er...can someone please pass the remote, I need to change the channel.Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC
er...can someone please pass the remote, I need to change the channel.
"But do you really, seriously, Major Scobie," Dr. Sykes asked, "believe in hell?"
"In flames and torment?""Oh, yes, I do."
"That sort of hell wouldn't worry me," Fellowes said."Perhaps not quite that. They tell us it may be a permanent sense of loss."
"Perhaps you've never lost anything of importance," Scobie said.
Nope, it's Bien in tights all night long on every channel. The picture is now burned into your retinas.
"I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? … What is ape to man? A laughing stock or painful embarrassment. And man shall be that to the Übermensch" -- from Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche
“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.” - Nikola Tesla
Am I the only one who thought that Joannie's scores were inflated?
The world is waiting for you - Phil Keoghan
No worries, my eyes were already closed when figure skating came up.
"But do you really, seriously, Major Scobie," Dr. Sykes asked, "believe in hell?"
"In flames and torment?""Oh, yes, I do."
"That sort of hell wouldn't worry me," Fellowes said."Perhaps not quite that. They tell us it may be a permanent sense of loss."
"Perhaps you've never lost anything of importance," Scobie said.
People are going to say that, because her mom died. Then the reaction is going to be vehemontly opposed. It'll happen.
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-Pi
It's what they called a sympathy vote.
"But do you really, seriously, Major Scobie," Dr. Sykes asked, "believe in hell?"
"In flames and torment?""Oh, yes, I do."
"That sort of hell wouldn't worry me," Fellowes said."Perhaps not quite that. They tell us it may be a permanent sense of loss."
"Perhaps you've never lost anything of importance," Scobie said.
I don't think they were inflated in the free skate. I looked at the breakdown on the Olympics site. She shines in the components category, and I think she has the best footwork and transitions of the top 5 besides Yu-Na Kim. Even given her excellent performance in that category she only received 1 more point than Asada. Otherwise, she skated a more technically difficult routine than Asada (Rochette had the next most difficult after Kim), and probably made about the same amount of mistakes.
Her short program score could arguably be considered a little on the high side, maybe a 68 would have been more appropriate than 71. Either way, she would have gotten the bronze.
Nagasu was arguably underscored in her components category, but I think Joannie is a more graceful skater than her.
I think this is ridiculously dismissive of Joannie's capabilities. She did receive the silver in the world's last year, it's not like she isn't a top tier skater.
Last edited by OrphanPip; 02-26-2010 at 02:36 AM.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
oh...was that just mean?
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
I really didn't think Joannie deserved 200+ points. But I guess it was a combination of sympathy and home ice advantage.
The world is waiting for you - Phil Keoghan
Doesn't ice freeze the same regardless of location?
"I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? … What is ape to man? A laughing stock or painful embarrassment. And man shall be that to the Übermensch" -- from Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche
“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.” - Nikola Tesla
The scores have been inflated for everyone though, I don't think Kim deserved a world record either. Relative to the inflated scores of all the other skaters, she deserved it.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
awww sorry...
oh...was that just mean?
what I meant was, I couldn't wait to switch over to the NCIS reruns.
"But do you really, seriously, Major Scobie," Dr. Sykes asked, "believe in hell?"
"In flames and torment?""Oh, yes, I do."
"That sort of hell wouldn't worry me," Fellowes said."Perhaps not quite that. They tell us it may be a permanent sense of loss."
"Perhaps you've never lost anything of importance," Scobie said.
I'm not buy it...awww sorry...
what I meant was, I just wanted to switch over to the NCIS reruns.
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
It's true. Figure skating is sooo dull next to Jethro back slapping DiNozzo.
"But do you really, seriously, Major Scobie," Dr. Sykes asked, "believe in hell?"
"In flames and torment?""Oh, yes, I do."
"That sort of hell wouldn't worry me," Fellowes said."Perhaps not quite that. They tell us it may be a permanent sense of loss."
"Perhaps you've never lost anything of importance," Scobie said.
Haha, and so it begins.
Even if Rochette DID get the "sympathy vote" (as you so kindly attributed her victory to), she would have gotten the bronze anyway with a much lower score. But that's beside the point, because she deserved it.
Last edited by JuniperWoolf; 02-26-2010 at 04:17 AM.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
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