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Well? I assume if you are reading this thread now, you are not watching the opening ceremony.

I find it very hard to get overly excited for a contest that is always either won by drug cheats or countries (Like Aus, USA or China) that spend huge amounts of money on training a small number of athletes. All to just increase our/their metaphorical penis size.

So, who else wants to argue the pointlessness of the games?

(however, When Australia wins something, I will still gloat)

the olympics are just one big bloated,unnecessery waste of money

I never care too much about the Olympics either. WHo wins, who doesn't? It ultimately never affects anything that is happening in the world at the moment.

Of course, like you, if Spain wins something, I'll gloat. But bleh.

I don't think I even get a channel for the Olympics... so I can't watch it. Aw fudge noodles on a poking stick served ice cold on grandma's flabby wrinkly backside.





Besides, it's the summer Olympics. There's no hockey; so like Canada would actually win anything.

the olympics are just one big bloated,unnecessery waste of money

Exactly! Fair enough every 50 years, your country will host one and you will make a bit of tourism money... but in the rest of it...

How far would the money go if it was put into population health. In USA and AUS atm, there is an obesity & diabetes epidemic. The resources put into the olympic athletes alonge would go a long way, let alone the 90% or whatever of elite athletes that don't make it there but still receive intensive government sponsored training.

I like the opening ceremony, i'm watching it now. But otherwise i find it an inconvienient interruption to my regular viewing habits

Well? I assume if you are reading this thread now, you are not watching the opening ceremony.

Well, you assume wrong. I'm kinda waiting to see the mass execution of the 2008 convicts...

I believe that the number of people in a country who care about the Olympics is directly proportional to the chances of anyone from that country actually winning any medals. We can therefore assume that a large proportion of Americans are interested but a very small proportion of people from Swaziland will be watching.

Exactly! Fair enough every 50 years, your country will host one and you will make a bit of tourism money... but in the rest of it...



where's the our olympics?it's been over fifty years since the 1952 olympics

I believe that the number of people in a country who care about the Olympics is directly proportional to the chances of anyone from that country actually winning any medals. We can therefore assume that a large proportion of Americans are interested but a very small proportion of people from Swaziland will be watching.

Well, I do get the feeling tonight is going to be the last time we see Afghanistan and Albania at the top of the tally.

Well? I assume if you are reading this thread now, you are not watching the opening ceremony.

I find it very hard to get overly excited for a contest that is always either won by drug cheats or countries (Like Aus, USA or China) that spend huge amounts of money on training a small number of athletes. All to just increase our/their metaphorical penis size.

So, who else wants to argue the pointlessness of the games?

(however, When Australia wins something, I will still gloat)

It's just pointless. It is, as you said, a penis weigh-in. And I won't gloat if my country wins something, because I could give less of a crap.

its far too much effort to watch (especially the opening ceremony) but I didn't even know it was on what with having just got back from actual work unlike those tax thieving athletes!

I wouldn't mind playing some Olympic events though :)

And I won't gloat if my country wins something, because I could give less of a crap.

nobody likes a sore loser

Eh, I'll probably still watch the olympics for their special effects and watch the programmes that I care about (archery, fencing, women's volleyball :) etc).

But yeah, I don't know. I think the games have become way too political this year. Sure, the communist government in China has problems, but it's sort of unfair to label the olympics as synonymous as totalitarianism when the common people in China want the event to succeed as well. =\

I wouldn't mind playing some Olympic events though :)

women's volleyball
:) I approve

There is the great olympic 'bonk fest' I suppose... The 2 weeks of giant multicultural orgies...

i thought you'd never ask. don't care at all, and really not interested.

Olympics would be a lot more interesting if they competed naked like the greeks intended. Call it 'retro'. :)

Olympics would be a lot more interesting if they competed naked like the greeks intended. Call it 'retro'. :)

Lots of flapping body parts....

Ever tried to run naked (men)? Your scrotum can actually be a hindrance to sprinting...

Lots of flapping body parts....

Ever tried to run naked (men)? Your scrotum can actually be a hindrance to sprinting...

Think of the cycling, equestrian and wrestlers though :eek:

I believe that the number of people in a country who care about the Olympics is directly proportional to the chances of anyone from that country actually winning any medals. We can therefore assume that a large proportion of Americans are interested but a very small proportion of people from Swaziland will be watching.

Could also have something to do with the lack of free time and televisions in Swaziland.

I think interest relates to national chauvenism, why else do we have an international organisations of national sports teams if not to project our prowess over others?

nobody likes a sore loser

Well, nobody likes your avatar. So there. :tongue: Besides, I'm not gonna take the effort to find out what we actually won, so I can gloat about it,

Meh. Olympics, just means there'll be fuckall on TV.

Don't care, and in our modern society its just a example of how we have become lazy and rather lacking.

