Take the Bah! Poll
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 28, 2010 6:28 PM EST
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Contrary to what you may have been led to believe, it's not all whiskers-on-kittens around here. The Podium Cafe has a Dark Side too, expressed in a simple, succinct, polite hunk of onomatopoeia... BAH! What's your pet Bah! these days? Take the poll.
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Sky.
Always seems to be an argument (or at least a disagreement) whenever they do anything. They divide opinion a lot. Bored of it already.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bah
BAH!!!!....Cavendish?! Double BAH!!! Sky!!
TLP 7.0 Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent
in the lower part of the box... otherwise you just open the current pdc thread
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bah
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
is someone going to edit the entry...
brad?
"well...you live in england so: you love the rain. loves the queen. hates cycling. based on mr bean had a tremendous amount of humour. all ride in a mini cooper. all getting drunk before the age of 12. getting drunk at least 3 times a day."- frinking, 7/9/09
oh yeah, good point.......yeah why not!!
BAH!!!!....Cavendish?! Double BAH!!! Sky!!
TLP 7.0 Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent
Sidney Crosby?
Do I detect a slight note of frustration here?
Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill (F. Coppi)
BAH!!!!
he just fucking threw it at the net. BAH!!!
"The only pain I got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is." Edvald Boasson Hagen
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 28, 2010 6:44 PM EST up reply actions
yeah and now he gets to be a hero (again/still)
great player, but even with the Switzerland shootout and the USA 4-3 making goal I did not think he was having a great tournament. I thought that there were several Canadian forwards who were playing better and who were more deserving of getting the goal, Perry, Toews, Nash Getzlaf, Staal, Richards, Iginla and maybe Heatley were all as good if not better than Crosby. Particularly Toews, he is a monster for the ’Hawks and for Canada.
Was there some sort of ice hockey game today?
was it somehow important to the country and the host country?
March 14, 2010: The great one returns!
That is what YOU call it.
Bah people who refuse to recognize that hockey is played on ice.
It's fun to beat Cancellara--Edvald Boasson Hagen
Did you just bah me?!
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
The ignorance...
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
100 years later you got
Sweeeeeet
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
RABOBANK!
Gerrie Kneteman: If a football player falls he shouts for his mother, if a cyclist falls he yells for his bike.
I'm always sooo on-topic!
But.. How do I get those lovely ladies in a bah topic??!
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Totally not allowed
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
This is a clear case of double standards.
Hot hockey women=fine. Jason “cutest smile in Vancouver” Lamy Chappuis=not. I vote BAH Frinking!
If you persist in your error, you deserve to be bah'd.
It's fun to beat Cancellara--Edvald Boasson Hagen
+1.. The first step to the surrender of ice-hockey vs hockey
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
ooh
nice one.
"The only pain I got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is." Edvald Boasson Hagen
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 28, 2010 6:54 PM EST up reply actions
Curling?
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
what's wrong with curling? curling ROCKS!!!!
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
It's the most stupid sport I ever watched..
It’s like bowling on ice.. And you are not going to say you follow bowling don’t you?
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
I recommend actually watching a game or two
with knowledgeable commentators and keeping an open mind. If you do that you may still find it too slow or boring but I doubt you would call it stupid.
I think a lot has to do with the amount of Beer you’ve consumed before you watch it.
‘Cause I watch it sober once and whoa!
I’ll never do that again.
With to little beer I find it slow and boring
but not stupid. There is a tremendous amont of skill and tactics involved. I wouldn’t watch snooker either unless I’m drunk or nursing a hangover.
Tip:
“Die schönsten Bahnstrecken Deutschlands” (and international variants). Mesmerising! Especially between and 4am. Fixed camera in train driver’s cabin, no commentary, just the monotonous sound of the rail tracks & the landscape swallowing you.
I used to enjoy that German New Age Fraud channel
Thomas Hor ..something. Groups of people waving their arms and legs at random in express-yourself dancing, lots of odd shaped musical instruments being hit at random by people with no ear for music, and lots of exhortations to call very expensive chat lines. Sadly the regulators stepped in.
Which one? Because, you know, its history is quite interesting. Let me tell you,
actually, let’s not.
;)
Aaaah Frinky! A boy after my own heart!
This is why i voted ‘other’. Curling has caused me to shout BAAAAAH more often than anything else in the past two weeks. I appreciate the skill and the tactics. I did watch a bit. But really, there are so many awesome sports at the winter games but instead of showing the coolitude of biathlon/ski jumping etc etc etc the BBC ALWAYS had curling on. Always. Sometimes there was curling on the website AND the TV when I knew full well there were other sports going on. So not impressed. So BAH to curling and BAH to the BBC! Rant over.
I would say Rock Racing...
…but they’re not even worth the effort. They haven’t done anything remarkable enough to dismiss.
I want to vote on several of these
Cav because it’s just right, Sky because clearly I just hate Britain, other because the wet weather in Whistler gave me a cold, Crosby for being a mofo and doing his job so effectively, other again for NBC’s Olympic coverage…and on and on and on and on…..I voted Sky.
