The "I hate the Commonwealth Games" Thread/Rant

There I said it.
Can't get public transport cause it's all disrupted for stupid relays.
Everyone is festively rascist. Ooops I mean patriotic (well it's all semantics).
We could have spent the money on fixing up this flawed fucking education/healthcare/welfare system or space for wind farms or helping our family that lived on this land before us or foreign aid OR ANYTHING BUT MORE SPORT.

O.k I had my rant and feel better.
I am prepared for the "very unAustralian" blah blah blah response BUT I do just want to know...
Anyone else over it?

 

Sport is the opiate of the masses.

 

panem et circensenses

 

The amount of money that "wherever you live" is spending on the commonwealth games is minuscule compared to the money that tourists are bringing to your economy.

 

rubbish

 

Well they spruce up the city for the games, but why cant they do it for those who inhabit it, A.K.A us! And all these national pride makes me sick....

 

I'm not over it, because I never went UP it!

I can't imagine anything more boring, sterile and offensive to my brain cells than to watch the commonwealth games (or any sport really) on television.
Especially listening to male commentators yelling in an almost pre-orgasmic voice in the most 'yobo' accent they can muster. I find it creepy, and I bet they never get as excited about that with anything else in their lives, even with their wives/girlfriends.

Also, you can practically hear the wellspring of socially-indoctrinated "aussie pride" break the banks in tears of joy over their cheeks and it makes me cringe everytime.

People whiling away in concentration camps oh sorry... "detention centres"...
Millions of un-inspired suburbanites wasting away watching "A Current Affair", letting it tell them what to feel outraged by as it's easier than thinking for themselves...
Civil liberties getting worn away under John Howard's sycophantic obsession with trying to be 'cool' like Dubya in the international schoolyard of politics...
Irreplaceable nature being destroyed, a health care system failing in many key areas as Echo said...
Being young and living in what can often feel like a cultural vacuum...
arghh...

...but no, pass the remote, turn on "The Games" and get me some VB and some tissues because there's going to be some patriotic tears of joy from me.

(Wow, apparently that hit a nerve somewhere inside my un-patriotic brain! hah... Anyway, i'm not ashamed to say i'm not a fan of sports, and not a fan of contemprary mainstream culture. Australia is a remarkable, beautiful and lucky country in many ways and for those I am very grateful. It just can be very frustrating and sterile in many other ways. Spectacles like these games just rub salt into that wound for me anyhow.)

 

^^^^

Amen brother.

 

Im originally from Melbored and glad I left. They should have the Sex Pistols play God Save the Fuckin Queen at the opening

 

But, here we go with things that people do - it's just like bands who put on concerts. They do what they do for a living and they have people with a common interest that watch. Same with sports people. Concerts disturb sities too and so do a lot of other things that are a common interest of certain people. Plus, we get to watch teenage girls prance around in revealing leotards. That's always good. (Not the younger ones ...... )

 

The big difference between sports and music, is that the latest Delta Goodrem and John Farnham concerts aren't televised each night, for every night of their tour for 3 hours, including commentary whilst setting up the stage for an hour before every show.

I have no problem with people liking sports, but if the players and spectators both acted more like much of the live music scene and all scurried off and did it under the cover of darkness then it'd be far less annoying than being force-fed this canned patriotism.

My biggest question with the commonwealth games though, is this:

Why do they interview swimmers immediately after they've swam at the absolute peak of their bodily performance for a quarter of a mile? It's just ridiculous, they're puffing away trying not to just fall over from exhaustion, barely able to talk and they insist on pumping them for questions.

I think I have an answer though...

Perhaps it's to add excitement to what is almost inevitably a pretty dull interview by default. If they're about to keel over and can barely talk, wow, that's entertainment!
The worst interviewees by far though, are football players.... Not much change in expression whether they've won a big game or lost an important one.

"How do you feel?"

"Yeah, just taking it game-by-game you know? It was a real team-effort and full credit to the guys. We'll look forward to some good training this week and see how it goes next week, take it one game at a time"

NB: Football players and athletes in general are not paid to be entertaining, I don't blame them at all, I blame the TV reporters for insisting on interviewing them with same results every time.

 

it's an unfortunate inconvenience that the tv program is currently stuffed overflowing with commonwealth games crap. i get bad feelings about the entire thing. it seems very rose-tinted. it just reeks of something for the stupid masses. a complete crock of crap as far as i can be bothered caring. can't wait till it's over...

 

^^^
I think i'm in love....

 

Apart from the obvious TV crap, I haven't really had to deal with the Commonwealth Games, I never go near the city so it's never a problem.

 

Cooloner, Sundew is cool, and a loser. He is worthy of stupid fucking loser status so be nice. He is one of us

Anyway, the fucking shittiest and most boring thing about the games is that we just sit there knowing whos going to win almost every event (Us of course) except in the sprinting because the jamaicans always win ya. So its not very exciting for us.

Another Aussie gold medal. Whoopy doo.

 

Cooloner, thanks for that little ray of sunshine... haha
I may have got a little excited as paperdoll appears to be in the same city as me and doesn't sound like a sports-freak, both of which give me hope, but I do not believe that I am pathetic. Anyhow, I happily accept the retraction of your original assertion.

Thanks for providing that character reference Mr. Fieldman, struggling away in the much-maligned City of Churches.

 

Now THIS is entertainment ...

 

I don't mind watching the Commonwealth Games (although there are no Yanks, Chinese, Russians, etc to kick our rear ends).

I love the Swimming but I totally detest the Australian Netball Team - what a bunch of stuck up cows who think they are all angels...The only people who go to their games are the housewives who have never had a life (trust me - I know quite a few who have married within three years of leaving school) and all the little girls who don't even know the meaning of homework cos Netball comes first...

 

I LOVE this thread!

 

and horny men