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Themistocles
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Martin said:
It is. Hence the leet haxxor kiddies being universally derided, and their language being used only in ironic intent.
Watercrystal: l33tsp34k isn't that rare - play any game over the internet (games as in commercial releases, not Martin's glorious finds from the dark corners of the internet) and you'll encounter someone using it, either due to its gamer in-joke status or simply because they're muffinheads.
Themistocles
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I heard that GB won another medal today. Scottish cyclist or something. Which is good, I guess, though I'm really not that bothered.
Themistocles
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Abulafia said:The media up here says stuff like that (Scottish) - it's Team GB; they are, in the context of this competition, British.
Piffling details old bean! It matters not to me anyway, as I have precisely no nationalistic pride whatsoever. Jingoism irritates me immensely.
Team GB's a crappy name anyway. It sounds like something cheerleaders would say. What's wrong with plain old Great Britain?
Shame, 2004 Athens Olympics
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Spectators boo and gesture thumbs down after the score for Russian gymnast Alexei Nemov were announced during the men's horizontal bar final at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, August 23, 2004. Nemov brought the Olympic horizontal bar competition to a standstill on Monday after the crowds jeered and booed the judges for his score for nearly 10 minutes. Reuters
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Spectators boo and gesture thumbs down after the score for Russian gymnast Alexei Nemov were announced during the men's horizontal bar final at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, August 23, 2004. Nemov brought the Olympic horizontal bar competition to a standstill on Monday after the crowds jeered and booed the judges for his score for nearly 10 minutes. Reuters
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Very angry.
But the audience were amazing. I'd never seen anything like that before.
But the audience were amazing. I'd never seen anything like that before.
kasuta
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Ice
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The crowd were not happy with the score given to Nemov, they protested for about 10 minutes and so his score was recalculated by the judges, who changed it from 9.725 to 9.762.Martin said:
As an aside, Skelton went clear on his last round, so both he and Smith are through to the individual final on Friday
Mort
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Here are some of their logos from the Winter Olympics.Martin said:
Oh! And here are the ones from this year's Olympics.
The link is http://www.google.com/doodle8.html, and by changing the number, you get to see some other designs for various holidays and the Sydney games.