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03-01-2010, 11:38 PM
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03-01-2010, 11:52 PM
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#3127 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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i was sick and coughing and giving ppl high fives
suckers .....
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03-01-2010, 11:55 PM
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#3128 | | I *Fwap* *Fwap* *Fwap* to RS
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Originally Posted by TOS'd Anyone have a link to the original commercial? I know ive seen it based on the song sounding so familiar, but i just cant picture the commercial right now. | its from the panasonic commerical. Dont have the link though  | |
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03-02-2010, 12:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Durrann anyone else regret that they didnt explore more now that olympics are gone? | every minute since the olympics ended | |
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03-02-2010, 12:30 AM
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#3130 | | ...in the world.
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Originally Posted by Durrann anyone else regret that they didnt explore more now that olympics are gone? | It'll be like that anyways.
I slept maybe 2-3 hours a day and was out at Olympic sites all over the Lower Mainland since the torch reached Vancouver. I've seen three concerts, been to nearly every single house, I fucking LIVED on Robson Street at night. I've high fived and hugged hundreds of random people. I've taken pictures with strangers. I watched a game outdoors with thousands of people. I've touched a gold medal. I did a silly Dutch dance. I've met several of the athletes. I've sung O Canada probably a hundred times. I've lived and breathed Olympics for almost three weeks straight.
...and I STILL REGRET NOT DOING ENOUGH.
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03-02-2010, 12:34 AM
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#3131 | | Unofficial Tin Foil Hat Specialist.
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^ You haven't slept with a Tourist. That's one thing you regret.  Just kidding!
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03-02-2010, 12:53 AM
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#3132 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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Originally Posted by Ronin It'll be like that anyways.
I slept maybe 2-3 hours a day and was out at Olympic sites all over the Lower Mainland since the torch reached Vancouver. I've seen three concerts, been to nearly every single house, I fucking LIVED on Robson Street at night. I've high fived and hugged hundreds of random people. I've taken pictures with strangers. I watched a game outdoors with thousands of people. I've touched a gold medal. I did a silly Dutch dance. I've met several of the athletes. I've sung O Canada probably a hundred times. I've lived and breathed Olympics for almost three weeks straight.
...and I STILL REGRET NOT DOING ENOUGH. | just realized you did a blog, good read
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03-02-2010, 12:54 AM
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it's pretty much: no matter how much you did during the past 2ish weeks, you'll regret not doing enough, cause nothing would ever be enough
unless the olympics were here for a long ass time (like half a year or something), anything this short and this big/influential, especially with us being the host city, there's always gonna be regret
not stopping me from having some harsh post olympic depression though
i went through a lot of pages in this thread, just looking for commercials like that molson canadian one and videoclips of golden moments. there's a lot of good stuff hidden in the pages, lots of cool videos, dumb things people have said ("fuck the olympics", and 2 weeks later, "omg i miss the olympics already"), and things you may have forgotten (how john furlong confirmed to the media that gretzky wasn't going to be the final torchbearer)
been doing that for the past ~2 hours, and i've only gotten through 1/3 of all the pages
worth every second
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03-02-2010, 01:19 AM
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#3134 | | ...in the world.
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Originally Posted by skyxx ^ You haven't slept with a Tourist. That's one thing you regret. Just kidding! | Do you feel it's necessary to write about it on REVscene every time you fuck?
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03-02-2010, 02:20 AM
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#3135 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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so how much money did you guys end up spending during the two weeks of olympics?
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03-02-2010, 02:30 AM
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in terms of tickets... thousands and thousands...
in terms of partying pretty much 0 since i dont drink ^^
any of you going to buy/bought the Olympics on blu-ray?
ctv said they were the only ones selling it... but TheShoppingChannel sells it too and you can even do 6 installments of 13$ | |
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03-02-2010, 02:37 AM
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#3137 | | ...in the world.
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Originally Posted by JSALES so how much money did you guys end up spending during the two weeks of olympics? | Too. fucking. much.
BUT I DON'T CARE. Awesomeness cannot be measured in mere dollars.
