Ready for the Olympics? Play Steve's drinking game

[Steve Bildermann]

[Taro Toporific]

[GuyJean]

For every event where you only see the Japanese finishing not the winner.

Aint that the truth.. At times, I forget there are even other countries participating..

You forgot to assign drinks for everytime we hear Japan's 'dedicated-Olympic-J-poop-ballad-crap' fucking song.. Can we do harder drugs for that?

GJ

[AssKissinger]

Every time you have to watch Takahashi Naoko winning the Sydney 2000 womens marathon

I still love love love Q-Chan!

[Neo-Rio]

But come on.... EVERY country's telecast is going to focus primarily on their own sportspeople.

In Australia, the olympic coverage was almost completely limited to the swimming pool. We never got to see much else of anything... except the other events which had promising gold medal winners... and occasionally we'd hear about of medal winners from sports we'd never even expected them to win in - but never got given the coverage.

But yeah, why not laugh at the Japanese coverage.... if not for repeated "ganbarimasu" and stunted office conversations we're all going to have with our Japanese colleagues, if not for anything else! :P

[gaijinzilla]

oooh that NHK"theme song" for the Olympics is just annoying, isn't it? Kinda of makes you wish the Olympics were already over. Then again if they were, we'd still be hearing the damn song as there would be endless specials replaying any medal winning Japanese activity:domo:
HOWEVER watching the Olympics on NHK (especially NHK-BS) is much better than watching the events (or any other sporting event for that matter) on the private networks. Do the psuedo-announcers, commentators and whoever else happens to be in the studio have to yell so much?

[Taro Toporific]

...HOWEVER watching the Olympics on NHK (especially NHK-BS) is much better than watching the events (or any other sporting event for that matter) on the private networks. Do the psuedo-announcers, commentators and whoever else happens to be in the studio have to yell so much?

Whenever the folks at work turn on the farkquing Olympics <yuck>, I switch the channel to BS claiming, the "HiVision" is better. This year the private networks will have digital hi-def broadcasts so I gonna have to think up a new excuse....

Hmmm. ... I've got it! We must watch NHK BS coverage because of the risk of offending our Chinese joint-venture people in the office. Yes, that's good.

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

But come on.... EVERY country's telecast is going to focus primarily on their own sportspeople.
In Australia, the olympic coverage was almost completely limited to the swimming pool.

Isn't SBS doing it this year. Listening to Les Murray would be so much better than listening to condescending ass sprout Bruce McAvaney. The Japanese coverage strips it down another step. If a gold medal is won on the day, you get to see the whole damn thing every 15 minutes and see no other sport.

1 drink every time we see cycling....

And lots of "flat bags" into "hello sailor" from the mens gymnastics....

enjoy

[gaijinzilla]

How many drinks does one imbibe when they show the "simulation" of an event using a computer/video game, as one channel did this morning? (The prediction was for the upcoming Japan-Paraguay soccer match, which will end 1-1)
Let the Games begin

[Taro Toporific]

How many drinks does one imbibe when they show the "simulation" of an event using a computer/video game...

Ok, check out this simulation and you won't even need to watch to know the results....

Professor Predicts Number Of Olympic Medals Countries Will Win
---Andrew Bernard Was 96 Percent Accurate In Past---
6:31 pm EDT August 11, 2004
WNNE-TV, VT 2
An Upper Valley professor says he doesn't have to watch the games to find out who wins.
He says he already knows.
Andrew Bernard does not have ESP, and he can't read your mind. He's a Dartmouth College professor who says he knows how many medals each country will win based on an economic formula.
The formula factors in how rich a country is, their population, and the history of their performance.
...."Canada and Japan are typically under-performers," he said. "We say Canada will win about 12 or 13 medals, but they should win 25 or 26 based on how rich they are....

[kurohinge1]

I don't know about you guys but something looks fishy with the
South Korean swim team ...



From the way they were walking, I think they may have already started Steve's Drinking Game.

[Bongo]

How about when the commentators claim "well the Japanese athlete had the best form" even though they lost the f*cking race?
I see this all the time in boxing matches, soccer matches and anything else that has Japanese athletes competing against foreign athletes. Reality is just a commercial break for these people.

[Bongo]

[Steve Bildermann]

NB. There is a bonus 'Jockey' awarded for most the Nipponcentric comment heard on the TV during the Olympics. Post your examples here/

For guidance: The winning entry from the World Cup in Japan (which was co-hosted by Korea but you'd never know it if you watched Japanese TV)

When Korea advanced to the semi final the Japanese commentator shouted -

"We won,we won, Japan's cohost wins, well done Japan and it's cohost"

Korea was never mentioned.

[mr. sparkle]

The countdown has started: 7 hours, 21 minutes and 30 seconds to go. NHK is often showing the countdown by the second.

I can no longer obstain, I'm cracking a warm-up brewskie to fully get into championship form! AND I swear just heard a pre-games 'GAMBARIMASU'

There is now 7 hours, 20 minutes and 5 seconds to go.

