Moguls

[pmcd9]

Been watching this on the Olympics tonight.  This is one of those "extreme" sports isn't it?  Seems like slalom for dummies to me. 

[miles]

Oh man I don't give a fuck about the Winter Games unless it involves curling. Have you seen any curling yet?

[lprkn]

Man, shuffleboard is only fun if everybody's drunk.

[pmcd9]

What's up with the uniform?  Looks like they are wearing pajamas.

[jaydub]

All I know is they must be related to Tigger.  Nothing turns your legs to smoking stumps of agony faster than skiing the bumps fast.

[elephantsdancerealfunky]

drugs are bad, mmmm kay.

you know what else is bad.  that shit where they take 3D film of the athlete doing his thing and feed it into a computer and analyze it so they can figure out which muscles need to be flexed and how he can optimize his movements.  And how about the science of nutrition.  The blood analysis to figure out which nutrients and salts and whatever the body needs more or less of.

there's such a thing as having too much science in your life. 

it'd be nice if there was an Olympics where science is banned.  I'd watch that, assuming I could get an audio feed without a dumb ass American announcer.

The Olympics are so fuck*ng stupid.  Why do they need to build a medium sized city?  Why not spread the games out a bit.  One week you could have this sport... the next week you could reconfigure the field and have some other sport, and so on, for a few months, until they've done all the sports.  Why does everything have to happen all at once?  If all that modification of the urban landscape was such a good idea, wouldn't cities be doing it already, with or without the Olympics? 

You want f*ckin' economic development, why not focus on education and health care and homelessness? 

I think that people who watch the Olympics and discuss the Olympics are all evil people feeding into an evil system.  I think the only proper response to someone saying something about the Olympics is "I don't give a *uck about the Olympics and f*uck you for watching the Olympics.  And then you stab the person in question in the eye with a rusty spork.

[Drygioni]

Been watching this on the Olympics tonight.  This is one of those "extreme" sports isn't it?  Seems like slalom for dummies to me. 

Moguls are the only thing I've tried that made me want to die afterwards.

[Carlos del Vaca]

That must be hell on one's knees.

[Drygioni]

That must be hell on one's knees.

No joke there fella. I was told I wouldn't be fit enough to do it and I wasn't that unfit so I thought I'd give it a go, stupid mistake. I'm not a great skier anyway so in the end it was one great fat fail of an idea.

[jay-ell]

I haven't watched the Olympics this year.

It's really not nearly as exciting as it was before the Berlin Wall came down.

[Mr Trout]

Watching these winter sports makes me want to go skiing so bad! Looking out my window at all the snow only makes this worse.

I've gotten a bit better at moguls over the past few years, but I can't ski them for that long. I need to move out west where they have real mountains and not these little anthills we have over here.

[greenkoolayd]

the olympics arent so exciting to me because im not 8 or 12 anymore, but i still catch an even here and there.


how about that dude that flew off his luge?  it was a practice run and he was too high coming out of a curve.  muh'fucker was going 88 miles an hour through the air until he hit an unpadded steel walkway.

[Carlos del Vaca]

My comment elsewhere that "You can't make everyone happy" was generated in large part by this Bill Plaschke item (actually linked in the Deadspin item) where he basically complains that people aren't sad enough about the luger who died.

http://deadspin.com/5471451/bill-plaschke-master-of-finding-controversy-where-none-exists

I'm not sure what exactly he wants people to do.  And if they called off the luge event entirely, which may have satisfied Plaschke, that would have thrown out four years of preparation on the part of ALL THE OTHER COMPETITORS, and then people would be pissed about that.

I don't mean to sound callous; what happened to the Georgian guy was obviously terrible.  But there's a lot of terrible things in this world. If we collapsed in a trembling heap every time something bad happened, we wouldn't get very much done.

[AugustWest]

I like the Winter Olympics because it's a chance to check out sports I otherwise would have absolutely no clue about.  Nordic Combined?  Moguls? Biathlon?  WTF???

It's just interesting to me because all of these (obscure to me) sports has a culture and heroes of its own.  Women's biathlon might be comparable to the friggin' NFL in Austria for all I know.  And it's obviously of vital importance to the partici#####, so it's fun to watch them.

Personally, I believe winter is a time for indoor sports.  If you can get wet and cold doing it, I will pass.  Where I come from this time of year is for college basketball and you better not forget it.

[AugustWest]

I think the only proper response to someone saying something about the Olympics is "I don't give a *uck about the Olympics and f*uck you for watching the Olympics.  And then you stab the person in question in the eye with a rusty spork.

Man, they grow middle-aged Moms mean in Michigan.