Kenny B: Altitude5280: Ever seen anyone so pissed to win a silver medal before? [img.photobucket.com image 533x800]

Poor snowflake. Did she make that same face when she didn't get a pony for her birthday?

I get more of a driven super-biatch feel. A precious snowflake would cry all night and tell all her frenemies about how it was the judges fault.

Maroney is going to spend the night planning her next meet. Or possibly killing a dog.

Altitude5280: Ever seen anyone so pissed to win a silver medal before?

There was this one guy in Beijing. Ara Abrahamsen of Sweden won bronze in Greco-Roman wrestling. Refused it, threw it to the ground, walked out of the medal ceremony and everything. Later, he changed his mind and wanted it back.

That's when he found out that when you refuse your medal, you refuse it for keeps.

To quote mrs. robertus: "Dear Announcers, If medals were awarded to the people we knew were the best, then there would be no point to having the actual Olympics competition. It would just be a bunch of medal ceremonies. This is why sports are interesting."

I DON'T CARE NBC! JUST SHOW THE STUPID RACE!

Kinda wish we could have an "Olympic truce" for political commercials during Olympics coverage.

cloud_van_dame: Bubblegum Tate: I've got to hand it to her, going with the "I'm going to murder everyone here" death stare instead of bursting into tears. Color me impressed/scared

Maroney is a badass. Imagine if she had decided to do tae kwon do or something.

She seems like the kind of girl that has four rather unruly older brothers.

Back in school we called her kind of folks Royal Irish. The girls were trashy and entitled and the boys would crush your skull for wearing the wrong shirt.

soaboutthat: 2:30 minutes on that, I wonder if there were any competitions or races that could have been ran in that time.

I know you're being sarcastic, but seeing as how they showed the Women's triple jump in about 3 minutes earlier, I would have liked to have seen the Men's hammer throw final

2:30 minutes on that, I wonder if there were any competitions or races that could have been ran in that time.

Geez. He had a bad start, and *STILL* managed to beat everyone.

So Revolution is a complete ripoff of S.M. Stirling's "Dies the Fire" series, but without the logic, style, and grit.

Good to know.

In the Stirling books, the change is thought to have been deliberately caused by godlike external forces, but it's very much (as far as I've read) behind the curtain and unknown. The books are about how society reverts, not the Scifi plot necessity.

/Not as good as his Draka stuff though.
//Or the General series.

msupf: Which is even dumber, because most life on earth would cease to exist as well at that point. Electrical impulses helping run pretty much everything in a body and all.

Someone should make that show.

'There's a global electrical blackout and everyone on Earth is dead. ...the end. What's on our midseason schedule?'

that one lady went full glitter-tyson. never go full glitter-tyson

So wait, they're on a global electrical blackout... don't guns not require electricity? I think they just pretty much made every mechanical object where you can't clearly see all the parts stop working.

I mean my God, even blunderbusses are firearms.

there their theyre: ultraholland: there's a turtle laying on its back on the track

I don't get it

It's a Blade Runner reference. The turtle story is told to possible replicants to gauge their emotional reaction.

YouSirAreAMaroon: You give the show too much credit. Not only is it a global blackout, electricity has stopped being a thing altogether. No generators, cars, etc.

This definitely sounds like an NBC idea for a show.

msupf: Joe_diGriz: I'm still trying to figure out how the heck a "global blackout" would work... ESPECIALLY one that lasts for 15+ years. Every single power grid would have to be connected to every other one, so a major fault would have a chance of causing a chain reaction (but this was already shown to be possible to stop by having differently configured cutoffs, as seen in the NorthEast blackout of 2003). In addition, whatever happened would have to take out every single power plant, everywhere - coal, gas nuclear, hydro, solar, and wind. And that doesn't even cover the other logical problems with this premise.

This isn't poor science for a TV show concept, it's not even pure fantasy - it's like the plot of a "story" by some 4-year-old.

It's a crap premise. They also pretend that chemical energy is unusable except for fire for lighting, heat, and cooking by the looks of things.

