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Olympic thought #7
Journo quote of the Games (so far)
Simon Barnes in his blog for the Times: "Men's pairs diving... a wonderfully elegant gay suicide pact."
*****
While we're on the subject of incorrectness, here goes Madrid 2016, despite the best efforts of Calderon to dig himself out of one very big hole... Clearly been spending too much time with the Duke of ( Read more... ) -
olympic thought #6
The event that has perplexed me most so far is Archery.
Firstly, I was intrigued by outfits. What does one wear to play Robin Hood? It turns out that the female Chinese competitors wear sensible red polo shirts and khaki trousers, while the British wear white aertex t shirts and tiny blue netball skirts. Both teams top off their outfits with ( Read more... ) -
Olympic thought #5
What amazes me about THIS story is that anyone is remotely surprised. I took it for granted that the group of 57 immaculate kids dressed up in ethnic costumes couldn't sing for toffee either.
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Olympic thought #4
There are too many
- varieties of swimming events. That anyone can win eight gold medals in one meet is living proof of this.
- repetitions of gymnastics events (some people get to repeat each routine FIVE times during the meet: qualifying, team, individual all round, individual discipline, exhibition... enough is enough)
- pervs sitting in the ( Read more... ) -
Olmpic thoughts no 3
Nasty outfits worn by national Olympic teams to parade into the stadium during the opening ceremony:
1 South Africa: striped polyester polo shirts, baggy skirts and apple green crocs
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Olympic thought no2
Jamie Murray: hot.
Andy Murray: not. -
Olympic opening ceremony
I'm watching this on tape back now, having been in Brussels for the weekend.
Many thoughts occur to me about China, Beijing, the Olympics etc, which I may come back to another time, but right now all I can think is
Chipmunk botoxed cheeks + ratty 3ft hair extensions+shrieking hamster voice = Sarah Brightman -
Do bullets know?
Yet another kid falls victim to gun crime. Sadly there seems to be one of these stories every week at the moment.
What I have noticed though, is that the kids who get knifed or shot are always innocent, well behaved, popular, kind, decent, helpful, hardworking model students. It is quite extraordinary.
I started wondering if maybe shooters and ( Read more... ) -
I'd shag em
So... the prospect of Cameron and Miliband as Leader of the Opposition and Prime Minister. (Or Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition, as would be likely shortly afterwards ( Read more... )
