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Boston Olympics: Powered by a magical crystal
By adamg on Tue, 12/16/2014 - 12:32pm
Imagine if they slapped those things on the backs of Orange Line cars. Vroom!
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The bell says it all
Sounds like the TARDIS' cloister bell!
+1 for that reference!
+1 for that reference!
Thanks!
I'm glad it wasn't too geekily esoteric. :)
Corporate influence
I was wondering why all the athletes were carrying around the Chase bank logo...
Well, if the
2004 Democratic National Committee could heist the Bank Of America logo, ....
I can't wait for the Effin'
I can't wait for the Effin' Glowstick, Real Housewives of South Boston, Reveah Flea Market commercial, video production people to do a spoof of this.
Does Chase Bank...
Know that the Boston Olympics is stealing their logo? Or is this just more overt corporate sponsorship?
The Crimson Olympics
why will all the events be held in Harvard athletic facilities?
You'd also need to smoke some
You'd also need to smoke some magical crystal to believe a Boston Olympics could work.
Is Urban Exploring an Olympic Event
Oh - wait ... that's held ten years after when the White Elephant venues start to decay like Weylu's and Faces.
And don't forget...
...the white elephants in Montreal and Calgary. I hear the venues in Athens are ripe with decay.
Was it really worth it?
Well they got the mandatory
Well they got the mandatory colonial horseman, but what about the lobsters! There are no lobsters in this promo, without lobsters and guys in funny hats no one will know its Boston.
Remember, when pronouncing it
Remember, when pronouncing it for the non-locals, it's best to say "lobstahs"
Here we go...
Let the propaganda begin.
Those parasites should not be welcomed here.
The workers who built the facilities in Sochi were cheated of their wages and deported from Russia.
The IOC has shown no interest in addressing the injustice. They represent everything that is wrong with these supranational NGOs. Their presence in Boston would be a dishonor, not an honor.
And to get this dishonor we would have to spend millions on facilities for sports that we never play, and wind up with an overbuilt hotel sector in the city (and that is very much a bad thing - unused building space would bleed us for decades).
To hell with that.
Boston politicians love
Boston politicians love corruption and the Olympics (well the IOC itself) is a monument to corruption.
Ergo, Boston will have the grandest most expensive Olympics EVAH!
That's great!
Except the Charles River doesn't meet the standards necessary to be used for Olympic competition rowing. (I wonder if any of the venues they used actually do).
But other than that...WOW! what a waste of money.
Really?
Is that why the London games used ponds for the rowing events? You can't have current?
Long, straight, coach access...
Lots of reasons. It's not straight enough long enough where it's wide enough to put in enough side-by-side lanes combined with coast access for the coaches to chase within shouting distance...and so on. It's great for the Head of the Charles, but it's not great for handling the Olympics.
The Boston Marathon course
The Boston Marathon course also cannot be used because there are too many hills.
So
Our river's not good enough for them, our famed local race course isn't good enough for them...why are we going through this again?
Not quite right
Well, not quite.
It can't be used because it is a point-to-point course with different starting and ending elevations. The course has a net elevation loss.
And downwind
The point-to-point nature would be fine if the two points were closer together, but the fact that it is linearly west to east which is downwind of our prevailing winds means it would provide accelerated times. This is in addition to the net elevation loss problem.
Is that true for marathons?
Wind speed is a factor when it comes to determining if a given time qualifies for a world record because of the reason you pointed out. This comes into play in sprints, like 100M, because there are almost no variables in that kind of race.
For a marathon, there really is no such thing as a world record. Sure, there's the fastest marathon time, but nobody really cares because of the variability of the courses, so there are course records
One neck pendant to rule them
One neck pendant to rule them all......
Hope their financing plan is more creative than that
Color me unimpressed.
If there's nothing else
If there's nothing else certain, be certain the financing for this would be very, very, creative.
That high diver ABANDONED THE
That high diver ABANDONED THE GLOWING BLUE RING! No medal for you!
They should do us all a favor
They should do us all a favor and attach one of those crystals to every T in the city.
Oh please
oh please oh please, don't let this happen. Aside from all the obvious reasons why this sort of thing shouldn't happen in Boston, I just hate the Olympics. So much. It's so boring and pointless and goes on for too long. It takes over TV and it's all anyone talks about for weeks. I'm trying to think of a scenario where I would care who the fastest rower in the world is, but I can't. Incapable of caring. Honestly, the only thing I hate more than the Olympics is the Winter Olympics. Don't even get me started...
<3
You are my soulmate and I love you. I have recited that paragraph, pretty much verbatim, biannually as necessary. God, they're SO BORING.
for those of you worried about traffic
olympics is hosted during first week in august - which is the least busy time of year on the T, on roads, in hotels, etc... a good chunk of the city's population (students, college staff) is away. "traffic" is the absolute most ridiculous reason to oppose the olympics. There are much bigger issues.
Traffic is a ridiculous reason to oppose the Olympics?
I disagree, anon. Traffic is just as good a reason to oppose the Olympics coming here to Boston, as far as I'm concerned. Boston's got enough of a congestion problem without having the Olympics here.
Traffic is a very valid concern...
...be it on the roads & highways, on the T, or at Logan. While a lot of lucky people might be away on their extended summer hiatus, I'd venture that the vast majority of us will still have to go to work for those two weeks. Not all of us have the luxury of taking two weeks for a little corporate sponsorship extravaganza, err, um, sporting competition.
The commenters point was that
The commenters point was that a lot of people are away during that time so that the capacity of our systems to deal with moving people around is higher at that time compared to the normal demand in August, as opposed to adding the olympics to the system in September when students and families are back to work/school in their peak numbers.
VROOM!
I definitely laughed out loud when I read this. Well done Adam.
And how come there was no scene with the beacon ring used as a discus? WHOOSH!