March 14, 2010: The great one returns!
see, you were watching the wrong channel... msnbc and cnbc were great with live coverage of all that matters... CURLING!!!
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
zzzzzzzzzzzz....I'm sorry what was that?
actually I gained a new respect for curling and followed it quite a bit down the stretch. But events as thrilling as bobsleigh definitely took priority.
March 14, 2010: The great one returns!
yeah, NBC just did what everyone would have done in their situation
because when you think about it 12 hours of live curling a day but not showing major hockey games live and makes total sense. You have to know your audience.
"Other" write-in candidate Lance Armstrong
It is SHOCKING that Chris left Lance Armstrong aka The King of Bah! off of this poll.
"Awesome! is more about what gets fans excited than what’s harder to do." - Chris...
That's a good one to vote for.
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
don't you just change your computer's clock to whatever timezone is geo-okay?
Never tried it, but someone said it works.
Eh, it's okay some of the time, not all
Sporza is deserving more of a Bah! these days because it doesn’t work anymore on my lappy
by Douglas Ansel on Feb 28, 2010 11:13 PM EST up reply actions
That get's my BAH!!!!!
BAH!!!!....Cavendish?! Double BAH!!! Sky!!
TLP 7.0 Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent
If there were no Geo-Restrictions . . . .
. . . there would be no Cycling TV!
It’s all about Root Cause Analysis PopUp.
I guess Ricco was too obvious?
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
Not worth the effort
And he deserves worse
by Douglas Ansel on Feb 28, 2010 11:14 PM EST up reply actions
Sky
I don’t get why Sky gets so much bah whereas Radioshack with equally shady transfer strategies does not get the same response.
Gerrie Kneteman: If a football player falls he shouts for his mother, if a cyclist falls he yells for his bike.
Serious... They have Lance..
"Here the high school level of immaturity will be left to hottitude columns and people like myself." Der Phil. H
Once again
most of those who bah Sky do so because they have experience of Sky’s involvement in Premier League football. I have not and don’t find them very bah-worthy.
I agree... sends shivers down my spine.
But i must admit Wiggins hasn’t really filled me with admiration throughout the transfer process either..
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
yeah i agree
he’s always been a fly by night, crap at committing to teams…it’s just who he is. it’s only because of the tour performance that anyone’s picked up on it. i wouldn’t be surprised if, a couple seasons down the line, he moves on again…
"well...you live in england so: you love the rain. loves the queen. hates cycling. based on mr bean had a tremendous amount of humour. all ride in a mini cooper. all getting drunk before the age of 12. getting drunk at least 3 times a day."- frinking, 7/9/09
I bah Wiggans and Sky
Don’t like attacks on the feed zones. Certain sports have they unwritten rules, like tennis where the elegance, and honesty must play.
"Racing bikes is for the kids, the rest of us just want to feel like kids on our bikes" - Flying Dog
eh
have you ever seen how long nadal takes to serve, or how many times djokovic bounces the ball? it’s sport y’know, everyone takes shortcuts to win. as for the feed zone thing, i agree with you.
"well...you live in england so: you love the rain. loves the queen. hates cycling. based on mr bean had a tremendous amount of humour. all ride in a mini cooper. all getting drunk before the age of 12. getting drunk at least 3 times a day."- frinking, 7/9/09
oh i don't mind it
like i said, it’s all part of the game.
"well...you live in england so: you love the rain. loves the queen. hates cycling. based on mr bean had a tremendous amount of humour. all ride in a mini cooper. all getting drunk before the age of 12. getting drunk at least 3 times a day."- frinking, 7/9/09
minor things
most of them still correct umpire call even if it is against themselves, this is the best example I could give.
I know that even this behavior is about to be extinguished but….It is the closest to fairplay I could think.
In soccer on the other side we learn as kids how to simulate that we received a fault….to get a penalty kick in our favor so…
"Racing bikes is for the kids, the rest of us just want to feel like kids on our bikes" - Flying Dog
Norwegians?
Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. Louis J. Helle, Jr.
I'm shocked at the ice dance bah!
C’mon. You’ve got a sport with sexy men and women, skimpy costumes (that are a constant source of entertainment), wardrobe malfunctions, flexibility to make you gasp, gossip galore and bizarre themes.
Where else can you see people portray drug addicts, female truck drivers picking up hot hitchikers and an angel all at the same event.
Maybe it's more impressive...
than I give it credit for, but it always struck me as the less athletic, less dramatic version of pairs skating, which, of all the figure skating sports, is easily my favorite. It’s kind of like beach soccer. If might be fine on its own, but given the existence of something that is fairly similar and clearly superior (11 a side soccer), I kind of shrug my shoulders and say “why bother?”
One huge success of the BBC's Winter Olympics coverage (+ the time differences, I guess)
is that I went the entire two weeks without seeing any figure skting whatsoever.
I didn't see any either.
The games did introduce me to some sports I will continue to follow in the future (I love anything on Nordic skis as of the last couple of weeks) but I really had to try hard to watch them due to the blanket c&*%$g coverage.
last year he was my max bah also...
but recently i have un-bahed he who must not be named.
