I like classical music. That is mostly what I listen to.
Driver of DOOM wrote:Mmm, girls in skimpy outfits...
bb_42001 wrote:100% agree
LOL.
Nikusakken wrote:Classical music >> popular music. 
Anyway, I've been enjoying snowboarding and curling, specially snowboarding. And the only thing good in figure skating are the girls!
Snowboarding was really cool. I am glad it is in the Olympics. It seems like some chick from Australia won a gold medal in a snowboarding event. I enjoyed all the snowboarding wipeouts, as well as those in skiing and speed skating.
But for some reason, figure skating was the only Olympic event in which I did not like watching the wipeouts. I do not know why that would be, but it would, I guess. Ordinarily I love wipeouts (not the injuries and deaths, of course). Those figure skater dudes are funny. They kept blowing kisses at me, and I was like...well, I met up with a certain measure of difficulty dealing with that, to be sure. And where do they get their choreography ideas, from watching body wash commercials on television in the off season or something?
I did not see any curling actually. What a bummer. They showed a lot of curling here on one of the NBC television channels I do not get and also online at nbc.com.
At the same NBC Olympics website I visited in 2008 to watch live Olympic events (NBC, which has the exclusive coverage distribution rights for the USA), I could watch all the highlights clips, analysis, and athlete interviews, but none of the event videos, live or recorded.
That was not immediately apparent to me because the whole thing was set up so exactly like it was in 2008, when all you had to do to get the live event coverage video was watch some commercials, too. This year when I clicked to view some free live Olympic event coverage video it said the same thing it did in 2008: Please follow the simple process below to view this free content. To begin this one-time only process, please identify your home cable, satellite or IPTV provider.
So, I scrolled down the list of participating providers and clicked on the name of my cable Internet provider. Then a message told me I could not watch the free Internet content because I do not also have a digital television subscription. That is too bad. I would have liked to watch the curling more than any other event.
Harlequin wrote:I had no idea what curling was... Until I watched the Amazing Race. An entire sport devoted to who can sweep better... Weird.
I'll be perfectly honest though, Australia has no chance in the winter games. We might get one or two medals (in Luge and aerial skiing) but nothing to actually support... So I'm supporting Russia and Canada. Sorry.
That was a decent prediction, I guess, about the medals.
That sweeping business in curling does look a bit silly. Doesn’t it, then? I could do without that bit of the game. It reminds me of people manipulating the flight path of a golf ball to correct a less than perfect stroke after the ball has already taken flight in a video golf game.
Necessity brought sitting down in front of the television at a certain time of day back into the ritual of viewing Olympic Games. The "old-fashioned" style of this year's Olympic viewing experience brought new things into my life that I would not have known if I had been able to choose which Olympic events to watch and when to watch them. I saw a lot of family moments I would have otherwise missed, and altogether the whole thing made me miss my own family. I did not pick up the telephone and start dialing or take pen into hand to write that forever contemplated but never written letter. About all I did was wonder what we might have eaten for a snack while watching the Olympics, and then wish I had some.
Even though my horizons were broadened in a manner not completely dissimilar to discovering at some church social function that
those people are not so insufferablly boring after all-- and Brussels sprouts may not actually taste like Martian heads after all-- well, the next time I hope I get to watch some curling.
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