Axles slipped. Ilya's and other backflips (land flat) all worked. Almost like the ice wasn't solid towards the end..
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I was wondering that after seeing so many slips and falls, that maybe there was something wrong with the ice as well.

He is the individual who named HIMSELF “The Quad God”. And he also stated that he “owned the Olympic ice.”

Well he sat right down on it.

I’m an avid Olympics fan since 1960, I love to see Americans do terrifically, but my wife can tell you that I said that he was doomed three days ago when I saw him smirking even though he was not in the lead at that time, that the young man from Japan was in the lead. Pride goeth before the fall. In this case, literally.

And no, I didn’t want him to fail.

When is the last time you saw a football player go out on the field and say to a reporter, “our team owns this field.“? Never. In fact, the only thing close to that was when Joe Namath guaranteed a victory in the fixed Super Bowl in 1969.
Emoji shrug all you want.

And the some of the coaches are even worse.

I watch hundreds of hours of NFL football, am one of the Team dentists for the Philadelphia Eagles, and I have Never Heard a player say that he and his team were going to win the game because they were the best team period. They may say that they’re confident, that they feel good about the game/matchup, or that they’re prepared.

I have never ever heard a single player state that his team or his personal skills are transcendent.

Hopefully it is a learning opportunity. On any given day, the invincible can become “vincible” ☺️

I am wishing all the people I am subscribed to though some no longer post..
I find your posts interesting though we have somewhat different worldviews I respect your takes..and it is a characteristically shoddy attempt at mixing it up ;-/…
No..Happy Valentine’s Day seriously..
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What happened to him is exactly why you don’t puff out your chest and proclaim that you’re the equivalent of a Quad God. We are all fallible and in this particular example, no one is guaranteed any success ever. That bravado wasn’t fooling me for an instant and this guy was believing his own PR. What’s more it demonstrates abject disrespect and disregard of his competitors which in the long run, never ever serves one well. Even he said afterwards that he was overconfident and perhaps he will learn from this.

And perhaps something was wrong with the ice: it wouldn’t be the first time, but, like a rain-soaked football field, everyone has to play on it to the best of one’s ability.

I wasn’t trying to “mix it up”. I was stating the obvious which the people in my home knew I stated days ago. NBC was more than happy to go along with the self-promotion for ratings and like the Marvis Frazier-Larry Holmes fight all those years ago, they were made to retract all their superlatives, at least for the night. (For those who don’t recall the heavyweight fight I referenced, Marvis was Joe’s son and NBC wanted to start having Friday Night Fights again. Marvis was not in the same class of fighter and was knocked down six times in the first two rounds. Holmes was begging the ref to stop the fight so he wouldn’t hurt the young man whose stupid father had allowed him to fight one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. NBC had heavily promoted this as a clash of two equals. Uh-huh🥺🥺🥺🥺

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I will have to process all that, but that is why I read your posts. My subconscious has a mind of its own, but so far it roots for the home team (jfz9580m first!!!) if I scrape off instinctive bougeois inhibition or something…

I do respect non-mechanical thinking..
Humans are a strange animal alright, but honest human communication in its strangest forms still beats the other kind…

We are dealing with something far worse than a simple scenario..
It has driven jfz9580m finally to some sort of raucous something..

Maybe it is a little cheesy, but one of my favorite American writers is Herman Wouk..and he was a conservative, but he was not mindless.

Maybe you can understand this PCIntern as a veteran of online discussion..I can handle anything but truly mindless or disingenuous discourse. We are all susceptible to thought terminating cliches but perma survival mode forces an inelegant form of movement as opposed to something more deliberative.
It is a judgement on me for never having planned ahead..I cannot be dishonest but a lurching Frankenstein’s monster like gait is a form of movement..

Andy Nikiforuk, one of my favorite authors who does the balancing act better than many in calling out all sided stupidity a lot had a really good piece:

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/07/25/Triumph-of-Stupidity/

Honest disagreement is one thing. But harnessing and exploiting stupidity to make reality/truth irrelevant and ahistorical is not just evil..it is myopic and wrong and dammit at some point it all affects jfz9580m who is not an impractical person!

