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CANADIANS WHIP SCOTS  I sneaked away from work today to watch the men’s curling final in the Winter Olympics. The Canadians hammered Britain, or I should say Scotland as all Britain’s curlers are Scots. Canada also won the gold medal in the women’s curling event. Britain had to make do with a silver medal in the men’s event – the above photo is of Britain’s men’s skip, David Murdoch, and the photo below is of Britain’s women’s skip, Eve Muirhead, both are pre-orgasmic. The BBC has produced a funny spoof on curling. It is narrated by the legendary natural history presenter, David Attenborough, who comes out with the classic line: "The aim of this ritual is to land your walnut in the centre of the nest." It is well worth a watch. I’m enjoying the women’s ice hockey more than the men’s ice hockey so far, though it was funny to see the Russian men’s ice hockey team crash out of the Olympics despite Putin’s demand for the gold medal. The women’s final was brilliant, and yet again Canada wins another gold medal! Perhaps to make things fair, athletes from snowy countries like Canada and Norway should be handicapped by wearing a blindfold in future Winter Olympics! Can you cheat at curling? If you're following the Winter Olympics, what event are you enjoying the most? Have you heard of David Attenborough? If so, who will replace him when he retires (or dies)?  |
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YOu Know we are just Great at everything we do! And don't toot our own horn.... we are even amazing at seX! I can say so! SORRY FOR YOUR LOSSES
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No you can't cheat at curling. You sure can try but it will never work. I been watching the curling because I am a curler myself. I was so happy to see that GB won Bronze medal in the women's game. It was a pretty close one too. It as truly an honour to play GB in the men's finals. If any team we wanted to play for the gold it would have been GB. I sure admire the GB team both men and women and they did very well hugs V Become a blog watcher sweet_vm
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Brad Jacobs captures men's curling gold [image] SOCHI, Russia - Brad Jacobs and his Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., team doubled Canada's curling gold medals in Sochi with a 9-3 win over Britain in the men's final Friday. The Jennifer Jones team from Winnipeg captured the women's title on Thursday with a victory over Sweden. The 2014 Winter Games marks the first time Canada claimed both titles since curling made its return to the Winter Olympics in 1998. Canada has won three straight Olympic golds in men's curling with a different team each time. "The biggest word that comes to mind right now is relief," Jacobs said. "Wearing that Maple Leaf, there's a lot of expectations." Jacobs, third Ryan Fry, second E.J. Harnden and lead Ryan Harnden controlled the championship game from the first throw. The Canadians scored two in the first end, three in the third and stole a point in the fourth to take a commanding 6-1 lead. British skip David Murdoch is a two-time world champion, but he and his teammates made several mistakes for the Canadians to exploit. After Jacobs hit for one in the ninth, the British shook hands to concede gold. Instead of defending an early lead, Jacobs kept up the scoring with two in the sixth end for an 8-2 cushion. Trailing by four points after the third end, Britain set up for what looked like an easy two. But Jacobs scrubbed a slightly heavy Murdoch draw out the back. With hard sweeping from the Harnden brothers, the Canadian skip drew around a guard to further put the pressure on Murdoch. Again Murdoch was heavy and a measurement determined it was a steal of one and a 6-1 lead after four. Jacobs generated three in the third off a pair of fatal mistakes by the Brits. Second Scott Andrews — curling 38 per cent to that point — rubbed on a guard. Then third Greg Drummond's attempted takeout facing four Canadian stones removed only a British counter. Murdoch couldn't rescue the end and Jacobs drew for three. The Brits split the house after a missed peel by Canadian third Ryan Fry in the second, but Jacobs made it difficult for Murdoch to get his two. Jacobs hit and rolled behind partial cover. Murdoch's shooter rolled wide on the tap, so Britain settled for one. Canada started the game with hammer. A rub on a guard by the British allowed Canada to get additional granite stacked on the button. Murdoch wasn't able to clear Canada's counters. A Jacobs draw to the four-foot rings gave Canada a deuce to kick off the game. Become a blog watcher sweet_vm
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I haven't had much time to watch the Olympics....can't sneak off when I'm minding children lol!!!  David Attenborough is simply irreplaceable....no one can take his place.  ~~Anais Nin~~
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You can't cheat that I know off, butt there's always a first for everything! I am following all sports in the Olympics and look forward to the Canadian men's hockey GOLD quest, to follow the women's GOLD win!  I have never heard of David Attenborough? Is he a blogger?  GO CANADA GO!
