You Know What Really Grinds My Gears....The Sequel!

[Temporary_User]

Originally Posted by Yasa

Just make it a point system. 3 for gold, 2 for silver and 1 for bronze. Change the values to whatever you want so your home country wins, then it's all good.

There is no award given for "winning" the overall Olympics (as far as I know).

[Red John]

Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19

It's the "medal count" because the tie breaker is silvers, and then if that's still even, bronzes. Everyone does it this way, besides NBC, and it's pretty obvious why.

Winning ten golds is pretty clearly a better result than fifteen bronzes.

That's American media for you. They don't take losing well.

Have family on vacation in the States right now and they were saying how the news networks were going out of their way to ignore the womens gold medal story after the game. Sports highlights wouldn't mention it, despite setting up previews earlier. Same with the men's team loss to Canada. You know if they won they'd make a movie out of it though.

Gold medals is the proper way to do medal standings, and the Americans always did it that way until it started making them look bad. This is the same media that will tell you the Americans have never lost a war (even though they've lost their last two).

[Temporary_User]

Originally Posted by GGG

Canada has traditionally been total medals so that in the summer olympics we look respectable next to other G8 nations. Canada only recently (ie the last week of the Vancouver olympics) started to go Gold First.

Originally Posted by Red John

That's American media for you. They don't take losing well.

Gold medals is the proper way to do medal standings, and the Americans always did it that way until it started making them look bad. This is the same media that will tell you the Americans have never lost a war (even though they've lost their last two).

Did you miss GGG's post?
That's the Canadian media for you.

This is the same media that will tell you Canadians invented hockey (with no 100% factual proof of such). This is the same media that states Canadians burnt down the White House (even though it was British soldiers, and the ones that would end up becoming Canadians were no where near back in what would end up becoming Canada).
But I guess if you keep repeating something it becomes true eh?

[GGG]

Originally Posted by ken0042

Canada had the highest number of athletes to take home medals, and the highest number of athletes to earn gold medals. Between the two hockey teams there are almost 50 gold medals handed out; so that makes us #1.

The dutch earned 23 out of 24 medals in Long Track Speed Skating. Their other Medal.... short track. If that were hockey, 2 Medals.

Canada just picked the wrong sport to be good at.

I also think Russia, Norway and Sweden got a lot more Biathalon and Cross Country events added to this olympics to Pad gold medal numbers. This competes against Canada and the US's attempts to get X games sports added where we usually are better.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Red John

That's American media for you. They don't take losing well.

Have family on vacation in the States right now and they were saying how the news networks were going out of their way to ignore the womens gold medal story after the game. Sports highlights wouldn't mention it, despite setting up previews earlier. Same with the men's team loss to Canada. You know if they won they'd make a movie out of it though.

Gold medals is the proper way to do medal standings, and the Americans always did it that way until it started making them look bad. This is the same media that will tell you the Americans have never lost a war (even though they've lost their last two).

If you look at the Own the Podium promotions in the years leading up to the games the goal was to lead total medal count in the Vancouver 2010 games.

[Drummer]

Originally Posted by Wormius

That Mobil billboard on WB Hwy 1 before Kananaskis. What is that there for? It's not so much that it's Mobil, but just... why detract from the scenery with that huge thing, almost randomly placed with seemingly little relevance to anything. I can see lodging or tourism signs - but why this? Especially as you are moving away from oil company headquarters? So you remember Mobil for no apparent reason?

That billboard has been there for two and a half years, at $7k to $10k per month, from what I've been told

[Igster]

GMG's to not be able to read the True Detective thread. Last episode downloaded...just not watched yet.

[mrkajz44]

Originally Posted by GGG

The dutch earned 23 out of 24 medals in Long Track Speed Skating. Their other Medal.... short track. If that were hockey, 2 Medals.

Canada just picked the wrong sport to be good at.

I also think Russia, Norway and Sweden got a lot more Biathalon and Cross Country events added to this olympics to Pad gold medal numbers. This competes against Canada and the US's attempts to get X games sports added where we usually are better.

