Please tell me I am not alone...

[Chippy Minton]

I'm going to get my dad to sign up for this forum - he loves complaining about the Olympics.

Come to think of it, he also likes to complain about dog turds, loud music, children and people generally enjoying themselves so he'll have plenty to say after the Olympics is over as well.

[bonniebird]

I do not ever watch sport, don't like it, bores me rigid................. until now! I was indifferent about the Olympics, but once we won the bid I was proud and we have it so lets make the most of it right? I have never watched so much sport its fantastic! I grew up in Forest Gate, next door to Stratford, my family live there, my brother oppisite the Olympic Village, the atmosphere around there is amazing, I shall miss it when it goes, once in a lifetime thing for us, very proud to be British :)

[maxxi]

I am getting rather racked off with every BBC pundit using the same few stock opening gambits when talking to sports-persons, post event: "What's your reaction to that?" - "How does/did that feel?" - "Talk us through it"

NO, YOU talk us through it you lazy, witless, tit. Then ask a question you think may produce an answer other than "Amazing!/Gutted!", it IS your job after all.

[uncleglen]

B3Y- the difference between sport and music and theatre is massive- the latter are forms of communication and watching sport requires only that your eyes are looking at who can run fastest, jump highest etc.

This is linked to maxxi's post- lack of meaningful communication

[Otta]

Chippy Minton Wrote:

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> I'm going to get my dad to sign up for this forum

> - he loves complaining about the Olympics.

>

> Come to think of it, he also likes to complain

> about dog turds, loud music, children and people

> generally enjoying themselves so he'll have plenty

> to say after the Olympics is over as well.

To be fair to your dad, dog turds are a pretty good thing to complain about.

[intexasatthe moment]

My mum wants to know why the " games makers " have a whole uniform ,including shoes and a bag .

She says a simple sash would do .

[the-e-dealer]

Yeah let them work naked like the Original Games.

[uncleglen]

Well, that's it then, and all I managed to see- by accident on the news- was Roger Daltrey belting out a few bars of My Generation. Phew. Back to normality- I suppose all those roads that weren't dug up, all those stations that needed work will all be closed at the weekend -for the foreseeable.

[Chippy Minton]

Blimey, that's some going managing to miss the news entirely, and TV in general, for over two weeks, but then catch Daltrey right at the end of the last day by accident!

If only you'd held out for a few more hours!

[northlondoner]

bonniebird Wrote:

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> I do not ever watch sport, don't like it, bores me

> rigid................. until now! I was

> indifferent about the Olympics, but once we won

> the bid I was proud and we have it so lets make

> the most of it right? I have never watched so much

> sport its fantastic! I grew up in Forest Gate,

> next door to Stratford, my family live there, my

> brother oppisite the Olympic Village, the

> atmosphere around there is amazing, I shall miss

> it when it goes, once in a lifetime thing for us,

> very proud to be British :)

Almost exactly reflects my own experience - apart from the east London thing. Zero interest in sport and was very negative about traffic, visitors etc. Then bam...the spectacle, the drama, the nobility of the human form in flight....fell for the whole thing like a moone-eyed love-addled teenager.

London has never seemed so fair of countenance , majestic of bearing or gentle of nature. Loved it. Didnt think I would...but loved it.

[Tarot]

At last the circus has left town.

So when we get the roads back and things put back to how they were and why have they turned the olympic flame off what about the paraolympics then surely their efforts outweigh any able bodied persons,or has it been trivialised by the great olympic moneybag gang.

[Charlotte1988]

I managed to not watch a single event, woohoo! I feel a bit unpatriotic, but it just got hyped up so much that it annoyed me