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That is why there is an independence referendum looming. If Team GB had won gold then they would be British but as they didn't they are Scots. Happens all the time. Gets up our noses.
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I love watching curling. Funny how people either love it or hate it. The stone could be heavier or lighter as a way to cheat the results I guess. I have not watched any of the Olympics this year. I hardly watch television anymore. I guess I have too much work to do.
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1. Yes, but it would be very bad form to even try. 2. Curling, though some of the races are great to watch, short course skating, cross boarding and skiing etc. 3. yes. He's irreplaceable. I'm a keen curler, though stopped playing two seasons ago to preserve my hip. Scotland has something like 10,000 active curlers with perhaps 50 or so at the top of the game who would be able to compete at Olympic level. Canada has 3,000,000 active curlers with a top end of several hundreds to choose from. The Canadians are outstanding curlers, amazingly skilled, and there are good earnings for curlers there. There is one ice rink in England which offers curling on a regular basis. I'd love to see more curling in England and Wales, but it's an expensive sport with a limited season in the GB. If you ever get the opportunity, try it out. You'll be amazed at how difficult it is to deliver a stone, and how physical it is to sweep properly.
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YOu Know we are just Great at everything we do! And don't toot our own horn.... we are even amazing at seX! I can say so! SORRY FOR YOUR LOSSES 
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Flirting is the most effective form of 'cheating', and it's not even regarded as cheating!
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No you can't cheat at curling. You sure can try but it will never work. I been watching the curling because I am a curler myself. I was so happy to see that GB won Bronze medal in the women's game. It was a pretty close one too. It as truly an honour to play GB in the men's finals. If any team we wanted to play for the gold it would have been GB. I sure admire the GB team both men and women and they did very well hugs V
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Getting the opposition drunk sounds like a good tactic to me!
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I haven't had much time to watch the Olympics....can't sneak off when I'm minding children lol!!! David Attenborough is simply irreplaceable....no one can take his place.
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The Alpine downhill skiing was great. A blogger to replace David Attenborough, now that's a challenge to the top bloggers!
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You can't cheat that I know off, butt there's always a first for everything! I am following all sports in the Olympics and look forward to the Canadian men's hockey GOLD quest, to follow the women's GOLD win! I have never heard of David Attenborough? Is he a blogger? GO CANADA GO!David Attenborough is a legend in the UK or at least in the BBC. It would be great if he was un-masked as an Affairlook blogger!
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That is why there is an independence referendum looming. If Team GB had won gold then they would be British but as they didn't they are Scots. Happens all the time. Gets up our noses.
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..the message here should be ...don't mess with the Canadians at curling... ...great job ... Blue...
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I love watching curling. Funny how people either love it or hate it. The stone could be heavier or lighter as a way to cheat the results I guess. I have not watched any of the Olympics this year. I hardly watch television anymore. I guess I have too much work to do.
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1. Yes, but it would be very bad form to even try. 2. Curling, though some of the races are great to watch, short course skating, cross boarding and skiing etc. 3. yes. He's irreplaceable. I'm a keen curler, though stopped playing two seasons ago to preserve my hip. Scotland has something like 10,000 active curlers with perhaps 50 or so at the top of the game who would be able to compete at Olympic level. Canada has 3,000,000 active curlers with a top end of several hundreds to choose from. The Canadians are outstanding curlers, amazingly skilled, and there are good earnings for curlers there. There is one ice rink in England which offers curling on a regular basis. I'd love to see more curling in England and Wales, but it's an expensive sport with a limited season in the GB. If you ever get the opportunity, try it out. You'll be amazed at how difficult it is to deliver a stone, and how physical it is to sweep properly. I'm fascinated how the BBC will handle the David Attenborough issue - Stephen Fry?
