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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://twitter.com/kyodo_english/status/1413122908667269121 Let me tell you about the IOC...
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ElMaligno posted:The more important question is: I forget the exact criteria that WTYP/WaHoaWtD came up with. I think the standard was that it needs at least two people, with the weapon mounted, doing a thing the vehicle wasn't intended to do. So mounting a rapid-fire crossbow to a tandem bicycle - technical. Mount a machine gun to a snowblower - not a technical. And meanwhile, it turns out that the old, hyper-creepy, hyper-online Cat Person story from a few years ago also involved some weird, creepy borderline-stalking from the author too. Yiiiiiiikes. Original "story": https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1413071752373186562?s=19
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Bored As gently caress posted:This is 100% truth. 
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Jul 8, 2021 14:49
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orange juche posted:Where do you carry a 1911 when you're cycling? not a lot of places to put it. Did he use a 1911, or did the author just google "gun" and use one of the top photos?
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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://twitter.com/kyodo_english/status/1413122908667269121 Japan literally cannot cancel them. Only the IOC can.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Japan literally cannot cancel them. Only the IOC can. Lol what? Pretty sure Japan can pull the plug on them happening in Japan.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Japan literally cannot cancel them. Only the IOC can. Japan is a sovereign state and can tell them to gently caress off if they want to.
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Jul 8, 2021 15:33
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I imagine the IOC has them sign a contract that says they can't cancel them or something stupid. Everyone knows a contract is stronger than law or sovereignty.
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Jul 8, 2021 15:38
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Easy for you to say, but the SDF has never been tested against the IOC’s PMC force.
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Jul 8, 2021 15:38
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Japan could tell them to gently caress off, but the IOC has some crazy contracts, how else do you think they get cities to upend themselves and go on massive works projects they would never do otherwise?
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Jul 8, 2021 15:39
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We Vogons have the honor of informing you that your city/state/planet has been selected to host the Olympic Games. This is your only warning.
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Jul 8, 2021 15:41
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They’re coming to LA in 2028 
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Fallom posted:We Vogons have the honor of informing you that your city/state/planet has been selected to host the Olympic Games. This is your only warning. When you think about it, Trump is the real Zaphod. The Saudi Orb thing was his improbability drive button. Or maybe it was his diet coke button.
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Jul 8, 2021 15:46
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CommieGIR posted:Japan could tell them to gently caress off, but the IOC has some crazy contracts, how else do you think they get cities to upend themselves and go on massive works projects they would never do otherwise? Same way the NFL does.
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Jul 8, 2021 16:02
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Stultus Maximus posted:Same way the NFL does. Through bait and switch?
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CommieGIR posted:Through bait and switch? Civic leaders who either buy the "prestige and economic boom" line, or who just sell it to their constituents for the kickbacks.
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Jul 8, 2021 16:11
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Mr. Nice! posted:Japan literally cannot cancel them. Only the IOC can.  come and take it
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Jul 8, 2021 16:13
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PookBear posted:
Can you imagine this thing popping up on a battlefield? Just the anime horseman, no biggy
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Jul 8, 2021 16:29
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PookBear posted:
This must be the attack helicopter transphobic shitheads always self identify as
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Jul 8, 2021 16:35
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pantslesswithwolves posted:What was the point of holding the Olympics again, other than to line the pockets of some officials? In fairness, it does mean a lot for the athletes themselves. One of my friends from high school did tryouts for both the 2016 and 2020 women's wrestling teams, and simply preparing for the tryouts was an extremely arduous, year-long process of training and preparation. So I'm glad that something resembling the Olympics is still going on for their sake if nothing else.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:In fairness, it does mean a lot for the athletes themselves. One of my friends from high school did tryouts for both the 2016 and 2020 women's wrestling teams, and simply preparing for the tryouts was an extremely arduous, year-long process of training and preparation. So I'm glad that something resembling the Olympics is still going on for their sake if nothing else. Bit expensive for a jobs program though.
