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Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
Fran:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on August 18, 2008, 11:49:01 pm ---Her coach though, he was a shit to her. Talk about negative reinforcement.
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I bet he didn't realize the cameras were on him.
--- Quote from: delalluvia on August 18, 2008, 11:36:08 pm ---Poor Nastia, poor Alicia. Both got screwed by more favoritism shown the Chinese.
I don't understand why they can't protest a judge's scoring. When they obviously miss things - they have film right there - or are showing blatant favoritism, they never get called on it.
What a ripoff.
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Why can't they just give out two golds and a bronze? Why have a tie-breaker rule anyway? Other Olympic sports allow ties.
Nastia handled the situation extremely well, in my opinion. She was so poised accepting the silver. I know I would have been fuming.
It seems that gymnastics judging needs to be revamped yet again. Maybe instead of not allowing judges from countries that have gymnasts competing in the event (the way it is now), they should include a judge from each country represented in the particular competition and just throw out the highest and the lowest scores.
Maybe the viewing of slow-motion replays should be a mandatory part of judging (if it isn't already). A second, more critical look before a score was given surely couldn't hurt.
David In Indy:
Oh my god, I can't stop looking at those food pictures Sue posted up there. I'm absolutely repulsed by them, but at the same time strangely fascinated. Currently I'm trying to figure out what is in that metal pan in front of the person on the left in the Dog Brain soup picture. What is that? Some kind of meat, but is it the dog brains? Or something else? And those lizard legs are quite disgusting and interesting too. It looks as if they have been deep fried and somebody poured mayonnaise on top of them. Hmmm. Is it the whole lizard on each stick, or is it many different legs? Strange looking, isn't it?
David In Indy:
And those seahorses look as if they've been burned to a crisp. :P
Fran:
I'd play it safe and stick with white rice. No buffet for me. :)
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Fran on August 19, 2008, 01:00:54 am ---I'd play it safe and stick with white rice. No buffet for me. :)
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I hear ya Fran!
In one of those countries they eat fish while they are still alive. I read an article about it once. They'll actually cut into the fish while the gills are still moving and the fish is flipping around. Animal abuse in my opinion. Terrible.
I try to have total respect for other cultures, but there is just something totally wrong about eating fish while they are still alive. I suppose there must be a reason they do it, but I'll never understand it. And not only is it animal abuse, but it's as disgusting as hell!
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