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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Perry Rose on February 12, 2014, 01:18:25 PM
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We got a DVR and other stuff to go with it and my wife has been recording the Olympics. I get stuck watching as there isn't anything else to do. It's too cold. Anyway question number one is Why are all the signs on the contestants and other places in English and not their own language? Putin had a coat in English. Number two where are the ugly contestants? Everyone is way above average in the looks dept.
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To answer your first question, English is a secondary language in many other countries. So using english helps it translate across the globe. I did notice though on the screens at the events themselves they would introduce competitors in english and in russian.
As to your 2nd question, they are there. Prime time shows alot of ice skating, that = attractive people. Some of the more strength related events are coming and hockey too so you may see more of what you expect. Plus pretty people look good on tv.
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Everyone pull for my nephew Friday and Saturday ... John Daly - USA1 Skeleton
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Nowadays you have to be extremely good-looking to represent the USA in international competition. I know this is true of stunt.
We'll be rooting for John.
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Well said Howard ... It doesn't hurt your chances ...
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It seems that English is the second language here also.
Wayne
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And here I was expecting a posting about a twin ruddered stunt plane. n~
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I can envision JCT's Valentine's Day address to the Nation...about twin ruder (sic) stunt models. LL~ Steve
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The hottest chicks are on the English and Canadian curling teams. They really get dolled up for the game. The US team looks like they left their makeup back in their trailers.
The Finnish hockey ref is nice, too.
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As stated before, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. I see these gorgeous ladies doing their flips and spins. I wonder how can some one so good looking do that. Then I still remember Jack LaLaine(spelling) on one of his shows telling the girls that muscles make curves, you just have to mold them right. Also the media getting onto the one girl about her warm up dance. If it works, do it.
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I wonder how can some one so good looking do that.
The Jive Combat Team hears this so much that we have considered it as our official motto, but it doesn't rhyme.
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When did the olympics start? I thought we were gonna boycott according to reports from DC. ??? :## :## :##
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Namvet, What rock have you been you under??
Little Rock maybe??? LL~ LL~ LL~
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Namvet, What rock have you been you under??
Little Rock maybe??? LL~ LL~ LL~
That too.... LL~ LL~ LL~.... ;D ;D ;D
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Yeah, they have been going for a week or more. I know the sub freezing temps and live stock keep a person busy. H^^
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Well Perry, I thought you were referring to Bob Gialdini's line of stunters from the early '60s ending with the Olympic Mk. VI kitted by Brodak.....................
BIG Bear
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When did the olympics start? I thought we were gonna boycott according to reports from DC. ??? :## :## :##
Very true. Over 99% of Americans refused to attend.
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The event I like is Woman's Biathlon. Attractive, super-fit wimmen packing guns and shooting them with deadly accuracy. What's not to like? Okay, the event would be better if they had to also carry a chainsaw, this used to cut down some big trees.
And it ought be noted that personally I think there are only three sports: 1) running, 2) fighting, 3) women's beach volleyball. All else is just plain hokum...
Dan
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We were at Arlington practicing stunt one day when a well-configured woman in a Jeep came by. I don't remember if the topic of chainsaws came up--it could have just been the Jeep (and the configuration)--but Dan was smitten.
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First 2 heats in Skeleton were completed this morning - John Daly in 3rd place. Final 2 heats tomorrow morning ... USA! USA! USA!
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Winter Olympics.............Who needs them? ~^
I turn to the PBS stations............ y1
GA
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It's not just the Olympics! #^ Steve
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We got a DVR and other stuff to go with it and my wife has been recording the Olympics. I get stuck watching as there isn't anything else to do. It's too cold. Anyway question number one is Why are all the signs on the contestants and other places in English and not their own language? Putin had a coat in English. Number two where are the ugly contestants? Everyone is way above average in the looks dept.
Everyone is way above average in the looks dept.
Contraier monsieur...third from the left??? Russian Gold... ;D
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I guess I killed this thread...In bad taste?? ::)
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The US speed skating needs to hire Howard to figure out where to add VG's to their suits. They were slooooow this year.
Also notice the multiple use of quad copters for filming the skiing events? They are everywhere.
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We were at Arlington practicing stunt one day when a well-configured woman in a Jeep came by. I don't remember if the topic of chainsaws came up--it could have just been the Jeep (and the configuration)--but Dan was smitten.
