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LadyTevar wrote:I don't think any of the US gymnists are over the age of 16.
Mohini Bardwahj is 25 and a super-freaky hottie

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Chardok wrote:Swimly girls are manly. Me am not likey the broad shouldered womnenses. Give to pink foamy superman.
That's cause you're looking at men's swimming instead of women's swimming. Those people wearing full-body suits are men, they don't wear little speedos anymore. Just cause they're not bare chested doesn't mean they're women, you gotta go by that text on the screen, you know, those words that say "Men's 4 X 100M Freestyle Relay".
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RedImperator wrote:
Col. Crackpot wrote:
LadyTevar wrote:I don't think any of the US gymnists are over the age of 16.
Mohini Bardwahj is 25 and a super-freaky hottie

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I saw her last night. I'd hit it.
I watched a bit of it last night too. Bardwhaj is definitely not bad looking. Carly Patterson and Courtney Kupets look like they will be pretty nice too once they're just a little older, and they already are past the point where they look like small, albeit muscular, children they way some of the other gymnasts (especially the Romanians) do. That Russian gymnast though, Svetlana Khorkina...

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I thought gymnasts were nearly always muscular. This girl looks like a refugee from Auschwitz.
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Appearantly, Svetlanna Khorkina lost a bit of weight since last Olympics. Even I was noticing that she looked unusually thin this year. It may very well be due to her modelling career, but that's speculation.
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Gil Hamilton wrote:Appearantly, Svetlanna Khorkina lost a bit of weight since last Olympics. Even I was noticing that she looked unusually thin this year. It may very well be due to her modelling career, but that's speculation.
I know that the current fashion is for very slender models. But slender is one thing, and bony is another. This girl has crossed into walking skeleton territory. I don't think she has a very pretty face either, so I also wonder how she can work as a model.
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Is it my imagination or has Amanda Beard gotten hot in the last 4 years?
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Perinquus wrote:I know that the current fashion is for very slender models. But slender is one thing, and bony is another. This girl has crossed into walking skeleton territory. I don't think she has a very pretty face either, so I also wonder how she can work as a model.
I don't know, but she's a very famous one in Russia and a covergirl as well.
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jmac wrote:
Chardok wrote:Swimly girls are manly. Me am not likey the broad shouldered womnenses. Give to pink foamy superman.
That's cause you're looking at men's swimming instead of women's swimming. Those people wearing full-body suits are men, they don't wear little speedos anymore. Just cause they're not bare chested doesn't mean they're women, you gotta go by that text on the screen, you know, those words that say "Men's 4 X 100M Freestyle Relay".
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Like these? Yeah, that'd be the women's 400 swim relay team. Don't presume to tell me what I do or do not percieve as feminine.
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wow, Chardok. i can almost see their dicks. 2nd one from the lift is cute though.
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The swimteam doesn't look manly to me. Muscular yes but manly no.
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neel wrote:The swimteam doesn't look manly to me. Muscular yes but manly no.
The one in the back looks manly. The one on the right looks kinda cute, though.
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The track events has now begun (finally).

Not too many hot looking chicks in track and field. Well that's my view. I'm only 21. Most track athletes are in their late 20's early 30's.
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fgalkin wrote:How many people are actually working during Saturday night? Oh wait, not too many. But I'm sure that conceeding is much harder than to scream "bullshit" at numbers by a legitimate source. Here's a hint, you call something bullshit, YOU PROVE IT.
Blow me, you incompetent little dipshit. So far all you've done is stick your fingers in your ears and chant "THEY SAID FOUR BILLION AND THE NEWS PRINTED IT SO ITS TRUE LALALA I CANT HEAR YOU!"

Don't bother posting again unless you can demonstrate a means by which it's even POSSIBLE to get an accurate viewer count in this circumstance. And don't think you can just extrapolate some Nielsen numbers across the globe. We need to know what several billion Chinese and Indian peasants are watching, as well as people in Madagascar slums, Sri Lankan factory workers, and farmers in rural Argentina. C'mon, tally 'em up.

Reality: Some Olympic PR wanker decided "Fuck, I bet it was a lot. Four billion sounds good." and the news went with it, because nobody cares to bother questioning it.
Even if that's true, even half that number would still prove you wrong.

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So, nothing?

Hell, even if we WERE to extrapolate the US Nielsen numbers worldwide (which is no given since television ownership is much higher here than among... say... Chinese and India peasantry) we'd still be left with around half a billion, or just a little more than one-eighth of your number.

Half a billion seems like a lot, but that's one out of every ten or twelve people. If you have two-dozen friends, and two of them watch the Olympics, can you say with a straight face that "your friends give a shit about" them?

Concession accepted.
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For the women, I tend to beach volleyball. That's some nice uniforms they got there. Another favorite would be Yvonne Boenisch - who could say no the a Judo gold medal winner?
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GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:So, nothing?

Hell, even if we WERE to extrapolate the US Nielsen numbers worldwide (which is no given since television ownership is much higher here than among... say... Chinese and India peasantry) we'd still be left with around half a billion, or just a little more than one-eighth of your number.

Half a billion seems like a lot, but that's one out of every ten or twelve people. If you have two-dozen friends, and two of them watch the Olympics, can you say with a straight face that "your friends give a shit about" them?

Concession accepted.
Actually, the number was 56 million, or about 1/5. Which amountsd to about 1.2 billion viewers.

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Fifty-six million watched "at least some portion?" What the hell is that supposed to mean? Cripes, I watched "some portion" of Battlefield Earth before I decided it blew and shut it off.
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GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:Fifty-six million watched "at least some portion?" What the hell is that supposed to mean? Cripes, I watched "some portion" of Battlefield Earth before I decided it blew and shut it off.
Watched some portion means "watched the opening ceremony minus the parade of athletes from Shitbekistan, who has sent a whopping 2 athletes "

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Pointless question number 4: Are transexuals allowed to compete?
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Did anyone see the 100m semi finals / heats last night? That Jamican guy did below 10s and he was jogging at the end!!! I'm betting the world record will go in the final.
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The 100m finals were amazing! The US runner Galtin got the gold by finishing in 9.85 seconds!
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neel wrote:The 100m finals were amazing! The US runner Galtin got the gold by finishing in 9.85 seconds!
Gah, it should have been a portuguese victory.. 0.01s of difference.. it's not as if you guys don't have enough medals already, and it would have tasted sooo good..

Well, at least it's the new European record and silver medal for us.
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Anyone hear about the Russian gymnast bitching because she got a silver?
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Jadeite wrote:Anyone hear about the Russian gymnast bitching because she got a silver?
Is she that broken down old nag who got bitchslapped by that american girlie in the all-around?
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Chardok wrote:
Jadeite wrote:Anyone hear about the Russian gymnast bitching because she got a silver?
Is she that broken down old nag who got bitchslapped by that american girlie in the all-around?
The very same. she looks like a worn down Odessa porn queen.
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