Only 122 days to go.....anyone excited yet?. No me neither!. I Don't know whats going to drive me nuts first. The insane corporate promotion - everything being the official sports drink, chocolate bar, birth control pill on the games, the way everyone suddenly becomes an athletics expert for 6 weeks and doesn't give a shit for the other 46 weeks of the year. I Think it will be the ridiculous amounts of honours handed out to anyone who actually wins a medal. We'll end up with countless MBE, CBE, OBE, Sirs and Dames. If we give out honours on the basis of how many medals people get then surely Ryan Giggs must be the Supreme Lord Admiral and Commander in Cheif of the Universe by now.........or maybe they have already given that title the Seb Coe?.
why do athlete's need a fuckoff studium to compete? just go to a fucking field and do it... waste of money imho... coming from a person who's into his sports.
the only reason i'm looking forward to the olympics is that it means i MIGHT be able to find work over the summer, which i really need, cant face another summer without the cash to get outta blighty for a bit...
but other than that, balls to 'em. its too expensive when important things are being cut or done away with.
I hate that the olympics are coming to London. Waste of money, time and effort. I'll be working in a local hospital during. Deep joy.
complete madness to hold the olympics in a city thats already gridlocked and polluted, gonna be complete mayhem, what were they thinking and whos footing the bill? us of course, the man in the street who didn't want it in the first place. going to be as far away from that place as possible.
this is local for me - I can walk to the Olympic site in about an hour from my home. Wankerville, it is.
I really couldn't be more uninterested in the Olympics. Do I want Olympic tickets? I would rather eat my own vomit. I think I have made my point. Having said that, live and let live, if you enjoy it then good on you!
That's all very well for people who don't live near the place. The main road route from Europe to the Olympic site goes right past where I live. I intend to hang a huge "FUCK OFF" banner out of my window when the time comes.
I would support you on that but I reckon you will be arrested by cops for something shite like 'behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace'.
One of the most depressing things about the olympics is that if BoJo wins the mayoral elections then he will be our representative to the rest of the world - a permanently drunk sounding Lord who looks like he has been mugged and dragged through as hedge backwards..........twice!.
Nope im with you all, not in the slightest interested in it and its costing way too much of what we havent got.
I'm not bothered about it at the moment, but I might get into it once it starts. I'm glad I don't live in London now though, it's going to be transport chaos :willy_nilly:
well it's T minus 1 hour to the opening ceremony, anyone going to watch it? I'm bored, so I may. Seb Coe looked nervous on the telly earlier about how it would go. I feel like it's the equivalent of the England cricket team, a fuckup could be just around the corner, except this time it's in front of 100 heads of state and 1 billion viewers, can we pull it off without making idiots of ourselves? (probably, if we keep Boris out of it)
well, with the usual qualifications (i hate the olympics, nationalism, elitism, too expensive) i really enjoyed the opening ceremony. might have helped that i was too drunk to stand by the time the flag people started coming out and that i was in a bar with a crowd of people whose enthusiasm was nothing short of infectious, but i rather enjoyed the opening ceremony. kenneth brannagh as isenbard kingdom brunel quoting the tempest before the shire turns into the seventh circle of hell? giant voldemort puppet? (seriously? OKAY) a big NHS bit for right wing americans to decide was a personal attack against them? http://storify.com/Sodium1989/us-right-wing-response-to-nhs-at-olympic-ceremony Tim Berner's Lee finally getting the standing ovation he richly deserves? yeah, I kinda liked that. not as much as watching terminally pissed people trying to dance to seconds-long extracts from famous songs, each timed perfectly to change onto the next JUST before they found the rythmn. i ducked out around the bit which i'm told was "a tribute to craigslist hookups" might watch it on iplayer. anyway, yeah, i though Danny Boyle did a fine job. I'M SO ASHAMED OF MYSELF. I HATE EVERYTHING THE OLYMPICS STAND FOR, yet one giant voldemort puppet had me cheering like a fickle drunken whore. luckily i have innoculated myself against any future accidental display of "olympic spirit" (vomit) by hating all forms of sport spectatorship. anyway. fuck the olympics.
