Is it vantablack? I was wondering that because it seems to have insane depth for black. It’s gorgeous, whatever it is. I so wish I could see this in person: https://www.sciencealert.com/vantablack-hyundai-pavilion-pyeongchang-winter-olympics-asif-khan

Ellie, by “club” do you mean the club as in: “da club” a la Fiddy, or as in “Oh, I’m meeting Muffy at the club for some tennis and lunch,” or “La Bare - a gentleman’s club”?

I adore hats but have no idea where/how to wear them. When you say you wear hats like this every day, may I ask what you do for a job? I see people with beautiful hats on Sundays here, but I never see every day hat wearing. I always drool over the pics of Kate with her amazing hats, or the hats in the Crown, or in…

They really are amazing. I mean I have nothing in my life that screams “this event calls for shoes with furniture feet for heels!” but I could create events that need shoes like this. Or just wear them to work. Those are good librarian shoes, right?

Question for my fellow profanity lovers - is “fuck” now universal language? The speed skater from the Netherlands clearly just mouthed “fuck yeah” and I swear I have seen athletes from several other countries do the same. When did this happen? I love it. “Fuck” the word that unites us all.

That is the kind of practicality that I wish my teenage daughter had in relation to sports. Mine thought that was fantastically cool and then I wondered if maybe, just maybe, her pro-throw your gear into the crowd stance explains how many goggles I’ve had to buy over the course of her swim career. We do not have Shaun…

Me too! But seriously, what was that weird blue flair on his shirt? It looked like a piece of sparkly painter’s tape. Why, just why?

Under Missouri law, rape only covers penis in vagina sexual contact. Sodomy covers oral, anal, or digital penetration, so I’d assume one of those took place and not PIV, hence the sodomy charge.

It was unclear in my post, but I am pro-profanity. I think it is fucking awesome that NBC seems to have just given up this Olympics on the stupid bleeping or silencing of certain words but not others.

Luge is amazing. Insane, but amazing. Same with skeleton.

BTW, if any of you have kids who are interested, my daughter did the Slider Search (she did not make it to the next round after crashing spectacularly into some hay bales but finding it all very fun) with USA Luge and it was a really fun free event. Totally…

And NBC is failing to bleep out any of the profanity again. “I fucking did it!” on repeat. Snowboarders are just completely discombobulating the censors.

Shaun White sobbing after that run gave me the clenched up throat swelling music smiley tears.

That’s a good point too - I don’t think Surya would have thrown that flip there had she not been getting kind of screwed over in judging already. It’s interesting to wonder how she would have done with the new scoring system, which, while still subjective in a lot of bad ways, has swung more in the direction of…

Yay! I’m so glad. Burton makes great gear. My daughter’s Burton coat stood up to really hard use and was in good enough shape to hand down to her sister.

Oakley does her goggles, I think Burton is the sponsor that makes her jacket though. They are her usual outfit sponsor and I am pretty sure they did the gear for the US snowboarding squad so I think the answer is Burton whether you mean the top photo or the medal photo.

Truth. I was a small but athletic girl who ate massive omelets every day and could out eat every guy I dated until I was about 25. My daughter is a serious swimmer and has been eating us out of house and home since she was 8. I can’t even imagine how much teens who are Olympic athletes must eat without adding pot into…

Seriously - I was just saying this too. They seem genuinely stoked (that’s snowboarder dialect, right) for each other when their competitors from other countries have great runs. It’s really refreshing.

Snowboarding is to sports what the Great British Bake Off is to reality television.

I agree with you that people criticizing the aesthetics of it is gross. At the time I feel like there was a lot of “it’s mannish” sexism going on too that seemed problematic to me at the time - she got hate from a lot of angles that were unfair. The backflip itself was illegal because it was illegal, not anything…

I caught a “holy shit” and a “fucking” something (it was positive - like fucking awesome maybe). I like the idea that your brain is immune to profanity now. I’m surprised mine isn’t!

I think plenty of racist AF things happened to Surya, but deducting for the backflip wasn’t one of them. That move was already illegal before she started doing it. It’s been illegal since like the 70s. The rules prohibited somersault type jumps (so horizontal axis rather than vertical axis flips) - landing it on one…