Anyone giving it a miss, for whatever reason?

Just curious. 🙂

If you own a telly then I guess it’s going to be impossible to miss it. Personally I’m such a miserable sod all I can see is a fat corporate machine stealing tax payers cash and using it to make the well healed feel great about britain for 2 weeks

Pah….

I’ll be taking advantage of the (hopefully) quiet roads tonight to travel back home to Englandshire, with any luck it’ll be like travelling during one of the England games in the World Cup!

in this heat?!

I won’t be watching any of it, not even the road race that goes past my front door. I’m glad many millions of people are going to enjoy it, I just won’t be one of them

I won’t be. I don’t watch much TV anyway and have never been much of a spectator. 😛

I won’t be watching any of it, not even the road race that goes past my front door.

😯

I’m going to miss the road race cause I’m going to be riding bikes. Which sucks and is awesome at the same.

I am going to try and miss most of it.

I was quite successful with the recent jubilee celebrations.

I guess this is on for longer though.

I’m watching every second I can, same as Sydney and Beijing. We’ve got it on in the office too, everyone watching all day and not much work is expected to be done.

And if you have tickets to an event you go and you dont need to book time off. Thats the attitude but then we’re right on the edge of East London/City so the place is jumping with people and good cheer.

I’ve stated from the start that I’ve no time for the Olympics, therefore it would be hypocritical of me to then pitch up and watch any of it*

*I’ll also be riding my bike

Me, I’m away teaching teenagers how to survive in the woods without being captured by the enemy.

Should be more entertaining than the opening ceremony and I’m told the guard house on the training area has a TV so I can catch up on the road race 🙂

I shall be watching some of it. Not religiously but I’m sufficiently interested in sport to enjoy watching some of it. Not churlish enough to just dismiss it out of hand…

Why not watch it. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity, unless you were born before 1948 and had a TV.

Well, I’m treating it the same as the Royal Wedding and the Jubilee. Didn’t watch, not interested. Just angry at money and resources that have been wasted with this crap, it’s insulting to many who are enduring tough times.

As for Lord Coe, well I would happily punch his lights out.

Why not watch it. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity, unless you were born before 1948 and had a TV.

Apparently they’re on every 4 years, so 20 times a lifetime opportunity would probably be a bit more accurate

Why not watch it

Because in my personal opinion it’s a massive commercial scam taking money that we can ill afford and spending it on something that will remove the focus from the world of sh1t we’re in for two weeks and two weeks only. The fact that people are being charged for tickets yet expected to fun this shambles via taxation is disgusting. Hide behind your flags with the Olympic rings printed on one side and Lloyds TSB logo on the other and sip from the corporate super-sized Coca-cola cup of greed being fed to you by those who don’t actually give a shit about sport. Whilst you’re enjoying the spectacle provided by Danny Boyle tonight, ignore the fact that the country is pretty much screwed and look at the little fluffy clouds, the green grass and the smiling faces of the image that Boyle is pushing at you. Seriously, you couldn’t make it up….

What it boils down to is that the gazillion billion it cost to put on this shambles could have been far better spent elsewhere. Public transport, the financial sector, the public sector (including health and schooling) are crying out for decent funding. Instead we get this shit.

I’m not going to be hypocritical by stating this then watching the games. Given a choice (and the time off work) I’d have left the country while the farce is going on

+1 to the un-interested, will happily spend the time on empty trails instead. Luckily due to sky+, I no longer feel the need to watch content I’m not interested it.

Good luck to all involved, and if you want to spend time watching it..

Apparently they’re on every 4 years,

On British soil?
flange, I’m just going to enjoy the world class athletes doing their thing without buying into the corporate cockwarbling.

Because in my personal opinion it’s a massive commercial scam taking money that we can ill afford and spending it on something that will remove the focus from the world of sh1t we’re in for two weeks and two weeks only. The fact that people are being charged for tickets yet expected to fun this shambles via taxation is disgusting. Hide behind your flags with the Olympic rings printed on one side and Lloyds TSB logo on the other and sip from the corporate super-sized Coca-cola cup of greed being fed to you by those who don’t actually give a shit about sport. Whilst you’re enjoying the spectacle provided by Danny Boyle tonight, ignore the fact that the country is pretty much screwed and look at the little fluffy clouds, the green grass and the smiling faces of the image that Boyle is pushing at you. Seriously, you couldn’t make it up….

What it boils down to is that the gazillion billion it cost to put on this shambles could have been far better spent elsewhere. Public transport, the financial sector, the public sector (including health and schooling) are crying out for decent funding. Instead we get this shit.

I’m trying to find a way to argue with that, but I can’t so…

+1.

Whilst I could just ignore all the politics, corporate nonsense and commercialism rammed down our throats and just enjoy the sport and magnitude of the event, sadly the whole thing just doesn’t sit well with me so I can’t bring myself to watch it. I’d just prefer to pretend it wasn’t happening, so I will be doing just that.

I won’t be watching it. Not for any reason involving commercialism or tax payers money. But simply because I hardly watch any TV and am not interested in watching sports.

On British soil?

you know how tv works?

