Things You Don't Give a Shit About
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Subtle brag is subtle
They are someone else's cars and he still has to clean them.
Exactly.
The Dice Man pretends he's Gatsby but he's really a glorified poolboy
The Dice Man pretends he's Gatsby but he's really a glorified poolboy
Pool boy IS one of my jobs, but for 9 months of the year I get to play with Gatsby's toys.
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I was born in Australia, and grew up here, but I have zero interest in tennis or swimming, and derive no pride or sense of achievement from what fellow Australians do in these sports.
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We constantly get told that nationalism is bad but when the Olympics are on its a different story
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I was right into it as a kid. Was very exciting seeing the opening ceremonies and then the likes of Thorpe etc win medals in the pools.
These days though I really couldn't give a shit. I watched bits and pieces of Rio and that was it.
I don't know what it is. Maybe it's the fact that it's the battle of the populations/money.
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I reckon interest in the Olympics has waned in general because we aren't very good any more. 16-25-27 gold-silver-bronze in Sydney, then comparable results in Athens and Beijing. In Rio we won 8-11-10, half the total medal haul from Sydney.
Team GB (I still don't get why they are called that, it's team UK) on the other hand won 1 gold medal and 15 medals total in Atlanta, then went 11-10-7 in Sydney and 9-9-12 in Athens. They passed us in Beijing and by London and Rio were miles ahead. They went 27-23-17 in Rio, finishing 2nd in gold medals and 3rd in total medals. We just scraped into the top 10. Would not be surprised to see us slip out of the top 10 in Tokyo. We won 1 gold medal in swimming in London and 3 in Rio compared to 5 in Sydney and 7 in Beijing. Our swimmers like our male tennis players seem to be as unlikable as they are disappointing when it counts. When team 'straya is getting comprehensively pantsed by the poms 'sports mad' Aussies are going to lose interest.
Team GB (I still don't get why they are called that, it's team UK) on the other hand won 1 gold medal and 15 medals total in Atlanta, then went 11-10-7 in Sydney and 9-9-12 in Athens. They passed us in Beijing and by London and Rio were miles ahead. They went 27-23-17 in Rio, finishing 2nd in gold medals and 3rd in total medals. We just scraped into the top 10. Would not be surprised to see us slip out of the top 10 in Tokyo. We won 1 gold medal in swimming in London and 3 in Rio compared to 5 in Sydney and 7 in Beijing. Our swimmers like our male tennis players seem to be as unlikable as they are disappointing when it counts. When team 'straya is getting comprehensively pantsed by the poms 'sports mad' Aussies are going to lose interest.
yeah what Scotland said. Aussies are only sports mad if their team is winning.
also the olympics is now just full of pro athletes, drugs, and corruption
also the olympics is now just full of pro athletes, drugs, and corruption
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As a kid I only watched the Olympics a little bit but watching it on TV was like underwater Russian Roulette.
You never knew what is going to be on when and how much of an event they will show... but there would always be replays of swimming.
You never knew what is going to be on when and how much of an event they will show... but there would always be replays of swimming.
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For the London Olympics Foxtel had some thing going with a whole heap of dedicated channels but I was away and saw none of it. For Rio it was all just on 7 and they had the usual 'well we hope you enjoyed the 2 minutes of the basketball now we're going to cut to the equestrian' thing going on.
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For me personally, my interest in the Olympics tends to ebb and flow with the host city. I don't really get in to them if the time differences are insanely different from ours. Bit like that with the test tours too. An ashes in England you can watch maybe first half of a days play, but the West Indies forget it, play happening through our early mornings.
Yeah me too. I watched a lot of London and Beijing, but next to nothing of Rio. Also hardly watched any of the World Cup in Brazil either, but did watch a fair bit of it in South Africa.
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I watched pretty much every game of Korea/Japan 2002. Not so much out of love of the game, but because it perfectly coincided with afternoon/evening TV viewing after school (I was like 14 at the time) and on weekends.
Most of the sports are just shite, and then to make matters worse FTA TV shows swimming for the whole first week.
I'll watch bits and pieces of some of the sports, but there's no care factor in any of it. Still, it beats the fourth rate BS that is the Commonwealth Games.
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World Cup always ends up being much more interesting.
You get to see some funny matchups between teammates, plenty of drama and there's always breakout youngsters.
Easily prefer it to the Olympics.
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I don't mind watching some of the Olympics. Half the time whatever I'm watching doesn't have an Aussie in it anyway, it's just to see some of the best athletes out there doing what they do. Not going to stay up all night just to see it though, and I could not care less about the medal count or what the Australians get up to.
The medal count seems to correlate with the amount of money put in by the team's government, which is generally to do with when they themselves are next hosting it. We invested a heap of money before Sydney, GB before London, China before Beijing.
The medal count seems to correlate with the amount of money put in by the team's government, which is generally to do with when they themselves are next hosting it. We invested a heap of money before Sydney, GB before London, China before Beijing.
The London coverage was brilliant, I watched heaps of sailing and other stuff I'd never normally see. Then for Rio we had channel 7 showing the same replay of a meaningless basketball game from four days earlier on 2 of the 3 channels at the same time.
Can't wait for the 2024 Olympics.Darts will get plenty of prime-time FTA coverage.
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