I've managed to miss all the events so far, even the opening ceremony, so consider it a job well done. Now and again I hear summat on't radio about whining syncro divers but that's about all....
Who's winning?
As if I care
Re: Beijing 2008, or: who else isn't watching?
I've managed to miss all the events so far, even the opening ceremony, so consider it a job well done. Now and again I hear summat on't radio about whining syncro divers but that's about all....
Who's winning?
As if I care
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
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Re : Beijing 2008, or: who else isn't watching?
The Olympics? I'm enthralled!
I can't wait until we smash the Yanks at the men's 4 x 100 relay swimming final.
look it up.
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That was the one where the 1-5th place teams all broke the records, right?Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
The Olympics? I'm enthralled!
I can't wait until we smash the Yanks at the men's 4 x 100 relay swimming final.
look it up.
Oh yeah, tell your countrymen not to brag until it's a sure thing
I've been watching a lot of the Olympics. It's good entertainment to see quality athletes.
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Ditto.
Last edited by Xiahou; 08-12-2008 at 19:18.
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There are more of us than I thought.
Mind if I join you guys around that campfire? Let me tell you the story about Adrian's rowing days at university. It only cost me time and money, buckets of em, I had to puke at the end of practically all our daily training hours and I never won anything. And I had a great time!
The bloody trouble is we are only alive when we’re half dead trying to get a paragraph right. - Paul Scott
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Haven't watched any of it. Even before I got cynical about the commercialized aspects of the Games, the Summer Olympics never really appealed to me anyway. The Winter Games are more fun to watch, but I don't really care too much about them these days either.
For grins though, a 2008 Summer Games Humor Item.
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IRQL-not-less-or-equal! I know that screen!For grins though, a 2008 Summer Games Humor Item.
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According to that article even the Chinese know that Vista is crap.
Last edited by Adrian II; 08-12-2008 at 19:35.
The bloody trouble is we are only alive when we’re half dead trying to get a paragraph right. - Paul Scott
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Count me among the disinterested. I might be distracted if there was reasonable coverage of the fencing, but pretty much everything else leaves me cold.
I'm much happier spending my time over the next few days blowing tiny birds out of a wet, grey sky.
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
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Some of the stories are hilarious though. Anyone else seen the story about the government cheering squads?
The specially trained cheerleading teams have been kitted out in identical bright yellow t-shirts with Communist-red collars.God, what a pathetic show.
Each 'fan' has been issued with two inflatable red and yellow clapping batons, which co-ordinate with their shirts.
Sitting together among the foreign tourists who wear an array of clothes, they appear as solid yellow blocks with both their shirts and sticks mirroring the colours of the national flag.
Bashing the inflated PVC sticks together in a frenzy of national fervour to make a surprisingly loud noise, some of the 'volunteers' even appear to enjoy being 'supporters'.
linky
Well, mundus vult decipi..
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The bloody trouble is we are only alive when we’re half dead trying to get a paragraph right. - Paul Scott
Re: Beijing 2008, or: who else isn't watching?
Would that be the interlocking link or razor wire?Count me among the disinterested. I might be distracted if there was reasonable coverage of the fencing, but pretty much everything else leaves me cold.Curious minds need satiating.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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I've missed all the events, including the opening, except the paired diving (The Russians ****ed up big time there) but otherwise I've avoided 100%, apparently the British got gold for Cycling (It was raining)
Unfortunatly, it is to do more with Politics than Sport these days.
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Well the olympics shows China from its best sides
Communism and equality at its best, surely.The cute little girl whose sweet-voiced rendition of one of China’s favourite revolutionary anthems started off the Olympic opening ceremony performance may not have been all that she seemed. Little Lin Miaoke, it has been revealed, was only lip-synching.
Officials have now admitted that the voice that rang out through the vast Bird’s Nest stadium was really that of seven-year-old Yang Peiyi, who may have had the voice of an angel but whose crooked teeth made her unsuitable for the opening ceremony's top spot.
[...]
Chen Qigang, music director for the ceremony said in an online article: “Little Yang Peiyi’s failure to be selected was mainly because of her appearance, because we were concerned with the interests of the nation.”
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