+1 won’t be watching, didn’t go for it when I had the chance of entering (years ago)and try to ignore the immense corrupting influence it still has on many of the sports I’m into. It’s about money, a gravy train, and a bullshit media fest, I’m sick of it already and the millions it’s costing..

Well said flange! 🙂

I’m currently funding my medical investigations/treatment … for the second time. This afternoon, I’ve been organising various blood tests and so far the tally is almost £300. Have been utterly failed by the NHS.

I’m just going to enjoy the world class athletes doing their thing without buying into the corporate cockwarbling

And fair play to you for that. I on the other hand would rather set myself on fire than entertain any of it, like I said it would be hypocritical of me to slate it then watch it. And I love watching bike racing, but this whole thing leaves a sour taste which in my book is too hard to overlook.

Lord Seb Coe – a title given to an overpaid waste of skin by an overpaid waste of skin…

I’m currently funding my medical investigations/treatment … for the second time.

That is truly a disgusting state of affairs. Whilst all the high-rollers prance around the Mall and where ever over the course of the next two weeks, back slapping and proclaiming how great this nation is, walk two miles in any direction from where they’re standing and see where that money could have been better spent. It’s so bad it would be laughable were it not for the effects it will have for the next however many years. Its a total fcking joke and it makes me hate this country even more….in fact – no it doesn’t. It makes me hate the media/personalities/people who command power even more. My little spot of calm in the sticks well away from every cretin with St George Cross wingmirror covers is lovely. I’ll stay there with the TV switched off and the Olympic lovers can watch ‘their’ games….

Off for a ride tonight. Far too nice a summer evening to be indoors.

Because in my personal opinion it’s a massive commercial scam sporting event

If my friends organise a party, book a band I don’t like, order food I don’t like, and make too much noise, I’ll still go, cos they are my friends.

Likewise the sport. Sport is good, I like it. I do not like the corporate bollocks, but throwing the baby out with the bathwater isn’t going to make me feel better.

If my friends organise a party, book a band I don’t like, order food I don’t like, and make too much noise, I’ll still go, cos they are my friends.

If your friends made you pay for it, taking money that you’d planned to spend on food/cost of living/entertainment you actually wanted would you be so ambivalent?

If your friends made you pay for it, taking money that you’d planned to spend on food/cost of living/entertainment you actually wanted would you be so ambivalent?

Why not? I’d start using vocabulary like “for the greater good” and “compromise”. 😉

I’m on holiday for most of it, so won’t be watching. I might record the XC events and the Road racing. Other than that, nope.

Why not? I’d start using vocabulary like “for the greater good” and “compromise”

Greater good? Are you really so naive? Where is the greater good in any of this?

if they were using my money i’d demand jacket potato skins with cheese and crispy bacon bits on top, instead we get happy meals. PAH!

Where is the greater good in any of this?

two weeks of bread and circuses whilst we forget about how much deep, deep, shit we’re in economically

Greater good? Are you really so naive? Where is the greater good in any of this?

Clearly the relationship with the friends.

Clearly the relationship with the friends

In relation to the games? In this (somewhat dodgy) analogy, it would be like saying I’m paying for people I don’t know to have a party eating food I don’t want listening to music I don’t like.

If your friends made you pay for it, taking money that you’d planned to spend on food/cost of living/entertainment you actually wanted would you be so ambivalent?

Ok well that is stretching it a bit. The govt aren’t my friends, and I have no choice but to give them money.

But the point is that they already have taken and spent my money. Feeling bitter isn’t going to help, so you may as well watch the sport. If you’re a sports fan of course. If not then you have a perfectly reasonable reason not to watch!

Ah right, we’re jumping between friends and game, my comment was in reference to molly and his friends. Now you want me to apply that to the games? Sheesh!!
The only thing I can say to that is the sponsor who wouldn’t say how much they were investing but admitted that they would double their money. I guess that would be their greater good. Try stepping back and looking at the point of view of others.
In this analogy I’m not paying for anything I don’t want to.
I pay tax and that is spent on lots of things I don’t need or want. Life sucks at times.

Feeling bitter isn’t going to help, so you may as well watch the sport

At what point did it become one thing or the other? The money’s wasted, where’s the benefit in sitting inside watching it rather than going outside and making the most of what’s left of summer?

NIMBY. Why can’t we just have a fortnight of frowning and grumbling about hoodies instead.

i think i see where donny is going with his analogy…. there seems to be a lot of excited people who want to enjoy the limpiks, they’d be the friends in this instance?

EDIT, left the page open and it was cleared up by the time i hit send (went to the toilet dontchaknow)

(yes i washed my hands)

The only thing I can say to that is the sponsor who wouldn’t say how much they were investing but admitted that they would double their money. I guess that would be their greater good.

Ah yes, the lottery funding that was diverted from worthwhile projects is being used to help poor hard done by McDonalds and Coca Cola boost their profits, probably at the cost to the health of the nation. Not to worry, the NHS is well enough resourced to deal with the waves of obesity we’re not dealing with, thanks to the likes of McDonald’s and Coca Cola. yup, greater good and all that. All hail king profit.