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Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
Katie77:
Now that Ive made you all sick, heres a few more......looks like no animail is safe over there........what happened to just plain ol fried rice......
David In Indy:
Eww, that snake looks like it hasn't been fully cooked. Notice the pink coloring.
Believe it or not, I've tasted snake before. Rattle snake. I had a taste of it in Arizona. Now don't roll your eyes.... PROMISE you won't roll your eyes!...... but it tasted like chicken! Well, a gamey version of chicken. Hard to describe, but it wasn't too bad at all. :)
But the picture of that snake up there looks like it hasn't been fully cooked. It's still pink!
The snake I tried was deep fried in batter.
The dog livers and goat lungs look downright AWFUL!! So do the silk worms. Yuck! :P
Katie77:
--- Quote from: DavidInIndy on August 19, 2008, 03:14:01 am ---
Believe it or not, I've tasted snake before. Rattle snake. I had a taste of it in Arizona. Now don't roll your eyes.... PROMISE you won't roll your eyes!...... but it tasted like chicken! Well, a gamey version of chicken. Hard to describe, but it wasn't too bad at all. :)
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I know this is completely off topic, but when you said "it tasted like chicken"....I had to send this cartoon I got recently....
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Fran on August 19, 2008, 12:39:45 am ---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.
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Nadia Comaneci and Bart Connor were on the Today show this morning discussing just some of these points.
Re: the controversy over the ages of the Chinese "women" gymnasts, I hadn't really thought about it, but at some point that age for competition was raised. Nadia mentioned that she was only 14 years old when she competed.
injest:
ok here is my pet peeve and the reason I dont' watch the Olympics much.
It is tape delayed, not live, so why do they not have the events organized so you can sit and watch the entire finals and see who wins? For example, I was watching last night and they were showing the womens pole vault....they spent ten minutes on the event, leading up to the finals, they showed the bronze winner and that left two to go...and they switched over and showed some guys running hurdles!!! ARGH! I was so mad...why not just SHOW THE LAST TWO POLE VAULTS!!?? THEN go to the hurdles...
that is the main reason I don't watch more....the total disorganized and illogical coverage..
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