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Yeah if you look hard enough you will always find something to bitch about.
He and the supporters should have been thrown out.
But how about focusing on the good. ( I know that's a hard concept for some)
Michael Phelps. Three straight Olympics three straight golds in the 200 medley. That was worth getting up early for.
What a Bonafida superstar!
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Nice to see our Kiwi cousins now with equal our gold medals. 
Oh and congratulations to Australian rower Josh Booth for keeping alive the wonderful convict traditions of our country. 
I suspect this might be a turning point for the amount of investment in sport that voters are prepared to put up with in Australia. Frankly, I'd rather see better hospitals than more gold medals.
Love the increasing desperation in the voices of Channel Nine commentators as they try to drum up dwindling viewer interest in these games. James Brayshaw, I'm especially looking at you!
Brayshaw fell for the most ridiculous fallacy that you often see applied to Collingwood games. We can't play any worse, they couldn't play any better. Jim Bob was referring to the Australian rowers who just lost a semi-final to the Brits. Both teams qualified for the final, so no one was going as hard as they might have, but because the Brits won, Jim Bob applied the fallacy. |
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| David wrote: | | rocketronnie wrote: |  |
Haha, love it! |
RR is SMOKIN'!!!
Nice... |
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Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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| I am glad you find this funny. Thanks, to remember a influential hanger. |
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| stui magpie wrote: | | Nice work. So the combined might of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales is now creeping up on Australia's medal tally. |
Now don't be so patronising Stui.
The Kiwis might go past us! |
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watt price tully 
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| think positive wrote: | Yeah if you look hard enough you will always find something to bitch about.
He and the supporters should have been thrown out.
But how about focusing on the good. ( I know that's a hard concept for some)
Michael Phelps. Three straight Olympics three straight golds in the 200 medley. That was worth getting up early for.
What a Bonafida superstar! |
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1. The point is one didn't have to look hard at all jeez 
2. This is the reality of the Olympics Being a wilful ostrich doesn't cut it
3. In my previous post I said I love watching the best athletes perform at their best (But I hate the Olympics)
4. This isn't as simplistic as it is for some - it's not focussing on the so called "bad" & ignore the so called "good" - life isn't so simple, the olympics ain't so simple as you well know but choose to ignore
5. There are many brilliant performances including that of Phelps which I admire.
6. As painful as it is for some, enjoy the individual or team performances but don't be a pollyanna about the context the games are locatd in.
Now tell me how's that acceptance speech going for Miss Altona or Miss Sunshine - you know the one about world peace  
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| jack_spain wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | | Nice work. So the combined might of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales is now creeping up on Australia's medal tally. |
Now don't be so patronising Stui.
The Kiwis might go past us! |
nearly everybody else has
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think positive
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| watt price tully wrote: | | think positive wrote: | Yeah if you look hard enough you will always find something to bitch about.
He and the supporters should have been thrown out.
But how about focusing on the good. ( I know that's a hard concept for some)
Michael Phelps. Three straight Olympics three straight golds in the 200 medley. That was worth getting up early for.
What a Bonafida superstar! |
TP:
1. The point is one didn't have to look hard at all jeez
2. This is the reality of the Olympics Being a wilful ostrich doesn't cut it
3. In my previous post I said I love watching the best athletes perform at their best (But I hate the Olympics)
4. This isn't as simplistic as it is for some - it's not focussing on the so called "bad" & ignore the so called "good" - life isn't so simple, the olympics ain't so simple as you well know but choose to ignore
5. There are many brilliant performances including that of Phelps which I admire.
6. As painful as it is for some, enjoy the individual or team performances but don't be a pollyanna about the context the games are locatd in.
Now tell me how's that acceptance speech going for Miss Altona or Miss Sunshine - you know the one about world peace |
hmmmmmmmm, ah, err
whatever.
go back to your depressing politics and politicizing everything!!
ill just enjoy it on my own!!
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| think positive wrote: | | ill just enjoy it on my own!! |
Well I would enjoy it with you if you stopped barracking for the poms and septics
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watt price tully
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| think positive wrote: | | watt price tully wrote: | | think positive wrote: | Yeah if you look hard enough you will always find something to bitch about.
He and the supporters should have been thrown out.
But how about focusing on the good. ( I know that's a hard concept for some)
Michael Phelps. Three straight Olympics three straight golds in the 200 medley. That was worth getting up early for.
What a Bonafida superstar! |
TP:
1. The point is one didn't have to look hard at all jeez
2. This is the reality of the Olympics Being a wilful ostrich doesn't cut it
3. In my previous post I said I love watching the best athletes perform at their best (But I hate the Olympics)
4. This isn't as simplistic as it is for some - it's not focussing on the so called "bad" & ignore the so called "good" - life isn't so simple, the olympics ain't so simple as you well know but choose to ignore
5. There are many brilliant performances including that of Phelps which I admire.
6. As painful as it is for some, enjoy the individual or team performances but don't be a pollyanna about the context the games are locatd in.
Now tell me how's that acceptance speech going for Miss Altona or Miss Sunshine - you know the one about world peace |
hmmmmmmmm, ah, err
whatever.
go back to your depressing politics and politicizing everything!!
ill just enjoy it on my own!! |
It is politicised without any contribution from me corr blimey :roll
I love watching the athletes - actually prefer listening to it on radio while I'm driving or doing other things.
The politics of the Olympics as David was pointing out (via administration) in the OP is an inherent part of the Olympics just as the starters gun is.
Wasn't there an old 10cc song - something like "I don't like the Olympics, no, I love it yeah" ?
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| Morrigu wrote: | | think positive wrote: | | ill just enjoy it on my own!! |
Well I would enjoy it with you if you stopped barracking for the poms and septics |
born that way!! haha!!
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watt price tully
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Thought you and others here might like this from last Thursday.
Covers the media's view of the first few days of the Olympics..very funny...
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3559420.htm
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| think positive wrote: | | jack_spain wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | | Nice work. So the combined might of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales is now creeping up on Australia's medal tally. |
Now don't be so patronising Stui.
The Kiwis might go past us! |
nearly everybody else has |
They already have. The Kiwis won a second gold in rowing yesterday.
I see Anna Meares blew up in the keiron final in the cycling this morning. The Brits' Victoria Pendleton won. Meares' great rival has just blown past her.
Boy, for performances, this games stinks for Australia. It's like all the athletes have had a pact not to perform at personal bests.
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And Phelps gos out the best way possible, with a final gold medal in his last ever individual event.
Just so amazing. What an athlete,
Thanks for the memories.
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