Steam engines? Guns? Oil/gas? FARK that, it disappears mysteriously after 15 years as well.



Yes concept is stupid, but if they can make a decent story, I won't care.

Joe_diGriz: ThisIsNotSubtle: Apparently a magic amulet is involved.

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Wait, wat?

I've already told you.

Joe_diGriz: I'm still trying to figure out how the heck a "global blackout" would work... ESPECIALLY one that lasts for 15+ years. Every single power grid would have to be connected to every other one, so a major fault would have a chance of causing a chain reaction (but this was already shown to be possible to stop by having differently configured cutoffs, as seen in the NorthEast blackout of 2003). In addition, whatever happened would have to take out every single power plant, everywhere - coal, gas nuclear, hydro, solar, and wind. And that doesn't even cover the other logical problems with this premise.

This isn't poor science for a TV show concept, it's not even pure fantasy - it's like the plot of a "story" by some 4-year-old.

You give the show too much credit. Not only is it a global blackout, electricity has stopped being a thing altogether. No generators, cars, etc.

ThisIsNotSubtle: Apparently a magic amulet is involved.

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Wait, wat?

ThisIsNotSubtle: Joe_diGriz: I'm still trying to figure out how the heck a "global blackout" would work... ESPECIALLY one that lasts for 15+ years. Every single power grid would have to be connected to every other one, so a major fault would have a chance of causing a chain reaction (but this was already shown to be possible to stop by having differently configured cutoffs, as seen in the NorthEast blackout of 2003). In addition, whatever happened would have to take out every single power plant, everywhere - coal, gas nuclear, hydro, solar, and wind. And that doesn't even cover the other logical problems with this premise.

This isn't poor science for a TV show concept, it's not even pure fantasy - it's like the plot of a "story" by some 4-year-old.

Apparently a magic amulet is involved.

I wish I was kidding.

So.... a wizard did it?

I'm still trying to figure out how the heck a "global blackout" would work... ESPECIALLY one that lasts for 15+ years. Every single power grid would have to be connected to every other one, so a major fault would have a chance of causing a chain reaction (but this was already shown to be possible to stop by having differently configured cutoffs, as seen in the NorthEast blackout of 2003). In addition, whatever happened would have to take out every single power plant, everywhere - coal, gas nuclear, hydro, solar, and wind. And that doesn't even cover the other logical problems with this premise.

This isn't poor science for a TV show concept, it's not even pure fantasy - it's like the plot of a "story" by some 4-year-old.

wspguy: bextraordinary: wspguy: Mmmrky: I love the shot of her teammates with one briefly grimacing and turning back to her iPad. Aly I think. I can't tell them apart. That team seems to have a lot of barely concealed hatred for each other.

They always hate each other. Every. Single. Year.

Can you imagine having to mug and be smiley as a team but knowing that you are each others' biggest competition? And they're all high school girls, ffs. High school's snarky enough without putting Olympic gold into the mix.

Right - that's what I meant. They are each others' competition pretty much every day of their lives. And then that is all supposed to go away for two weeks every four years? I don't think so...

Hell, even in the team competition, they're competing against each other to get the top 2 team spots.

They should do the individual events first before the team event. Probably everyone would be a lot happier and supportive.

Show a little grace, for pete's sake.

Oh, stop it, NBC. She got silver. She lost gold because she fell on her butt. That's sports. You don't have to start immediately devaluing the gold by claiming who's REALLY the champ no matter what the medals see. Izbasa won the gold. Maroney didn't. Deal with it.

Sergio_Van_Lukenstein: NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT!

Only because she's not wearing the American flag as she sails through the air.

WHAR'S YER FLAG, MARONEY?

fruitloop: Did Daggett say the vault with the fall was better than qualifying? What the fark did she do in qualifying?

Also fell on her butt. She came closer here to not falling on her butt. Again, she relies on high starting values from insanely difficult tricks and getting people to go 'Well, good for her for trying'.

Interesting that the men can't get away with a false start - the announcer just said men have to finish their vault, but the women can back off. That seems like a shiatty double-standard, even if it benefits the women. If a guy feels "off" he should be able to back up and approach again. Better that than getting hurt.

