Originally posted by dang65
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Previously on "Who's sick to death of the Olympics already?"
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Has anyone heard if that female weightlifter is ok? It's just that I heard the commentator this morning saying that she'd got 88 kilogrammes in the snatch.
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Although I throw like this:
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Originally posted by Gonzo View PostWell that sums me up perfectly.
It's as though we have met.
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Originally posted by zeitghostSo the 5000 BBC journos with nowt to do can waste our licence money, why else?
*Beijing - that is.
Originally posted by Katie MeluaThere are five thousand useless tosspot BBC journos in Beijing
That's a fact
It's a thing we can't deny
Like the fact that I will love you 'til I die
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Originally posted by bogeyman View PostWell speaking for myself, yes. I do enjoy other sports. Particularly rugby union and cricket.
The Olympics are not really about sport though.
know what you mean, it's a bit of a freak show, but I'm into almost all other sports
for things like the sprints, all that effort just for 10 second race,
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As a non-telly-owner I can smugly ignore it (btw I generally dislike watching sport except cricket). What really p1sses me off is the amount of public money going into getting medal winners. What is this, the USSR? I'd far rather the money went into buying back school playing grounds or into giving the little 'uns jumpers for goalposts.
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Originally posted by contractor79 View Postso are these anti-olympics comments coming from people who enjoy others sports, or not?
The Olympics are not really about sport though.
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so are these anti-olympics comments coming from people who enjoy others sports, or not?
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You nerdy, non-sporty, IT geeks that probably throw like girls and haven't broken a sweat in years other than on the bog do make me laugh.
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Originally posted by shoes View PostI don't understand how sport at this level is worthwhile. These people train full time for years and years to compete with other people who have done the same and someone wins by running fastest or other meaningless feat. Why is that an achievement?
But I agree that it's a little sad that nobody can realistically be a top sportsperson without having parents that pushed them into a rigorous training schedule at a very young age and denying them any kind of normal childhood.
At least they're not still pretending to be amateurs.
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One of my favourite things about Saturdays is switching over to BBC1 and spending a few happy moments belittling, slagging off, bitching about, and generally being thoroughly nasty about the cookery show that the Beeb has inflicted upon mankind. God, how I detest the whole crappy show and all those involved in it.
But today, my morning was ruined, because Adrian Chiles and some bird were presenting some sort of GMTV-like tulipe about the Olympics, instead. Chiles is just too easy a target for me to get any hate-filled satisfaction from.
Also, Adrian Chiles & the Olympics? He may have lost a few tonnes, but Olympic pundit he ain't! Bring back the tossers and their cookery programme!
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