chuso007

Those are the first things I put aside... Just sayin'

Not everything changed for better yesterday...

I agree, but apparently (for some people, I'm not talking about you) it's super-necessary to let everybody know how superior they are for it, some call it relativism, I call it lack of moral standards.

Do you even know what "Ad hominem" means? The truth is I don't think you are able to understand what you owe to the many military you insulted above, so I won't waste my time. Do you think you can insult people and no one's entitled to respond to you? Join the ignored trash bin.

You are so fucking clueless, it's almost sad.

And thanks to those people, anybody can SAFELY post shit about them from their couch. And you know what? Most of them are happy with that, it means they've done their job well.

When talking about jobs I obviously was not thinking about volunteers. But from the semislave workers in Asia that make shirts, flags and other memorabilia and the guys who sell this stuff all over the world, to the TV workers and bars where the turn their tv's for people to watch their national teams and athletes compete, along with all the related industries (local and foreign), Hell, even all the economy generated the years before and after the games, there's a lot at stake for many people. And of course, the athletes. I'm pretty sure participating in an Olimpiad changes your life forever.

That hundreds (if not thousands) of jobs, even if temporary, rely on the games?

Personally I think your comment is what's embarrassing. Some hidden complex maybe? Are you not proud of who you are and where you come from? Because that's what a flag represents (among other things)

What I understood from the runner bit on the presser, is that they have some settings for each maneuver so the runner was eased to that setting, not that it was completely eased. Then again, English not my native tongue so I could have got it wrong. What I did get is that they thought going for the safest maneuver could have ended in a touchdown from very light conditions and they opted for the winning move, not the safest move. And that's what you have to do to win. I they had chosen the safe side and wind dropped to non foiling conditions all couch sailing experts here would have ripped them apart too, just like they did with BA three weeks ago.

Haha. You know it's (almost) never enough...

Pretty standard stuff... When you need a lot of twist in little wind it's pretty normal to bring the boom above centerline. Rule of thumb I was taught as a kid was looking at the bottom batten for reference instead of the boom.

I'm getting better thanks to Bar Karate (and working for kiwis for 6 years), but kiwi/Ozzy accent is no piece of cake either for non-natives...

There were less than 10k viewers when I logged into Youtube, I don't think there were many non-sailors...

That's how you shut some big mouths...