The Official "Fuck the Olympics" thread.

[The Curmudgeon]

The last few months have not been kind to The Curmudgeon. I've never sailed particularly close to what Everyone Else is doing or into, but there's been hella bullshit that I've been bombarded with in 2012.

EVERYONE was talking and writing about..

The Jubilee. I've already discussed that facepalm fest.

Euro 2012 - More tedious football horseshit that, curiously enough, people seemed to rapidly lose interest once England had been put out.

Wimbledon - The only good thing that comes out of tennis is viewpoints like this;



Other than that? I just can't get interested, yet the entire country is now foaming at the mouth because - gasp - a Scottish person is in the final! Like, OH EM GEE. Sorry, doesn't make it any more interesting.

But all of that noise pales into insignificance with what's just looming around the corner like a dark cloud of unbearable tedium that every bandwagon jumping prick is now pretending to be interested in.

The fucking Olympics.

Jumping and running. And cycling. And swimming. The most boring fucking sports in the world, and the UK is going to be BOMBARDED with this shit as if its the greatest entertainment on the planet. And how about this for a depressing attention-grabber?

The BBC will provide live coverage of every London 2012 sport from every venue throughout the day.


Every game. Every venue. 24 hours a day coverage of the Olympics. Fucking madness, and yet I could see it coming. I remember a billboard from a few months ago that said "100 DAYS TO GO!" And I knew it was going to be like this.

So it looks like I'll have to avoid TV, news, websites and basic human interaction for the next few months if I'm to avoid any of this headache.

Man, 2012 has fucking SUCKED so far..

[trashcanman]

Dude, don't tell me shit about shit in an American election year. I'll take The Olympics all day over that nonsensical 24-7 farce of Democracy. I used to fucking LOVE the Olympics, but the older I get, the less I care about meaningless sports competitions. The idea, I guess, is that if your country wins, they are better than all of the other countries. But seeing that that logic doesn't really hold water why do I care who can ride a bike the fastest again? Oh right. I don't. Add Halo and MMA as events and then we'll talk.

[The Curmudgeon]

I couldn't find this original topic before (I was looking in the wrong bit).

So I've seen just a glimpse of the whole election madness over there. What's it like?

[trashcanman]

God, it's horrible. A media shitstorm. Slanderous lies, hypocrisy, millions of imbeciles who watch an hour of FOX News for the first time in 4 years and suddenly are incontrovertible experts on all of the intricacies of the American political system and keep repeating the same bullshit factoids they heard on O'Reilly or whatever over and over. Passionate morons questioning why I don't vote and pretending to listen to my well-reasoned and backed by facts, research, and perception of disturbing decades-long trends before coming back with something nonsensical and cliche like "if you don't vote, you don't get to complain" when the gist of my complaint was that the candidates put before us are there to leave us with no choice but to elect people who are there to fuck us. That goes on for about 6 months straight. Oh, and this is what the debates sound like:

www.southparkstudios.com/clips/411095/its-called-puddy-whistling