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View Poll Results: Are you opposed to the olympics being in China?
Yes 14 31.11%
No 10 22.22%
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Old 04-09-2008, 03:49 PM
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Are you opposed to the olympics being in China?
People are protesting the torch going through SF today. What do you guys think about all this. I personally don't really care.
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Old 04-09-2008, 03:51 PM
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not even a little bit.
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Old 04-09-2008, 03:53 PM
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don't care
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Old 04-09-2008, 03:53 PM
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I do think whoever put out the torch should be punished somehow... but I'm not willing to waste any more time that this tying... lol
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they're showing it on CNN right now. the torch is surrounded by tons of police.
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supposively yesterday they had to take the torch on a bus for 20 minutes because too many people had distinguised it..

I personally don't give two shits where it takes place
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Probably won't watch anyway
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Old 04-09-2008, 05:07 PM
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the torch relay is a joke...it is flown from city to city and not run across the world...they use more than one torch and when the tools doing it in san francisco had it in their hands they walked most of the time instead of running
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Old 04-09-2008, 05:08 PM
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Probably won't watch anyway
why not man? what else is there to do around 3am
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Old 04-09-2008, 05:38 PM
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the torch relay is a joke...it is flown from city to city and not run across the world...
how else are they supposed to do it? swim with it?
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Old 04-09-2008, 06:23 PM
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how else are they supposed to do it? swim with it?
row it damnit...

where are the Ivy leaguers yelling Hoy hoy..or whatever the hell they yell

or mail it ...they could talk to Ted Kascinsky about how to package flammable objects

The olympics should go on....for no other reason to embarrass China....

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Old 04-09-2008, 06:25 PM
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row it damnit...

where are the Ivy leaguers yelling Hoy hoy..or whatever the hell they yell

or mail it ...they could talk to Ted Kascinsky about how to package flammable objects

The olympics should go on....for no other reason to embarrass China....

wde
Now I am on my way to a indian reservation to do a little gambling in their secured corner of the world.....

They should give the Tibetan Monks their casino rights to pacify them...

it has worked here

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Yes based on the fact its going to lead to more political talk then sports talk. Its about the athletes, politics just f*cks things up
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Old 04-09-2008, 07:48 PM
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are there any posters here from Tibet?
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Old 04-09-2008, 07:50 PM
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olympics not a big deal in the USA, who cares about swimming and track and field?
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