Michael Phelps Blah Blah Woof Woof..
 

aren't there thousands of other athletes competing in the games? Why does my TV always have to tell me how many minutes until Michael Phelps comes in and swims so fast it is a no brainer, there is no surprise or suspense, aside from swimming being a lame even at that!

thumbs down for the hype...

dude looks like:



everytime i see Phelps on the TV, I see this scene and hear this lame techno tune in the in my mind..

sport sucks

i'll tell you what.
if my country had a dude who would score five gold medals in one olympic games, we would fucking build him a statue and organise regular 6.00-6.15 am prayers to his pictures at our own private altars.

he desevres the praise

however, the extremely "hero" oriented coverage on NBC in USA is what sucks so hard. they spend most of their time showig back stories to try to build up a specific person as the "olympic hero" instead of letting the competition determine it, and, when it backfires they are screwed, as happened wityh the ladies USA gymnasts.

phelps is not to blame for how the news covers him

NBC is the single worst american network covering the olympics. back in 1992 they did a HELLISH horrible job, so much fluff, so much soap opera forced drama

I wish that ABC or CBS were covering this olympics.

the entire angle of NBC's coverage is to base it like a Reality TV show. it sucks ass.instead of showing as many competitors and events as possible they just have cameras followig people who are sitting or warming up or standing or just bored shitless, because they are the designated "Olympic heroes"

the whole american coverage is very politicized. they try to suck china's asshole and ignore rumania, russia, or any other "unfriendly" country.

Rumania? What the fuck is Rumania? If you mean Romania, do you really think it's considered an "unfriendly" country in the US?

medals are bullshit if you just keep winning em with what appears to be no challenge. I get that he works hard blah blah swimming hours a day blah blah, but so do ALL the other fucking swimmers, and yet we only talk about Phelps? The American fascination with celebrity and iconism is terrifying!

I know it is not Phelps personally, my whole gripe is with the media coverage to begin with!

by our government, yes

by the multinational corporations that run our "news" networks, yes

not by people

Well, obviously, he keeps being talked about because he's currently the best one around. And he's on his trial to becoming an absolute winner in terms of acquiring the most medals ever on Olympic games.
NBC might overhype the whole thing, but in my eyes, Phelps has all the respect.

speaking of which, have y'all noticed the Georgians provoke to Russians to draw them out into a fire fight in order to cast blame upon Russia who was previously mediating negotians between South Ossetia and Georgia, and the Georgians launched a surprise attack on the morning they were supposed to sign a cease-fire agreement...

now the Russians look like bad dudes, and the Georgians are trying to act like pussies and say they were the ones attacked and play the innocent we didnt do it role to the West, while the EU has taken over the powerstructure of the negotiations?

so the end result is this:

Russia taken out of the power balance in Georgia and the Caspian region and replaced by the EU in favor of the US who have a significant military investment in Georgia training and supplying equipment/arms, so that 2000 Georgians are fighting in Iraq?

You must be joking.
Some facts:

Romania acceded to the European Union on January 1, 2007 along with Bulgaria, bringing the number of EU states to 27. Romania is a strong advocate for a "larger Europe," encouraging other countries that were formerly part of the Soviet sphere to integrate into both NATO and the EU.

Romania officially became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on March 29, 2004

Romania was the first country to enroll in the NATO Partnership for Peace program.

Romania hosted President Bush's final NATO Summit April 2-4, 2008. The venue symbolized the expansion of the Alliance from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and set new goals for years to come.


If you said "Belarus" or "Iran", I would keep silent. But Romania is a bit off, isn't it?

russia, and putin, have been very upset at georgia and the ukraine for attempting to join NATO and form alliances with the west.

Putin can go suck a dead horse's dick for all I care. that fucking asshole SCARES me and shoudl scare anyone who has to deal with hjis twisted KGB enforcer ass.

I am just telling you how the USA network, NBC, is covering this man.

yes, but clearly the Georgians were trying and succeeded in drawing the Russians out into a fire fight.

nice thread, from sport to politics in less than 10 replies

well it is the olympics isn't it?

oh yes I forgot

so being a saint is easy coz everybody else is a sinner?
no contest here too ahah a.

you're obviously mixing up Romania with some post-Soviet Union country. Romania is US's ally. Don't forget, Romanian troops serve alongside U.S. troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

I love that part of Windowlicker.

