oh, they have an answer for that - it's all about 'jitter', you see. the more expensive cables make sure all the bits arrive at *exactly the right time*!

Nothing much really happened to them - they just went through a pretty lucky phase where what people wanted happened to line up with what they were good at. They're still pretty good at all the same things. High end Sony TVs are still really good. They make some great cameras and stuff.

People like YOU, sir and/or madam, are exactly the reason the 'bizarrely injured' lobby in this country have to work so hard.

playing deathmatch Doom (or, you know, Chex Quest) over a 10BASE2 network with IPX? Used to spend six hours hauling computers around town, plugging them into each other, and watching that f**king load screen go wrong somehow, half an hour (finally) playing, and then it was time to unplug everything and haul it back…

Show the first two US goals, then cut to four minutes to play and run tape. If they didn't do that, they're freakin' insane. Most exciting show of the Games so far. it had everything.

Move to Canada. We have Battle of the Blades, with ex-pro hockey players learning to figure skate. It's exactly as awesome as it sounds.

A heartfelt and impassioned plea, but…you know…they *choose* to be figure skaters. I don't think the Shadowy Figure Skating Conspiracy kidnaps them from their beds at age 3. If you don't like how it's judged, maybe…do something else?

"I know it's a personal thing"

You take that back! Britain has a skiing tradition that's the envy of the world. Haven't you seen that one James Bond movie? Or heard of Eddie Edwards? For shame.

Well, in Australia. They have what they call 'ski fields' there. On the mountains they also have there.

You, uh, realize they sit the contestants down and ask them loaded questions for hours so they'll have enough five second snippets of bitchiness to last pretty much forever, right? Seriously, try getting into competition with a bunch of people for an extended and intense period, then talk to a camera about those…

Erm. The contestants between them cooked, what, 90 eggs? Even assuming every single one got trashed, I'm pretty sure there aren't any families in America which only see 90 eggs (or caloric equivalent!) a year. That's, er, what, 80 calories to an egg, about 7200 calories? That's enough for one person for a week, on a…

"Of *course* Bime would win by one egg. Of *course* the final vote would be 4-3."

Look, you might have gone away and pounded your head repeatedly against a concrete wall during each commercial break, and thus be in urgent need not only of medical attention but also of a reminder of what happened three minutes previously. The producers just CAN'T BE SURE, damnit.

See also: Michael Buble.

Basic rule of baking: never start experimenting on your first try, because then you wind up in this situation: something inevitably goes wrong and you have no idea what. The first time, follow the recipe exactly, and see if it tastes right. If not, do it again till it does. Once you've nailed the basic recipe, _then_…

Aside from what everyone else I said, his drummer - at least the one who was playing on the Shake the Sheets tour, when I saw him live - is one of the best I've ever seen. Incredible stuff.

So it's okay for him to identify with two things he is not, but not for Katy Perry to? Because that doesn't make it any better.

I have never heard of this guy before, but he sounds like a fucking terrible person.

It's discussed somewhere else in this thread. Apparently The Internet says yes, they do, it's just not shown on the U.S. version of the TV show (but is on others).