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2020 Summer Olympics

Started by kphoger, July 09, 2021, 04:28:35 PM

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Roadgeekteen

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CNGL-Leudimin

Quote from: Takumi on July 15, 2021, 07:14:44 PM
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on July 10, 2021, 05:18:23 AM
Fixed thread title. No such event took place last year.
Did you call the recently-concluded football tournament Euro 2021 as well?

Yep. I go with the year the event actually takes place in, regardless of what they call it. Also, Euro 2020 2021 was what you call soccer, not gridiron football.
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Scott5114

Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 16, 2021, 12:06:53 AM
Quote from: Alps on July 15, 2021, 11:56:00 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 15, 2021, 08:46:15 PM
Who is your favorite canoe slalom competitor?
Scott5113
I prefer Scott5115.

I have actually used 5115 as an alternate for some things, like IRC when I would time out as Scott5114 and the server hadn't released the username by the time I came back.
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The one Olympics event I'll watch is new for 2020 2021: commuter train-packing. Fit as many 5 foot 6 salarymen as possible into a single Yamanote car.
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I would really love to see a version of Qix/paper.io/whatever it's called where people run around a field (instead of being a video game) and turn the electronic floor one of two different colors.

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Roadgeekteen

Keldon Johnson and Javale McGee have been selected for the Olympic team USA basketball team.
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Current Interstate map I am making:

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hbelkins

Quote from: Scott5114 on July 15, 2021, 08:07:14 PM
Off-topic posts (including the bitching that started the whole derailment) removed. If this thread doesn't start discussing who your favorite canoe slalom competitor is I'm gonna be so damn pissed

Why do I always miss all the fun?


Government would be tolerable if not for politicians and bureaucrats.

formulanone

Quote from: hbelkins on July 16, 2021, 03:56:29 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 15, 2021, 08:07:14 PM
Off-topic posts (including the bitching that started the whole derailment) removed. If this thread doesn't start discussing who your favorite canoe slalom competitor is I'm gonna be so damn pissed

Why do I always miss all the fun?

To recap: if you don't like the topic and have nothing to add, just imagine what happens next. 

thspfc

Quote from: hbelkins on July 16, 2021, 03:56:29 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 15, 2021, 08:07:14 PM
Off-topic posts (including the bitching that started the whole derailment) removed. If this thread doesn't start discussing who your favorite canoe slalom competitor is I'm gonna be so damn pissed

Why do I always miss all the fun?
Because you hate sports now so you never come to the sports board.

tolbs17

Quote from: hbelkins on July 16, 2021, 03:56:29 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 15, 2021, 08:07:14 PM
Off-topic posts (including the bitching that started the whole derailment) removed. If this thread doesn't start discussing who your favorite canoe slalom competitor is I'm gonna be so damn pissed

Why do I always miss all the fun?
Cause it was racism and baiting.

In the meantime, I hope this Olympics goes well!

Roadgeekteen

Quote from: hbelkins on July 16, 2021, 03:56:29 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 15, 2021, 08:07:14 PM
Off-topic posts (including the bitching that started the whole derailment) removed. If this thread doesn't start discussing who your favorite canoe slalom competitor is I'm gonna be so damn pissed

Why do I always miss all the fun?
It wasn't fun
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Current Interstate map I am making:

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hbelkins

Quote from: formulanone on July 16, 2021, 04:02:05 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on July 16, 2021, 03:56:29 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 15, 2021, 08:07:14 PM
Off-topic posts (including the bitching that started the whole derailment) removed. If this thread doesn't start discussing who your favorite canoe slalom competitor is I'm gonna be so damn pissed

Why do I always miss all the fun?

To recap: if you don't like the topic and have nothing to add, just imagine what happens next.

That sounds like a clickbait headline.  :-D


Government would be tolerable if not for politicians and bureaucrats.

CNGL-Leudimin

That sounds like those closed threads that appear overnight Central Europe and are already locked by the time I wake up, thus preventing me from ever getting into the fun. And the same hbelkins said has happened to me in that same time frame before.
Supporter of the construction of several running gags, including I-366 with a speed limit of 85 mph (137 km/h) and the Hypotenuse.

Please note that I may mention "invalid" FM channels, i.e. ending in an even number or down to 87.5. These are valid in Europe.

Scott5114

Quote from: hbelkins on July 16, 2021, 03:56:29 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 15, 2021, 08:07:14 PM
Off-topic posts (including the bitching that started the whole derailment) removed. If this thread doesn't start discussing who your favorite canoe slalom competitor is I'm gonna be so damn pissed

Why do I always miss all the fun?

You haven't; you're free to pick your favorite canoe slalomer.
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Takumi

Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on July 16, 2021, 03:50:22 AM
Quote from: Takumi on July 15, 2021, 07:14:44 PM
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on July 10, 2021, 05:18:23 AM
Fixed thread title. No such event took place last year.
Did you call the recently-concluded football tournament Euro 2021 as well?

Yep. I go with the year the event actually takes place in, regardless of what they call it. Also, Euro 2020 2021 was what you call soccer, not gridiron football.
At least you're consistent in your anality.
Quote from: Rothman on July 15, 2021, 07:52:59 AM
Olive Garden must be stopped.  I must stop them.

