meant to say as well that I do prefer the winter olympics - they are more interesting events to watch as there is generally more speed.
Hate ice skating though.
Who Like Me, Feel That The Olympics Are About As Exciting To Watch As A Dog Turd Turning White?
by Low-Key Lysmith 27 Replies latest social entertainment
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Mickey mouse
I watched the opening ceremony but I'm not interested in the sports. I prefer the winter Olympics.
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Leolaia
I like the Olympics because I hate team sports and there are lots of individual sports (athletics, swimming, diving, gymnastics, cycling, tennis, etc., same with the winter games) to watch.
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finallysomepride
i find the olympics a big bore but then again! so many hot lookin babes
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slimboyfat
Not watching it either.
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Sheep2slaughter
My wife and I are huge fans of the Olympics. Summer and winter. Not of every event but pretty much like Leolaia said, all the individual events are great. I think it because I like the idea of being the best at something out of the entire world.
I have actually been able to turn it into an apostasizing opportunity. Our kids compete in a few sports. She is very supportive of them. So I say stuff like, "their parents must be so proud! Their kid is one of the best in whole world at such and such thing." "wouldn't be amazing if our kids did something like that one day!"
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THE GLADIATOR
As it happens - I told my wife that my refusal to accept the herd mentality of the Watchtower Society probably had something to do with my lack of interest in the Olympics. I also resent the 9.4 billion pounds sterling the event is costing our bankrupt UK . Then an article in this Sundays Daily Mail newspaper echoed my feelings.
“Join the smiley Cult of the Five Circles? Sorry, but I have a democratic right to be bored (and I'm exercising it while I still can)
Enthusiasm is compulsory only in totalitarian dictatorships. Anywhere else, we are free to be keen if we want to, and bored if we want to.
So I wish people would stop telling me that I should enjoy the Olympics, or be proud of them, or think that they will in some way benefit this country.
But they won’t stop telling me. Hardly a day goes by without another previously independent mind surrendering to this pseudo-religion of obligatory smiles.
And that makes me suspicious. What is this strange cult? In the end, the Olympics is nothing more than a large athletics meeting.
Before Hitler and Dr Goebbels made it into a torch-lit and grandiose spectacle, you could be in the same city as the Games and barely notice.
Are we really that interested? And if we are, are we interested for good reasons? Personally, I find it very odd that large crowds have turned out in the street to see a glorified pilot light carried about in a large cheese-grater.”
PUBLISHED: 22:52 , 28 July 2012
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bohm
I love it
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slimboyfat
I thought cycling was a team sport, at least that's the excuse GB used for losing yesterday.
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cofty
I can't get enough of the Olympics.
14 days of the fittest, fastest, strongest athletes on the planet at the peak of their game.
It takes on average 10 000 hours or practice to reach the pinnacle of any skill-based activity. Its difficult not to respect and admire people who have achieved that level of perfomance.
(Christopher clearly got 99% of the wit available to the Hitchens boys)