Thanks PCIntern…ridiculous Idiocracy we live in..

Oh..I didn’t mean you were mixing it up. I was awkwardly trying to communicate that I would never be sleazy or disrespectful enough to lie where I disagree.

But…what is the least ..I identify people with somewhat different views who are still basically honest and decent people.

One of the problems of the fake sugar of online communications is it doesnt work if we are not all the thorny and unpredictable humans we are. A serious issue the left has ..like herding cats.
But times are bad enough that someone who warily tried to keep a low profile with differing degrees of trepidation ie me is mixing it up.

I am not ever running for office or ever going high profile so it is all very peculiar..heh. It is a real stressor for a type of female who is stubbornly committed to her original profession of choice and the dullest type of commensurate routine stem income stream and nothing more to have to do voluntary, academic shit work that isn’t even recognized as such and have it misinterpreted as something different.

These are truly odd waters for the citizen scientist ..but on the plus side there is a lot to be said for being a true NPC/angry villager if you can pull it off..better than always being a hapless pawn..a role that chafes one..
Moronic mass movement orchestrated this way, that way..with no holistic sense.

the most profound post I’ve read here in 22 years.

Herman Wouk’s Marjorie Morningstar (the book, not the character in the book) explained how the male and female brains function oh-so-differently. I had been “instructed” to read it at a relatively early age and it acted almost as a reference work for me as I negotiated my social/sex life as a young man. He was a brilliant author and I read much of his work and when he died just shy of his 104th birthday, I said Kaddish for him, since he by all accounts was a devout Orthodox Jew, at least in his early years. A remarkable output of modern classics by one individual.

I appreciate your viewpoint and found myself nodding as I read your post.

The copy I have has fallen to pieces or okay..to be more precise it has broken into 2-3 pieces.

I learnt a lot about immigrant culture from it..I read it in my early years in the US as a grad student from India. Before that, I suppose I vaguely thought of “white” culture as a monolith having read mostly English books.

It sort of alludes to class distinctions - how different the poorer Eastern European Jewish community is from the wealthier Western European Jewish community, which is distinct from Italian immigrants and Wasps etc.

I had read about the English nobility, but this was a different perspective on America.
Hannah Arendt also mentioned it in her references to “Exception Jews” in the Origins of Totalitarianism..

The ending (of Marjorie Morningstar) always makes me weep..

Yes Wouk was brilliant. His other major work “The Caine Mutiny” is a favourite in our family as my father was a commodore in the Indian Navy and has fought in a war, though fortunately not under a Queeg..
My mom and I loved those books. We used to quote bits from them to each other when she was still with us, like Samson Aaron’s “No dishes to Vash”…

I remember his passing…it was relatively recent..was he 104?? That is impressive..Yes he was Orthodox Jewish..The only major Jewish character in his most famous work, The Caine Mutiny, though was Barney Greenwald..
I started the “Winds of War” one summer but never ended up finishing it..

Thanks for liking my post..I have an odd relationship with the net/reality at this point and as a “realist” (Existenz)/NPC not a gamer and the type of human female who finds concepts like kayfabe baffling, am sort navigating my way back to reality crudely with minimal tools and info..but I do understand humans better than many who try to contemptuously and foolishly game reality..it seems to work far too well, but it is not hopeless yet..

It is time for all good people to come to the aid of the party as someone British said..I forget who..

his nerves let him down. He’ll be back, and will do better……..he’s a baby. Ended up 8th. Kinda glad Mikhail won it. I think it all started when the Japanese kid, Yuma, did sooooooooo good in the short program. He’ll learn from this and be stronger. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

Nothing is guaranteed in spite of stats, previous victories, etc. True across all sports. I have to confess that I like this young man in spite of his youthful bluster. But I hope he learns from it.

Happy for the skater from Kazakhstan, but the "best of the best" looked like drunks walking on marbles. Whole lot of WTFing going on. At least Malinin had the grace to admit he screwed up.


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I did record it though so maybe I'll understand when I watch later.

It got to him.