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03-02-2010, 02:49 AM
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#3138 | | Hypa owned my ass at least once
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tooo much.... somehow i got into all the olympic hype, and ended up buying their made in china stuff =(
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03-02-2010, 03:06 AM
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03-02-2010, 03:58 AM
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#3140 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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does anyone know when the blocked off streets open up again?
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03-02-2010, 04:25 AM
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#3141 | | Banned By Establishment
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Originally Posted by Ronin It's not just this year. The Russians haven't won Olympic gold in hockey since 1992 after many years of absolute dominance. To be knocked out in the quarters is as big of a deal as Canada being knocked out in 2006.
Plus, this year marks the first where they haven't won a gold in figure skating, a field that Russia has dominated for over 50 years.
Their forecast at the beginning was 40 medals. They got 15. The 15 isn't bad but when they were destroyed at so many of their primary sports (esp figure skating...), they're taking it seriously.
It would be like if we lost at hockey or if the Dutch lost at speed skating. | they should have, the guy did a fuggin quad and followed into a triple.
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03-02-2010, 04:26 AM
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Originally Posted by MajinHurricane they should have, the guy did a fuggin quad and followed into a triple. | Yeah, that was sorta bullshit. You land that jump and not fall the rest of the way...you should fucking win gold.
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03-02-2010, 08:45 AM
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#3143 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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03-02-2010, 08:54 AM
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| http://tsn.ca/olympics/story/?id=312094 VANCOUVER SETS BAR HIGH FOR FUTURE OLYMPIC HOST CITIES Quote:
VANCOUVER -- Top that if you can.
Amid the tragedy, the medals race and the hockey frenzy, the Vancouver Olympics will be remembered above all for the fervour and ebullience of its Canadian hosts.
For future Olympic host cities London, Sochi and Rio de Janeiro, matching Vancouver's festive atmosphere will be a tough act to follow.
"The way Vancouver embraced these games was extraordinary," International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said. "I've never seen anything on this scale before. This is really something unique."
Rogge and other IOC officials were unanimous in their verdict that Vancouver delivered the greatest ambiance and public enthusiasm of any Winter Games since the magical 1994 Games in tiny Lillehammer, Norway. Vancouver's joyous mood also has been compared with the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney.
"Future organizers know that there is really a need to create this kind of big embrace," Rogge said. "It's something you can't create on a piece of paper."
Despite the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili in a training crash on the day of the opening ceremony and a rash of glitches and weather problems in the first few days, Vancouver lifted the Winter Games to a whole new level.
The streets were filled with partying spectators, the venues were packed with cheering fans and the entire country seem united for two weeks behind a single cause.
"For the first time, the Winter Olympic Games are on equal footing with a Summer Olympic Games," said Kevan Gosper, a senior IOC member from Australia. "When we look back, we can say Vancouver is where we could start comparing Winter Games with Summer Games and not just winter with winter and summer with summer."
The Winter Olympics, which debuted in 1924, were given their own identity when the IOC changed the cycle to put the Summer and Winter Games in different years starting in 1994.
Next up is London, which will host the 2012 Summer Games, becoming the first city to stage the Olympics for a third time. London also held the Olympics in 1908 and 1948.
London's project is based on renovating a downtrodden part of east London into a showpiece Olympic park. London's West End and other areas should be a magnet for nightlife and party atmosphere. As in Vancouver, live sites will be set up around the city for fans to watch events on big screens and enjoy musical entertainment.
Sebastian Coe, leader of the London organizing committee, was particularly impressed with the full venues and public spirit in Vancouver.
"Not since Sydney have I seen a city embrace the games the way they've been embraced here," Coe said. "My gut instinct is that is what these games will be remembered for. I haven't been anywhere where there's been an empty seat in the house. And the people look like they want to be there."
In 2012, Coe said he expects around 250,000 fans to flock into the Olympic Park every day, and at least an additional one million people to come to the city for the games.
London is the next Summer Games after the spectacular Olympics in Beijing, but Coe and others prefer not to make any comparisons.
"We will never see a games like Beijing again," Coe said. "That's not typical of the way games are going to be delivered. You take from Beijing the extraordinary obsession with detail and eye for delivery. You take from Sydney the party atmosphere and here the party atmosphere and engagement. These are all things you need to bring together for a games."
