The olympics. Yay.
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The Escapist down on sports? Well I never!
Yeah, I'm hyped. I buck the geeky trend and actually enjoy sports. The fact that it's in my country this year doesn't bother me that much, although I get that it'll be good for us in more ways than one. I'm more interested in the people running really fast and the gymnasts doing that crazy spinning shit.
Yeah, I'm hyped. I buck the geeky trend and actually enjoy sports. The fact that it's in my country this year doesn't bother me that much, although I get that it'll be good for us in more ways than one. I'm more interested in the people running really fast and the gymnasts doing that crazy spinning shit.
Plus the whole 'The Nazis invented the modernised Olympic torch procession' thing...Kyrian007 said:
I hate most of the sports in the olympics. I'll watch the opening ceremony and the boxing, where Ireland have a good chance. Next Olympics however there will be rugby sevens which I will be veeeery excited for
I was only 14, but when we had the Olympics here in 2000 it was much the same. The weather report had a little torch symbol on the map in with the clouds and suns to show where it was, and TV/newspapers/media in general simply couldn't shut the fuck up about it. Then it ended, and everyone forgot. OTOH I do like having our tiny population take out a disproportionately high number of medals 
Seems like most of the posters, much like the British people, aren't down on the sports so much as they are on the over-hyped clusterfuck of an event. Sports are fine, I enjoy sports. I just resent being told every fucking second of every fucking day that I ought to have the worlds biggest boner for the Olympics just by virtue of it being near me, and that I don't care (let alone dare to criticise the games!) there must be something wrong with me.Sparrow said:
Despite how hard the media and the advertisers push it, the overwhelming opinion of the public at large seems to be "it hasn't even started yet, and I'm already sick to death of it". To be expected to smile and act like we're having the time of our lives is insulting.
I'm only going to watch US basketball. I like seeing us streamroll every other country in basketball.
It's one of the few things in existence where nearly the entire world puts aside their beliefs and differences to get together. Something almost unheard of in this heartless world. That right there, is something beautiful. Doesn't matter who you are, that is something to be respected.
I get the whole cynical thing. It's a fun thing to have in place of a personality. Doesn't really bug me when people aren't vocal about how much they don't care about something. But this is really pushing it.
I get the whole cynical thing. It's a fun thing to have in place of a personality. Doesn't really bug me when people aren't vocal about how much they don't care about something. But this is really pushing it.
I'm more of a Winter Olympics or X-Games kind of guy. The summer olympics has too many technical disciplines for me to get excited about it. And I had my fill of games like tennis and football. BMX might be cool though.
Unlike other racing sports like boardercross or motor sports or something, where there's action and all kinds of crazy shit.
I never got the appeal of those disciplines. Yes, they run. That's, well, basically all. One of those technical disciplines that's probably mighty rewarding for yourself but as an onlooker? It's not like I can actually see someone is, say, 0.1's of a second faster than normal until someone actually tells me.Sparrow said:
Unlike other racing sports like boardercross or motor sports or something, where there's action and all kinds of crazy shit.
I see Lisa Simpson giving head to homer.TheBobmus said:
OT I hate the Olympics, bloody waste of time and resources. Also DAT LOGO ;-;
What's your point? That's a handful of people out of thousands of athletes. So because a few people are less than admirable, the entire Games is worthless? I disagree.SonicWaffle said:
No, my point is that all the talk of the Games as some noble, boundary-crossing exercise where people of all nations come to compete honestly together is horseshit.Susan Arendt said:
We've had cheaters already, and you can bet your boots there will be more. We've had tension between countries who are supposedly only here in out of a sense of friendly competition, including a walkout after someone confused the flags of the two Koreas. We've had a team steadfastedly coached not to mention the civil war going on in their homeland, presumably under duress. At least half of the news stories centred around the Olympics are about what it's costing the country (a lot), the potential economic benefit to the country (very little), how it will improve the "British brand" (it won't).
It's a political spectacle, and a big game of one-upmanship. Why else is the Argentine leader staying home? Why else is Romney trying to edge in on things, acting as if he were already president and coming for a state visit? Why have we refused entry to the head of the Syrian team? Why was international pressure applied to Saudi Arabia to allow women to compete? The government hasn't even bothered to hide it; they've been open about the fact that Cameron and his cronies see this as just one big networking event, and openly brag about gathering the most world leaders together of any Olympics.
The actual sport is pretty much incidental by this point. If you enjoy the sporting portion of the games, good for you, and I sincerely hope you have fun. That doesn't mean the Olympics is about the sport any more than Batman is about his dead parents; those things are just platforms for things to happen on.
Oh god I had forgotten about all that! Lets hope we get another Tottenham riot to spice things up, hopefully with someone stealing that giant blood red helter skelter for scrap metal. It'll be more epic this time as we recently weaponised the area with missiles.crofty616 said:I'm exactly the same, it's just going to be one big train wreck isnt it...Demon ID said:
So far, or soon to come we have:
Showing the South Korean flag instead of the North one
It's going to piss down in the opening ceremony
Said ceremony is taking place to late for a lot of the athletes to even take part in.
Having to draft in 1000's of soldiers because one week before the games we find out we havent got nearly enough security personnel.
And we paid someone £19 MILLION FOR THIS!?!?!?!?!
We shouldnt be allowed to host things, its just humiliating.
I'm all for the Olympics, I think its an amazing thing, i just dont think WE should host it...
It's that or during the opening Boris Johnson falls into the flame in a gollum like fashion fighting with David Beckham.
Sorry to be all doom and gloom, I'm sure in other countries the olympics is magical, but these are the British Isles and we have a different way of doing things.
Of course as someone who doesn't like sports, I'm apathetic.
But I'm personally more appalled by the corporate hegemony going on in London.
It could be good for local businesses, or rather, it would be if fucking Coca-Cola and McDonalds (companies that REALLY NEED THE ADVERTISING, OBVIOUSLY) weren't laying down minefields around them that explode with on the spot fines into the thousands for trying to capitalise on the occasion.
Y'know, but it's okay if they do it because they're 'sponsors'.
Bollocks.
But I'm personally more appalled by the corporate hegemony going on in London.
It could be good for local businesses, or rather, it would be if fucking Coca-Cola and McDonalds (companies that REALLY NEED THE ADVERTISING, OBVIOUSLY) weren't laying down minefields around them that explode with on the spot fines into the thousands for trying to capitalise on the occasion.
Y'know, but it's okay if they do it because they're 'sponsors'.
Bollocks.
