For me the Winter Olympics has become unwatchable in recent times because of the appalling overexcitability of the commentators. And this time I really don’t feel like watching the attempted whitewashing of the most horribly fascist regime the world has ever known.
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Moose the Mooche says
Other opinions are available.
Unless you’re in China, in which case no opinions are available.
Baron Harkonnen says
I’m not watching for exactly the second reason you stated in your opening post Moose.
Vincent says
Surely all big sporting events have “appalling overexcitability of the commentators” and “attempted whitewashing of most horribly fascist regime(s)”. If you like the 2022 Winter Olympics, you’ll LOVE the World Cup later this year.
Moose the Mooche says
The commentators on the WL seem particularly awful, like they’re rather feverishly auditioning for Children’s ITV. The artificial snow isn’t the only white powder flying around, by the sound of it.
PS. Overexcitability at the World Cup… that’ll be Phil Neville, right?
Moose the Mooche says
WL = Winter ‘Lympics.
Cuz am from the shtreet.
Bingo Little says
The World Cup can get in the bin as well.
It’s genuinely mad how comprehensively FIFA have managed to ruin something once so fantastic.
Mike_H says
FIFA have had the assistance of the FA and their equivalents from the other countries.
The FA have had lots of assistance from the corporate owners of our major clubs.
The world’s TV networks have assisted all of them.
Football is now just another sector of the entertainment industry.
Jaygee says
Don’t worry, BL, they’re set on making the WC twice as good by holding it twice as often
Bingo Little says
No. Fuck these Olympics.
That said, they’re a great opportunity to see whose loudly and proudly professed corporate “anti-racism” is the most hollow. I note the Guardian’s coverage is particularly fulsome.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Can’t help it, we’re watching. Impossible to resist UK speed skaters falling over, tiny men skiing over landmines before executing a quick treble somersault (on skis!) or grown-up people furiously brushing ice. And the commentators are brilliant! Each and every one completely bonkers.
After the last thirty seven years of Boris Government (fact check needed) the Winter Olympics are just what we need.
Bingo Little says
Not going to point the finger at any individual for watching it: everyone can make their own assessment, none of us are perfect and it’s not my place to judge. Plus, as you say, lord knows many people could do with the distraction.
I do think it’s total bullshit though for companies who’ve spent the last two years showcasing their social justice credentials to merrily troop along and cash in. Money where your mouth is, please.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Completely accept I don’t have a leg to stand on (it got broke trying a treble somersault)…
Vulpes Vulpes says
Nope. Fuck Xi Jinping.
Dave Ross says
Is that Chinese for ski jumping?
Freddy Steady says
It’s a football team isn’t it?
Jaygee says
@Vulpes-Vulpes
Is the right answer.
What he and his Chinazi parry mates have done and are
doing to the Eighurs and people of Hong Kong; and,
given the merest sniff of a chance, will soon be doing to the
Taiwanese is truly appalling
Boneshaker says
He’s now best mates with Vlad the Impaler too, which was as predictable as Vlad’s forthcoming annexation of Ukraine. Gives both of them so much more credibility on the world stage, tempered only by the fact that neither of them give a flying one what anyone else thinks.
SteveT says
@Boneshaker I cant stand either of them but I think Putin has a point re Ukraine and NATO expansionism. The EU technocrats tried to lure Ukraine into the EU and it went pear shaped. Why would the EU want one of the most corrupt countries in Europe with an economy down the toilet to become a member? It’s a fucking mess and a dangerous fucking mess and our corner is being fought by a US president who looks like he is medicated to his eyeballs and a bumbling PM in this country who thinks he is Churchill but the idiotic dog who advertises insurance not the War time leader.
Boneshaker says
Yes, I agree with all of that. The West has completely miscalculated NATO expansionism when it had the chance to reach out to post-Cold War Russia.
MC Escher says
I am not watching, for the above reasons. But I can take or leave most of these sports. My real test will be the football World Cup later this year.
Black Celebration says
Yes, I find it pretty easy to avoid also.
As for Qatar, I hate the fact that they are hosting it and I hope it’s a farce and FIFA lose money but c’mon England etc.
SteveT says
Apparently the chairman of FIFA now lives in Qatar. Of course it is such a lovely country that he had dreamed of living there every year of his life.
Moose the Mooche says
FIFA and Qatar deserve each other, as do Beijing and the Olympic committee.
Athletes and footballers (not to mention their fans) deserve better (faint praise alert)
Baron Harkonnen says
Pity Fat Twat dosen`t join him.
Moose the Mooche says
Are you talking about Fat Boy J or Rocket Boy?
The latter has lost a bit of weight, so “thin twat” might be more appropriate.
Baron Harkonnen says
Aye and the can shove the football up their qatar also.
dai says
Tis the big one in Canada, not the other one …
mutikonka says
Unpopular opinion: China is not a fascist state. I lived and worked in China for a while and have no illusions about the government and the dire human rights situation there. But it’s not fascist.
I’m not going to change anyone’s mind on this, but I think it’s incorrect to describe what’s happening in China as the same as the horrors carried out by Hitler and Mussolini. Meanwhile, here’s something to read on the electronic music scene in Chengdu https://neocha.com/magazine/sleepless-in-chengdu/
Jaygee says
@mutikonka
Agree with you re the lazy tarring of China as being “fascist”.
“Authoritarian” or even “Totalitarian” is a far more accurate descriptor here
Vulpes Vulpes says
You forgot ‘murderous’ and ‘genocidal’.
Sitheref2409 says
Is that as compared to other liberal and caring totalitarian regimes?
napaj says
Ah, I see Mr Bach and his evil Olympic Overlord friends have moved on from Japan and are now doing their parasite thing with the Chinese. Spouting off all the nonsense about peace and getting on with each other and all the other hollow and downright offensive platitudes…. it makes me want to throw up.
