American Idol vs. the Olympics

Dia on 21/2/2006 at 19:34

Quote Posted by fett

... This follows in the wake of Lost being pre-empted in my area for women's hockey ball/golf/tennis/bullshit championship for almost a month.

No wonder you're cranky! I'd be out looking for someone to shoot by now. You have marvelous self-control.

fett on 21/2/2006 at 20:27

Yeah, it came on at MID-FUCKING-NIGHT for an entire month. We've got young kids so we go to bed about that time and tried to tape it. The last week of that, it cut into the first 20 minutes of Lost. Fucking women's golf bullshit.

Seriously, what would people do if they tuned into [insert sitcom here] to find that INSTEAD, NBC has decided to run back to back full-length concerts of Aerosmith and Led Zepplin for the next month. Riots. Anarchy. Boycotts. However, no one seems to notice if they tune in to find their favorite show pre-empted by the Midget Soccer Wheelchair Cup. I HATE fucking sports.

Stitch on 21/2/2006 at 20:59

count me in for lovin the lympics :cool:

Starrfall on 21/2/2006 at 22:43

Maybe more people would watch the Olympics if those goddamn bastards NBC and ESPN and everyone else wasn't always throwing the results in our faces ten hours before they put the actual events on tv, bastards. (Bastards) The only thing that's good for is for hearing that Bode Miller didn't win a medal again.

Driving the anti-Bode train next stop Slalom.

Cookie Dough on 22/2/2006 at 02:46

I for one am extremely glad that the Olympics aren't being broadcast only on cable, because I don't have cable, and love the Olympics.
Also, NBC has exclusive rights to Olympic coverage here, and there's not a whole lot of amazingly fantastic NBC programs that I can think of that are worth despair over missing for a few weeks.
I'm all-ready looking forward to the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Yay Olympics!
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Gingerbread Man on 22/2/2006 at 03:13

I still think snowball fights should be a demonstration event.

Malygris on 22/2/2006 at 03:49

Yup, nothing I like better than sitting around watching a bunch of juiced-up asshats compete to see who can slide down a hill the fastest.

It's almost as fun as watching various immigration departments go through contortions trying to fast-track somebody's citizenship application because there's a chance he might win a medal in the Eight-Man Freestyle Synchronized Ice-Felching competition.

Yeah, I surely do love the Olympics.

Starrfall on 22/2/2006 at 04:06

You know Malygris, you're probably right.

I never looked at it from this perspective. You definitely have something here.

Tocky on 22/2/2006 at 04:22

I have to admit ice felching would be better than reality TV.

Those rocks in my snowballs were a naturally occuring byproduct Mr. Olympic committee inspector chairperson dude.

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