The Olympic Ranting Thread

I dont line in London (thank ****), so mostly I am unaffected and can sit back and watch the, almost, excellent coverage on the telly. However my boy was in Cardiff to watch some football on Tuesday and had all of his refreshments confiscated before he could enter. More annoying, though this didnt affect his party, there was a guy selling (edit) Official Olympic guff out the front knowing that certain items would be confiscated if you bought it before entering the stadium >:(
 
I must say that I'm finding a large % of people who said they were not in to it or couldn't care less, now hooked and loving it.
 
Richie said:
Really? :confused:

You do realise that we are currently 11th of 49?

For a small country to get talent from, in comparison to the countries above us, I would say we are doing quite well.
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Don't we have one of the biggest squads attending though?
 
Squark said:
The main bulk of our strong events are yet to come, or haven't finished yet.

I think we're doing pretty good.
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This. Before yesterday TeamGB said they were only one medal short of the expected position so far and they expect 48 medals in total in the Olympics.

How can being one medal down be judged a failure????
 
InKursion said:
My campus is full of armed guards with MP5's and a ridiculously oppressive and rather suspicious security presence, to say the least. Since May time we've been not-so-fondly referring to our campus as 'East Berlin' or 'the Gaza Strip', and students have been complaining to the administration pretty much constantly. Paying students, with no consultation, have had their campus turned inside-out for the Olympic circus. We've been relegated to second-class citizens whilst 'the talent' swan around with security escorts, whilst Olympic officials get precedence and obeisance from our university principals, etc. It's such a pantomime.

As someone not even remotely interested in the Nazi spectacle and fascist fetishisation of athletic prowess, I have a lot to rant about. Tourists are one thing, but being relegated to a person with the status of a Palestine is another.
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Jesus man, get a grip.
 
Richie said:
You do realise that we are currently 11th of 49?

For a small country to get talent from, in comparison to the countries above us, I would say we are doing quite well.
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We're a small country with a big budget, it's not really about population size, it's more about your economy, just look at China. They never used to dominate the Olympics until recently when they became rich despite always having one of the largest population on Earth.
 
stockhausen said:
If only there was a medal for whinging and you were there to help them out.

When you are old enough to buy a drink, I have no doubt that you will whine incessantly and bitterly that the barman should be able to squeeze more shandy into your half pint glass :p
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This is a 'ranting' thread. so it's you that's sounding stupid!
 
Enjoying the Olympics on the whole but my mini moan is that yesterday my son had to go to A&E, had X rays, tests etc. when coming home there was one road closed for the cycling that my wife needed to cross to get him home. The race was not starting for more than two hours and some ugly, northern volunteer, presumably baited by the fact that she was seeing that life in Britain doesn't have to be a drudgery of heroine abuse, mining and pigeon fancying, wouldn't let here through.

With an obviously sick child in the back of the car (and having explained) that is pretty low. No barriers needed moving and it was only about 40 feet to cross, the fat cow just wouldn't budge and was trying to get my wife to act aggressively back, which she did not. She even lied saying that she had told my wife earlier, which she had not since she wasn't there when she had taken him to the hospital at 7 am.

Thankfully my other child's push chair was in the car so my wife had to push a large, ill, 4 year old for a mile or so.
 
Kenai said:
Don't we have one of the biggest squads attending though?
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I thought this is more to do with the fact that host teams get entrance into events that you would normally have to qualify for - for example, the handball teams would not have otherwise competed. I suppose it's like nations hosting the World / Euro cups and bypassing qualification as a result.
 
Skidder said:
not an ounce of fat on him, he's just way taller than most kids his age, thanks though
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Wouldn't worry, he has that disease where he opens his mouth and just lets spill - "Ignorant Basterditis" I think it's called.... He will grow out of it when he hits puberty :p
 
I see lots of athletes every single day: they sit around in my library, chatting; they jog around my streets and in the field opposite my house; they're constantly back-and-forth in the small town that adjoins my campus. Most of the women are incredibly hot. Most of the men are absolutely massive. An Australian rower drunkenly smashed up the 24-hour store at the end of my street the other night. It's funny because I'm not interested in watching the Olympics at all on television, as a sporting-event - the more interesting and fun part is how it has turned my university campus and town into a summer camp atmosphere.
 
Russia pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva on Russian TV: "If you leave premises of Olympic village, you get impression nothing is happening."

Isinbayeva cont'd: "Many people do not understand what Olympics are & whether they're held in their city. No feeling of jubilation there."
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Not surprised by that given the amount of people just on here that have moaned about it.
 
asim18 said:
Good luck to both of you gentlemen.

I really don't understand the utter retardation in place at the O2. I mean I had a 2 inch blade on me which I carry all the time. It went through the X-Ray no problem. But I had a bottle of Coke in my hand and it got confiscated.

If I had the knife in my pocket it would have been confiscated as it would have tripped the detector, yet if I had the drink in my pocket I could have carried it in unimpeded.

Pointless. Simply pointless.

The intense retardation beggars belief. What a pointless waste of soldiers. They must be well ****ed off fannying about at the O2.
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Asim packing heat (in blade format) you truly are a modern day hellraiser.
 
Azza said:
Russia pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva on Russian TV: "If you leave premises of Olympic village, you get impression nothing is happening.(...) No feeling of jubilation there.".
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What does she mean "no jubilation" - they even covered up dwellers of several Grade II listed council estates along olympic route with nets and banners just so the otherwise latrine resembling parts of East London look more jubilant and welcoming ;)
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not read any of this thread and don't care to either...

anyone still in here wanting to rant should take a running jump off a very high cliff...

you cant deny the Olympics has been a huge success for this country on every conceivable level.

nothing more to say.

go Team GB 2012!!!!!!

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