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dude 
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Posted: August 29 2008 at 08:43 |
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WE had an olympics?...wow that explains all those people i saw on tv, running and jumping!!..i thought they were commercials for laxatives,you know,........"now that im regular again im free to do whatever i want!!"
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Jared
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 17:30 |
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yes, here and there....I have to say, I've never been a great 'athletics' fan, but the thing about the Olympics, is that there is so much variety in the different sports on offer, that it tends to keep my attention far more than an athletics Grand Prix at Gateshead would, for instance...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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inrainbows
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 17:24 |
 npjnpj wrote:
Can't be bothered.
Seems to be mainly of interest to the competing athletes whom I pity because it's deteriorated into a competition between pharmaceutical companies.
Seems a great shame for the few honest contestants left helplessly behind in a rigged contest. |
That's the truth, about Olympics! No, I don't be bothered too
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 16:35 |
And don't even get started on the dead bigfoot... 
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Padraic
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 16:24 |
Slartibartfast wrote:
Well, at least here in Georgia they put up billboards to hide the trees and cut down the other trees so you can see the billboards.
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Why are you worried about billboards? You have Russian tanks rolling in!
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 16:00 |
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Well, at least here in Georgia they put up billboards to hide the trees and cut down the other trees so you can see the billboards.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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topofsm
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Posted: August 19 2008 at 01:31 |
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I'll probably watch a bit of the Olympics - mainly if there's nothing on the other channels. I feel sorry for the athletes having to take part in all that pollution. |
I just had an old friend over here and she was just at the Olympics. She was saying that there is so much propaganda there to make it look good on TV. The skies are so polluted that the Sun's a tiny dot, and they're able to edit it onscreen. There's also billboards of trees instead of real trees. I guess NBC and those news companies are getting paid off pretty well to go along with that crap.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: July 23 2008 at 22:54 |
limeyrob wrote:
I'll probably watch a bit of the Olympics - mainly if there's nothing on the other channels. I feel sorry for the athletes having to take part in all that pollution. |
And I would hope also for the general population in Beijing that breathe that air everyday of their life
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memowakeman
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Posted: July 23 2008 at 13:21 |
Yes, but only when time allows me.
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Passionist
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Posted: July 23 2008 at 11:52 |
GoldenSpiral wrote:
Summer Olympics = women's beach volleyball on TV. 'nuff said. 
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Totally! I might be watching some selective sports such as this, and the ones my fellow Finns take part in, but stuff like left hand chess or pig throwing are really not very interesting in the end. And in the end, it's all that is on on those two/three channels I get nowadays with my broken digireceiver.
Edited by Passionist - July 23 2008 at 11:53
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moreitsythanyou
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Posted: July 23 2008 at 11:26 |
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I wont because I find it boring.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: July 23 2008 at 09:56 |
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IAlthough I remember being fascinated by the Munich games in 72 (Olga Korbut, Borzov and Mark Spitz) I haven't watched any OG from close since the 76 edition in Montreal....
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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BroSpence
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Posted: July 20 2008 at 20:57 |
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Never cared much for the olympics. The US basketball team is pretty bad now too considering what we used to be. Not to mention the endless hours of commercials that you sit through to see a 30 second race.
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limeyrob
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Posted: July 19 2008 at 16:32 |
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I'll probably watch a bit of the Olympics - mainly if there's nothing on the other channels. I feel sorry for the athletes having to take part in all that pollution.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: July 19 2008 at 03:50 |
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Not a sports fan at all (save for perhaps the fact I used to skateboard, but that's not considered "sport" by snobbish sport elitists), have been a arts culture type person instead (well, music culture anyway), but the one that really ticked me off is the China/Tibet issue.
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darkshade
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Posted: July 19 2008 at 01:30 |
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: July 19 2008 at 00:55 |
Not watching it.I am sports nut but am personally boycotting the Olympics this year because of various issues I have with the country of China.
Edited by TheProgtologist - July 19 2008 at 00:56
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Drew
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Posted: July 16 2008 at 17:02 |
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Well, this is the last time Baseball will be there....
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rushfan4
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Posted: July 16 2008 at 17:01 |
After the 2004 Olympics, wasn't baseball demoted from being a medal sport to being an exhibition sport? Either way, that is still great news.
A guy from my high school's baseball team was one of the players for the Greece team when the Olympics were in Greece. His parents or grandparents were of Greek descent so he was able to play on that team. Was that 2000 or 2004? I can't remember now.
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Drew
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Posted: July 16 2008 at 16:53 |
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SS Jason Donald, he plays with the Reading Phillies
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