Poll: are you looking forward to the olympics?

Lunatic Dreyfus · 23 May 2012 at 14:15

Of course!

It has been dampened by the silly ticketing system. Yet at least I get to see the saturday morning athletics.

OzzyUK87 · 23 May 2012 at 14:38

I'm not too bothered about it. I might watch it to kill some time or if there is nothing else on but I'm not going sit down and spend a whole day watching it.

rogan · 23 May 2012 at 15:13

bored at the thought of being in london during it already

Malk101 · 23 May 2012 at 15:19

semi-pro waster said:
Doesn't the World Cup just bring together the football fans of the country? The proportion of people who would watch the Team GB competing at athletics might not be all that different to those who would choose to watch England or Ireland/Wales/Scotland (assuming we ever qualify again...) play football.

Not at all, when the last world cup was on we had Barbecue days/nights with many of the people that were there, were not into football just wanted to be part of it (mainly the drink i expect), but you never hear of any Olympic party's going on (away from London), just seems to be a sport that's dwindled over the years.

Don't get me wrong i hope it all goes well, just cannot see it been as popular as they expect.

Surfer · 23 May 2012 at 15:24

Bag of ****.....all of it. Not fussed about euros either....corruption/cheats in both athletics and football imo...

Just pap....

ubersonic · 23 May 2012 at 15:27

Its a disgrace that the previous/current government decided to use UK taxes to pay for the English Olympics, and to make it worse north Wales councils are spending their money promoting London's folly >.>

olivier renault · 23 May 2012 at 15:40

The Halk said:
I'm trying my hardest to feel interested but I've never really had any liking for those type of sports, and the way it's being run with the vile commercialism and pathetic torch running have made it distasteful so far. I'm not having a very easy job of liking it.

I don't mind the sports themselves, but the rest is a turn off.

KillBoY_UK · 23 May 2012 at 15:46

Well I got my single fencing womens final ticket today so yes Im looking forward to it and im glad I've got the chance to see an Olympics event in my home Country in my 20's. Its not like it will roll around here every year.

windheaven · 23 May 2012 at 15:51

In the Animatrix there's this scene where one of the sprinters goes so fast..he breaks the barrier between virtual reality and the real world.....

..i want Usain bolt to break this barrier...no 9.4 second bs...i want to see 5 secs 100m pl0x..i want entertainment!

ubersonic · 23 May 2012 at 16:21

windheaven said:
..i want Usain bolt to break this barrier...no 9.4 second bs...i want to see 5 secs 100m pl0x..i want entertainment!

Reminds me about the guy from mock the week talking about the Olympics and how there should be an Olympics for drug users and non drug users he said something like "if someone wants to pump their body full of **** and do the 100m in under 4 seconds, we'd bloody like to see it!"

realBabelfish · 23 May 2012 at 16:46

windheaven said:
In the Animatrix there's this scene where one of the sprinters goes so fast..he breaks the barrier between virtual reality and the real world.....

..i want Usain bolt to break this barrier...no 9.4 second bs...i want to see 5 secs 100m pl0x..i want entertainment!

you never know. every time i see him run he almost jogs the last 20%. he makes it look far too easy

psd99 · 28 May 2012 at 13:07

so in conclusion 20% of people on this forum so far are looking forward to the Olympics

Boring British?

estebanrey · 28 May 2012 at 13:13

psd99 said:
so in conclusion 20% of people on this forum so far are looking forward to the Olympics

Boring British?

Do you have stats on the public enthusiasm of other countries who have held the games?

conb123 · 28 May 2012 at 16:24

Find it pretty boring for the most part

Dark Kyon · 28 May 2012 at 17:16

I dnt really mind as long as it boosts the UK economy in some shape or form

stockhausen · 30 May 2012 at 15:17

Even Putin isn't bothered

Russian president will send Dmitry Medvedev to Games.

Sensible chap - what is a deputy for if not to be bored witless?

Cosimo · 30 May 2012 at 15:23

psd99 said:
so in conclusion 20% of people on this forum so far are looking forward to the Olympics

Boring British?

The sample here is representative of techie geeks so difficult to say.

ringo747 · 30 May 2012 at 22:29

I see the local NI Facebookers are getting enthusiastic about the Olympic torch coming soon to NI - Facebook post entitled 'Olympic Torch arrives in NI'...

DotA · 30 May 2012 at 23:07

ubersonic said:
Reminds me about the guy from mock the week talking about the Olympics and how there should be an Olympics for drug users and non drug users he said something like "if someone wants to pump their body full of **** and do the 100m in under 4 seconds, we'd bloody like to see it!"

It was Frankie boyle, "I want to see him running with the legs of a kangaroo and the heart of a leopard. I wanna see him run so fast that halfway through the race he disappears, like the car from back to the future, reappears at the finish line an old man, shouts ''beware china'' and crumbles into dust."

KatanaDV20 · 30 May 2012 at 23:29

CBA TBH

Feel its a huge waste of money when the country could do WITHOUT throwing £££ at this kind of thing.

Poll: are you looking forward to the olympics?

Looking forward to Olympics?

Yes

No

Not fussed

Capodecina