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Please note where curling really started in the world!! It was over in your part of the world not in Canada. History of Curling The game itself is more than 500 years old and its’ true origin is hidden in the mist of time, but it was in Scotland the game evolved during the centuries and also where the mother club of curling, The Royal Caledonian Curling Club was formed in 1838. The game has of course evolved through the years and the latest change on how the game is played was introduced in 1990 when the free guard zone rule was introduced. This “first curler” must have been intrigued by the way the rock moved and by the grumbling sound it made as it twisted and turned. Other people in the not so distant past have heard this same sound and have applied it as a nickname for the game of curling … it is often referred to as “the roaring game”. Scots and continental Europeans have engaged in many a lively dispute as to the true origin of curling. Both claim to be founders. Did Scots invent the game, or was it imported by Flemish sportsmen who emigrated to Scotland during the reign of James VI (James I of England)? Did Europeans engage in some early form of curling, and did Scots merely adopt and enhance it? The evidence, based on works of art, contemporary writings, and archaeological finds, has sparked a number of theories, but nothing is conclusive. Some of the earliest graphic records of a game similar to curling date from 1565. Two oil paintings by the Dutch master Pieter Bruegel, entitled “Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Birdtrap” and “Hunters in the Snow”, show eisschiessen or “ice shooting”, a Bavarian game played with a long stick-like handle, that is still enjoyed today. Another work, an engraving by R. de Baudous (1575 – 1644) after N. van Wieringen, entitled “Hyems” or “Winter”, shows players who appear to be sliding large discs of wood along a frozen water-way. Other sketches from around the same time show a Dutch game called kuting, played with frozen lumps of earth. The first hand-written record of what could be called an early curling game dates from February, 1540, when John McQuhin of Scotland noted down, in Latin, a challenge to a game on ice between a monk named John Sclater and an associate, Gavin Hamilton. The first printed reference to curling appears in a 17th century elegy published by Henry Adamson, following the death of a close friend: His name was M. James Gall, a citizen of Perth, and a gentle-man of goodly stature, and pregnant wit, much given to pastime, as golf, archerie, curling and jovial companie. It seems too that the game tempted many people from all walks of life. Records from a Glasgow Assembly of Presbyterians in 1638 accused a certain Bishop Graham of Orkney of a terrible act: He was a curler on the ice on the Sabbath. By the 18th century, curling had become a common past-time in Scotland. Both the poetry and the prose of the era provide numerous records of bonspiels, curling societies, and curling as a great national game. The real controversy over the birthplace of the game was initiated by the Reverend John Ramsay of Gladsmuir, Scotland. In his book, An Account of the Game of Curling (Edinburgh 1811), he argued in favor of Continental beginnings. His research into the origins of curling words (examples: bonspiel, brough, colly, curl, kuting, quoiting, rink, and wick), led him to conclude that they were derived from Dutch or German. Claiming that most of the words were foreign, he wrote, but the whole of the terms being Continental compel us to ascribe to a Contintental origin. The famous historian, the Reverend John Kerr contested Ramsay’s views and campaigned in favor of Scottish beginnings to curling. In A History of Curling (1890), Kerr questioned: if Flemings had brought the game to Scotland in the 1500′s, why did Scottish poets and historians make no special mention of its introduction before 1600?. He also saw no proof that many of the terms were Continental, explaining that many were of Celtic or Teutonic origin (examples: channel stone, crampit, draw, hack, hog, skip, tee, toesee, tramp, and tricker). To add to the puzzle, archaeological evidence of a curling stone (the famous Stirling Stone) inscribed with the date 1511 turned up, along with another bearing the date 1551, when an old pond was drained at Dunblane, Scotland. The true origin of curling is cloudy, lost in time. There is no doubt or dispute, however, that the Scots nurtured the game. They improved equipment, established rules, turned curling into a national past-time, and exported it to many other countries throughout the world. Become a blog watcher sweet_vm
