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The Anti-Olympics thread
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Good luck, but you are comparing apples and oranges.
In any event, shouldn't you be watching the opening like most people?
I once heard a guy make a very good point.
He said that there should be two types of Olympics:
One where people are all definitely and absolutely drug-free, and
Another where competitors were allowed to drug themselves up to the eye-lids.
Which one would be more interesting to watch? The possibly sub-10 100m, or the sub-8 100m?
He said that there should be two types of Olympics:
One where people are all definitely and absolutely drug-free, and
Another where competitors were allowed to drug themselves up to the eye-lids.
Which one would be more interesting to watch? The possibly sub-10 100m, or the sub-8 100m?
Well I find the Melbourne Cup hype about as over the top as the Olympic hype. The free lunch at work's usually cool though, and you know, I don't like to rain on other people's parades.
I think there's a place for a thread like this on this sort of board though - footy's for the main part self-sustaining as a sport; but where do you draw the line in terms of expenditure to win gold medals once every four years? I think Australia spends the most money per capita on sport - why?
(oddly enough, I can't for the life of me see why the AIS should be involving itself in sports like footy which can afford their own programs)
In the end though, Australians are mostly passionate about sport, and I guess there's nothing wrong with spending money on that - as long as it doesn't get out of control.
I like some sports, can't stand others. To put it in perspective, I was once in a bar where they were showing a heavyweight boxing match (I think it involved Mike Tyson). I think I was the only male in the place that didn't see a minute of the fight, because boxing just shits me to tears. Other people hate the footy... I can't understand it myself, but there it is.
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Yay! Great thread DR! I frickin hate the Olympics, or more so the media saturation that the Games provoke. Thankfully this time around I will be lucky to see a TV and when I do it will all be in unintelligible gibberish anyway... God bless the Spanish language 
those who are productive of wealth are by now so used to carrying all manner of vedted interest groups on their backs by means of the expropriated product of our labour that a few million more makes no difference except marginally to our slavelike state.
Of all the injustices and horrible things happening in the world, people choose the Olympics to have a big cry about? Amazing.
You really do have no clue, sports funding isn't a zero sum game, infact Australia getting sports like archery in the news via participation in the olympics helps grass roots archery more than anything. Basically, the funding gives people of smaller sports something to strive for and needed funding to stay in their sport. As for obesity, it's a long bow draw a link between olympic funding and obesity, I'd suggest that obesity is the fatties fault more than anything.
This thread IS a whinge. I know I love the olympics so I'll never get this, but here is an event that brings together the world under something so whole, pure and great as sport (where the world drops its bombs for two seconds) and gives people from remote areas a once in a lifetime chance to compete, and this is... bad? Huh? I mean with all the money wasted by the Australian government (seasprites anyone) and all the horrible things that people do, olympic funding should be the least of our worries. I actually like the fact that we're over-represented, it shows that we punch above our weight and are skilled. Oh noes!
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How on EARTH would they work that out?
Compare expenditure and obesity statistics over a specific time period? Talk about wasting money! That would be the flimsiest of post hoc ergo propter hoc arguments ever made.
An elite standard encourages new people to join a sport. Minor sports like handball and archery are great - they are not usually tainted by drugs. Want to stop drug use? If you catch one person from, say, swimming on drugs ban their country's entire swimming team from the rest of the current olympics and from the next olympics. If they have no other competitors in that sport, ban their entire country.
The Olympics has captured nations politically so good luck getting anyone to bow out due solely to money. Political suicide.
Having said that, the Olympics is supposed to be non-political. Yet I didn't see Tibet in the flag ceremony, and Taiwan had to enter as "Chinese Taipei" with an IOC flag and not a murmur from anyone. Keep politics out of the broadcast while what we're witnessing is the biggest political scam in the world today? Ridiculous.
For me, the Olympics is something that happens to other people.
Two days in a row where I agree with cellotape. Jebus!
Surely a bit of global unity and positivity can't go astray in today's world either.
Whinging about our prosperity and supply of internationally competitive sports people, a fair whack of whom would be semi-professional, or obtain a decent amount of income from sponsors due to their exposure to Australians who watch their sports...on a dedicated professional sports forum no less!!
If ya don't like it, don't watch it, but let's not pretend like it isn't going to rate its **** off and provide entertainment to millions of Australians. If footy players can justify high salaries, and clubs be justified in having money poured into their grounds from the State Government, then these people can surely be flipped a trip to China to fulfill their dreams.
And last time I heard, Australians were evolving into Hutts, and we want to diminish incentives for them to get off their fat arses and get involved in sports?? I'd rather be an old man looking at a pride of Stephanie Rices than a murder of Rosie O'Donnells!!
Fantastic opening ceremony. There will not be another on that scale for a long time to come.
While I can see the benefits of sports funding across the board, I can not see the justification in paying athletes $100,000 of public money for participating in a non-professional sport (as opposed to AFL/NRL and the like)
Pales in comparison to the $600+ billion spent on that meat-head, political wankfest known as the Iraq War.
You seriously need to ask? I'd have thought it was very obvious.
Who gives a flying f' about $40 billion spent on a positive event that promotes goodwill and a sense of world community, when that amount is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount being spent worldwide on people killing each other.
Who gives a flying f' about $40 billion spent on a positive event that promotes goodwill and a sense of world community, when that amount is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount being spent worldwide on people killing each other.
I don't think anyone's saying the Olympics shouldn't exist - just that they personally wouldn't give a shit if they didn't.
And that perhaps one event every four years doesn't really justify the sort of money Coates is talking about.
The first point is completely understandable.
The second is such an incredibly petty whinge that it's almost unbelievable. But then again, I don't expect anything less from the likes of Bolt.
You don't think Coates's whinge that if there isn't huge amounts more money thrown at the Olympics more populous countries might actually win more medals than us is utterly petty? We already spend more money on sport than any other country on earth. Suggesting massive additional amounts seems a bit extraordinary.
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- #46
Our Olympic fever has a lot to do with our country having no culture and a massive inferiority complex.
So as long as something isn't the worst problem in the world, it is not worth criticising?
Ridiculous.
I knew someone would make that brain-dead argument.
People are more than welcome to criticise it. They just look like pathetic whingers if they do.
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- #49
If you knew it would happen you would have rethought your own argument and not posted it, because it completely proves that your original argument was poorly thought out in the first place.
Why do they look like whingers? We waste a shitload of money on something that provides no benefit to our country and several disadvantages.
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- #50
Yup... I think that if my tax dollar has gone to spending $37 million per gold medal then I have the right to a bit of whinge...
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/...-going-for-gold/2008/08/06/1217702136152.html
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