Does anybody actually give a toss about the Olymipcs this summer?

Stefan

There are Olympics this summer?

^what he said.

+2

didn’t know either. Still don’t care.

I’m pretty much oblivious to it , just hoping it doesn’t interfere with my plans to travel.

Yes, I live near the site and chinook helicopters and fighter planes have been flying over my house and waking up my two year old. I could go on with a litany of complaints. I have no problems with the sporting competition but the capital interests surrounding it all are dismal.

I actually enjoy them…

agree, Harlequin … I enjoy them as well.  

Yeah I’m pretty excited for them. Can’t wait to watch some of the track cycling events. The UK women’s team is looking pretty good… if you know what I mean.

They make for some good t.v. watching.

I’m with you Walrus. I did think of getting into it just out of pure eccentricity, but then I realised I can’t be arsed.

I like curling, but that’s probably not a summer sport, so no, I don’t really care

the moment someone I know is in the games I’ll give a flying fox. Untill then not really into competative sports that I’am not playing.

I just never got it. I was always the wheezy, chubby kid that never got picked when the two class athletes were picking their teams in PE class. Then I got very fit, joined the police and was forced to play more f^(£ng team sports. I used to feel like I was back at school. I am just not competitive, not one single sports gene in me. Although, that said I do like to watch England football matches, that might be from having to attend a lot of them in 96 when were were doing well with el tell.

one year in PE class I got in a class with all the out of shape nerds and I’ve always been active if not into sports. It was funny cause I always got picked first. First period of the day and since I didn’t want foot rot I just smelled of sweat all day and you know what I think girls like that just a heads up really.

While i can’t handle team spots I’ve found muay thai to be quite enjoyable , bruises and all.

I like to watch the weightlifting.

The city I’m living in used to be the center of Olympic training in Mongolia.  Probably only like 25% of the Olympic athletes will train here, so I’m looking forward to seeing that.

Maybe because it’s an infrequent deal, I check it out now and then. But I tend to quickly get bored with most televised sports. (soccer in the USA/ football in the UK) is kind of cool to me, but rarely on television in this part of the world. Or hockey can be fun to watch too. I wonder, outside of the US or Canada, how many of you are familiar with the sport?

Certainly not me, It is all to keep the masses distracted from what is really going on.So stay distracted and be stuffed into there mold and do what you are told till the rights of you are sold. It’s the slim oozing out from your TV set. Rest in peace Frank Zappa.

I enjoy the gymnastics, male or female. Find the track and field and swimming boring. The stuff that really interests me like the archery and shooting are not shown on TV here.  So I’ll watch maybe 10% of what is available. Unless I find something better to do, like hang out on internet forums.

Well, it’s like this…I wouldn’t mind watching some of the events, but there’s no way I’m going to sit through a massive advertising attack to watch those events. And we all know that the Olympics are about advertising now, NOT the athletes and events. No thanks, I’ll find something more entertaining to do, like hitting myself in the head with a large hammer.

This summer in England is going to be hell IMO. A load of folk running and jumping, An elderly lady celebrating 60 years on money, I am actually a royalist, just fed up of the overkill, and England more than likely getting knocked out of the Euro’s at the 1st hurdle. Reasons to be cheeful? Fuck that and put me to sleep for 6 months lol.

Stefan

Olympics? what is that? there is just one and it is UFC.

@nuusku HELL YEAH!

Our demographic must be interesting. We sound like a bunch of educated, 40 plus, overweight curmudgeons, I wonder what we really are. It’s been asked in the past but not got beyond saying how old we are. 

I’m a 27 (on Monday anyway lol), year old overweight curmudgeon lol.

Stefan

34 slightily chubby at 220lbs (I think half my weight is in my legs, I walk a lot got soccer player legs). mostly self educated and both more normal and eccentric then I let onto on this site.

If it’s free, I watch some of it. I think it’s a cool tradition that should continue.  I’m sure that when that many people from all over the world get together there is ample opportunity to find out that we are all bout the same and that people COULD live in peace some day. I think if a leader of a country has a gripe with another leader, we should let them duke it out in the boxing ring.

@hooked I prefer The W.C.Fields method. Let them duke it out with manure filled sacks.

I’m an ex- surfer that delves into weight lifting from time to time. I have done the Olympic lifts as training protocol a few times. The rapid strength gain is immense using these lifts. I was amazed at how much a skinny guy like me could actually hoist. Nowhere near Olympian status though. Those guys have to eat, sleep and shit weights. It quite impressive to see these individuals push the limits of human strength. 

I’am under the impression that steriods are the only way to excede a certain strength.

I’ve lost interest ever since the definition of “professional athelete” became so fuzzy.

Not a big fan of the summer games (although I will watch gymnastics)  Winter olympics are more my thing. (bobsledding is my fave)

Ironically I don’t do much sledding, yet they named a type of sledding after me. Another one of lifes mysteries I guesss.

bob, how many years ago was that?

I have to admire the dedication, and to try to push one’sself as far as possible. That being said, I watch a little bit of it.

I’m glad I’m on the other side of the planet. My only sports viewing is Tri-Nations Rugby, and any opportunity to see the Yankees or Mayweather Lewis get an ass kicking. I think I’ll watch the gymnastics, wrestling, boxing, fencing, rowing, and (if they put it on at all here) the horse events. The Olympics: Sports for Amateurs, Advertising for the World. Oh, and if Justin Huish is back, archery too.

Mr.O it was before I was born actualy. Like I said the whole thing is a big mystery and makes no sense what so ever.

You knew I was joking right?

Then there is the question that is “can the future influence the past?”…  

The Torch passed through Derbyshire yesterday. Half the fecking county held up by a rolling roadblock for a glorified candle. I had to go to the hospital yesterday, the torch was coming right past it. THEY SHUT THE BLOODY ROAD TO THE SECOND BIGGEST HOSPITAL IN DERBYSHIRE, FOR A FUCKING CANDLE! If anybody needed an ambulance in north Derbyshire yesterday, for an hour you couldn’t get in/out/toward the hospital. God help anybody who was ill. British incompetence at its very best!

Stefan