You Know You're a Figure Skating Fan When...

[NanaPat]

Haha, every time a commentator pronounces it "YOO-ler," I cringe so hard. I heard it over and over and over as "OY-ler" in differential equations and complex analysis and numerical analysis and every other math class (they still called the jump a half-loop back then).

Huh. I swear I've heard it pronounced OY-ler by commentators. The jump was a half loop like 2 years ago, so not THAT long. And the kind of math you're talking about scares me.

Most commentators say OY-ler, but a few do say YOO-ler. I also cringe at YOO-ler.

 

[Amei]

When you are looking at how you are going to have to wake up at 2am to watch another country's Nationals and thankful that it's happening on a week where there was a holiday smack in the middle of the week and your office will be a ghost town and not many people will notice that you are bleary-eyed from a 2am wake-up call

 

[arewhyaen]

All my friends think I'm very fancy for loving classical music but really it's songs that I enjoy listening to because my favorite skaters have skated to the music.

 

[elegance]

When you hear a Philip Glass selection on your iTunes and think it would be perfect for Sasha Trusova. The song is "Kyoko's House (Stage Blood Is Not Enough)" from the motion picture score for Mishima.

Link is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0gDJgxrcec

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

When you see the current TV advert for a clothes shop for the first time and you think "my goodness, she looks like [insert name of current skating crush]!" :shocked:

I'm nearly sure it wasn't her, though. The person in the advert looked older, and had what seemed to me to be a different figure. But her face was so like the skater's.

CaroLiza_fan

 

[corinthia]

...when you hear a BBC feature on the radio about Toyota's hydrogen powered car, and you just have to immediately google the model... not for the car, but just to find out if both Toyota and Miss Nagasu spell "Mirai" the same way. (P.S. They do.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mirai

 

[Ravyn Rant]

When you wake up the house having a happy fit because Ted Barton read your email, and your spouse has been calling you a "Ted Barton fan-girl" ever since...

 

[Ichatdelune]

When you are flooded with work and never have enough time to manage everything yet you still regret not cancelling everything for the whole week and focusing on 4CC, not just the days of the actual competition.

Also, when you are willing to forego sleep for the whole week when work is twice the amount than usual (and requiring copious doses of caffeine to just go through it all) to watch Euros and US Nats.

Lesson: Love makes you stupid. Stupid enough to forget self-preservation. The things I do for love...

 

[Skater Boy]

YOU KNOW YOU ARE A SKATING FAN WHEN...you knew something about each of three women's medallists from Canadian Nationals.

 

[TT_Fin]

You cannot confirm your plans during European championships, which take about one hour or a little bit less, for Friday night before ladies time schedule is published.

 

[hanyuufan5]

When you know that watching figure skating at work is synonymous with ending up in tears at work, yet you continue to do it every time you have a break when a competition is on.

And previously, when you got so tired of fixing your raccoon eyes every ten seconds during competitions that you bought waterproof mascara. (I kept wearing it because my eyes water from allergies. Haven't bought non-waterproof mascara since Worlds 2018. )

 

[rinkside_user]

When you are having a massive overload of empty phrases like "they are really producing the goods here", "that will throw the cat among the pigeons", "that was a lovely performance", "that's a big-scoring element right there" just from a single competition, courtesy of SBS man at 4CC.

 

[NanaPat]

When you are having a massive overload of empty phrases like "they are really producing the goods here", "that will throw the cat among the pigeons", "that was a lovely performance", "that's a big-scoring element right there" just from a single competition, courtesy of SBS man at 4CC.

Don't forget "it wasn't his best".

 

[moonvine]

When you think “yay! I have an empty car” after throwing all your stuffies at US Nats...and find a stuffie sale on the way home. Yep, it’s full again.

 

[Snorlax]

...when you feel dizzy and the first thought you have is "Oh my brain did a sneaky triple flip".

 

[Ichatdelune]

When you think "I should have a break from all this figure skating" after coming home from 4CC, then proceed to watch videos from Bavarian Open.

 

[moonvine]

When you’re up at Walmart at midnight on 2/15 getting a jump start on Nashville (or maybe Philadelphia International?). https://twitter.com/riverofchange/status/1228566670152806400?s=21

 

[Ravyn Rant]

When you're too dopey from surgery to speak or think coherently but you're on the laptop trying to follow the ice dancing at 4CC.
Because it's what you do.

 

[CellarDweller]

....when you're upset with the amount of events that took place in your life (parties, birthdays) that all seemed to be scheduled on the same day as skating competitions.

....when you look at the calendar at work, and realized the week of March 16th is 'open' on the vacation calendar, so you schedule that week off work, so you can watch the World Championships live.

 

[iluvtodd]

... when you've watched your first Netflix rental after returning from US Nationals, catching up on DVRed coverage of US Nationals, Europeans, & 4CC. We finally got around to watching the movie last night!