 19 Aug 2008 1:45pm | ||
| Spinvis User Info... | devin's posts are giving me a headache... agreed with JI, not even worth arguing about at this point. anyways, yeah sweet getting a silver in the triathlon by local Victorian Simon Whitfield!! my tv is tuned in right now. - Tue, 19 Aug 2008 8:09pm | ||
| Jl User Info... | yeah a pretty awesome finish at the triathlon(gold would've been nice) how bout that Bolt! Smashing the 100m record and beating Johnson's 12 year old 200m record. Pretty amazingly fast. So now the question begs: Phelps or Bolt? who's more deserving as a competitor? - Wed, 20 Aug 2008 1:49pm | ||
| trevor corey User Info... | Phelps men are uber. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF5mfG0vO8o&feature=related - Wed, 20 Aug 2008 1:56pm Edited: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 4:47pm | ||
| trevor corey User Info... | That was a great basketball game. Spain really hung in there until the last three minutes. A pile of missed shots, including a missed three pointer plus a rash of technical fouls finished them off at the end. Hockey and Basketball are my favorite Olympic sports. To bad NHLers wont be included after 2010 anymore. Karate should be in the Olympics instead of Tae kwon do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tQuUQVofhk - Sun, 24 Aug 2008 1:40am | ||
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| Jl User Info... | yeah the basketball game was ok; the first quarter was tight, then the states opened it up a little more. what was with the cuban and the kicking of the ref's head!?! so low class. all for taking too long on a time out, was it? - Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:23am | ||
| DOOMHAMMER User Info... | Sweet, have to repost again. The cuban dude actually won the gold medal in 2000. In tae kwon do you have a minute of injury time, and if you cant continue you lose. He did some argument where he didnt know the minute was up, was pissed off with losing and kicked the ref in the face. Regardless tae kwon do in olympics is silly soft hits. I would much rather see jujitsu, judo, karate, kung fu, sambo or anything over that crap. - Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:47pm | ||
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