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The C-word is banned, it's only postponed  

1,200 valiant citizens. Still better than those who chose not to participate 

Just did 17km in a little under 1:41. That's my longest distance since my semi-succeeded half marathon debut in June (the longest distance since then was 15.4km in September) and it's well on pace for my plan for the 4 April half marathon (2:06, meaning 10 km/h or 6:00 min/km)  
 
@Agger Still no bottle or anything and not even a gel or something  
 
When I came home I only drank something an hour later, at lunch. For whatever reason, drinking water right after a run like this doesn't always agree with me  

I am running at around 7 organized runs every year, though results are not impressive.
 
5km 22:00
10km 51:00
21km 1:50:00
 
Longest distance run: 22 km
 
Also I play badminton all winter two times a week, running in hill, playing tennis in summer,...

Yeah, I love their videos!

Burn the Witch!

They are trying to get it to a brokered convention where bloomberg can win, i think biden is done so the media need to pick a new favorite

She’s from LA! 
 
Dead to me I say, dead to me. #DezbeeIsOverParty 

It’s all good 

Well an ideal world would be one where these kind of machines aren't necessary to begin with. Sadly an ideal world won't ever happen, at least until humans have gone extinct.

A bit?  From a neutral perspective, one would not know whether it's the USA or North Korea when watching children drum up the words day after day after day.

We'll be able to move forward as a community, so you don't need to put all of that burden only on yourself, because I speak for everyone saying that we're here to help with our ideas and imput regarding the contest moving forward.
 
As for the timing, I fully agree. We need at least some sort of break to reset, because if we would start to scramble for host right now, we would be disrespecting and brushing off the issue that we just had on our hands. 

Sorry to hear that. But not accepting an entry is not acceptable so to leave the contest and the forum is your choice, not anyone's else.

Which we got, it's already finished. How much shorter do you want it?

Hi everyone,
 
This is a sad day for TISC. We have rules in place and some rules you never ever want to enforce and hope that you won't need and hope they are just there for guidance. Sadly today I will be enforcing rule 7(f).
 
 
I had been in contact with @Sindo in recent days as I felt things were taking a turn for the worst. When bestmen refused to acknowledge Israel's entry, I had to add that to the first post myself and I told Sindo that my red line is if bestmen removes Israel from the list once more or goes on another rant then he would have to be stripped of hosting duties.
 
On top of that, I have no choice but to disqualify him from TISC entirely. To deny another user the right to participate is a totally unacceptable move and it means that we cannot consider him to be a fair judge of other users and songs.
 
As for the future of this contest, TISC Annual 2020 will go ahead, no doubt about that. I won't make any decisions yet about how soon or hosting, I need some time to think it over as do we all.
 
Apologies to everyone.
 

Well, I think it is safe to say that we will be having the contest, we just need to sort out the formalities. There's no reason to ruin this beautiful tradition.

I can't wait for @bestmen joining the replacement contest
 
Bombs will be flying here.

So I read this while eating - you guessed it - mashed potatoes.

so the guy just did a rage quit because israel wanted to join? now i wonder what would happened if israel would won....
 
hope the contest still go on btw. dont even mind of waiting more time and have the annual contest, maybe with more nations involved.
 
Personally I prefer having no gifs but having a truly multicultural contest with all nations that want to compete where we all just enjoy music and watch the suspense of the voting day  

I think we can all agree that at the very least the current situation sucks for everyone: those who didn't want to join found it to be shit anyway and those who wanted to join find it to be shit now because there's nothing left to be joined in   

I gave back hosting rights because two in one year really would be too much, and this is the one I didn't actually win  

Supposed to try and not spoil our opinions before voting 

Isn't the easy solution just to sign out and never sign in again? Or you could write "mashed potatoes" under favourite sports.  

Sagan crashed, apparently.

EDIT: I already regret posting this, but what can I do now 
 
Interest in hosting the games has diminished terribly, but interest in the games themselves is fine. People love the Olympics, they just don’t want to host them because of the horror stories like Rio. The problem you seem to fail to identify (or at least one of them), is the corruption and bureaucracy within the IOC. The IOC is to blame for a lot of this. Rio (and I’m sorry to my Brazilian friends on here), shouldn’t been given the games. The IOC got extremely lucky with their Beijing gamble, and then they went nuts. Let’s not also forget about the ridiculous demands they place on host cities that have nothing to do with the games themselves. 
 
The size is fine, though you’re making want to drop Shooting, Wrestling, Badminton, and Archery under your system though . Obscure events! Your nation invented fucking Kabaddi and Kho-Kho! Just because an event is “obscure”, it doesn’t make it any less deserving of Olympic inclusion.
 
Those claims are downright false, and quite frankly hilarious to read. I’m sure @KingOfTheRhinos can back me up here.
 
They are too many drug cheats, that’s the first true part of your statement. 
 
Sorry, we can’t all grew up in the wonderful conditions India has provided it’s youth...
 
 
Now, I’m going to start my rant.
 
All the fucking time I see sports fans from India complaining that multi-sports games are unfair because they don’t win enough medals. Maybe it’s time to grow the fuck up, and look inward at your problems. A) You’re competing against highly developed countries with billions of dollars invested into sports. B) There are people in your country right now, who just received electricity for the first time ever last year. C) If you’re so concerned about other countries cheating, do something about it! Don’t just sit their like whining bitches because who need their diapers changed every seconds because they’re to incapable of doing anything themselves.  
 
Also, not every as meant as a slight against India. Even though Indians seem to think the interest world is out to destroy their way of life, it’s not true. Yes, the CGF removing shooting from the Commonwealth Games was a shity move, but so is being so concerned about your precious medal table standing that you’ll boycott the games unless you can both shooting and archery now. 
 
Here’s my advice. The Olympic Games and international sports as a whole are flawed, but your suggestions are shit, and you should keep them to yourself.
 
 
 
To every other sane user, I’m sorry for this behavior. It’s been a long month, and I had some anger pent up. I apologize for my language, and my derogatory attitude towards Indian sports fans. I really did some harsh stereotyping right there, and it’s not fair, because most Indian sports fans aren’t like that. There just seems to be a super vocal minority I’ve seen various places around the web, and I’ve had enough quite frankly. This behavior doesn’t model the behavior I always say I wish for the forum, and that is a shortcoming on my part. However, that said, I just needed this right now, so there. Also, sorry moderators for both making read this, and for wasting your time on this junk. 

But little children having to drum up some pledge all the time, that is downright scary. If it wasn't a western country doing that, everyone would be calling it indoctrination and propaganda