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sunnyvale
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
Location: Korea
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 Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:37 am Post subject: Women's World Curling Championship |
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It's in Gangneung! Doesn't anyone care?
I found out about in 5 minutes ago! |
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the ireland
Joined: 11 May 2008
Location: korea
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| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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I've got my brush and I'm ready to go...but the women will beat me, I mean sweeping the floor is a daily thing for them and part of their heritage
I apologise to any woman reading this.....yes, i am a pr!ck! |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Really? I bring up curling with my students occasionally and they rarely, if ever, have any idea what it is. How did the championships end up in Korea? |
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slimstinator
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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| How's Scotland getting on?? |
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the ireland
Joined: 11 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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| winning it no doubt |
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slimstinator
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Normally Canada win most, Scotland maybe get the team. |
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the ireland
Joined: 11 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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i remember it became really popular on english tv after they won it at the olympics a while back, they kept on talking about the amazing british team on bbc, how great the british did.........by british i think they meant scotland, same way as eddie irvine was british when he done well and northern irish when he was terrible...sometimes colin farrel is biritish, as was displayed by kate thornton when she interviewed samuel l jackson on gmtv for the movie s.w.a.t. this is how it went:
KATE THORNTON:
Now lets talk about Colin because in the UK he�s become the man of the moment.
SAMUEL L.JACKSON:
Really? Only in the UK?
KT: Yeah, but he is one of our own
SLJ: You can�t claim him because he�s from Ireland.
KT: Well we do because it�s close by. (laughter)
SLJ: Ok. That�s the source of all the conflict over there. You people always claiming the Irish as yours. We got a little problem just like that here called slavery but that�s ok we don�t need to talk about that so lets go. (more laughter)
KT: Well Colin is a very well paid slave.
SLJ: Ok good.
KT: As are you.
SLJ: Yeah all right.
I thought the best part was when she called him a well paid slave!!!
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slimstinator
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| I think Andy Murray has become british as well, now that he has stopped only wearing blue and white, and slagging england during the world cup. |
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the ireland
Joined: 11 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| scottish when he gets dumped out of wimbledon, british when he is in the u.s open final |
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Ukon
Joined: 29 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| I saw the Ad in Gangnam station...I was like WTF? |
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rollo
Joined: 10 May 2006
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| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| I watched some of it on t.v. It is the strangest thing I have ever seen. Only about 5 spectators were there. It is not a sport but a game. No athletic talent needed. Incredibly boring!!! |
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the ireland
Joined: 11 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| bowls on ice!! |
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skindleshanks
Joined: 10 May 2004
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:19 am Post subject: Canadians behaving badly |
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| I watched some of it on t.v. It is the strangest thing I have ever seen. Only about 5 spectators were there. It is not a sport but a game. No athletic talent needed. Incredibly boring!!! |
Obviously you've never done it. True, it's not as physically demanding as a marathon or football, but the combination of balance, precision and control are why it takes years of practice to get to this level, not to mention the obvious strategic skill involved. It's certainly more of a sport than, say archery or skeet shooting.
On another note, my wife was mortified to see some Canadian punk mooning spectators as they exited the building--including two uniformed police officers who really ought to have arrested his bald a**. I think it was one of the same guys who was making disparaging remarks about Swedes within earshot of the small group of Swedish fans. Not cool, especially at a curling game. |
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farrepatt
Joined: 27 Jan 2008
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I had actually planned to go with my wife, but it was such a pain to try and get tickets we didn't go in the end. If Canada had made it into the gold medal game (which I had assumed they'd do) we probably would have taken the bus to catch it. Of course we'd have been the only ones.
I saw this in the Toronto Star yesterday:
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GANGNEUNG, South Korea�The round-robin competition at the world women's curling championship had everything a fan could ask for.
Too bad nobody bothered to show up.
The marquee event on the women's curling calendar featured plenty of great shots and thrilling finishes, but was an enormous flop from an attendance standpoint. Through 14 draws Wednesday, only 34 tickets had been sold � 22 for the opening two draws alone. Thousands of tickets were given away to schools and businesses, but that didn't help bolster crowds that often lingered around 100 fans per draw.
Billed as a chance to introduce the sport to South Korea, the event drew gatherings so small that conversations between players could clearly be heard from every corner of the 3,500-seat Gangneung International Ice Rink.
"It's great to be here, because the country is nice and the people are nice," said Denmark's Madeleine Dupont. "But I would have loved to see more (fans)."
Naturally, games involving the host South Koreans drew the largest crowds � but even then, the majority were local schoolchildren brought in for class trips. They were noisy during the playing of the national anthems, they cheered at bizarre times during the game and they were often out of the building before the eighth end. |
Full article at:
http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/609873 |
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Confused Canadian
Joined: 21 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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I think the biggest mistake was the location. No one's going to go to Gangneung to watch curling.
I might have gone if it had been in/near Seoul, but there's no way I would've driven to Gangneung, fighting weekend traffic, to watch curling. |
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