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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 02:55 PM
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Of the gigantic sham that is the Olympics, the thing that has people pissed off is a lip-syncher?
Seriously, isn't that like looking at the Bush administration for the last 7 years and the only thing that pisses you off is that you find out that Bush's cowboy boots aren't made in Texas, but in New York City? Or getting all chuffed at WalMart solely because you can't get your Crest to squeeze out of the tube onto your toothbrush like it shows on the package?

:eyes:
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 02:57 PM
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1. ...
could you please start some kind of texting service so I don't miss these? I'm too lazy to come here and search for your old posts. Just take my phone number or e-mail and send to me directly.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:01 PM
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4. What I need to do is remember to add these things to my journal
I forget about the journal for three or four weeks at a time, then remember for like a day or two, then forget again.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 02:58 PM
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2. I just thought it was sad for the real little girl who sang it because
apparently she wasn't cute enough.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:01 PM
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3. China Vanilli?
:rofl: :hi:
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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:01 PM
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5. Sounds about right. n/t
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:01 PM
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6. Certainly not. The thing that has me pissed off
is that a marathon 'Risk' tournament between you and DS1 for world domination does not qualify as an Olympic event, and isn't deemed worthy of the kind of fuss generated at this year's opening ceremonies.

I mean, who makes these decisions, really?
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:02 PM
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8. I'm finding online risk and we're getting a game going
seriously, I need to kick some ass
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:14 PM
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13. Bring it on, beyotch.
Gloves = Off.

I'm gonna kick your ass.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:46 PM
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22. Oh this so has to happen
I thought smack talk about football was a major rush. Smack talk about fucking WORLD DOMINATION absolutely rocks my ass!@!
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:02 PM
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7. It's something people don't have to think too much about. Lip-syncing = a lie. Lies = bad.
If you get into the socio-political aspect, people get scared and/or lazy and shut up.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:05 PM
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9. I think it had more to do with the reason why she was lip-syncing.
The girl who really sang it wasn't "cute" enough.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:13 PM
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11. Yeah, that is pretty ridiculous.
Edited on Tue Aug-12-08 03:13 PM by primate1
How old is she? I bet she was adorable.

Still, it's an easy source of outrage. It still doesn't require a whole lot of thought or debate.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:14 PM
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12. I think she is 7 and she is cute. Crooked teeth but that
Edited on Tue Aug-12-08 03:14 PM by Shell Beau
only adds to the cuteness.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:15 PM
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14. That is lame.
Poor kid.
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:06 PM
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10. I agree that's pretty ridiculous
And its not like China is the only place it would happen - I can easily see it happening in the good ol' U.S. of A. :eyes:
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:16 PM
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15. I know we are by far not perfect, but I don't see us replacing
a little girl because she isn't cute enough. Maybe I am naive though.
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:28 PM
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17. I think maybe a little
I doubt if anyone here would be quite so blunt about it but I can see it. Look at the singers in this country who are famous - how you look has nothing to do with how you sing but the vast majority of them are considered attractive. Particularly women. Why is that? Is it because ugly people can't sing? No, it's because ugly singers can't get gigs.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:30 PM
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18. I definitely agree that it is all about looks in the entertainment
industry. I think what we would have done to begin with is get a kid we find "cute" enough to sing instead of replacing a kid.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:45 PM
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21. Of course not - we would have sought out "cute" first, and created the voice in the editing room.
We wouldn't even have the integrity to first get someone who can sing well. Why should we? We don't for American Idol or any of our pop stars.

No, our "talent scouting" would have consisted of looking for cute, all-American perfect little girl child. After we found her, we would have the engineers make her sing.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:52 PM
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23. I do like some of the American Idols, but I do think we would have
found the cutest little girl who could sing. We wouldn't have looked for voice first. Looks would come first for sure.

But I just feel so bad for the little 7 year old girl who I guess was basically told she wasn't cute enough. I also heard that they banned their bald and smelly cab drivers from driving their cabs during the Olympics.
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 04:14 PM
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25. Which isn't a far cry from what happened to the homeless in Atlanta
Everyone tries to put on a good face for the Olympics, and it's usually at someone else's expense.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DE7DB1E39F932A35754C0A960958260
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 04:26 PM
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26. You are right, and it is sad!
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:16 PM
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27. Yet another part of the Olympics that's just a fucking sham.
Whatever city I live in, I would lobby and fight tooth and nail to ensure that the Olympics never be held in it.

All it is is a testosterone/steroid based form of soft war and international penis waving at each other.
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Fran Kubelik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:19 PM
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16. Yes, Rabrrrrrr, this has people pissed off.
Of all the things for you to be pissed off about, you're pissed off about people being pissed off about a lip-syncher?

:bounce:
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:40 PM
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20. No, I'm pissed that of all the Olympics, built on an Olympus of sham, scam, and fakery,
Edited on Tue Aug-12-08 03:41 PM by Rabrrrrrr
throughout and throughout, that it's a lip-synched bit of fakery in the opening song - a song, for fuck's sake, not even an actual sports part of the Olympics - that has people pissed off.

Hence my analogies.
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Westegg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:30 PM
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19. Very well said, Rabrrrrrr. (N/T)
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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 04:01 PM
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24. The Crest situation is a fucking outrage.
I want my toothpaste on the brush EXACTLY how it looks in the ads. If you can't understand the importance of this, you probably have cavities. So there.

;)
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