Perhaps they deserve each other.
It’s almost funny to see them doing the Winter Olympics with close to zero natural snow.
A bunch of the famous ski areas of Japan have this season so far received over 10m of the stuff, and counting. Some ski areas got over 1m of snow in the last day:
https://www.snowjapan.com/japan-daily-snow-weather-reports
Having said that, we certainly do not want them here for 2030.
Sadly, against the wishes of most Hokkaido and Sapporo folks, the city (Sapporo) is putting in a bid. After all, with the way Japan bent over and willingly took it last summer, with little regard for it’s population, the evil Overlords know it’s an easy target. It’ll probably happen. And we’ll have to put up with it all once again.
As you can tell, my feelings of hatred for everything the Olympics stand for* remains unchanged. I hate the way the world plays along.
* I do not consider sport as being part of what the Olympics stand for. Sport, and the competitors, are just extremely convenient pawns in the whole smelly putrid plan.
Moose the Mooche says
Fascism: a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
Of course, China is nothing like this ^. It’s practically Sweden over there.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/fascism
dai says
Worse than Nazi Germany? Really? North Korea would also like to be considered
Hamlet says
Total silence from the sponsors, e.g. Coca-Cola. They’d like to teach the world to sing, apparently… just not via songs mentioning Tiananmen Square.
Moose the Mooche says
Did Don Draper die for nothing….?
Beezer says
The snowboarders all seem to have their mittens on a piece of elastic inside the sleeves of their anoraks.
I wonder if their mums made a bag for their trainers aswell.
Vulpes Vulpes says
I reckon they all have little Cash’s tapes with their names on inside the collar of their anoraks.
Beezer says
I remember those. My mother ordered about a hundred with my name on when I was at school.
They’ve nearly run out now, so I only sew them into my favouritest jumpers.
Moose the Mooche says
Because I went on a school camping holiday when I was 15, I must be the only person in the world who has his name sewn into a The The Heartland t-shirt.
It still comes out every summer for gardening etc., showing that I’m just as hardcore as ever.
*throws impenetrable gang-sign with semi-arthritic fingers*
davebigpicture says
Known as idiot mittens in our house. Unfortunately this was from a Bill Cosby sketch so I’ll chastise myself (hurrr) for unknowingly listening to a sex offender 35 years ago.
Rigid Digit says
Idiot mittens.
Throw a snowball , and the other one clouts you in the face.
I think Reading’s Goalkeeper still wears them
dai says
The Canadian female (ice) hockey team beat the Russians 6-1 while all wearing masks.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/hockey/canada-russian-olympic-committee-womens-hockey-1.6341985
Moose the Mooche says
Was that because of Covid or the threat of sarin gas?
Jaygee says
Allowing Russian skater Kamelia Valieva to compete after a failed drug test on the basis there will be no medals if she finishes in the top three just shows what a bad joke the IOC and the Olympics have become.
fentonsteve says
Which of us can honestly say we haven’t been round to our grandad’s for a cuppa and popped some of his Trimetazidine while we waited for the kettle to boil. Eh?
We already have the (supposedly) clean olympcs and paralympics.
I think we should have the Dopelympics where competitors can take whatever they like. Just imagine – sprinters with legs like KFC chicken thighs.
Jaygee says
We could even forget the athletics and make the Games 100% drug and paraphanelia-related – most elaborate spliff, longest line of coke, most hours without sleep.
If Boris could only tempt Pete Docherty out of retirement, Britain could be “medalling” right, left and centre
hubert rawlinson says
The Camberwell Carrot relay race would be a joy to behold.
Mike_H says
At least 3 “tokes” per stage for each competitor and disqualification if the carrot isn’t still alight at the finish line.
hubert rawlinson says
And a tray of ‘munchies’ at the finishing line.
fentonsteve says
Meth and spoon race.
Cross the finish line and get to jack up whatever you haven’t spilled on the way there.
Moose the Mooche says
I suspect the pace would slacken somewhat in the later stages. In fact it might never finish.
fentonsteve says
The crack squad: Pete Docherty, Shaun Ryder and Bez.
fortuneight says
@Jaygee – I don’t think this defines the Olympics. Yup, the IOC are a joke. But the endeavours of the individual athletes can be appreciated. There’s been some great sport to enjoy if you care to.
Jaygee says
While it doesn’t define the 99.9% of the athletes who are drug free or their accomplishments, it sadly does define the Olympics and the shit shower who organize them.
Moose the Mooche says
Wasn’t there a Play for Today in the 70s about the Sex Olympics?
I realise that for most Afterworders the 70s was the Sex Olympics, but this was on the telly (you’ll fall off etc)
Black Celebration says
For some reason that makes me think of the Tug of War, which used to be an official Olympic Sport.
Both teams would line up and then try to pull each other off as quickly as possible.
hubert rawlinson says
With Sven and Samantha on opposing teams?
Jaygee says
And tight-lipped, ashen-faced supremo Alf Ramsey standing by with a cup of tea and an orange to pass to Rodney Marsh when he pulled him off at half time
Jaygee says
Think it was a feature film. Brian Cox was in it and covers it in his splendid autobiography.
A B/W copy of the film is available on YT.
fentonsteve says
“Sex in the 70s was amaaazing”.
Jaygee says
No. virgins around in those days
fentonsteve says
That was my hopeless attempt at a Brian Cox/Prof. Brian Cox joke.
I am very dull.
Jaygee says
Sorry, F, thought you were referencing BC’s voice overs for Vuh-Gin Mer-jah!