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  • #106
    Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

    There's a girl that appeared in the gymnastics qualifiers who looks to be about 11 years old. Her floor routine was even set to The Addam's Family theme song.
    "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984

    "One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its Black Gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume." Boromir

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    • #107
      Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

      Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
      There's a girl that appeared in the gymnastics qualifiers who looks to be about 11 years old. Her floor routine was even set to The Addam's Family theme song.
      The one with the insane vault was amazing. It seemed about half again as high as any I'd ever seen.
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      • #108
        Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

        NBC announces they're tape delaying the opening ceremonies one hour to allow for "curation" of the event. That apparently is modern speak for censor.

        Everyone else globally gets to watch the ceremonies live. So for those of you living near a CBC feed, have fun telling your friends what happens before they see it.
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        • #109
          Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

          Originally posted by aparch View Post
          NBC announces they're tape delaying the opening ceremonies one hour to allow for "curation" of the event. That apparently is modern speak for censor.

          Everyone else globally gets to watch the ceremonies live. So for those of you living near a CBC feed, have fun telling your friends what happens before they see it.
          I plan to stream the events from British TV anyway. The events will be live, there will be limited jingoistic announcers and much fewer special features on the participants. Foreign sources actually cover the sporting events. Imagine that.

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          • #110
            Originally posted by ticapnews View Post
            I plan to stream the events from British TV anyway. The events will be live, there will be limited jingoistic announcers and much fewer special features on the participants. Foreign sources actually cover the sporting events. Imagine that.
            Do you VPN BBC??
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            • #111
              Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

              Originally posted by joecct View Post
              Do you VPN BBC??
              There are multiple sites to stream international broadcasts. I use http://cricfree.sx/sports-live-streaming-1

              I stream on my PC and cast it via Google to my TV in my bedroom or the living room. Even on the big screens I get quality definition (HD or just below). If I watch on my PC screen it's always in HD. I get Sky News on my Roku and am hopeful that one day soon the Sports side and the BBC will make apps for the device.

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              • #112
                Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                Originally posted by ticapnews View Post
                I plan to stream the events from British TV anyway. The events will be live, there will be limited jingoistic announcers and much fewer special features on the participants. Foreign sources actually cover the sporting events. Imagine that.
                US coverage of the Olympics is about as subtle as a Nuremberg Rally. I'm glad to hear there is a way of escaping it. The networks are pure jingoistic sh-t. I don't think they've caught on that the Olympic audience is the NPR set, not Bubba.
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                • #113
                  Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                  US coverage of the Olympics is about as subtle as a Nuremberg Rally. I'm glad to hear there is a way of escaping it. The networks are pure jingoistic sh-t. I don't think they've caught on that the Olympic audience is the NPR set, not Bubba.
                  Who filmed the1936 Olympics? Leni Riefenstahl. My favorite propagandist. Imagine if she worked for NBC now!
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                  • #114
                    Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                    Originally posted by joecct View Post
                    Who filmed the1936 Olympics? Leni Riefenstahl. My favorite propagandist. Imagine if she worked for NBC now!
                    Triumph of the Will is one of the most disappointing films I've ever seen. Only Birth of a Nation and Nanook of the North are more boring.

                    And I like art films.
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                    • #115
                      Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                      Mine were the "great" Kubrick films. CWO and 2001 are absolute rubbish.
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                      I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                      Originally posted by Kepler
                      When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                      He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                      • #116
                        Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                        Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                        Mine were the "great" Kubrick films. CWO and 2001 are absolute rubbish.
                        CWO?

                        2001 is brilliant.

                        Edit: Oh! No, CWO is also brilliant. You are a very silly person.
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                        • #117
                          Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                          CWO?

                          2001 is brilliant.

                          Edit: Oh! No, CWO is also brilliant. You are a very silly person.
                          A Clockwork Orange is perhaps the most disturbing and yet enthralling movies I've ever seen.
                          "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984

                          "One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its Black Gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume." Boromir

                          "Good news! We have a delivery." Professor Farnsworth

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                          • #118
                            Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                            They were ****ing awful. I remember being upset that I had wasted my time with them.

                            They were more pointless than Michael Bay meets George Lucas circa 2001. Odd.

                            I just hated these movies.
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College Hockey 6       College Football 0
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                            Originally posted by SanTropez
                            May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                            Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                            I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                            Originally posted by Kepler
                            When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                            He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                            • #119
                              Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                              Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                              A Clockwork Orange is perhaps the most disturbing and yet enthralling movies I've ever seen.
                              My vote. A great movie (of a great production), but a VERY hard watch.

                              Another one. Only movie I've ever walked out on because I was getting too involved and couldn't deal.
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                              • #120
                                Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                                Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                                CWO?

                                2001 is brilliant.

                                Edit: Oh! No, CWO is also brilliant. You are a very silly person.
                                2001 is a film you have to watch multiple times to understand what the funk is going on. 50 years later, there are STILL debates on IMDB about what that film means.

                                CWO goes back and forth between being exquisite social satire to cartoonish waste of film. In the end I think it holds up well, but it isn't the masterpiece some people think it is.

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