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Jul 8, 2021 16:41
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Bit expensive for a jobs program though. Given that it provides almost no benefits to the Olympians, yeah it is. Most of them have to sacrifice massive amounts of personal income, or often go into debt to compete. Including sleeping/living in their cars. And they rarely, if ever, recoup those costs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVozkB33xK0 CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Jul 8, 2021 |
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Jul 8, 2021 16:48
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You really don't enjoy watching the Olympics? It's one of the most entertaining sports spectacles ever conceived. It's also a shared experience for people from all walks of life from all over the planet. People like the Olympics. Having it during a pandemic seems pretty stupid, bit the games themselves are pretty well loved. Grip it and rip it fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Jul 8, 2021 |
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Jul 8, 2021 16:52
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PookBear posted:
I was linked this earlier today and I wasn’t going to post it, but you’ve forced my hand. 
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Grip it and rip it posted:You really don't enjoy watching the Olympics? It's one of the most entertaining sports spectacles ever conceived. It's also a shared experience for people from all walks of life from all over the planet. Watching sports usually boring.
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Grip it and rip it posted:You really don't enjoy watching the Olympics? It's one of the most entertaining sports spectacles ever conceived. It's also a shared experience for people from all walks of life from all over the planet. There are things which in isolation I would enjoy but are rooted in such evil, greed, and corruption it ruins the experience. Most sports, for example.
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Jul 8, 2021 16:56
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Stultus Maximus posted:There are things which in isolation I would enjoy but are rooted in such evil, greed, and corruption it ruins the experience. Most sports, for example. Are you making this post from a Gilligan's island style coconut transmitter?
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Jul 8, 2021 16:59
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Grip it and rip it posted:Are you making this post from a Gilligan's island style coconut transmitter? I do participate in society! You are very intelligent!
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Jul 8, 2021 17:01
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I like seeing the Olympics, but never go out of my way to. I agree with the meme that says they should have 1 normal dude competing in every event to show the level these guys compete at. And, the Grateful Dead once paid to send a team to the Olympics.
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Jul 8, 2021 17:03
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the vast majority of olympic events are boring as absolute gently caress
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Curling is legitimately the only Olympic sport I look forward to. I don’t pay attention to who is winning though, I just tune in to watch the epic broomsmanship.
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I like sports and the Olympics are a blast to watch. I do think that the experience could be improved by throwing a completely average Joe or Jane into the competitions so we’d have a better idea of how great Olympians are at their chosen sport. Just like snag someone from off the street and ask if they wanna swim 200 meters or whatever. That way everyone at home can stop pretending they’d have any chance of coming close to what the worst actual competitor does. Also I stole this idea from other people on the internet so this isn’t an original thought of mine.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I like seeing the Olympics, but never go out of my way to. I want the "normal dude" to have little to no knowledge of the event. Here comes Phil Bobsworth, this will be his third lifetime attempt at the Biathlon. Do you think that he even knows how to put skis on, you know, with him living in Egypt and all?
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even the shooting is boring as its done at 10 meters with an airgun.
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US Berder Patrol posted:This must be the attack helicopter transphobic shitheads always self identify as Related note: one year anniversary of the trans lady who wrote the I Sexually Identify As An Attack Helicopter who got canceled by erstwhile allies who didn't even read the short before calling her phobic to the point where she quit writing
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Hekk posted:I like sports and the Olympics are a blast to watch. I do think that the experience could be improved by throwing a completely average Joe or Jane into the competitions so we’d have a better idea of how great Olympians are at their chosen sport. Wouldn't throwing in a rando off the street make the people who think they'd do as well as the worst competitor correct?
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ASAPI posted:I want the "normal dude" to have little to no knowledge of the event. Isn't this basically Eddie the Eagle?
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PookBear posted:even the shooting is boring as its done at 10 meters with an airgun. Double trap buddy.
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