did anyone else watch misty may-treanor & kerri walsh totally overcome tonight?

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Fri Aug-15-08 01:34 AM
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did anyone else watch misty may-treanor & kerri walsh totally overcome tonight?

as great athletes? as athletes with the guts and the heart and the spirit that propels any athlete to overcome five fucking set points to finally overcome that and win?

did anyone else watch that!?

unfuckingbelievable!

oh. and they were wearing the bikini.

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Egnever

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Fri Aug-15-08 01:37 AM
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1. nope I avoid them when possible

they love bush a little too much for my comfort.

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noamnety

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Fri Aug-15-08 02:51 AM
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9. Same here.

I am not a fan.

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cherokeeprogressive

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Fri Aug-15-08 01:37 AM
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2. Were they wearing the bikinis they were FORCED to wear, or the ones they CHOSE to? n/t

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cliffordu

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Fri Aug-15-08 01:41 AM
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3. They were wearing the ones their company sells.

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TahitiNut

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Fri Aug-15-08 01:45 AM
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4. More DUers are fashion police than sports fans.

:shrug:

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cliffordu

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Fri Aug-15-08 01:46 AM
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5. Really. If I had a body like that, I'd rule the world.

Edited on Fri Aug-15-08 01:52 AM by cliffordu

And I'm a dude.....

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TahitiNut

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Fri Aug-15-08 05:41 AM
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12. I've put in my application to be one of them in my next life.

Edited on Fri Aug-15-08 05:45 AM by TahitiNut

:silly:

Besides, I got "training" in beach volleyball in Viet Nam. We had a sandbag-ringed court filled with sand and played ourselves to exhaustion in that heat and humidity. (It was a good counterpoint to getting drunk on vodka gimlets.) I was good at setting and spiking, not as good at digging and blocking.

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cliffordu

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Fri Aug-15-08 11:02 AM
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19. Really? We played a little Volleyball, too. I was good at crashing into the net,

too stoned to walk.

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Seeking Serenity

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Fri Aug-15-08 11:08 AM
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21. I'm a woman, and I was glad to see the Belgian women actually had some body fat on them.

Not rail-thin and shapeless like the American women. I think that carries the potential to lead to unrealistic expectations of body image in eyes and mind of American girls, with the possible negative consequences that can follow.

DH also commented on the Belgian women. We both think that women are supposed to have some body fat on them. That's the way the good Lord made us.

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cliffordu

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Fri Aug-15-08 11:52 AM
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22. I completely agree. I don't really look at them as women, so much as freaks

of physique. Like supermodels, NFL tackles and Lance Armstrong.

I prefer the body shape of women cyclists, m'self.....my wife rides 10-25 miles a day commuting. She looks great. She is not volleyball thin, and her shape has a very specific reason. For that matter, a very specific purpose, too.

I mean if we're objectifying women, which I almost never do, except when I'm awake.

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Seeking Serenity

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:56 PM
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23. Maybe not freaks, but certainly not standard-bearers.

American girls need to be reminded that these women are aberrations, not the norm.

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cliffordu

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Fri Aug-15-08 01:21 PM
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24. Yep.

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Seeking Serenity

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Fri Aug-15-08 02:14 PM
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25. My six-year-old was watching with me last night, and he said,

looking at the two American women, "Mom, they have no breasts!"

I just chuckled and was inwardly proud that he used the correct terminology.

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Fri Aug-15-08 02:18 AM
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6. *ahem* misty may-treanor & kerri walsh played their hearts out tonight!

yay! misty may-treanor & kerri walsh!

yay!

oh, but y'all here would rather discuss their "uniforms"...

ok...

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Lasher

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Fri Aug-15-08 02:32 AM
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7. Great game!

This year women's beach volleyball is my favorite event so far. I never thought I would say that.

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Fri Aug-15-08 02:47 AM
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8. i know!

five set points.

they could have lost that first set and still come back to win.

but they didn't. they wouldn't. they refused. they fought back. and they won. that brought tears to my eyes.

their performance was the definition of what it means to be an athlete...

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Lasher

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Fri Aug-15-08 08:23 AM
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14. Did you watch that one a coupla days ago, the US against Cuba?

Our women won the first set, theirs won the second, and the third set was close at around 14 each. Then they switched to swimming???

I was distracted but I never did catch the end of that one. WTF, did I dream that?

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RNdaSilva

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Fri Aug-15-08 03:25 AM
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10. Watched. And yes...great.

Edited on Fri Aug-15-08 03:33 AM by RNdaSilva

The eye candy unis are ok too. And the contents therein.

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RNdaSilva

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Fri Aug-15-08 03:25 AM
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11. Dupe...

Edited on Fri Aug-15-08 03:26 AM by RNdaSilva

How'd that happen?

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summer borealis

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Fri Aug-15-08 05:50 AM
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13. How many Super Bowls have they won?

Oh, yeah ... NONE. Junk sports mean nothing.

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MadHound

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Fri Aug-15-08 08:34 AM
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16. How many players and fans does American football have?

Let's see, thirty two teams, fifty three players, you do the math. Meanwhile, according to FIVA, there are thirty three million registered volleyball players, and upwards of a billion fans.

Junk sport my ass. Typical American viewpoint, self centered and myopic:eyes:

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cliffordu

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Fri Aug-15-08 11:05 AM
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20. Nice words that mean, in the football fan's vocabulary, "stuck on stupid"

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summer borealis

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Sat Aug-16-08 06:55 AM
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26. Yeah and TV ads for volleyball sell for what?

Three bucks?
Hopefully the Olympics will be gone soon so all these joke sports can go hide for another four years.
At least ESPN isn't wasting much time on them.

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theboss

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Fri Aug-15-08 08:25 AM
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15. That Belgian was an enormous broad, wasn't she?

Edited on Fri Aug-15-08 08:25 AM by theboss

That was the first time I really ever got the strategy of that sport.

Also, I like watching boobies go bounce bounce.

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MiniMe

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Fri Aug-15-08 08:36 AM
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17. A great comeback

They showed a lot of guts. Then they went on to destroy them in the second match.

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aikoaiko

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Fri Aug-15-08 08:39 AM
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18. I saw it. I was lucky to have turned on my tv.

Its was a nice set. It was great to see May-Walsh overcome a serious challenge.

Its too bad the Belgium team couldn't keep up the pressure. Of course I still would want the Belgium team to lose to us.

Maybe with a little more conditioning, the Belgium team will be a contender next time.

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