O.M.G. The women's curling team (in Off-topic)
QBOddBird
February 18 2006 6:21 PM EST
Whoa.
I have just become a huge curling fan. Has anyone seen how beautiful those women are on the U.S. Women's curling team?
I've just started learning rules and everything now that I've seen this. I've been inspired. A sport dominated by beautiful women is the sport for me! Again I say, whoa.
I'm recording this part of the Olympics, hurrah!
molans[Grumpy]
February 18 2006 6:25 PM EST
Ice skating... trust me :)
QBOddBird
February 18 2006 6:28 PM EST
NBC, they're back on again.
The ice skaters don't have anything on the curling team - which is suprising, because it is CURLING.
QBOddBird
February 18 2006 6:31 PM EST
Also, the interviewer just stated that the U.S. Curling's website just recently crashed due to getting so many hits.
Stephen
February 18 2006 6:55 PM EST
Curling? Is that a sub-division of hairdressing?
Curling may be good but it has nothing on womens beach volleyball from the summer olympics :-)
[T]Vestax
February 18 2006 7:24 PM EST
Somehow I get the feeling you guys are not judging these women on their athletic ability.
Xiaz on Hiatus
February 18 2006 7:35 PM EST
what the heck is curling?
QBOddBird
February 18 2006 7:45 PM EST
No, they're very talented at what they do. I'm just especially mesmerized by the...err, talent of the Johnson sisters.
AdminShade
February 18 2006 8:39 PM EST
beauty is relative :p
[T]Vestax
February 18 2006 9:08 PM EST
Indeed Shade. I see too many blondes on that team for my liking.
of course I'm judging on athletic skill. You should see them run and jump :-)
Curling as a sport sucks. bUt it four juding them on thier artistic values, I've not seen them yet....
GL, were you by any chance inebriated when you posted that?
sssimmo
February 19 2006 2:37 AM EST
It is the weekend Bast :)
SNK3R
February 19 2006 2:48 AM EST
Bast, I was thinking the same exact thing. ;)
The female curlers are rather attractive...but who am I to judge, eh?
:) You should have seen me in chat.... It was a mates birthday celebration last night. I had a brilliant night! :D
Tyra
February 19 2006 8:01 AM EST
and I wondered, what stupid game that was, and how come that this made it too olympics.. lol
{CB1}Lukeyman
February 19 2006 10:06 AM EST
Where's the football at for olympics!!! Come on!!!
Curling is a great sport to play, but it has to be the worst spectator sport in existence. It's even worse to watch than bowling or darts.
This thread could explain why I'm not beautiful anymore! I used to be an avid curler. I would take it up again, but I blew out my knee on a baseball diamond many years ago.
"All my heroes have been bowlers"
-- Matt Frewer (AKA Max Headroom).
I love that quote, it explains my current physique ;)
[CB1]cheez-its
February 19 2006 11:48 AM EST
carps lukey.. it is in the olympics you just refer to it as soccer ;-) (yes i am american as well)
LOL! Darts isn't a recognised sport! ;)
{CB1}Lukeyman
February 19 2006 1:58 PM EST
pssh, soccer is for babies, no offence, someone taps the other guy, "Oh my!! Look at that, a fly fell on his head and he just did a faceplant into the ground, wow, that fly is getting a red card for sure"
It's so stupid!!
Soccer is more physical than most sports like basketball, where every little thing is a foul. Some would even argue soccer is more physical than football.
[T]Vestax
February 19 2006 3:02 PM EST
I have less respect for a game where the players need to stop playing the game ever 20 seconds, where they require the use of helmets and 3 inches of padding, and where only 2 people need to actually need to have a full brain, the quarterback then the couch.
Soccer is non-stop, requires more talent and more brains from each player, and the points aren't over-inflated to boot. As for the contact aspect of the sport, you can slide tackle a guys bare legs with your cleats or brake the nose of a defender with the back of your head and not get called on it if you do it right.
SNK3R
February 19 2006 3:08 PM EST
"...the quarterback then the couch."
ROFL...
AdminG Beee
February 19 2006 3:08 PM EST
For sure a lot of players throw themselves to the ground when playing soccer although this is as a result of poor gamesmanship in order to win some kind of tactical advantage. Don't think that soccer isn't a hard and physical game though - just ask
Alan Smith from Manchester United how he felt after this weekends "clash" with Liverpool.
Of course soccer could take the "girly" route that American Football took and start wearing body armour and helmets to protect their sensitive skin and haircuts ;)
Re the suject matter of this thread: The British womens team (current gold medalists) is skipped by a Scottish woman and when winning the gold 4 years ago was made up of mostly Scottish women.
In case someone decides to Goggle/Image Rhona Martin and the rest of her team please be aware that the Scottish women in this team are not representative of the majority of Scottish women... ;)
Oh, pfft! The only time that soccer is really dangerous is during the soccer riots that occur when the hooligans' team 1) wins the game 2) loses the game 3) or ties the game. Try getting pulled in six different directions from the bottom of a a rugby scrum sometime. :-)
QBOddBird
February 19 2006 4:11 PM EST
It wasn't rugby, but I've been on the bottom of a pile of people being pulled 6 different ways before, thrak, and it didn't seem that dangerous to me.
^_^ was pretty enjoyable, actually.
RedWolf
February 19 2006 4:48 PM EST
heheh, one of my friends is on a curling team
of course, not an olympic team
...yet ;-)
spydah
February 19 2006 4:50 PM EST
"As for the contact aspect of the sport, you can slide tackle a guys bare legs with your cleats or brake the nose of a defender with the back of your head and not get called on it if you do it right."
2 points for whomever can point out what is wrong about that :p
/\88/\
shin guards only protect part of your legs and most people wear them so small they become virtually ineffective.
Spydah, do you mean the "sportsmanship" aspect? or the "brake"ing of a nose? ;)
[T]Vestax
February 19 2006 5:24 PM EST
*break
There, now I would say that I wouldn't make that mistake again, but I try not to make promises I can't keep. As for sportsmanship... what's that?
SNK3R
February 19 2006 5:44 PM EST
1. The fact or practice of participating in sports or a sport.
2. Conduct and attitude considered as befitting participants in sports, especially fair play, courtesy, striving spirit, and grace in losing.
House
February 19 2006 7:07 PM EST
everyone knows the only true sports occur on ICE
Big fan of couples ice dancing, are you?
Please... Men's singles is so much better.
[T]Vestax
February 19 2006 8:10 PM EST
I see SNK, you decided to make it a multiple choice quiz. I'm use to having more choices though. Oh well. I'll take number 1. You can clearly see that 2 has nothing to do with sports as we know them.
Professional Football (or soccer if you prefer) stopped being a 'port' a long time ago... It's a buisness...
[T]Vestax
February 19 2006 8:17 PM EST
Sorry GL, but a port is a port and only gets better with time.
Gahh! Fat fingers... Sport.... Sport! ;)
Roman Abramovich's business doesn't look like it is going to be profitable for a long time.
It doesn't really need to be, does it? Look at the man!
QBOddBird
February 20 2006 10:33 AM EST
They aren't really athletes unless they look like Greg Valentino.
And no, this picture has not been photoshopped or edited in any way. The man has 28-inch arms.
[CB1]cheez-its
February 21 2006 5:02 PM EST
bah u guys are all wrong the really test of strenght in sports is long distance running. bah getting spiked in the back of the calfs and going sub 5 minute pace for another 18 miles.. thats a champion right there
QBOddBird
March 16 2006 1:00 PM EST
OOooOooooO. Women's gymnastics is back. Not Olympic, but it was on earlier....*grins*
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