worst organization of Olympics ever ?!!

blueberry · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:08 pm

Hoss666 wrote:

Lynchpin wrote:

phantomgreen wrote:

The Olympics are more than just entertainment.

Well if you view them as more than that, I feel sorry for you. I have far more important shit in my life to get worked up about than how the ice at the 2010 Winter Olympics was cleared during a hockey game.....

phantomgreen · **Joined:** Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:12 am **Posts:** 838

Lynchpin wrote:

phantomgreen wrote:

The Olympics are more than just entertainment.

Well if you view them as more than that, I feel sorry for you. I have far more important shit in my life to get worked up about than how the ice at the 2010 Winter Olympics was cleared during a hockey game.....

So do I, but I still have enough in me to care about how a world event, a spectacle of human competition and history is handled and expressed.

DOWNer366 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:11 pm

blueberry · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:14 pm

phantomgreen wrote:

So do I, but I still have enough in me to care about how a world event, a spectacle of human competition and history is handled and expressed.

Quote:

"The ancient Greeks were not as idealistic as we represent them to be," says David Gilman Romano of the University of Pennsylvania Museum and director of a new excavation at Mount Lykaion, 17 miles from ancient Olympia. "They had many of the same problems we have today." The first recorded incident of actual cheating occurred in 388 B.C. when the boxer Eupolus of Thessaly bribed three opponents to take a dive. Olympic corruption peaked under Roman influence; in A.D. 67, emperor Nero bribed the judges to include poetry reading as an event. They also declared him the chariot champion, overlooking that he fell out and never finished the race.
More info:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/200 ... wn_67.html

The idealism has always been there and is commendable, but the reality never has.

DOWNer366 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:15 pm

blueberry wrote:

phantomgreen wrote:

So do I, but I still have enough in me to care about how a world event, a spectacle of human competition and history is handled and expressed.

Quote:

"The ancient Greeks were not as idealistic as we represent them to be," says David Gilman Romano of the University of Pennsylvania Museum and director of a new excavation at Mount Lykaion, 17 miles from ancient Olympia. "They had many of the same problems we have today." The first recorded incident of actual cheating occurred in 388 B.C. when the boxer Eupolus of Thessaly bribed three opponents to take a dive. Olympic corruption peaked under Roman influence; in A.D. 67, emperor Nero bribed the judges to include poetry reading as an event. They also declared him the chariot champion, overlooking that he fell out and never finished the race.
More info:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/200 ... wn_67.html

The idealism has always been there and is commendable, but the reality never has.

*Bitch* · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:18 pm

well my 20 month old son has no issues whatsover with the winter olympics.

this might be due to the fact that his fave movie ever is Cool Runnings...

DOWNer366 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:21 pm

the jamaican bobsled team failed to qualify this year, but they tried!

*Bitch* · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:23 pm

'jamaycahhhhhhh we got a bobsleigh team!'

i fucking hate that film.

Hoss666 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:25 pm

*Bitch* wrote:

'jamaycahhhhhhh we got a bobsleigh team!'

i fucking hate that film.

DOWNer366 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:26 pm

yep, it's def not a good one.

*Bitch* · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:27 pm

sadly, children like to pick the shittiest film they can find, and watch it 3-4 times per day. some days i find it a relief to go to work and not have to watch cool runnings.

DOWNer366 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:47 pm

i know what you mean.
i used to watch "Earnest Goes to Camp" over & over & over again as a kid...probably drove my parents nuts.

know what i mean, Vern?

blueberry · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:48 pm

This thread has been derailed in the best possible way :lol:

phantomgreen · **Joined:** Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:12 am **Posts:** 838

DOWNer366 wrote:

i know what you mean.
i used to watch "Earnest Goes to Camp" over & over & over again as a kid...probably drove my parents nuts.

know what i mean, Vern?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZhnV4M1JWI

Hoss666 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:51 pm

I almost bought the Ernest collection the other day... :lol:

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