They actually rather piss me off ... I hate how it has the tendency to shift playtimes of shows that I have my TIVO set to record screwing with them from time to time

As I posted somewhere else (and shamelessly stole from another forum before that), here are 3 excellent reasons to watch the pole vaulting.

Allison Stokke (USA):
http://thenastyboys.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/allisonstokke.jpg

Melanie Adams (AUS):
http://www.yardbarker.com/m/11082/xl/mel-adam1.jpg

Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS):
http://www.parieurs-sportifs.com/uploads/yelena_isinbayeva_sexy-sportive.jpg-333.jpg

So, along with the volleyball and swimming, I have another event to watch :p

srsly, "boobs" what's with that. Crazy heteros.

I don't give a damn about the Olympics...Or sports...
Or by extension, competition for that matter...It´s all pointless.
It´s all about inflating your ego, gloating about it to your fellow humans,
and serve no purpose whatsoever.

Just think what all that time and money could be spent on instead.
Working together, trying to help one another.

Yes, I may seem idealistic.
But that is basically all that is holding me together.
I am a bitter and cynical being.

srsly, "boobs" what's with that. Crazy heteros.

I take objection. I'm hetero and I think boobs, and by extension my own, are awesome. There's nothing gay about that statement. ;)

Olympics again??? Didn't we had ones already? Why repeat?

Olympics again??? Didn't we had ones already? Why repeat?

Because humans are so silly, they like repetition? :tongue:

At least they could change the events....

I would watch them if they included mud wrestling and pogo stick races...

Melanie Adams (AUS):
[img]http://www.yardbarker.com/m/11082/xl/mel-adam1.jpg[IMG]


Now that's just impractical.

I like the Winter Games. That's where the Hockey is.

Hockeysz?... iznt taht wehn people hit eahc otehr wiht stickz?... sounds interesting.

I'll watch, just to see if they get fucked with smog.

I'm a very lazy person by nature. Watching people run, cycle, swim, throw or whatever for no good reason is fundamentally at odds with my worldview. A few small changes could improve the games a lot for me. If there was a vehicle behind the marathon runners with a man weilding a flamethrower out the window, there'd be an actual reason to run, and I'd be watching. Or for the swimming, add considerable amounts of concentrated acid to the pool to encourage them to reach the other end as quickly as possible. I sent these thoughts in letter form as an official proposal to the IOC, but at the time of writing no reply has been received.

I like the Winter Games. That's where the Hockey is.

That's because, at heart, I know you're Canadian.:tongue:

you too?

I send my proposal for making mud wrestling and Olympic game...and there hasn't been a reply.:(

To (mis)quote Joseph Heller: Olympic medals signify that you're slightly better than everone else at something that helps nobody.

you too?

I send my proposal for making mud wrestling and Olympic game...and there hasn't been a reply.:(

Indeed. That they have apparently rejected yours is even more mystifying. This event was fine in the time of the first Olympics, and yet not now. They certainly wrestled, naked, and mud was around, so its clearly in the Olympic tradition. I blame political correctness. Or the Muslims. One of those two is always to blame :p

you too?

I send my proposal for making mud wrestling and Olympic game...and there hasn't been a reply.:(

I wanted the chocolate variety, but alas, the Olympic committee informed me that it was far too messy.:(

I wanted the chocolate variety, but alas, the Olympic committee informed me that it was far too messy.:(

Chocolate and wrestling?!?!?.... :eek2: My two favorite things...

oh you are truly wise goddess Nanatsu...:hail::hail::hail::hail::hail::hail:

Chocolate and wrestling?!?!?.... :eek2: My two favorite things...

oh you are truly wise goddess Nanatsu...:hail::hail::hail::hail::hail::hail:

Don't start with that or I'll smite thee.

But really.... I don't care about sports, and by extension, I don't care about the Olympics.

I like the Winter Games. That's where the Hockey is.

yay,hockey!the finnish can kick the yankees ass anytime!

I dislike sports in general. Ergo, I could care less about the Olympics.

Chocolate Wrestling must be institutionalized...we need a committee.

The International Chocolate Wrestling Committee. ICWC!...

I propose myself as president. Any one willing to patriotically represent their countries please send your application to me.

Really, honestly, don't care about the games themselves, but the opening ceremony is very impressive.

I don't particularly care for the games, but obviously there are quite a lot of people that do.

As for the money spent, there are countless ceremonies and such that aren't necessary that cost money. If we only did what was necessary, life would be rather boring.


Olympics would be a lot more interesting if they competed naked like the greeks intended. Call it 'retro'. :)
But I completely agree with this.

Nothing says you don't give a damn about the Olympics like dedicating a thread just to declare to the world you don't give a damn about the Olympics.

:p

I don't give a damn about them Olympics. We don't win there anyway.