So glad that Canadian vaulter chose not to try another jump. Could seriously damage whatever is already likely at LEAST a ligament strain.

ok, so I went to a private school in the South with a lot of spoiled rich kids from all areas of the country and saw lots of plastic surgery on a lot of college girls. Her little up-turned nose is just a little too perfect, isn't it?

Planking is not an Olympic sport

Gosling: Owie.

Well, there's when it's acceptable to show a Foreigner. When they totally botch it.

They didn't show the third Russian floor exercise when she botched it, though. Fark was looking forward to it being shown, but no...

RidersOfLohan: NBC will probably have the next Olympics too... they should broadcast brazil live, that way people can go on whatever has replaced twitter and complain that they were at work and didn't get to see anything.

NBC has coverage through 2020. So we are stuck with this suckage for awhile. Hopefully Costas will die soon. But then we'll have to deal with the NBC asshats creating a tribute for him. So we have to suffer for awhile (with or without Costas).

RidersOfLohan: NBC will probably have the next Olympics too... they should broadcast brazil live, that way people can go on whatever has replaced twitter and complain that they were at work and didn't get to see anything.

A) Stream everything.
B) Everything live (or close to it) on some station
C) Highlights on regular NBC during primetime.
D) No human being interest, no Secrest, no BS
E) Profit?

msupf: ChubbyTiger: expobill: so an African American Jamaican will win the golds?

WTF?

Yeah, he's been trolling the Olympic threads, just block the asshat.

He may be an asshat but from watching just the heats I would be shocked if Bolt did not win.

/assuming that's what ur talking about

PaulieattheTap: there their theyre: I want a mini Mini shaped lawn mower.

That would be so cool!

Three words: Mini Cooper Roomba

9.87 and he slowed to a walk about halfway through? Daaaaamn.

Joe_diGriz: TheGhostofFarkPast: I recommend you give up on NBC and use expat shield and watch it live on the BBC

Anyone know if there's a similar thing that works on MacOS X?

You got windows running on a VM or parallels? It works there to. You an also check out tunlr it works on all systems.

there their theyre: I want a mini Mini shaped lawn mower.

That would be so cool!

PaulieattheTap: Earguy: PaulieattheTap: NBC filler, because they don't know what to do.

And we haven't seen one minute of field competition. Discuss, javelin, shotput, long jump, some really cool stuff happening. C'mon!

You're right! I want to see the Mini Minis in action!

I want a mini Mini shaped lawn mower.

TheGhostofFarkPast: I recommend you give up on NBC and use expat shield and watch it live on the BBC

Anyone know if there's a similar thing that works on MacOS X?

robertus: What the fark is this James Bond bullshiat?

NBC wasting everyones time and selling the next movie.


Thank god I use expat shield daily and watch BBC live everyday so I don't have to put up with this BS.

I do not give a shiat about 007. I have never sat through A BOND FILM WITHOUT FEELING BORED AND TURNING IT OFF, AND I'M NOT GONNA SIT THROUGH YOUR CRAPPY VIGNETTE WHOSE TIME COULD BE DEDICATED TO TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT MOMENTS!!!!

NBC filler, because they don't know what to do.

Menegatti:

By the way, in case you primetimers were worried about Olympic boxing medals meaning jack shiat, don't worry, they're taking care of that oversight.

It should chill you to the bone to know that every boxing winner from here on in, gender regardless, is guaranteed a medal.

Earguy: I think these two Beach Volleyball girls have gotten more time on the Prime Time replays than any other athletes. I mean, last night they gave them a half hour of coverage on a "round of 16" game when they totally crushed the opposition. Unnecessary, considering all the stuff they ignored.

They'll always be in prime time, however, because:

1) They haven't lost on the Olympic stage (USA! USA! USA!)
2) They play in bikinis, which gets 90% of men and 10% of women interested
3) They come across as both patriotic & nice individuals, so American audiences won't turn against them anytime soon.