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Please note where curling really started in the world!! It was over in your part of the world not in Canada. History of Curling The game itself is more than 500 years old and its’ true origin is hidden in the mist of time, but it was in Scotland the game evolved during the centuries and also where the mother club of curling, The Royal Caledonian Curling Club was formed in 1838. The game has of course evolved through the years and the latest change on how the game is played was introduced in 1990 when the free guard zone rule was introduced. This “first curler” must have been intrigued by the way the rock moved and by the grumbling sound it made as it twisted and turned. Other people in the not so distant past have heard this same sound and have applied it as a nickname for the game of curling … it is often referred to as “the roaring game”. Scots and continental Europeans have engaged in many a lively dispute as to the true origin of curling. Both claim to be founders. Did Scots invent the game, or was it imported by Flemish sportsmen who emigrated to Scotland during the reign of James VI (James I of England)? Did Europeans engage in some early form of curling, and did Scots merely adopt and enhance it? The evidence, based on works of art, contemporary writings, and archaeological finds, has sparked a number of theories, but nothing is conclusive. Some of the earliest graphic records of a game similar to curling date from 1565. Two oil paintings by the Dutch master Pieter Bruegel, entitled “Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Birdtrap” and “Hunters in the Snow”, show eisschiessen or “ice shooting”, a Bavarian game played with a long stick-like handle, that is still enjoyed today. Another work, an engraving by R. de Baudous (1575 – 1644) after N. van Wieringen, entitled “Hyems” or “Winter”, shows players who appear to be sliding large discs of wood along a frozen water-way. Other sketches from around the same time show a Dutch game called kuting, played with frozen lumps of earth. The first hand-written record of what could be called an early curling game dates from February, 1540, when John McQuhin of Scotland noted down, in Latin, a challenge to a game on ice between a monk named John Sclater and an associate, Gavin Hamilton. The first printed reference to curling appears in a 17th century elegy published by Henry Adamson, following the death of a close friend: His name was M. James Gall, a citizen of Perth, and a gentle-man of goodly stature, and pregnant wit, much given to pastime, as golf, archerie, curling and jovial companie. It seems too that the game tempted many people from all walks of life. Records from a Glasgow Assembly of Presbyterians in 1638 accused a certain Bishop Graham of Orkney of a terrible act: He was a curler on the ice on the Sabbath. By the 18th century, curling had become a common past-time in Scotland. Both the poetry and the prose of the era provide numerous records of bonspiels, curling societies, and curling as a great national game. The real controversy over the birthplace of the game was initiated by the Reverend John Ramsay of Gladsmuir, Scotland. In his book, An Account of the Game of Curling (Edinburgh 1811), he argued in favor of Continental beginnings. His research into the origins of curling words (examples: bonspiel, brough, colly, curl, kuting, quoiting, rink, and wick), led him to conclude that they were derived from Dutch or German. Claiming that most of the words were foreign, he wrote, but the whole of the terms being Continental compel us to ascribe to a Contintental origin. The famous historian, the Reverend John Kerr contested Ramsay’s views and campaigned in favor of Scottish beginnings to curling. In A History of Curling (1890), Kerr questioned: if Flemings had brought the game to Scotland in the 1500′s, why did Scottish poets and historians make no special mention of its introduction before 1600?. He also saw no proof that many of the terms were Continental, explaining that many were of Celtic or Teutonic origin (examples: channel stone, crampit, draw, hack, hog, skip, tee, toesee, tramp, and tricker). To add to the puzzle, archaeological evidence of a curling stone (the famous Stirling Stone) inscribed with the date 1511 turned up, along with another bearing the date 1551, when an old pond was drained at Dunblane, Scotland. The true origin of curling is cloudy, lost in time. There is no doubt or dispute, however, that the Scots nurtured the game. They improved equipment, established rules, turned curling into a national past-time, and exported it to many other countries throughout the world.
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