(This has been a dual post production brought to you by Mr. Sparkle and Rob Pongi! )

[mr. sparkle]

UPDATE: There are now 7 hours, 15 minutes and 10 seconds to go!


(This has been another dual post production brought to you by Mr. Sparkle and Rob Pongi! )

[Taro Toporific]

FLASH UPDATE

Boobies!--->


BULL!--->


Bjorked! --->

[Caustic Saint]

Bjorked! --->

Is it just me or does that dress look like something out of Urotsukidoji?

[blackcat]

good drinking game steve, but Im sorry my liver would'nt survive that

Is there a drink for the reply fuck ups of japanese atheletes...you know replay a 100 times just to focus on themselves.

I really would love to see the total hours covered by the TV stations here...I think japanese atheletes would get 80% + air time.

love to that compared to other countries...where you can actually watch the olympics.

when you think of the air time the loser japanese atheletes get to the ratio of medals they win its pathetic.

I`m boycotting the TV covereage and writing a letter to the IOC

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

The Australian bin bag with ice cream sellers pouch

VS
Oh shit I've been dressed by my Grandma

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

Take one drink
Every time you see the Japanese Flag

Doeth one fwag on each bolleybwall unifowm count as a one fwag???

[Taro Toporific]

[Taro Toporific]

NB. There is a bonus 'Jockey' awarded for most the Nipponcentric comment heard on the TV during the Olympics..

Hmm, the Olympics are over but you'd never know that from the damn TV that ONLY showing Japanese Olympic news.

Strangely, all morning on NHK's news from 6:00-7:15 am there was one micro-mention on the marthon and no mention of this vile shame...

Defrocked Irish priest attacks marathon leaderSunday August 29, 2004 3:08PM
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The defrocked Irish priest who bolted from the crowd and tackled the marathon leader about three miles from the finish Sunday has been arrested before for disrupting sporting events.
Cornelius Horan, 57, was wearing a green beret, a red kilt and knee-high green socks when he attacked Brazilian runner Vanderlei Lima, knocking him into the crowd. Lima was able to recover and finish, but had to settle for the bronze medal....
Athens police sources identified the intruder as Cornelius Horan, who has been barred from practicing as a priest for the past decade. He once published a book called "A glorious new world very soon to come" that predicted the world would soon end.
The attacker Sunday night had a piece of paper attached to his back bearing the message:
"The Grand Prix Priest Israel Fulfillment of Prophecy Says the Bible." :?:

[Caustic Saint]

Defrocked Irish priest attacks marathon leaderSunday August 29, 2004 3:08PM
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The defrocked Irish priest who bolted from the crowd and tackled the marathon leader about three miles from the finish Sunday has been arrested before for disrupting sporting events.
Cornelius Horan, 57, was wearing a green beret, a red kilt and knee-high green socks when he attacked Brazilian runner Vanderlei Lima, knocking him into the crowd. Lima was able to recover and finish, but had to settle for the bronze medal....

Now THAT is Beyond Fucked.

"Re: F'k the race: I would beat this wacko to a bloody pulp." Agreed.

[Taro Toporific]

The 2006 Torino, Japan Olympics brought to you by NHK:

[SIZE="3"]What is that?
A Block-o-Rancid-Lard Domo-kun?[/SIZE]:domo:

[dimwit]

Soiled Snow??? Definitely has a frozen dog shit look about it.

[cliffy]

You need ten drinks? She is cute enough to do stone cold sober! lol

[Greji]

Roppongi Idol Satyoya-san finished ninth on the moguls: "ZANNEN DESHITA" Heard seven times:

That was the semi-finals Rob, she just finished 15th in the finals which earned numerous more ZANNENs and a couple of choked up KUYASIIs! Maybe we can get her back in the Pub sooner now????

[Greji]

It was great to hear the announcers trying to fumble through the explanation of John Baldwin and Rena Inoue in the short program figure pairs. If you don't know Inoue, she represented Japan previously and came to the US and became a US citizen and is now representing the US in the olympics.

The underlying things that were hinted at but not said were great. They tried to play it up because she is a J-girl, but everything sounded hollow as if they were about to say "what's the dumb broad doing skating for another country?" It was like they were biting their tongues and were in pain because they couldn't ask her about selling them out, while they interviewed her!

Great fun during the coverage (for a change).

[Mulboyne]

If you don't know Inoue, she represented Japan previously and came to the US and became a US citizen and is now representing the US in the olympics.

The Los Angeles Times ranan article on Inoue and her fight against cancer:

Rena Inoue hadn't felt good for a while. It was 1998, and she'd developed a cough, a persistent one that rattled her 4-foot-10, 95-pound frame. "And I noticed I got tired easily, much more than I should," said Inoue, who grew up in Japan and had been dispatched to Lake Arrowhead by her country's figure skating federation in 1996 to further her career. "I thought I had pneumonia or something, so I went to the doctor and checked it." Her doctor saw a shadow on the X-ray "that didn't really look like pneumonia," she said. What it did look like was lung cancer, the disease that had killed her father, Masahiko, a year earlier...more...