This is exactly the reason I don't understand why total medal counts are prepared. Same thing happens in the summer olympics with swimming and track and field - so many medals are handed out in those two sports compared to others. It really is not a fair to compare, but everyone seems to get bent out of shape for the total medal count.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by 4X4

We're getting close to that time of year... Where it all starts to melt, and there are tons of rocks and gravel in the shoulders of the roads. People, please learn to drive. Stay in your bloody lane so that you're not shooting gravel at the vehicle behind you. And pickup trucks, you know I'm a staunch defender of our club. It's pretty hard to defend you a-holes that don't have mud flaps. Do YOU like it when your truck gets peppered by gravel? No? Neither does anyone else. So grab your penny jar, and head to crappy tire, and spend $40 on some plain black flaps. You don't have to get the Yosemite Sam ones (but if you want those, I'm sure they'll be in stock) and put them on your fricken truck. Pure d-baggery to drive around this town without mud flaps.

If you can afford a huge lift on your truck, you can afford $150 worth of mud flaps. It looks so trashy without them. Same thing with Jeeps, so many rolling around without mud flaps and 35" tires.

[FireFly]

I'm a new driver and don't really like it when people drive too close so I will purposely shoot gravel at them if I feel they are not a safe distance. Then again, I drive a Jeep Compass so it's not very big.

[Red Ice Player]

Originally Posted by FireFly

I'm a new driver and don't really like it when people drive too close so I will purposely shoot gravel at them if I feel they are not a safe distance. Then again, I drive a Jeep Compass so it's not very big.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by FireFly

I'm a new driver and don't really like it when people drive too close so I will purposely shoot gravel at them if I feel they are not a safe distance. Then again, I drive a Jeep Compass so it's not very big.

Do you drive less than the speed limit?

[burn_this_city]

That's pretty dumb, why not move out of the left lane if you're intimidated. By weaving all over the place you look like a struggler that can barely keep the car between the lines.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by FireFly

I'm a new driver and don't really like it when people drive too close so I will purposely shoot gravel at them if I feel they are not a safe distance. Then again, I drive a Jeep Compass so it's not very big.

You're a new driver so maybe you should get a pass on this but stop this very teenage mentality and grow up as a driver, fast.

Please.

[Hockeyguy15]

Originally Posted by FireFly

I'm a new driver and don't really like it when people drive too close so I will purposely shoot gravel at them if I feel they are not a safe distance. Then again, I drive a Jeep Compass so it's not very big.

Not sure if you are being serious, but if you are...

If you are a new driver maybe you should be focusing more on driving and the rules of the road, and less on trying to play vigilante with the car behind you?

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by FireFly

I'm a new driver and don't really like it when people drive too close so I will purposely shoot gravel at them if I feel they are not a safe distance. Then again, I drive a Jeep Compass so it's not very big.

Enjoy that ticket.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by FireFly

I'm a new driver and don't really like it when people drive too close so I will purposely shoot gravel at them if I feel they are not a safe distance. Then again, I drive a Jeep Compass so it's not very big.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

That's pretty dumb, why not move out of the left lane if you're intimidated. By weaving all over the place you look like a struggler that can barely keep the car between the lines.

Not justifying this, but he/she didn't say they were in the left-lane. You can get tailgated in the right-lane too.

On a GMG note, anybody driving dualies driving around downtown (specifically 17th Ave) this time of year. Do you know you take up both lanes?

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by fotze

Pretty much every 5th car that parks along 17th does that. If you can park a motorbike between your car and the curb, you are parked to far from the curb.

I don't think I have seen anything parked along the side of EB 17th Ave during the morning commute.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by Wormius

Not justifying this, but he/she didn't say they were in the left-lane. You can get tailgated in the right-lane too.

On a GMG note, anybody driving dualies driving around downtown (specifically 17th Ave) this time of year. Do you know you take up both lanes?

I assumed left lane because usually the right has less tailgating.