Olympics politcal events thread

[[Phill]]

No, Rugby is a football game.

[Doctor Zeus]

Handegg more like

[pvn]

Originally Posted by [Phill]

No, Rugby is a football game.

so what is that representative of?

[pvn]

BTW, brits will arrest your ass if you don't smile and have fun at the olympics

http://blog.simplejustice.us/2012/08...e.aspx?ref=rss

[TomCollins]

Originally Posted by pvn

uh, yes, the value of the medals themselves is also taxable. For these purposes it's (probably) just the street value of the material, which is less than $1k, rather than the value they could fetch on like ebay or whatever, and whether the IRS actually cares is another matter, I seriously doubt they're gonna like go after some random no-name sport medalist for not claiming the $600 in silver value on their taxes (they probably would be less hesitant to go after someone like phelps if he had a bunch of other violations that added up to a significant amount of money).

Are you sure it would be street value? Then again, it's gotta be nearly impossible since every gold medal could have vastly different values depending on event and who won it.

[pvn]

Originally Posted by TomCollins

Are you sure it would be street value? Then again, it's gotta be nearly impossible since every gold medal could have vastly different values depending on event and who won it.

yeah, obviously collectors would pay more for a phelps medal than for some random malaysian badminton medal.

On the other hand, is there any way to authenticate a medal? Do the recipients get some sort of papers? IIRC the medals themselves are all identical, they don't have "100m hurdles" or whatever engraved on them anywhere.

[DiegoArmando]

Originally Posted by [Phill]

At no point in history in the real world has anyone decided normal walking was too slow but jogging is too fast and they needed a middle speed to go from a to b.

please tell us about this 'real world' you know so much about.

[A_C_Slater]

Okay guys listen up, my inside line on the Illuminati tells me that a big 9/11 type event will occur at the Olympics this year. The London Emergency numbers are 999 and 112. So if I had to make a prediction, the date of the event will be 9/1/12 to fulfill their occultic numerology obsessions. This event will have us one step closer to their goal of a global microchipped population, for our safety of course. Tell your friends you heard it here first.

[Doctor Zeus]

Originally Posted by pvn

BTW, brits will arrest your ass if you don't smile and have fun at the olympics

http://blog.simplejustice.us/2012/08...e.aspx?ref=rss

The fact that this was reported first by private eye is a pretty huge cause for concern....

[TomCollins]

Originally Posted by pvn

yeah, obviously collectors would pay more for a phelps medal than for some random malaysian badminton medal.

On the other hand, is there any way to authenticate a medal? Do the recipients get some sort of papers? IIRC the medals themselves are all identical, they don't have "100m hurdles" or whatever engraved on them anywhere.

I have a friend who collects Olympic medals, and although I'm not sure how, he certainly is able to know which medal it was, or at least what sport/event it was from. He had a 1992 Dream Team medal a while back, and that sold for a pretty penny.

[pvn]

haters are furious

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/10/opinio...html?hpt=hp_c2

[2/325Falcon]

I headed to http://www.london2012.com/ to check out the USA #1 medal count and then started checking out some athletes from different countries and saw this:

Spoiler:

Not gonna lie I got a little PTSD shiver. No medals obv if they could shoot I wouldn't be here.

[2/325Falcon]

Also, that's a man, baby!

[pvn]

wow, you would think the USOC could afford a good photographer and tell our guys to like comb their hair and **** for thier pictures.

[elgreenhornet]

How a batch of terrible photographs went viral

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports...nt_viral_.html