The Swamp

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:29 am**

China have lost a table tennis match. Japan wins the mixed doubles. This is the first time China has not won gold or lost to a non-Chinese opponent since Athens!

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:50 am**

Voted sexiest athlete in Tokyo

1. Where is she from?
2. What sport is she in?

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Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:51 am**

I'm guessing the answer to question 1 is "the 1980s".

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 12:07 pm**

Her sport is making my pants fit tighter?

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 12:59 pm**

The answer

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Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 1:55 pm**

degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 12:59 pm The answer

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So Dortmund hired her as a conditioning coach. At first I was thinking it'd be incredibly distracting, but OTOH could be motivating to impress her. When I was 14 or 15, my travel soccer team had a professional coach who was 23 or 24. His fiance was a yoga instructor, and incredibly hot. He once brought her to a practice and had her teach a yoga session. She wore spandex. Our spank banks were full for a year, and despite all of our pleading, he never brought her to another practice. What the hell was he thinking?

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 2:02 pm**

The Sybian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 1:55 pm
degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 12:59 pm The answer

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So Dortmund hired her as a conditioning coach. At first I was thinking it'd be incredibly distracting, but OTOH could be motivating to impress her. When I was 14 or 15, my travel soccer team had a professional coach who was 23 or 24. His fiance was a yoga instructor, and incredibly hot. He once brought her to a practice and had her teach a yoga session. She wore spandex. Our spank banks were full for a year, and despite all of our pleading, he never brought her to another practice. What the hell was he thinking?

1976 called and wants its hot take back.

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 2:11 pm**

A_B wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 2:02 pm
The Sybian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 1:55 pm
degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 12:59 pm The answer

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So Dortmund hired her as a conditioning coach. At first I was thinking it'd be incredibly distracting, but OTOH could be motivating to impress her. When I was 14 or 15, my travel soccer team had a professional coach who was 23 or 24. His fiance was a yoga instructor, and incredibly hot. He once brought her to a practice and had her teach a yoga session. She wore spandex. Our spank banks were full for a year, and despite all of our pleading, he never brought her to another practice. What the hell was he thinking?
1976 called and wants its hot take back.

Your running disapproval of the more, let's say... off-color, comments by Syb is one of my favorite Swamp subplots but you're giving, at a minimum, the 80s and 90s too much credit.

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 2:15 pm**

rass wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 2:11 pm
A_B wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 2:02 pm
The Sybian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 1:55 pm
degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 12:59 pm The answer

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So Dortmund hired her as a conditioning coach. At first I was thinking it'd be incredibly distracting, but OTOH could be motivating to impress her. When I was 14 or 15, my travel soccer team had a professional coach who was 23 or 24. His fiance was a yoga instructor, and incredibly hot. He once brought her to a practice and had her teach a yoga session. She wore spandex. Our spank banks were full for a year, and despite all of our pleading, he never brought her to another practice. What the hell was he thinking?
1976 called and wants its hot take back.
Your running disapproval of the more, let's say... off-color, comments by Syb is one of my favorite Swamp subplots but you're giving, at a minimum, the 80s and 90s too much credit.

I had 1982 in there at first but decided to go a bit further back. I should have just looked up when "Necessary Roughness" premiered.

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 3:19 pm**

A_B wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 2:15 pm
rass wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 2:11 pm
A_B wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 2:02 pm
The Sybian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 1:55 pm
degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 12:59 pm The answer

[+] spoiler

So Dortmund hired her as a conditioning coach. At first I was thinking it'd be incredibly distracting, but OTOH could be motivating to impress her. When I was 14 or 15, my travel soccer team had a professional coach who was 23 or 24. His fiance was a yoga instructor, and incredibly hot. He once brought her to a practice and had her teach a yoga session. She wore spandex. Our spank banks were full for a year, and despite all of our pleading, he never brought her to another practice. What the hell was he thinking?
1976 called and wants its hot take back.
Your running disapproval of the more, let's say... off-color, comments by Syb is one of my favorite Swamp subplots but you're giving, at a minimum, the 80s and 90s too much credit.
I had 1982 in there at first but decided to go a bit further back. I should have just looked up when "Necessary Roughness" premiered.

Scott Bakula, Ireland, Sinbad, Rob Schnider...now where is the oral history of that classic film

edit: Google just answered that and it is not where, but which one to read.

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 4:08 pm**

rass wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 2:11 pm
A_B wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 2:02 pm
The Sybian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 1:55 pm
degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 12:59 pm The answer

[+] spoiler

So Dortmund hired her as a conditioning coach. At first I was thinking it'd be incredibly distracting, but OTOH could be motivating to impress her. When I was 14 or 15, my travel soccer team had a professional coach who was 23 or 24. His fiance was a yoga instructor, and incredibly hot. He once brought her to a practice and had her teach a yoga session. She wore spandex. Our spank banks were full for a year, and despite all of our pleading, he never brought her to another practice. What the hell was he thinking?
1976 called and wants its hot take back.
Your running disapproval of the more, let's say... off-color, comments by Syb is one of my favorite Swamp subplots but you're giving, at a minimum, the 80s and 90s too much credit.

What's even funnier, is that the last time AB called me out on an inappropriate comment, it was immediately after I taught a "Respect in the Workplace" seminar to clients, teaching compassion and understanding of those different than you, sexual harassment prevention and discrimination prevention. Today's comment was written shortly after I completed attending our internal sexual harassment course online. I don't think it's a coincidence. Ironically insensitive comments seem funnier when I am coming out of these classes, and I've been presenting a lot of them lately with even more in the near future, so buckle up AB!

