To think a 10k skating race is exiting to anyone but the parents of the competitors or a Dutch person, is insane.

I've only seen a few minutes of the ski jumping, but I was quickly annoyed by the convoluted scoring system. I saw this one guy jumping much farther than anybody else at that point and then having trouble landing, because he jumped over the normal landing zone unto a part of the slope that is much harder to land on.…

Shouldn't be too hard. I think most of them are well above 60, so the positions are bound to come open. And the last time I saw one on TV, he skated right into a hole in the ice. So apparently being good at skating isn't a prerequisite.
(Is there a word in English for a hole in the ice? In Dutch it's 'wak', as in "the…

You know, I never thought about that. I imagine the cost of organizing the event is MUCH higher than they receive in contributions each year, so they probably save up. Also, there are costs even when there is no Elfstedentocht. All eleven cities have an "ice master" that examines the condition of the ice and stuff…

Well it will definitely not be this winter. So you'll have to stick it out here some longer.

It's a bit in between. The last one was in 1997 and the commercialization of sporting events has become more rampant since. So I am afraid it might become one big Unox commercial. Unox being a company that makes smoked sausage and pea soup, foods traditionally associated with winter and skating. They've taken over…

As @buuks:disqus said, skating is relatively minor as a sport, especially compared to soccer, tennis and the like (I'm surprised by golf being second). But it's pretty popular as recreation. There are a lot of skating rinks and many people go there to skate laps on occasion. But that's nothing compared to the times…

I you want dramatic Olympic story, Sven Kramer is as good as any. For about six years he's been all but unbeatable on the long speed skating distances (5 and 10K). So that he prolonged his title on the 5K isn't really surprising.
The real story is on the 10K. At the previous Olympics, he was the favourite to win gold…

Being a non-american, I haven't seen much of these shows, but I used to catch Leno, Letterman and O'Brien semi-regularly around the mid-nineties. I always thought Leno was by far the worst of the bunch. Having seen probably much less then a hundred of his shows, I consider myself in some small way a fan of Letterman.

My dick is not only a hypocrite, it's also a bit of a racist and rather homophobic. In short, my dick is a huge asshole.

Your call off Balvenie Doublewood is right on the money for a mellow Scotch. But in the smoke and peat department, nothing beats a Lagavulin. It's not Ron Swansons drink for nothing.

If you go down the sambal route of spicy condiments, sambal oelek is literally the most boring one you can have.

It would've worked, if not for the gravitational pull of Mars, common sense and those meddling kids!

@avclub-7aa650cb226408e3d0b1062eef48d209:disqus as calm, thoughtful and in control as the (allegedly) diaper wearing, cross country driving in attempt to kidnapping astronaut lady you mean?

I always fall of the wagon after a week or two.

Ok, let's over-analyse this three line joke.

Well, @avclub-6997a8bd0e1042b70b60c5c879a1780e:disqus it exists in his vocabulary but it means something different than in yours.

A friend of mine went to a concert by them last week. He complained that it was WAY too loud. And this is a guy that goes to four or five concerts a month, mostly metal of a much heavier kind than My Bloody Valentine. The venue even implored everybody to use earplugs on their website. I've never seen them do that for…

I considered that too. Some of the grammatical errors would make sense literally translated in Dutch. But most don't and there are so many, the ones that do are probably just chance. Also there are no Dutch words in it, you might be surprised to learn that trulyactually isn't a Dutch frase.
So I don't think this is a…

Cobie Smulders is a very Dutch name. Unfortunately one that to my Dutch ears, sounds like the name of a 67 years old rural housewife.