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Lucky you! I get a mini frosted cupcake, peanuts, and coconut flakes!! Is this a cocoa or a birthday cake?

We know they're going to ruin the Worlds gala exhibition with these stupid awards by putting a stage, chairs, and red carpet on the ice.

Could you imagine the Twitstorm if that happened now?

Every time I read a comment from someone complaining about the existence of fanyus, I sit and wonder what the effing HECK went on in the stands during figure skating competitions before we came along, b/c so many of these complaints boil down to 'fanyus are too rowdy'. Like seriously, what world are these whiners living in? I distinctly remember a time when the sound of cowbell featured prominently in the cheering for athletes like Kurt Browning! Did the entire audience of figure skating, except for us Hanyu fans, forget that you're supposed to be vocal in your support for your favorites? And that of course you're going to disagree with someone who has a different opinion from you about a skater's performance? Like WTH, man. It's like the 80's, 90's, and 00's never happened. Somehow we jumped straight from the uptight 70's right back into the prim and proper Edwardian era. So I'll be over in the ladies' seats, sipping tea with my pinky out, watching the nice young men skate ever-so-refinedly, under my parasol until my chaperone decides I've had enough excitement for one day and takes me home...

Look at Paul go, living his best life! I have to admit he's something of a question mark for me as to why he still competes (he's in uncle territory for sure and his skating is kind of meh), but then he goes and does this and I just feel happy for him for giving it a try. Skating is all about those moments.

She must mean 'fanyus' in the derogatory, 'crazy groupie' sense of the word, and not just as 'fans of Hanyu' ...I couldn't imagine anyone saying all of Hanyu's fans are 'not true FS fans'. There's plenty of us that loved figure skating long before Yuzu was even so much as a twinkle in his father's eye.

how about record for most fanyus knocked dead in a single day - to Masquerade of course.

Try to imagine Yuzu channeling some fiery Spanish man energy in order to flamenco effectively...

ROI is in the middle of competition season. Yuzu's busy already. But it would be so awesome.

You know, the reason I started the conversation about JNats and particularly about the non-Yuzu skaters is because I didn't want to jinx GPF.... Now I'm getting all about it Therefore: I foresee a happy GPF where all goes according to Zu's plan. In fact, I decree it!

Yeah he won't be getting lifetime achievement any time soon. I think who ever said Dick Button has the right idea. It'll be someone like that.

Which brings me to: it would make more sense if the award was for best costume designer, not best costume. It would have more gravitas if you're celebrating someone's whole body of work rather than just one design.

I think lifetime is going to be somebody really old, who's been around skating for decades in many capacities. It probably won't be someone famous.

Best Costume is Jean-Luc Baker with the Dead Black Swan, hands down. But I bet they won't let that one count because it's the Ex

It might just be Keiji's year, he's had a good season so far. I take Yuzu as a given, so I think the other two spots will be Keiji - Shoma in any order. I'm thinking Dai in 4th.

Fair enough, but that's not something any of us have control over anyway. If someone wants to complain, they're going to complain no.matter what.

That's what I thought. I also have not been tracking his results this season.

Sure, but they can provide the context without having to be 100% certain how many URs are in each program, and what they're saying is all still stuff that's meant to go in one ear and out the other. I don't see that it matters if they notice what fans are up to or not. Anyways, let's drag this convo to a different plane, if we can: anyone care to venture a guess on the JNats podium? Shoma seems to be such a wild card right now, I don't know if I would lay odds on him.

Yes, I get that. What I couldn't figure out was why their counting of URs mattered, because I don't think it does.

Hey, even Harry admits to being interested in improving his score and wanting to win. So basically there isn't a single skater out there who is able to grow and engage meaningfully with the sport, apparently, because they all are so obsessed with winning..... I wish people would try to say things that make sense.

I'm of the impression that he makes it a point to do these things as a sort of rebuttal to his detractors, as well as being well brought up.

Okay, I understand your concern a bit better, but I don't share it. I think the media in general are much less influential in the figure skating world than we think, and the ones that are influential, are also former skaters themselves, who all know perfectly well what it's like to have overjoyed fans cheering or singing or whatever. I also don't put much credence in media comments during competitions in general; all journalism has a 'here today, gone tomorrow' aspect and this is particularly true for sports, and even more so for live commentary during an event. Most of the time, the commentators are saying any old thing to try and fill airspace, so I can't take their comments seriously at all and I don't think anyone else should, either. Unlike Yuzuru's incredible performances, which are everlasting gems of beauty, the commentary is, to my mind, disposable and mostly to be ignored. Anyway, since no one is actually planning to sing during the competition but instead at the end of practice, it should be moot. Moving on...

I personally haven't spent much time in Vancouver so I can't say much, but the city has whole suburbs that are Asian (particularly Chinese) so a Vancouverite might assume that, rather than being a tourist, you're from Richmond, B.C. or one of the other Asian suburbs and therefore know English...but that doesn't excuse rudeness at all.

Not just a foreign accent, but very little English at all (at least when he first came). On the other hand, Toronto is a city where more than half the residents come from somewhere else and more than 150 languages are spoken. There's just as high a chance they'd walk into a shop and be served by someone who also doesn't speak English, or Japanese, but is from some other part of the globe entirely.