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USA / NORWAY CURLING OPEN THREAD

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It's late as hell in Chicago. Why am I awake? BECAUSE IT'S CURLING. Curling is awesome, and so awesome that I shall stay awake through the tenth end of this match. Why should you watch? The Norwegians have amazing pants. The Americans aren't all that good but they are at least from Minnesota, so that's something. John Shuster seems like a total asshat and he makes me miss Pete Fenson, who also wasn't good enough to bring home the gold. Expect this to get deleted in the morning because it is not baseball related, so go nuts. 

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Hey, John Shuster, choke on a dick.

I go to law school. Therefore, I have no life.

by andrewgolfsalot on Feb 17, 2010 12:06 AM PST reply actions  

So these must be the alternate "road unis"

with the grey polos and the red, white & grey harlequin checks.

by msb on Feb 17, 2010 12:06 AM PST reply actions  

This sport just hasn't been the same ever since they …

… allowed the use of nylon bristles on the brooms and they moved it indoors.

Back in the day, a curling team didn’t have to just know how to deliver the stone, but they had to also know how to find and select the proper straw to make the best brooms. It isn’t just a matter of being able to sweep the shavings, you know. A good broom actually has some roughness on one end of the broom to actually the broomer to create some ice flakes. The other side of the broom is smoother, allowing chips and ice dust to be swept without creating additional dust. Part of a skilled team was knowing how to crate effective brooms. Now it’s all standard stuff.

And these indoor rinks – what do I say??? The ice is all uniform. No skill required to be able to read varying and uneven ice conditions. In the past a good team had to be able to read the variations in the ice surface to manage the delivery and homing of the stone. And they had to know how the ice was going to vary over the course of the day.

And I haven’t even mentioned the rampant abuses of PEDS, HGH, and synthesized aderall in the sport. Why, the youth of Saskatchewan are being corrupted in front of our eyes, and no one gives a damn.

Curse you, modern ice arenas!!!!

by Steve Nelson on Feb 17, 2010 12:08 AM PST reply actions   5 recs

Fuck you goatee d-bag.

I go to law school. Therefore, I have no life.

by andrewgolfsalot on Feb 17, 2010 12:12 AM PST reply actions  

Way to pull a Shuster, Norway.

I go to law school. Therefore, I have no life.

by andrewgolfsalot on Feb 17, 2010 12:17 AM PST reply actions  

Well played.

I go to law school. Therefore, I have no life.

by andrewgolfsalot on Feb 17, 2010 12:18 AM PST reply actions  

I hate NBC.

Apparently my $65 a month Verizon wireless internet isn’t worthy of watching their fucking curling replay on nbcolympics.com. Well geniuses, if I had cable, then I wouldn’t need to watch it on my laptop would I?

by wazzu93 on Feb 17, 2010 12:23 AM PST reply actions  

Stop talking about a deuce

people will think you’re constipated

by seattlebruin on Feb 17, 2010 12:37 AM PST reply actions  

FUCK

THAT WAS APPARENTLY BAD

by Mariner John on Feb 17, 2010 12:43 AM PST reply actions  

Yeah it was too deep

He wanted to place it to protect the one they already had in the circle

"LARGENT! UNLOADED! and he got the ball!

by seattle_since_81 on Feb 17, 2010 12:44 AM PST up reply actions  

Take the hat off, Shuster.

It isn’t lucky, and you are choking.

by abender20 on Feb 17, 2010 12:44 AM PST reply actions  

I will never cease to be amazed at how the sweepers push themselves down the ice with one slippery shoe and one push shoe,

sweep with tons of downward force, keep from bumping the stone, and manage to step over and around the other stones.

by abender20 on Feb 17, 2010 12:53 AM PST reply actions  

Fuck, can you guys do anything right?

I go to law school. Therefore, I have no life.

by andrewgolfsalot on Feb 17, 2010 1:10 AM PST reply actions  

Ahhh you cocksucker.

I go to law school. Therefore, I have no life.

by andrewgolfsalot on Feb 17, 2010 1:27 AM PST reply actions  

How are you a fucking olympian?

I go to law school. Therefore, I have no life.

by andrewgolfsalot on Feb 17, 2010 1:29 AM PST reply actions  

So sad I can't watch this.

I tried to resist the curling bandwagon but this thread would make it more fun.

Mariners/D Broncos/BSU Broncos fan in Seattle

by appleshampoo on Feb 17, 2010 1:30 AM PST reply actions  

Do not fuck this up.

I go to law school. Therefore, I have no life.

by andrewgolfsalot on Feb 17, 2010 1:50 AM PST reply actions  

Because NBC hates the common working person

NBC paid a shitton of money to get rights to the next several Olympicses. Olympics. Whatever. Anyway, they now feel the need to recoup some of the stupid levels of investment they made, so they shoved all their coverage of “big” events into prime time so they could sell ads more expensively. And more of them. Totally forgetting that, y’know, people actually want to WATCH these events, and preferably when they happen.

by pdb on Feb 17, 2010 8:04 AM PST up reply actions  

Oh shit!

Nice shot Canada.

Hard work never killed nobody, but I won't take my chances.

by JAH on Feb 17, 2010 2:02 AM PST reply actions  

The official condom of the US Curling Association

The U.S. Curling Association has its own official condom: "Hurry Hard," named for a phrase curlers cry to encourage faster ice-sweeping. Vancouver organizers have stocked the Olympic Village with 100,000 condoms — 14 for every resident.

by Steve Nelson on Feb 19, 2010 2:49 PM PST reply actions   1 recs

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