Comments on: I hear there’s a sports festival happening…

By: Cocktails

Cocktails — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:26:42 +0000

BLTP, that’s because the UK is a bunch of lightweights ;) In Australia, the time difference doesn’t mean anything. It’s still sport!

By: BLTP

BLTP — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:09:08 +0000

I think the time difference won’t help, watching everything recorded always takes the edge off things.

By: ill man

ill man — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:30:24 +0000

Until they introduce bicycle speedway to the games, I’m not interested.

By: Cocktails

Cocktails — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:10:26 +0000

23Daves, Yes, one of Australia’s most tiresome characteristics is its/our (!) obsession with our apparent sporting brilliance. If only the same competitiveness was applied to more useful things… This is my third ‘non-Australian’ Olympics and once again I’m just going to sit back and revel in the fact that most people I know find the plight of Walthamstow Dogs a more interesting sporting event to talk about.

Ill Man, that’s alleged smog. My mate who lives over there swears its not as bad as everyone makes out; it’s just negative Western reporting. I assume anyway that you’ll be spending the next few weeks glued to the TV watching the synchronised swimming?

By: the ill man

the ill man — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:59:00 +0000

Will be interested to see how it looks on the TV, what with all the smog and that…

By: 23Daves

23Daves — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:11:28 +0000

I got into an argument with some of my office colleagues in Melbourne once, who had decided that nobody in Britain watched the Olympics because “The British aren’t any good at it”. They decided this because they enjoyed watching Beach Volleyball contests because “we always win at those”, and they thought that was the basis for being interested in any sport.

Even when we do get a gold medal at the Olympics, nobody cares much. I get to hear all about it because my sister is massively into the Olympics, but she’s very much the exception to the general rule. Nobody at work will bring it up.

Of course, I approve of this attitude completely.