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[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mine is usually sheer horror at the prospect of getting that far and screwing up on an international stage. Secondhand anxiety is in the red zone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I seriously dislike that some of the Olympic games end in around 5 minutes. Imagine spending years practicing fencing and then end up getting zero medals just because you had a bad few rounds.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Yep. Its like finals. You get your one-shot to get it right. Else you have to rebuild to try the next 4 years after. You get to the Olympics means you are the best of the best. And winning a medal is literally 3 out of 7 Billion human beings.

So you prepare and prepare and hope you do it all with less errors than the other guys.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Me when a UFC fighter is held down by a wrestler: bro get up!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For real though, why would Green shoot last night?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The only reason he shot was because he heard that I placed a $15 bet on him winning by ko

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

I was at a bar in 2012 when McKayla Maroney botched her vault. I yelled "You suck!"

The thing is my friend worked there, and it was this restaurant on Capitol Hill in DC. I'm a metalhead, and I look the part. So, I stuck out like a sore thumb.

I definitely was the guy in this picture to everyone that day.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Idk, usually more how the announcers/commentors react

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Especially cringey that so much of the coverage are just random celebrities and not more actual former Olympians.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I'm so old that I remember when the Olympics was on more than one channel. If one channel had bad chatter, you would just bend the aerial and turn the dial to get something better.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Me when the dressage horse starts with the wrong foot during the diagonal part

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Seeing a mountain biker and an equestrianeer both go down so hard that they took an involuntary nappy makes me feel a lot better about not going outside. Yes, I should play more video games.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Wierd Al's Inactive seeps into the audio