Don't @ me. Seriously.

Roadgeekteen

Quote from: Takumi on July 17, 2021, 07:48:25 PM
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on July 16, 2021, 03:50:22 AM
Quote from: Takumi on July 15, 2021, 07:14:44 PM
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on July 10, 2021, 05:18:23 AM
Fixed thread title. No such event took place last year.
Did you call the recently-concluded football tournament Euro 2021 as well?

Yep. I go with the year the event actually takes place in, regardless of what they call it. Also, Euro 2020 2021 was what you call soccer, not gridiron football.
At least you're consistent in your anality.
I agree with CNGL-Leudimin.
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Takumi

I can see the logic for either choice. I used to be like that to an extent, but then I realized that life's too short.
Quote from: Rothman on July 15, 2021, 07:52:59 AM
Olive Garden must be stopped.  I must stop them.

Don't @ me. Seriously.

Roadgeekteen

God-emperor of Alanland, king of all the goats and goat-like creatures

Current Interstate map I am making:

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Scott5114

Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 18, 2021, 11:57:05 AM
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/31835854/two-athletes-residing-tokyo-olympic-village-test-positive-covid-19

uh oh

I don't know why the IOC didn't make vaccination mandatory to participate. IOC already regulates what athletes can and can't put into their bodies (they bounced a US runner for testing positive for weed, which was legal in her state), there's clearly enough money to pay for the vaccinations, I doubt there are many immunocompromised Olympic athletes, and all the athletes are going to be living in close quarters (where, at past games, they spend their down time hooking up with each other).
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tolbs17

Quote from: Scott5114 on July 18, 2021, 05:37:47 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 18, 2021, 11:57:05 AM
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/31835854/two-athletes-residing-tokyo-olympic-village-test-positive-covid-19

uh oh

I don't know why the IOC didn't make vaccination mandatory to participate. IOC already regulates what athletes can and can't put into their bodies (they bounced a US runner for testing positive for weed, which was legal in her state), there's clearly enough money to pay for the vaccinations, I doubt there are many immunocompromised Olympic athletes, and all the athletes are going to be living in close quarters (where, at past games, they spend their down time hooking up with each other).
Probably because it was not fully approved?

NWI_Irish96

Quote from: Scott5114 on July 18, 2021, 05:37:47 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 18, 2021, 11:57:05 AM
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/31835854/two-athletes-residing-tokyo-olympic-village-test-positive-covid-19

uh oh

I don't know why the IOC didn't make vaccination mandatory to participate. IOC already regulates what athletes can and can't put into their bodies (they bounced a US runner for testing positive for weed, which was legal in her state), there's clearly enough money to pay for the vaccinations, I doubt there are many immunocompromised Olympic athletes, and all the athletes are going to be living in close quarters (where, at past games, they spend their down time hooking up with each other).

I don't know the approval status and the availability of the vaccine in every country, so it would be hard to mandate. I do think the USOC should have mandated it for US athletes though, as neither approval status nor availability is an issue in the US.
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Roadgeekteen

Quote from: Scott5114 on July 18, 2021, 05:37:47 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 18, 2021, 11:57:05 AM
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/31835854/two-athletes-residing-tokyo-olympic-village-test-positive-covid-19

uh oh

I don't know why the IOC didn't make vaccination mandatory to participate. IOC already regulates what athletes can and can't put into their bodies (they bounced a US runner for testing positive for weed, which was legal in her state), there's clearly enough money to pay for the vaccinations, I doubt there are many immunocompromised Olympic athletes, and all the athletes are going to be living in close quarters (where, at past games, they spend their down time hooking up with each other).
Freedom lol.
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Current Interstate map I am making:

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Alps

Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 18, 2021, 06:48:50 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 18, 2021, 05:37:47 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 18, 2021, 11:57:05 AM
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/31835854/two-athletes-residing-tokyo-olympic-village-test-positive-covid-19

uh oh

I don't know why the IOC didn't make vaccination mandatory to participate. IOC already regulates what athletes can and can't put into their bodies (they bounced a US runner for testing positive for weed, which was legal in her state), there's clearly enough money to pay for the vaccinations, I doubt there are many immunocompromised Olympic athletes, and all the athletes are going to be living in close quarters (where, at past games, they spend their down time hooking up with each other).
Freedom lol.
private agency lol

thspfc

Cabiness42 offered a logical and likely explanation for why the vaccine is not mandatory for Olympic athletes. Instead, RGT decided to break out the classic "freedumbs" , as if that term hasn't been run into the ground for the last year.

jeffandnicole

Quote from: Scott5114 on July 18, 2021, 05:37:47 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 18, 2021, 11:57:05 AM
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/31835854/two-athletes-residing-tokyo-olympic-village-test-positive-covid-19

uh oh

I don't know why the IOC didn't make vaccination mandatory to participate. IOC already regulates what athletes can and can't put into their bodies (they bounced a US runner for testing positive for weed, which was legal in her state)...

It's still illegal on the federal level. Anyone with a CDL can't use.  Companies and organizations are permitted to have their own policies, and anyone with that company or organization must abide by that policy.

Alcohol is another example. It's legal to consume by anyone 21 or over, but one can't drive drunk.



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