Thread: Olympics

Originally Posted by adoc

Ever since Olympics turned into a competition of boosting-drug technologies, I've completely lost my interest. In addition, very soon there won't be any more athletes, only lawyers suing each other for medals. Such a disgrace.

Eh. They wanted more Winter Olympic events, so that could actually work at well; the 500 meter lawsuit, the pairs class action suit, the ever-popular unsafe workplace relay, etc... And don't deny it: you're a big fan of the Austrian ski-team...

Originally Posted by Stranger

The just haven't been paying attention to the fact until now.

The naked Greek dudes were undoubtedly popping the 'roids...

Originally Posted by Barmaley

Originally Posted by Stranger

The just haven't been paying attention to the fact until now.

The naked Greek dudes were undoubtedly popping the 'roids...

)) Don't know anything about the naked Greek dudes, but since the second half of the previous century it's definitely so.

Off topic, but about your siggy -- it's not right.
Should be:

I would be grateful if would correct my mistakes, since I would like my English to sound as natural as possible.

Are you smoking your socks again?

Sounds like a plan....

Ever since Olympics turned into a competition of boosting-drug technologies, I've completely lost my interest. In addition, very soon there won't be any more athletes, only lawyers suing each other for medals. Such a disgrace.

Well if it can't be stopped then who really cares, it just means they can do cooler stuff... wouldn't you rather see someone ski-jump 140m rather than 130m?

Originally Posted by basurero

Well if it can't be stopped then who really cares, it just means they can do cooler stuff... wouldn't you rather see someone ski-jump 140m rather than 130m?

Yes. And then I would like to see their hearts explode from all their 'roids.

'roids... lol

Originally Posted by basurero

Well if it can't be stopped then who really cares, it just means they can do cooler stuff... wouldn't you rather see someone ski-jump 140m rather than 130m?

I'd rather see a CGI-generated 280, might work even better. What the hell, let's make it 2800, that would blow my pants off. How does a ski-jump-across-the-ocean record sound? No dogs or athletes are hurt in the filming...

Originally Posted by Barmaley

And don't deny it: you're a big fan of the Austrian ski-team...

No kidding."In Saturday’s raids, police seized about 100 syringes, unlabeled medicine bottles, boxes of prescription drugs and..." other components of healthy olympic breakfast. And NP, they are no. 3 in the ratings, it's common language, I guess. I am not watching this scam.

Originally Posted by Barmaley

Off topic, but about your siggy -- it's not right.
Should be:

I would be grateful if [you?] would correct my mistakes, since I would like my English to sound as natural as possible.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Stranger

Originally Posted by Barmaley

Off topic, but about your siggy -- it's not right.
Should be:

I would be grateful if [you?] would correct my mistakes, since I would like my English to sound as natural as possible.

Thanks!

Thank you for catching the native speaker's error.

But back to the topic at hand, 'roids are obviously cheating. The next question you have to ask though (with any sport, really), is what about all those technological improvements. On one hand people would be stupid not to use those space-age titanium alloys to shave a second off your time; on the other, that's bogus -- it's wasteful of time, money, and resources. I find it amusing that golfers are always buying newer, more powerful clubs/balls so they can "beat" the course. Then the courses are redesigned to make them harder and longer. It's just a giant game of cat and mouse, with a ton of money thrown away. I use crappy clubs. I don't care. But Tiger Woods has to have the greatest set on the market, or he'll get killed. And then there's always the issue of records as well...