It ain't started and it's all ready out stayed its welcome

[caddyman]

Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m fed up with the Olympics already and they haven’t run the first drug test, baton-charged the first Tibetan Nationalists or been caught bribing any IOC Officials yet. I say caught deliberately, since the general consensus is that the air pollution is such that any of the long-distance, stamina events particularly should be rethought or cancelled because the athletes are likely to end up with carbon monoxide poisoning and emphysema simply by breathing. Will the IOC do anything about it?

No.

Why..?

Anyway, we have a fortnight of trying to find channels on telly that aren’t broadcasting such important and enthralling sports as formation privet trimming, or extreme tiddlywinks. We’ve already had Wimbledon fortnight and Euro ’08 and tomorrow the football season starts, too. Now I like footie, but really. They haven’t had time to wash the kit used at the end of last season, or sweep out the stadiums, yet and it’s all starting up again.

Whatever happened to the summer break?

Never mind. I have all next week out of the office. I aim to catch up on sleep and reading and maybe we will get out and about a couple of times, too.

Not in work: ‘sall good.

Comments

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

"Whatever happened to the summer break?"

It got in the way of the Making Sack Loads of Cash Season (runs from Jan the 1st to Dec the 31st) and so they scrapped it.

[oldnick.livejournal.com]

I see that we have proof that British sport is truly amateur though.

How could a professionally-managed sport have one of our three best chances of a gold medal eliminated a day before the tournament starts, not because of cheating, not because of drugs, but because he ate too many pies?

You realise that will mean that UK sport will probably fail to meet an official government target which they had increased by the government last week? Will it be enough to make Gordon Brown or Seb Coe resign?

[fen-wolfchile.livejournal.com]

I'm aiming to avoid as much sport as possible over the next few weeks.
Now I'm a bit of a sports fan but I always find the games to be just too much.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

How abouts not watching TV?

Torrents and your back DVD collection should get you through the Olympics quite nicely, I'd have thought? It's my plan, anyway.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

True, but I like to get some use out of my TV licence...

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

It seems we cancelled our satellite TV subscription at the right time, then.