PaulieattheTap: there their theyre: PaulieattheTap: Oscar is the Bomb! You want to drink something green, I created this one night at a party. It is called "Horny Green Shiat".
2 parts vodka, 1 part rum, 3 parts Midori (green melon liquor), some sprite (or 7 up) place in blender with ice (or use a shaker full of ice for shots).

1 part Orange juice, 2 parts jack, 1 part blue curacao.

Sounds awful, but tastes pretty good.

I don't do Jack. Jack D. & I had a bout one night and since then I don't do Jack. I always hate bartending when someone orders Jack. I generally wash my hands afterwards 'cuse the smell still turns my stomach.

That's gin for me. Puked so hard I broke blood vessels around my eyes. Not. Good.

PaulieattheTap: there their theyre: PaulieattheTap: Oscar is the Bomb! You want to drink something green, I created this one night at a party. It is called "Horny Green Shiat".
2 parts vodka, 1 part rum, 3 parts Midori (green melon liquor), some sprite (or 7 up) place in blender with ice (or use a shaker full of ice for shots).

1 part Orange juice, 2 parts jack, 1 part blue curacao.

Sounds awful, but tastes pretty good.

I don't do Jack. Jack D. & I had a bout one night and since then I don't do Jack. I always hate bartending when someone orders Jack. I generally wash my hands afterwards 'cuse the smell still turns my stomach.

I don't blame you jack is gross. But sometimes you need something a slight bit less harsh than turpentine

Waxing_Chewbacca: Try this.

One part whiskey.

Repeat as needed

Tullamore Dew = Water of Life

there their theyre: PaulieattheTap: Oscar is the Bomb! You want to drink something green, I created this one night at a party. It is called "Horny Green Shiat".
2 parts vodka, 1 part rum, 3 parts Midori (green melon liquor), some sprite (or 7 up) place in blender with ice (or use a shaker full of ice for shots).

1 part Orange juice, 2 parts jack, 1 part blue curacao.

Sounds awful, but tastes pretty good.

I don't do Jack. Jack D. & I had a bout one night and since then I don't do Jack. I always hate bartending when someone orders Jack. I generally wash my hands afterwards 'cuse the smell still turns my stomach.

Gosling: Granted, Olympics take place in Presidential election years and after the Olympics typically come the VP announcements and party conventions. So I'm not sure how you bump that stuff.

Depending on scheduling it works out well, plus there's the winter games and attendant Paralympics. Fortunately the International Paralympic Committee provides streaming from their own site for everyone around the world.

WhyteRaven74: Hey the Paralympics, which NBC will completely ignore, even though broadcasters in other countries cover it live.

Yeah. I know.

Granted, Olympics take place in Presidential election years and after the Olympics typically come the VP announcements and party conventions. So I'm not sure how you bump that stuff.

Hey the Paralympics, which NBC will completely ignore, even though broadcasters in other countries cover it live.

I put up with women's diving coverage because I'm hoping it means they'll show just as much men's diving. Equal ogling time and all.

there their theyre: And every time that female diving commentator opens her mouth I want to shoot someone.

She's generally reviled. And keep in mind the greatest diver of all time is an American.

KurganCA: An extra hour of talking to Phelps.

I want to preface the following statement with this: I was on swim teams for 9 years and my greatest achievement was a bronze medal for the butterfly leg of a 400 medley in a penny ante city invitational. I am in utter awe of Michael Phelps as much as anyone and more than most.

He needs to leave the MJ comparisons and GOAT stuff for other people to say. It's undoubtedly true but comes off poorly.

And thanks to her whole life being eating, sleeping and everything being about diving, she's gonna have fun trying to fit in with life.

I love how in the graphic of recent 3-meter springboard golds, they used NBC's in-house logos for the respective Olympiads instead of the actual official ones.

Gosling: Who the hell brings an airhorn to a synchronized swimming competition?

would you prefer a vuvuzela?

Phelps has nothing left to do but spend the next week nailing all the foreign hotties he can handle.

I'm surprised Phelps can put up with this analysis shiat, not that he doesn't have a brain but athletic competition doesn't lie in endless talking.