Not so sure "smitten" is the right word! Yes, my attention was first drawn to the fact she was driving a Jeep. What I call a "Street Jeep," which is a pejorative where I come from.
My second thought was that she had an awfully large tummy but then with great wonder I realized she wasn't fat she was merely unrestrained. And huge...
Dan
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Hey the USA won gold in the ice dancing thing yesterday. Our homegirl looks like she stole her smile from the Joker. :)!
But she sure can ice dance.
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I'm interested in the technology. Like, how they ran cameras back and forth on "zip lines", while adjusting the speed, view angle, zoom. (by R/C, most likely). Don't care about the athletes, but I want to see their camera setup!
F.C.
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Quite a brouhaha over the judging results in the Ice Dancing competition! Looks like gripes over "subjective judging" aren't confined just our own hobby/sport.
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The Olympic committee is going to impose a BOM rule next.
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The US speed skating needs to hire Howard to figure out where to add VG's to their suits. They were slooooow this year.
That would help a bit, of course.... ;D
But what they REALLY need would be a Dutch trainer/coach, of course.
Did you notice how many clean sweeps (1,2&3) the Dutch produced these Olympics?
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Norm, when I first saw that skater, third from the left, I thought it was a man. Steroids again probably.
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The event I like is Woman's Biathlon. Attractive, super-fit wimmen packing guns and shooting them with deadly accuracy. What's not to like? Okay, the event would be better if they had to also carry a chainsaw, this used to cut down some big trees.
And it ought be noted that personally I think there are only three sports: 1) running, 2) fighting, 3) women's beach volleyball. All else is just plain hokum...
Dan
Dan,, Bikinis,, that would be better,, or maybe beach volleyball with guns
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The US speed skating needs to hire Howard to figure out where to add VG's to their suits.
A few years ago some local aeros did work on Olympic bobsleds.
Four years ago an English sledder had VGs on her helmet. They didn't look legal, but I don't think the judges figured out what was going on. She won her event. Looking at women's sledding, I figured that the best place to put VGs would be on their butts.
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There sure are a lot of new events. Talk about event proliferation! Consider all the extra gold (and silver) medals that need to be made. $$$$$$$ D>K Steve
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Norm, when I first saw that skater, third from the left, I thought it was a man. Steroids again probably.
Me too! H^^
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here in the land of Cheese, we take our speed skating pretty seriously. The Pettit center (Olympic training center) is only 10 minutes away.
Lockheed Martin did the aero design on the suits this year, and they are suspect.
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/olympics/dan-jansen-says-suits-not-only-reason-for-speedskating-failure-b99205686z1-245569271.html
More likely, the ice at sea level Sochi isn't as nice as the ice at the Salt lake City training facility. The Milwaukee ice may be more representative.
Also the Dutch must have some kind of edge to be that good at every distance.
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Lockheed Martin did the aero design on the suits this year, and they are suspect.
Lockheed Martin is suspect? I could have told you that.
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I'm glad to see that model airplanes are being talked about in this thread. LOL Hey....how about an Olympic class control line event...I know for a certain fact that C/L is not limited to the USA.... ;D
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Every 4 years?
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Female mud wrestling.
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Make it a one-design class like Olympic sailing: any variety of a Gialdini Olympic, so long as it was built and flown by Bob himself. I have mine, so I'm ready to compete.
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It would be fun to watch someone like Chris Farley compete in figure skating. Visions of his SNL Chippendale routine with Patrick Swayze come to mind...
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It would be fun to watch someone like Chris Farley compete in figure skating. Visions of his SNL Chippendale routine with Patrick Swayze come to mind...
Eeewwwww, now that's gross.
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The ice at sea level Sochi isn't as nice as the ice at the Salt lake City training facility. The Milwaukee ice may be more representative.
Most Dutch facilities are below sea level....
Also the Dutch must have some kind of edge to be that good at every distance.
I herewith declare you being nominated for 'best understatement of the year'
There's three things any Dutch child should learn early in life: How to swim, how to ride a bike and how to skate (icehockey skates and figure skates are a big no no over here...)
But with global warming so abundant, our chances of having a winter with good outdoor ice are melting like snow in the sun.
