Sports geekery
Fri, Feb. 10th, 2006 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceter*points to subject* I bet those are two words you never expected to see together on my LJ ;).
But yes.... squigglesquiggleYAYsquee!!!!! OLYMPICS!!!!
Predictions:
1. Evgeny Plushenko will win, or else I will yell at the TV an awful lot.
2. Johnny Weir and Brian Joubert will have horrible costumes.
3. I will yell at the commentators all the time.
4. I will have the same not-very-deep thoughts about nationalism and country pride and competition that I do every time I watch the Olympics.
5. I will either cheer loudly when "Taipei China" enters while yelling at China about the name change, or pout when Taiwan isn't in the Olympics, despite fully realizing that it is a subtropical island and probably doesn't participate much in winter sports at all.
6. I will cheer for the Chinese ice skaters and then feel bad for cheering for China and then feel worse for thinking nationalistically.
7. I will find random sports that I didn't know existed (biathlon?).
8. I will get caught up in totally random sports that I usually care nothing about, just because.
9. I will cheer for all the underdog countries. (Sadly, my brain just collapsed on me and I forgot the word "underdog." I knew it was "under-animal," but kept defaulting to "underduck" for some odd reason. Possibly I was inspired by the dead duck wine bottle holder that my dad has.)
10. I am entirely too fond of numbered lists.
But yes.... squigglesquiggleYAYsquee!!!!! OLYMPICS!!!!
Predictions:
1. Evgeny Plushenko will win, or else I will yell at the TV an awful lot.
2. Johnny Weir and Brian Joubert will have horrible costumes.
3. I will yell at the commentators all the time.
4. I will have the same not-very-deep thoughts about nationalism and country pride and competition that I do every time I watch the Olympics.
5. I will either cheer loudly when "Taipei China" enters while yelling at China about the name change, or pout when Taiwan isn't in the Olympics, despite fully realizing that it is a subtropical island and probably doesn't participate much in winter sports at all.
6. I will cheer for the Chinese ice skaters and then feel bad for cheering for China and then feel worse for thinking nationalistically.
7. I will find random sports that I didn't know existed (biathlon?).
8. I will get caught up in totally random sports that I usually care nothing about, just because.
9. I will cheer for all the underdog countries. (Sadly, my brain just collapsed on me and I forgot the word "underdog." I knew it was "under-animal," but kept defaulting to "underduck" for some odd reason. Possibly I was inspired by the dead duck wine bottle holder that my dad has.)
10. I am entirely too fond of numbered lists.
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Fri, Feb. 10th, 2006 06:18 pm (UTC)Also, Wired mag said that they are developing curling brooms with all sorts of complicated sensors, which just amused me. I need something like that for my kitchen floor too, really.
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Fri, Feb. 10th, 2006 06:57 pm (UTC)I giggle hysterically when the skip starts yelling at the sweepers..where else will you here the words "Hurry, hurry hard!" yelled at the Olympics?
Curling is a strange game.