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 4:23 pm**

My new favorite page on the internet is this incredible collection of golfer mug shots:

https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic ... e-play.htm

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 5:14 pm**

It's like DUI booking photos, sorted by the arrest location's proximity to country club.

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 5:27 pm**

Early start! Triathlon started at 6:30 am in Tokyo. There's a Bermudan in the lead group of 6. Would be awesome if she got a medal. Bermuda has one medal in their history. A boxing bronze in Montreal!

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 6:57 pm**

degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 5:27 pm Early start! Triathlon started at 6:30 am in Tokyo. There's a Bermudan in the lead group of 6. Would be awesome if she got a medal. Bermuda has one medal in their history. A boxing bronze in Montreal!

Bermuda win gold!

And Canadian reporter discovers Japanese 7-11

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:01 pm**

The Olympics are exposing surfing as boring.

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:29 pm**

Tuned into men’s water polo last night because the color commentator for NBC the last couple of Olympics, Wolf Wigo, is very closely related to a family our kids hang out with during our shore vacation every year. His mom had gone to Rio and brought a bunch of Olympic branded plastic beer/soda cups back that the kids used to dig in the sand that summer.

Turns out Wolf isn’t working this year and the guy who is couldn’t sound sleepier. I gave him another chance and just listened to a bit of the game on right now and he sounds the same. Super jet-lagged or really green or high or bored.

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:10 am**

Women's gymnastics

[+] spoiler: Damn, we're in a one-point hole to those cheating bastards already.

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:36 am**

More gymnastics

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Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:44 am**

More Women's Gymnastics:

[+] spoiler: I'm not suggesting she's doing this and I'm more than willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, but the OAN/NewsMax/MAGA chuds will view this as an "ow, my arm!" incident.

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:45 am**

If you care about your friends, you should spoil that.

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:47 am**

I feel a great disturbance in the discourse

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:50 am**

No need for a spoiler to say Chiles dropped the hammer on the unevens.

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:52 am**

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Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:14 am**

I think someone did a floor exercise to Queen's Don't Stop Me Now but it must have been a foreigner because the 'cock didn't show it.

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:19 am**

rass wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:14 am I think someone did a floor exercise to Queen's Don't Stop Me Now but it must have been a foreigner because the 'cock didn't show it.

I'm watching the four-screen version. It was China. Chiles is really stepping up, most recently just now on the beam.

[+] spoiler: Well, maybe the judges disagreed. Still in 2nd to the cheating bastards after the third rotation.

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:59 am**

Women's Gymnastics/Softball

[+] spoiler: Gutty performances, resulting in a silver in Gymnastics. Cheating bastards get the gold, Brits with the bronze. Down 2-0 going into the bottom of the 7th, a stolen HR by the US LF kept it from being more.

ETA: And it's a final from the diamond. Japan's starter pitched like a 1995 Maddux, just putting the ball where they couldn't get good aluminum on it.

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:05 am**

[+] spoiler: Thanks Biden!

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:01 am**

It doesn't seem to get a lot of press, but Canada is a damn strong country relative to its size. It has a population smaller than California, yet they seem to be in or around the top ten in the last few summer games. The really punch above their weight class.

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:08 am**

Giff wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 12:07 pm Her sport is making my pants fit tighter?

Ha I don't think cooking tex-mex* is a sport!!!

* Brewing beer? Some other cuisine type? Not really sure where to land on this one.

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:13 am**

I would've just gone tacos tbh.

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:14 am**

Rass, file that one away for 2027.

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:27 am**

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:01 am It doesn't seem to get a lot of press, but Canada is a damn strong country relative to its size. It has a population smaller than California, yet they seem to be in or around the top ten in the last few summer games. The really punch above their weight class.

Not as good as Australia though. Canada's performance in recent years is more varied with medals in combat sports for example. And it's all women winning the medals so far.

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 10:59 am**

I'm sure all the enlightened folks like Clay Travis will have genuine respect for what Simone Biles is going through...

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 11:18 am**

Speaking of mediocre white guys...

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:03 pm**

Rex wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:01 pm The Olympics are exposing surfing as boring.

Flipside, Rugby Sevens is awesome.

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:16 pm**

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:03 pm
Rex wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:01 pm The Olympics are exposing surfing as boring.
Flipside, Rugby Sevens is awesome.

Speaking of mediocre White Guys...

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:20 pm**

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:16 pm
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:03 pm
Rex wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:01 pm The Olympics are exposing surfing as boring.
Flipside, Rugby Sevens is awesome.
Speaking of mediocre White Guys...

Ah yes. The Ted Lasso is real defense.

Ted Lasso wouldn't have made it three weeks in real EPL life.

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:22 pm**

Rex wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:01 pm The Olympics are exposing surfing as boring.

I can't decide if a tropical storm is good for surfing or bad for surfing. Definitely bad for drone shots and camera work.

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:29 pm**

A_B wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:20 pm
DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:16 pm
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:03 pm
Rex wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:01 pm The Olympics are exposing surfing as boring.
Flipside, Rugby Sevens is awesome.
Speaking of mediocre White Guys...

Ah yes. The Ted Lasso is real defense.

Ted Lasso wouldn't have made it three weeks in real EPL life.

But is unflappable positivity and down-home charm can win over even the most hardened heart!

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