Gosper said Vancouver is more of a benchmark for London than Beijing.
"Beijing was a spike, with huge amounts of money thrown at the games," he said. "It was a bit of an aberration. Vancouver has brought us back to the norm and provided a more realistic backdrop for London than Beijing."
Sochi, a Black Sea resort, is hosting Russia's first Winter Games in 2014. Organizing committee chief Dmitry Chernyshenko said Sochi will do its best to match Vancouver.
"The Canadian atmosphere here is electric," Chernyshenko said. "That is exactly what we want to reach in Russia. We will do it with a Russian touch, a Russian look without the stereotypes."
Another priority for Sochi is recruiting volunteers. Vancouver organizers brought in about 25,000 volunteers, who won rave reviews for their smiling hospitality. Russia doesn't have a tradition of volunteerism, but is recruiting volunteers from all over the country.
Another crucial factor for future host cities: the success of the home team. Having never won a gold medal at two previous Olympics on home soil (Montreal 1976 and Calgary 1988), Canada piled up 14 golds in Vancouver -- an all-time Winter Games record.
Most fitting of all was the way the Canadians got the record -- beating the United States in the men's hockey final 3-2 with a sudden-death overtime goal by Sidney Crosby on Sunday in the final event of the games in the sport Canadians love most.
"The games started out with a nightmare and ended up with a golden dream," Gosper said. "The interest in the home country performance here was remarkable."
Britain finished fourth in the medals table in Beijing and will hope for at least the same result at home in 2012.
"I can understand why a country would want to deliver the best-trained athletes at a games," Coe said. "It's not just important for domestic fortunes, it also sets the tone and style for the games and the excitement in those venues.
"Do we want to get great big British moments and a good haul of medals in London? Yes we do."
By contrast, Sochi organizers are counting on a much better showing from Russian athletes. They had only three golds among 15 medals in Vancouver and finished sixth in the standings -- the only time they have been out of the top five since the Soviet Union first competed in the Winter Games in 1956.
"I wouldn't underestimate the Russians," Gosper said. "Somehow or the other, I believe Sochi will rise to the occasion. But Vancouver has raised the bar very high."
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03-02-2010, 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by raygunpk just realized you did a blog, good read | Yeah, just reading that now. Nicely done. Except... "chugging a picture of beer" doesn't really sound very satisfying.
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03-02-2010, 09:12 AM
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#3146 | | Where's my RS Christmas Lobster?!
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watching tv isn't even the same, i'm expecting to see Winter Olympics in the channel guides... bring it ALL back... the intense game, russian girls, liquor and beer, bring it all back!
my only regret is that i didn't want it at first, wtf was i on before?
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03-02-2010, 09:20 AM
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#3147 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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Originally Posted by coupeziRL watching tv isn't even the same, i'm expecting to see Winter Olympics in the channel guides... bring it ALL back... the intense game, russian girls, liquor and beer, bring it all back!
my only regret is that i didn't want it at first, wtf was i on before? | same here, negativity was everywhere and it probably affected everyone. then you see how it really is for yourself.
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03-02-2010, 11:03 AM
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It was the torch relay that did it for me. I wanted nothing to do with the games until it hit Port Moody and I watched this sleepy town errupt when the Torch passed by. I knew this was something special that I'll never see or expierence again and I didn't want to live those 17 days with any regret.
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03-02-2010, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by raygunpk same here, negativity was everywhere and it probably affected everyone. then you see how it really is for yourself. | another fun thing to read when you go back through the previous pages of this thread 
i was skeptical about the games because i live only a few minutes (on foot) from the ozone, so i wasn't too fond of all the traffic and revenue it would bring. i remember one day it took me nearly an hour to get to parker place (a drive which usually takes no more then 10 minutes)
but looking back, i'd do it all again just to have the games back here for even a little bit longer
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03-02-2010, 11:36 AM
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#3150 | | Head of HR....have a seat on that couch
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Proof the WE (the poeple) made the games awesome.
Of course we won a ton of golds and took it down in hockey but the atmosphere....oh the atmosphere - it was truly something special.
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