If I'd like a rehash of geography or to reassure me that Curacao or Croatia does exist, I'd rather watch them beauty pageants. Lots of hot women too. *drools*

Well? I assume if you are reading this thread now, you are not watching the opening ceremony.
I've not been watching it, but I just heard a claim on BBCNews24 that coverage of the ceremony had drawn in an "estimate of 4 billion viewers". I find it hard to balance that claim out against the fact that nobody I've spoken to in the last few hours was watching it and nobody here was watching it...

As for the Games themselves I can't say that I'm all that interested. :)

Olympics would be a lot more interesting if they competed naked like the greeks intended. Call it 'retro'. :)

Heheh. I know the Japanese porn market has a niche for that. Three Romanian gymnasts got in trouble for doing softcore porn here in their official uniforms. And then there's the nude ice dancing... :p

srsly, "boobs" what's with that. Crazy heteros.

Surely there's eye candy for all to oogle?

I like the Winter Games. That's where the Hockey is.

And luge and skeleton.

And then there's the nude ice dancing... :p


Why does the idea of taking off all my clothes, straping blades to my feet and running over slippy ice not appeal?

I've not been watching it, but I just heard a claim on BBCNews24 that coverage of the ceremony had drawn in an "estimate of 4 billion viewers". I find it hard to balance that claim out against the fact that nobody I've spoken to in the last few hours was watching it and nobody here was watching it...

I wouldn't have thought that many people would have access to a TV.

I would watch the fencing if the contestants did not look like frogs on a hot skillet.

*shrug* I enjoy watching the Olympics. :)

As I posted somewhere else (and shamelessly stole from another forum before that), here are 3 excellent reasons to watch the pole vaulting.

Allison Stokke (USA):
http://thenastyboys.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/allisonstokke.jpg

Melanie Adams (AUS):
http://www.yardbarker.com/m/11082/xl/mel-adam1.jpg

Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS):
http://www.parieurs-sportifs.com/uploads/yelena_isinbayeva_sexy-sportive.jpg-333.jpg

So, along with the volleyball and swimming, I have another event to watch :p

I care now. Also, looks like the U.S. wins again, though Russia places a close second. Austrailia... meh, nice but not as much as the other two.

I wanted the chocolate variety, but alas, the Olympic committee informed me that it was far too messy.:(

I've wrestled in chocolate pudding and I must say that I found it to be just messy enough. *nod*

I care now. Also, looks like the U.S. wins again, though Russia places a close second. Austrailia... meh, nice but not as much as the other two.

The US swimmer and nude model Amanda Beard seems to have a head start on the nude olympics (http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/08/06/1217702116007.html)...

I was sort of hoping for some sort of Tibet terrorist attack, complete with bombs and Buddha Tanks fitted with Dalai Lama Laser cannons (used to enlighten people)

But meh, I suppose if the Chinese want to pretend to be in the Matrix, that's cool.

I wouldn't have thought that many people would have access to a TV.
Yeah, that bit didn't ring true either.

It doesn't help that, each time I've replayed the news reader saying the words in my head, it's been transformed into a sort of Dr Evil-esque "four beeeelion". Bah, another memory ruined! :tongue:

I don't care much about the Olympics, and I won't watch them, but I like this idea by Stephen Colbert:

"I'm simply saying the modern Olympics should be more like war, in that there should be consequences for winning and losing. Korea beat Italy in slalom? They get Michelangelo's David. Rwanda beats Sweden in the high jump? They get to move to Sweden. Afghanistan beats the U.S. in the biathlon. They can have Connecticut."

Well? I assume if you are reading this thread now, you are not watching the opening ceremony.

I find it very hard to get overly excited for a contest that is always either won by drug cheats or countries (Like Aus, USA or China) that spend huge amounts of money on training a small number of athletes. All to just increase our/their metaphorical penis size.

So, who else wants to argue the pointlessness of the games?

(however, When Australia wins something, I will still gloat)

Yeah... I'm waiting for it to appear on TV.

lol... it was supposed to be a symbol of peace so the world could show who was the best instead of a display of power...

Personally, it would be best if the UN built a city in the middle of the Atlantic and we just sent our athletes there.

I'm a little curious to see table tennis after I heard a professional (excuse me, "amateur") playing it on the radio. But otherwise it's a bunch of thinly-veiled nationalism and sports I don't like anyway. It beats war, I'll give it that.

Olympics would be a lot more interesting if they competed naked like the greeks intended. Call it 'retro'. :)

Best Olypmics related idea ever.

Yeah, that bit didn't ring true either.

It doesn't help that, each time I've replayed the news reader saying the words in my head, it's been transformed into a sort of Dr Evil-esque "four beeeelion". Bah, another memory ruined! :tongue:

I think you should see a shrink...:confused:

I did not even know it has started until I saw this thread.