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[oyceter]

Argh, Dick Button, I hate you!

(paraphrased) "It must be so wonderful skating in the US Nationals, an experience for these girls like no other. They're skating against people they've practiced with and known, not some random, almost faceless, skater from Azerbaijan or Japan."

UGH.

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[tyreseus.livejournal.com]

Wow, was Japan the only other country he could think of after saying "Azerbaijan"?

Of course, to me it sounds a little like "Americans like me can't even tell one Japanese person apart from another, so even though they may be champions in the same event she's competing in, who can even tell them apart?"

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

That, and, 'random'? Because there's no, like, skill involved, in being sent off to skate in a big-deal event?

[oyceter]

I know! And I was thinking, uh, yeah, because skating in international events is not prestigious how?

[oyceter]

I know, seriously! There was this pause after "Azerbaijan" (and by the way, wtf is wrong with just saying Russia?), like he was searching for the name of another exotic and unfamiliar country.

I also wanted to bash him over the head and say, oh yes, I'm sure it's so hard to tell that horde of Japanese skaters apart, which is why everyone and their mother has been talking about Mao Asada for the past two years.