you cannot but look cool, 'cause you're nailed to a fucking plank of wood.

so this is the second qualifying round in snowboarding halfpipe -- six guys are already in, and the rest get another crack at the other six spots.

first to ride is a russian kid who flubbed a trick toward the end of his run, and the commentator says "Well, on the bright side, I suppose, if everyone else falls, he could still qualify."  (there are 37 more guys, but, okay.)

[headdesk]

(and the next guy flubbed an apparently easier trick, so the russian kid is still -- improbably -- in first place.  hee.)

oh, at last.

( respiratory TMI )

memo to the BBC commentator:

1.  the skater's name is Apolo Anton Ohno, not Anton Apolo Ohno.  surely you have documentation in front of you specifying this.

2.  the flag with the vertical blue, white and red stripes is french, not german.

:-)

[eta:  oh, god, and please don't use the word 'chinaman'.]

[eta2:  and, dude, the guy who comes in second gets the silver medal, not the bronze.]

oh YAY

dude, in firefox i can use the spacebar and page up/down keys to scroll, while i'm in frames.  [does the dance of Couldn't Do That In Plain Mozilla]