Beijing 2008, or: who else isn't watching?

[Louis VI the Fat]

the French aren't vile, they're just Losers.

No, no. I am not furious at the insult. I am furious at being owned. Why am I owned? Because it dawns on me that I expected some evil Banquonian article about maniacal French genocidal actions in far flung lands. However, if Google is all you can come up with, and this is the crux, then France apparently is nowhere near important enough to the world for anybody to be even aware of our genocides. Hence, you owned me in a most sensitive area: inflated sense of importance. What's more, you simultanously expose and deflate it.

Sheer genius.


I would bow, were it not that this could be mistaken for subservience to Chinese cultural imperialism.

[Papewaio]

What is this France you speak of? Is it a district in Texas. ?

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Paris is.
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[Papewaio]

That's because that Hilton is open everywhere...

[Incongruous]

That's because that Hilton is open everywhere...

Oooooooooooooohhhh!!!

[KukriKhan]

And so...

we'll wrap this one up with
The top 9 real comments made by NBC sports commentators
during the last Summer Olympics that they would like to take back:

1. Weightlifting commentator: 'This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw
her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing.'

2. Dressage commentator: 'This is really a lovely horse and I speak
from personal experience since I once mounted her mother.'

3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: 'I owe a lot to my parents, especially
my mother and father.'

4. Boxing Analyst: 'Sure there have been injuries, and even some
deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious.'

5. Softball announcer: 'If history repeats itself, I should think we
can expect the same thing again.'

6. Basketball analyst: 'He dribbes a lot and the opposition doesn't
like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces.'

7. At the rowing medal ceremony: 'Ah, isn't that nice, the wife
of the IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew.'

8. Soccer commentator: 'Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like
they've got eleven Dicks on the field.'

9. Tennis commentator: 'One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is
that, before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and
kisses them...
Oh my God, what have I just said?'

[Banquo's Ghost]

No, no. I am not furious at the insult. I am furious at being owned. Why am I owned? Because it dawns on me that I expected some evil Banquonian article about maniacal French genocidal actions in far flung lands. However, if Google is all you can come up with, and this is the crux, then France apparently is nowhere near important enough to the world for anybody to be even aware of our genocides. Hence, you owned me in a most sensitive area: inflated sense of importance. What's more, you simultanously expose and deflate it.

Mon brave, if you suffer lamentations for the status of imperial has-beens you ought to try never-wases.

Nobody dredges up maniacal Irish genocides even when Munster crush Toulouse hearts into shattered nothingness.