Oh god, Not Again.

Oh God, one more time the news and TV stations busy obsessing with sport.  We have only just had the end of the bloody Seahawks and the Superbowl carry on round here and now it has headed straight into the bloody Olympics.

I have to say I regard Russia with an unfavourable basilisk eye on the subject of poisoning my favourite four legged people and leaving them to die in the streets of Sochi.  I fail to understand why they had to pick on dogs to exterminate when they had two groups far more deserving to pick on for immolation.  They could have got the LBGT contingent or the revolting ragheads and done the world a favour!  Or me at least!  I might have even watched if Chechnya had been nuked!  Short of that, nothing on earth would get me to tune into ABC the next three weeks!

I strenuously object to the waste of money, corruption, venality and general greed of the whole shebang.  I suggest the money would have been far better spent ensuring contraception in the third world that is so keen to send us their excess populations!

Frankly if this is the best that humanity can do the sooner we get wiped out the better!  I do not see giant cockroaches or whatever inherits the earth as a bunch to waste their substance on such stupidity.  I bet they would build their flood defences first!

Needless to say I do not patronise any of the advertisers at such happenings and events.  The one thing any of us can do is to refuse to buy their products in protest. the lot of them disgust me (and spousal unit)  Sometimes I actually know why we married each other!!

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Author: christinaosborne

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8 thoughts on “Oh god, Not Again.”

  2. When I were a lad, at my school we had a sports field. It had a running track and in the middle of that were two sandpits.One for the pole vault and one that doubled up for the long jump and also for the hop skip and jump. Oh yes, there were some grassy areas for shot putt, discus and the like. It seemed to work adequately well for the fourteen hundred boys who were educated there. I don’t know what it cost to build but I bet it was nothing like the cost of the single central stadium in Russia, which on it’s own came in at a cool £55,000,000, never mind the rest of the Olympic development.
    Mind you we would have been a little short on space if we’d had to make room for a few hundred drummers, hordes of mini skirted dancers, various pop stars and some blonde haired bloke bumbling about on a large red bus.

    Go on, convince me, it’s all about the sport, right?

  3. Well I’m a fan of sporting events, not just world cups and Olympic tournaments, but also the local match at a nearby club and everything inbetween.

    I have no time for the administrators and empire builders who are in it for themselves.

    It’s not the athletes fault that these games cost some £30 billion to put on, they simply just want too participate.

    Down here we get the event(s) uninterrupted by ads. (Last nights 3 hour opening ceremony was shown without a break)

    I hadn’t heard about the Ruskies exterminating the dogs, your comment reminded me about the foreseen problem down here during the 2010 fifa world cup, every street beggar was told by the police that if they were seen at anytime on the streets during the month long tournament that they would be shipped off to an appropriate ‘holding facility’ (jail) for the duration.

  4. If Backside and I agree on one thing, it’s this. Opening ceremonies alone deserve universal disdain. Winter sports are outside my experience – so good luck to the athletes if they can find any snow or ice to suit them but Sochi was never an obvious choice. Pity the people whose homes were bull-dozed, let alone the animals.

    I will not be watching any of it. 😦

  5. I shall be watching the curling, since I expect the GB team is entirely Scottish. We don’t get to see much of this sport on TV.

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