That's queer.

I can't stand Putin's Olympics.

How many Russian workers will 'vanish' after this is over? They've embarrassed Pootie.

suicides, strange auto accidents ...........

just the control in the hands of a powerful few.

nt

They interviewed him last night on NBC.

The Russians put their eggs in the basket of a Stupid American. How dumb was THAT?

The entire world is empathizing with the Russians today... and the opinions of Stupid Americans are doing nothing more than making this country look bad. I read it in this thread.

If I were Putin, and a Stupid American made me look bad like that... the missiles would already be on their way.

to send the missiles.

The Russian-born American who designed the failed graphic is clearly a traitor. His low intelligence was obviously exploited by the Stupid Americans, causing his emigration. There is no other explanation for leaving Mother Russia.

there was a BIG mechanical failure during the Torch Lighting at the Opening Ceremony in Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics.


BEST Opening Ceremony for any Olympics EVER:

I sometimes go to YouTube and listen to that over and over. There's nobody like her.

But Vancouver had a screw up in their opening ceremony as well...one of the cauldron legs didn't rise how it was supposed to.

don't tell that to the schadenfreude lovers at DU. They don't like to be confronted with their own malfeasance. They're busy being perfect you know?

The Motherland of Russia thanks you for your support.

Hence the ridiculous posts all over DU that equate modern Russia with the former USSR and communism. Lack of first hand knowledge is your problem. Russia is quite amazing if you take the time to find out instead of getting all your info from US "news" sources, because we all know our own media would never lie to you. Oh the irony! Russia may still have some corruption problems but compared to the US they are definitely on the upswing economically. I'm curious did you boycott living in the USA during the Iraq War? Or were you for killing Iraqi's?

There's always something in an Oly opening ceremony that goes wrong. No big deal. Honestly, I think everything will be fine and we'll see some great competition. I do think the IOC will probably be a little bit more attentive to actually designating host cities that are in, well, actual snowy places in the future, though.

And what is an Oly?



I one of the senior members of the International Acronym Committee and I DO NOT remember approving "Oly"!

and you'll miss the future."

you got me into Stanley.

The Olympics has everything to do with politics.

However you are right about this. It was just a piece of malfunctioning gear. Nothing to get bent out of shape over..

gimme a break.

Such animosity and cynicism...(and perfectionism?) Can we get into the true spirit of the games and not be projecting negativity? We owe it to the athletes.

Sure, it's embarrassing to the organizers I'm sure. But all the stupidity coming out of the US is just as embarassing. And are we perfect in all things?

this attempt to diss Russia

There is plenty of news regarding the schadenfreude the US is projecting. It's making the US look foolish and backfiring in the international arena. People are empathizing with Russia, not the other way round. DU'ers seem to be missing that.

and I hate it. I think it deserves the strongest protests. Anywhere. Just be sure outrage is also directed here in America where this happens also. Yes, this is a lot more important than bitching about unfinished hotel rooms, but it is a world-wide problem. Don't get me wrong--bringing it up now in this context is appropriate. But hating on a whole country is stupid and narrow-minded. We haven't cured ourselves enough to be able to trash entire foreign countries. It's lame.

The good old standard 4 rings and a BP logo


An abortion? Really?

It's a really good thing that everything you have ever done, ever, has never gone wrong. Ever! Because that's what's important. Because only a perfect human, free from all faults, quirks and mistakes stands to judge the failures of others. Good job on keeping the imperfect in their place.

it wanted me to install a media codec I've never heard of and opened other windows trying to get me to install an obscure media player and download manger. I had to close and reopen firefox to get rid of them.

I have been watching sports on that site for 4 years with no problems.Just wait for the ad to run and it fires right up.

http://goatd.net/

I've had things popping up trying to install themselves since clicking on it. Thanks alot.

special player nor the codecs.Sorry you think it screwed with your computer.
I was watching a BB game last nite on the GF's new laptop while we were playing cards and didnt have to install any such player.

I've been desperate for places to watch sports since I cutoff cable a few months back, so after you responded you've been using it awhile, I went back for another round and thats when I got the prompt for their player and left immediately. I thought my laptop was clean still but yesterday I noticed there were ads everywhere on every website I visited. I ran malwarebytes and it found 240 infected files. I cleaned those out and still ads everywhere. Finally I found an hdplayer add-on in firefox timestamped as installed when I had first gone to the site, removed that and things are back to normal. Be very careful on there.

How am I supposed to enjoy them tonight now??!?



I KEED! I KEED! I JOKE WITH YOU!

Toilets anyone?

phenomenal.

This thread is a perfect example.

Sad....really.

It's not the complete disaster many here are hoping for.

Was it the best ever....Probably not...but it made me well up a few times and I thought it was thoroughly entertaining and educational. I give it a solid thumbs up and a Bravo.! Good for them!

The symbolism throughout the entire show was most likely lost on most westerners, from the Troyka horses, to the fish that swims through the broken ice, to the arrival of the cathedrals, to the girl leading the way, to the use of TATU as the music for the arrival of the Russian team. This was a show for intellectuals who understand history and culture. Even the Guardian missed the point on what the swinging 60's were like in Russia and compares everything to the London ceremony. Any old reason to jab at Mother Russia. The fact that the Russian producers barely touched on WW2 and Russia's role (the loss of 28 million souls) and instead poked a finger at themselves in a self deprecating way with a huge red scare performance shows the brilliance of this show. It was without a doubt absolutely.....fucking ........phenomenal!

night.

Ironically, in Russia it aired on all TV stations. Not just one with exclusive right as in the US. Every station gets Olympic coverage in Russia and they play all the sports so everything is covered. I watched it in parallel on Russian and Canadian TV live channels today. The contrast was astounding. The Russian coverage was emotionally uplifting, energizing, very positive about all participating teams and people who work there. The Canadian network told how many empty seats there were, what problem some participating teams (Ukraine, Poland, Baltics etc.) have with Russia. Even Greece got a dose of the negative. Propaganda is alive and well and it's in the west these days. Hopefully MSNBC won't butcher the Olympics but I have a feeling they'll politicize the shit out of it for our good citizens. As Pink Floyd sung "Welcome to the machine."

is - maybe I'll watch just to see how bad.

What did they say was bad?

the skaters. I am sure the athletes are going to be okay.

I thought it looked very nice. I think people are making much ado about nothing.

I'm never a huge fan of the opening ceremonies, but what I saw of this one seemed well done, in line with others I have seen.

I think some people just want to hate EVERYTHING about these games, and so they refuse to say ANYTHING nice.

As my mom always told me, "If you can't say something nice..."