The Munich Massacre

At 4:30AM on September 5, 1972, five Arab terrorists wearing track suits climbed the six and 1/2 foot fence surrounding the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany. Once inside, they were met by three others who had gained entrance with credentials. Within 24 hours, 11 Israelis, five terrorists, and a German policeman were dead.


Just before 5:00AM, the terrorists knocked on the door of Israeli wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg who opened the door, realized immediately something was wrong and shouted a warning. Weinberg and weightlifter Joseph Romano attempted to block the door while their members escaped, but they were killed by the terrorists. The Arabs then rounded up nine Israelis to hold as hostages.


At 9:30AM, the terrorists announced that they were Palestinian Arabs, and demanded that Israel release 234 Arab prisoners in Israeli jails and Germany release two German terrorist leaders imprisoned in Frankfurt. They also demanded their own safe passage out of Germany. After hours of negotiations, a deal was struck with German authorities and a trip to the NATO air base at Firstenfeldbruck, by bus and then two helicopters was arranged, in order to board a plane for Cairo. German sharpshooters were standing by with orders to simultaneously kill all the terrorists without harming the hostages.


The rescue plan failed and a bloody firefight between the Germans and Palestinians followed, ending at 3:00AM when the Palestinians set off a grenade in one helicopter, killing all aboard, and terrorists in the second helicopter shot to death the remaining, blindfolded Israeli hostages. Three of the Palestinian Arabs terrorists were captured alive and held in Germany.

While I agree with the above, surely it must be nice that, for once, the whole world is celebrating people who've worked their arses off, largely outside of the public eye, and largely for minimal reward, and finally get a chance to come 8th in the gymkhana or joint 6th in the badminton mixed-doubles?

Obviously, I'm saying that as a citizen of a country that was (last I checked) keeping their fingers crossed for a medal in the fucking archery.

We were robbed in the Table Tennis, if anyone's interested.

I see your Riefenstahl and raise you a Schulz

oh no it's not!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/sp...KOUT-side.html


snoopy, nazi icon? :(

no but being the Patriarch in a congregation of Archbishops doesn't make it any more difficult either.

Snoopy is the ultimate propaganda icon, used to sell everything from
cookies as good snacks to fascism as good living. Triumph of the Dog,
I believe it's called, not to be confused with Triumph the Insult Dog.

while at lunch, I was asked by The Girl Who Gets Our Drink Refills if I had been watching much of the Olympics.

I told her no, but I would if they ever got around to adding Midget Wrestlin' to the bill.

she agreed that it was a good idea and pondered "if only there was a Special Olympics".

I assured her that there was.

after she left the table, GG and I had a good laugh about saving her a place for the next competition.




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y'all should be careful with that one:
More than 130 national advocacy organizations have gotten together to protest "Tropic Thunder" because of that dialogue and its tone.

The protesting groups include the American Association of People with Disabilities, The Arc, the Special Olympics and the Down Syndrome Congress. Local chapters of these organizations, and other advocacy groups and religious groups, have staged protests like the one in Middletown at theaters across the U.S.

"This is one of the worst assaults on people with disabilities," said Anne Eason, Eva's mother. "And we're going to put an end to it."

yeah, it's all over the place here too.

note, it's being called "The R Word" :

frankly, I find it hilarious.

seriously...get with the fucking times people.

"retard" was replaced by "gay" years ago.

don't hear them complaining about that though, do ya?

Can I get a "hell yeah" for Gaytarded?

omg stop saying retarded people are gay!!!!!!!!!!!!

ps:


I hope to use that one soon (with yr permission, of course).

you really should copywrite that....now.

I know all this man. I am just telling you who they do not show compete and guessing at what it may be for. I know why they do nto show the cuban team or the russians...

Floatingslowly - Of course, my pleasure sir :)

*goes to UK patent office to patent "Gaytarded" and "Fuckmuppet"*

yes, but Cubans and Russians are somewhat different cup of tea than, say, Romanians.
Ok, I shut up now.

I heard on NBC that Romanians are all a bunch of retarded gay fuckmuppets.

CONFIRM/DENY PLS.



[edit: were ----> are. we haven't bombed them, yet.]

Nicolae Ceaucescu says NO!

this picture was obviously photoshopped.

in reality, he is wearing a crash helmet and has two rubber dongs in his hands.

ok. that's enough to ensure my Hell Ticket for one more day.

see y'all later. y'uck y'uck.