David Mac Dougall

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Messaged a friend in Helsinki "another gold medal for GBR at the Olympics. What Finland doing?"

He replied: "Surprising from a country that calls 1.5cm of snow 'The Beast from the East'.

Fair point 😂

Great headline!

If the Jacobite army at Culloden had foreigners in their ranks... I would say that mirrors perfectly the Scotland rugby team!

The question is the cost. It's a high price to pay for broadcasters when your athletes (GBR & FIN included) rarely trouble the top 10.

Tälle kirjoittajalle ja muille talviolympialaisten faneille televisiolähetys on kuitenkin edelleen hintansa arvoinen. Mutta lisää mitaleja olisi silti kiva saada!

Tunnustan, että rakastan talviolympialaisia. Katson niitä tuntikausia joka päivä vuorotellen Ylen ja BBC:n kanavilta. Lähetys on upea, ja urheilutoimittajien ja asiantuntijoiden tietämys on laaja. Milano ja erityisesti lumipeitteiset vuoristokaupungit – Cortina, Livigno ja muut – näyttävät upeilta.

At this point I might be watching 8 hours per day, and I don't even discriminate: curling, snowboarding, skiing, figure skating, skeleton, luge, jumping, twisting, speed and backflips.

Media | Talvikisojen katselu vie lapsuuden tunnelmiin Italian talviolympialaiset eivät ole ainakaan vielä tarjonneet suurta menestystä suomalaisille. Neljä median tuntijaa löytää monia muitakin syitä seurata urheilua.

This week in the @hs.fi media column, I confess my addiction for the Winter Olympics.

Jos on vaikeaa katsoa talviolympialaisia suomalaisena, vielä vaikeampaa se brittinä!

www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...

Yes. 100% agreed. And this is why, despite yesterday's score, Gregor has to go.

@seanferrick.bsky.social I might be liking SFA better than SNW. Then again maybe that's because I like whatever I'm watching right now. But it might also be because there's been no Broadway episode of SFA. Yet.

All these years TOC, and I never told you before: I can take or leave TNG. I think it's aged horrible: production values, writing, acting, characters, themes. It feels very stuck in the late 1980s. There's some episodes I don't mind but I find most of it kinda meh! 🤷‍♂️

I don't think it's an established verb. I came up with it tonight.

'Cullodened'

noun

1. The act of being absolutely destroyed by England: historically, on the battlefield; contemporaneously, in rugby.

Example:

"Are you going to Murrayfield tomorrow to watch Scotland get Cullodened in the Calcutta Cup?"

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏉 It's going to so brutal tomorrow I'm avoiding the game

I've been writing it in my head since Wednesday... I just had to get it down in an email.

It's done. Luckily the topic was one I am excited about (Winter Olympics) and I kept it on the short side.

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POV: Your @hs.fi column is due at 12 noon on Friday, and you thought today was Thursday. And you only realised at 11:40 what day of the week it is...

No, Seán, go back and read the subtitles. What you said on Ups & Downs is *not* the Nus quote! 😬😬

I read it more like Stubb and Orpo ready to sell out Sápmi to Trump's drilling machines, even as Trump legislates against science to deny climate change...

@seanferrick.bsky.social Grab the Frosties, it's time for an Ups & Downs breakfast!

As a former diplomat myself (in a whole other life before I became a journalist) I plan to use that exact line in general conversation at the earliest possible juncture.

POV: Me going "Did Nus really just say what I think he said when he came aboard the Athena? Then turning on subtitles and realising yes he did. That might be the first time those words have ever been spoken on Trek! 😮

@seanferrick.bsky.social That was Jeff Teravainen getting eaten alive. A staple of Canadian sci-fi shows.

Because up to this point the Betazoid girl has just been "pointless love interest" and not memorable at all. (My theory stands: remove Book from DSC S5 and you lose nothing!)

I don't feel like I'm posting spoilers, because I don't think a lot of people are here, unlike Twitter back in the day! Why couldn't the annoying Romulan die, instead of the nice Vulcan? Also is this the Betazoid's only purpose for being in the show? Is she just a sci-fi McGuffin like DSC S5 Book?

OK, but the question remains: Why do I have to think like that? Because of how toxic the "fandom" is.

I was actively watching it thinking "Oh, this is where the haters are going to have something to say about retconning but I HAVE THE RECEIPTS! You don't have to be @gaghyogi49.bsky.social to know where this plot device was previously used in TNG and PIC as part of established canon!"

🏳️‍⚧️ The levels of transphobia and abuse in the comments... and that's before I can even muster the strength to read the piece itself! How can I stop seeing anything more about this horrible woman Nurse Ratchett, and when will Scottish media stop championing her?

@seanferrick.bsky.social What the hell just happened? 😵😵😵🦇👽

🏈 At the Super Bowl, we saw peak Latinx & Puerto Rican representation with Bad Bunny 🇵🇷

⛸️ At the Olympics, we saw peak Scottish representation with Lilah Fear & Lewis Gibson in sparkly tartan dancing to The Proclaimers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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It's the start of the men's curling at the Olympics but after the emotional roller coaster of the mixed doubles I don't know if I can put myself through it again... 🥌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Show us the framework!