The only skates I've used in the past 15 years are my (indoor) shorttrack blades.
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The Dutch team was a little faster than everybody else so they got the medals. That's the object of the game. Congraduations! I notice that the King, Queen, and Prime Minister of the Netherlands attended in support of their team.
Thank God for the CBC. If it weren't for Canadian TV we'd have no Olympics at all. Canadians are very patriotic and proud of their teams.
The president of the USA hates the Olympics and has boycotted them entirely. The press he controls has followed his lead. He's out in Hawaii playing golf and denying the existence of the Olympics, at which the American team has won at least 25 events. At least President Putin stopped in and gave the US team a presidential visit.
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If our country supported the world events including the Olympics, our young people would be much better at the competition. I know even some of the foreign countries give no support to their athletes. Go USA.
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The president of the USA hates the Olympics and has boycotted them entirely. The press he controls has followed his lead. He's out in Hawaii playing golf and denying the existence of the Olympics, at which the American team has won at least 25 events. At least President Putin stopped in and gave the US team a presidential visit.
Bravo well said amen y1
Ken Pitts
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I notice that the King, Queen, and Prime Minister of the Netherlands attended in support of their team.
Yes, that caused a lot of commotion over here.
By doing that they failed to embarrass the local dictator who considers abolishing human rights a main task.
King and queen are following governmental decisions and have no say in this, so I don't care what they do.
The PM however would have lost all my respect, but he and his friends already ruined the country during the past 6 years, so there's nothing left to lose....
At least President Putin stopped in and gave the US team a presidential visit.
Maybe a few years of Putin rule would make you realize what a great guy Obama is. And no, not perfect either, just like anyone.
I applaud every leader that boycots events organized by and also serving to hail dictators of the kind we're dealing with here.
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NED, you have a dictator in Holland? It sounds like it, but maybe it's your Bluegrass... LL~
IF we actually KNEW that Obama was boycotting the Olympic games because of Putin's human rights policies, that might actually mean something. We generally think he's just more interested in golfing in Florida, California, and Hawaii...and raising campaign donations for the 2016 Democratic candidates...while costing the US Taxpayers millions and millions of $. H^^ Steve
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:o :o :o uh oh.....run....I think I hear someone's finger tapping on the red button. S?P LL~ :##
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Can we trade. LL~ LL~ LL~ I know that there are no perfect leaders and my hero as President is still Harry "Give hell" Truman. I really enjoy watching some of the events of the Olympics that we used to see on Wide World of Sports. Remember that program, where is Jim McCay when we need him.
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Can we trade. LL~ LL~ LL~ I know that there are no perfect leaders and my hero as President is still Harry "Give hell" Truman. I really enjoy watching some of the events of the Olympics that we used to see on Wide World of Sports. Remember that program, where is Jim McCay when we need him.
Harry drove himself and his wife home when he left office! ;D
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you guys just can't stay off politics? Can you?
to get this back on track, there were a lot of camera platform that were hobby sized quad copters especially in the skiing events.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sochi-drone-shooting-olympic-tv-not-terrorists (http://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sochi-drone-shooting-olympic-tv-not-terrorists)
They were deemed to be less risky than full scale choppers. Each flight needed approval from the Russian FAA and KGB.
The contractor was Swiss.
Congrats to all the athletes, Team Canada Hockey run was very impressive.
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Thanks, Dave.
My wife and I always look forward to the Olympics. I love it, you don't even have to be a big sports fan, it's fun and interesting, something really different to break the TV monotony and that which otherwise feeds our grumpiness. Once you start, it's easy to get hooked.
Rusty
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Thanks, Dave.
My wife and I always look forward to the Olympics. I love it, you don't even have to be a big sports fan, it's fun and interesting, something really different to break the TV monotony and that which otherwise feeds our grumpiness. Once you start, it's easy to get hooked.
Rusty
Yeah what he said.
I have always loved to watch the Olympics. Got to go watch the summer Olympics when they were held in L.A. What a blast.
Ken
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I don't know many young, attractive stunt flyers. They mostly all grew into old, fat, ugly guys.
Chris...
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I don't know many young, attractive stunt flyers. They mostly all grew into old, fat, ugly guys.
Chris...
That....is probably a big part of why not! LL~