I get something like 8 TV channels, and the olympics are on 4 of them. I haven't got anything against the olympics, but it just isn't my thing and I'd like to watch something else.

Everything pisses me off about the Olympics. Almost every single product you can imagine is an 'official Olympic product', and if it's not, then it's at least a 'proud supprter'. McDonalds even invented two more mascots to sell with their Happy Meals just so they could make more money. I thought the 'Official Salted Snack' logo on the Pringles jar i keep my coins in was bad enough, but there are worse here.

I don't have cable TV or anything, because I watch about 2 hours of TV a week, but out of the three commercial channels I get, one is 24-Hour Olympics or something.

They even put the Simpsons on instead of Just Shoot Me, and the Simpsons was about the Olympics coming to Springfield. Goddamn.

Sure, athletes are good, but they're sure not heroes I think. They can swim fast or throw something to someone else quickly, or they can run from point A to point B in 'not much time'. They do work hard, and they are an inspiration to a lot of people, but I think calling them heroes is going a bit over the top. I don't mean to trivialize the Olympics, to anyone who takes offence at that by the way.

When It's all over I think everyone'll have some sort of hangover (some literally). They'll wake up the day after the closing ceremony and think "What am I going to talk about today?"

What did you people think of the lighting of the flame? Cathy Freeman definately deserved to do it, but I thought it was a bit of a let down. I was hoping the water flowing down the stairs would be fuel or something, and the flame would light up the stairs and then reach the torch. Looks like I expected too much.

As for the Olympics, I like it. Here in Canada they never show any other sports on TV other than The Blue Jays or the 'Leafs. And I fucking hate it! I hate Toronto (I like the Jays though) and i pretty much hate all of canadaeast of Manitoba (they deserve our sympathy hehe). It is anice change to see different sports and different athletes rather than being bombarded with the same bullshit outta Toronto day in and day out.
Watching when Donovan Bailey took gold and then watching Michael Johnson pull up lame (yeah...fucking pussy just wanted to have an excuse for getting his ass kicked...if you look he glances over at Bailey, sees he is winning and then begins a limp...WHATEVER!!) was the greatest feeling of Patriotic Pride. I noticed also that when anybody seems to get anywhere near patriotic as the US, the US kinda gets all pissy thinking they are being ignorant and self-centred blah lah...it is funny

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Originally posted by Wolfie:
whatever you do though, if you're a swimmer, DON'T watch Ian Thorpe when he's doing backstroke

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Why not?

i never said i was any good lolol
i was having an awesome time playing that game... screaming at xaero for fragging me and then laughing my ass off everytime i frag him and then falling off the platforms and singing my head off 'hey there mr blue do do do do do' you know how it is

madonna... she just can't look young anymore. she's crossed that line i think. i just saw her in some music clip dressed up like a cowgirl? they had to resort to makign her into a cartoon.

This image hosted by angel fire!!!!?!?!?

By the way, I TOTALLY sympathise with redlemons, i live in oz and channel seven has the stoopid olympics on all god damn day, and its turning the town into a bunch olympic freaks!!! people keep putting crappy little tv sets in their shops!!! I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE brrrbeeeep - gayass olympic overload!!!!

Parsout

maybe hit reload a few times... or check out my site. was that a smooth transition into pimping my site or what. i gotta stop doing that cause theres hardly anything there.

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Originally posted by Wolfie:
First of all, he doesn't KICK in backstroke, and sometimes he crosses his legs!
Second of all... he swims backstroke kinda like my sister! He sticks his head out of the water as if he was looking forward not towards the roof. However, he's pretty fast at it. He would probably be faster if he did it correctly though!

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I've always been a fan of an unorthodox style. Many of my coaches had the dubious pleasure of challenging disqualifications I was given because of my technique. None of the DQs I was given in backstroke stuck.

Oh MAAAAAn i havent laughed that hard for ages!!!!!!

gymnast - postional possibilties!!!!!!!!!

Ah snag you crak me up !!!!!!!!!!!

HAHAHHAHAHHAHHA

yeah, jelena's not too shabby, wut about the pole vaulting chic???? eh eh????

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if that guy tries anything, ill be watching and laughing, with him not at him!!!!

Yeah, Jelena's dad was on TV a while back after i got home from werk, on that backyard show, and he sez "Jelena not have boyfriend till she 21 years of age!" (he's probably taking all of her tournament money and using it to buy alcohol eh?)

Then when she's 21, he'll disown her!!! THE BASTARD!!!!

Parsout

peter whore apparently promised he won't disrupt the uhlumpics but I hope he does. the guy's awesome

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Originally posted by AcidWarp:
I never had a problem with unorthodox styles. Then again, I did get a DQ once because I used a suicide turn in an IM going from backstroke to breaststroke. For those of you that don't know what a suicide turn is, it's where you bring your feet right up over your head, like a backwards summersault, when turning in backstroke, rather than rolling over to do a tumble turn. The tumble turn is illegal in the transisition that I was doing, and since I was bored, I did the suicide turn, which is perfectly legal for that, won the race and got DQ'd because the official was an idiot, and didn't realize that I had done nothing wrong. I got a national time in that race too.

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Acid-

I was DQ'd for that reason too. My coach would protest and not let up until the DQ was cancelled or it was agreed the race would be redone. Some officials are COMPLETE IDIOTS!

Should we start a therapy group for people that were DQ'd for use of the suicide turn?

(i dont get to watch much tv since the end of last year (job))

Cmon every body, sing along.!!!..

Give me a home among the gum trees
with lots of plum trees
fa'lowers down the side
and vegies by the fence
all in Burke's Back Yard

HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAH FUNNY!!!!!!!!!

And to think i remembered it all just then!!!