Rodania,,,,,,,Rodania,,,,,,,Rodania,,,,,,,Rodania
and we took it along with him didn't we?
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
'Bah' should be on the poll... it's a startling omission.
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
But, but...
We need Bah, without it the very structure of the PdC universe would be in danger.
Gerrie Kneteman: If a football player falls he shouts for his mother, if a cyclist falls he yells for his bike.
Pull the other one, it has bells on ;)
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
What bells? Which other one?
Pfff, conversations with angelsachian antipodians, so confusing…
Gerrie Kneteman: If a football player falls he shouts for his mother, if a cyclist falls he yells for his bike.
In this context it means that I'm sceptical that a little thing like 'bah'
could ever undermine the fabric of PdC ;)
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
But I was argueing
That Bah is what glues the structure together.
Gerrie Kneteman: If a football player falls he shouts for his mother, if a cyclist falls he yells for his bike.
I know. I'm sorry, my explanation was too brief...
I think it’s the people not the ‘bah’ that holds PdC together is what I should have said ;)
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
But the people need Bah.
If everything was \o/ around here it would start to feel like a happy theme park. Instead of fake shinyness Bah gives us authenticity.
Gerrie Kneteman: If a football player falls he shouts for his mother, if a cyclist falls he yells for his bike.
As an expletive it's too bland... sort of fake shiny ;)
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Fake Shiny
I like that. You mind if I use it?
"Some people are like slinkies - not really good for anything but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs."
Not at all, although I think Lopex deserves the credit...
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Too bland?
Coming from the mouth of hooligans and ice skating lovers perhaps. But here at PdC we is a civilised crowd. Among civilised people Bah has a meaning that no amount of swearing by a bunch of angry truck drivers can surpass. When an English lady librarian, and classical music singer to boot, uses the term Bah the universe itself trembles with her in indignation!
Gerrie Kneteman: If a football player falls he shouts for his mother, if a cyclist falls he yells for his bike.
You are... very difficult for us down here..
you understand. We’re not very good at expletives that don’t have four letters.
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Don't upset skating fans
or they might throw the balls of yarn they keep on their laps for knitting during the events at you.
If they're Dutch
Then they might throw various kinds of musical instruments at you.
Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl.
by TheFigurehead on Mar 2, 2010 1:38 PM EST up reply actions
Swedish Cycling?
What’s that?
"My facking goat didn’t wear Robes! Does he look Scottisch?!" Baron von Frinkenstein
I'm still working on the Unified Theory of Bah
having trouble working out ’Bahs’manns constant….
BAH!!!!....Cavendish?! Double BAH!!! Sky!!
TLP 7.0 Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent
by bradBordeaux on Mar 1, 2010 7:56 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Bah my office. It's freezing.
And Bah the Central Line. I got stuck in a tunnel for 40 minutes this morning, standing up, pushed under someone’s armpit.
the central line is the worst for sure
i had to deliver some stuff this morning, and i walked..it’s quite a nice day
"well...you live in england so: you love the rain. loves the queen. hates cycling. based on mr bean had a tremendous amount of humour. all ride in a mini cooper. all getting drunk before the age of 12. getting drunk at least 3 times a day."- frinking, 7/9/09
Bah Comcast
For blocking cycling on Versus and Universal Sports.
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.
Right, sorry
I meant to say, Bah Comcast for blocking cycling on Versus and Universal Sports if you subscribe to DirecTV. And I’d even change, but comcast is not offered where I live.
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.
as a DirecTV person....I thought that would suck but...
…I will not have to endure the constant Armstrong lovefest over at Versus soooo no BAH for me.
Is there any difference between bah and meh?
Or are we looking at some sort of Uncertainty Principle?
by ManBicycleThing on Mar 2, 2010 12:24 AM EST via mobile reply actions
I think of 'bah' as negative and 'meh' as indifferent
I remember reading a columnist describe himself as ‘in a fug of meh’ when in a state of particular torpidity.
by Drongo on Mar 2, 2010 1:35 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Bah = disapproval; Meh = I couldnt care
Maybe we should have a word like Bahhem to indicate that “i am generally opposed, but, you know what, lets not get too het up about it”
It just seemed wrong that there wasn't a "bah" for Bos yet.
So I took care of that.
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
A boo for the past.
A bah for this moment.
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
You are just trying to shift the bah
from where it belongs. Right on JB/LA’s shoulders!
Gerrie Kneteman: If a football player falls he shouts for his mother, if a cyclist falls he yells for his bike.
what is "fun" spelled backwards ?
“nuf”
As in I have had nuf, this is not fun anymore, or meh to all this, or bah to all this.
Or as in baaaah, baaaah we are not men we are all sheep.
I could go on but you will all bah me I know it . . .
what ?
"nuf" is the cute noise my one puppy makes... and he's always fun
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
wouldn't that be bahther?
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
brilliant
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
new tangent time
I chose Linus because I can imagine Igor from universial sports saying “Leenoos Gerdeman, Bah” because of the over hype about the poor guy
Hello and welcome.
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
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