I hate the Olympics.

[USA4ME]

Philosoraptor

I hate the Olympics.

I used to actually enjoy it, but over the years it just seems like a Miss America pageant on steroids.

The young and athletic are admired and worshipped like demi gods, given the opportunity to get rich, exploited, treated like so much cattle at an auction, and the Olympics always give the host nation a chance to get rich and show off and make political points.

Young athletes see who can swim, jump, or run the fastest, who cares? I don't.

If you enjoy it, good for you, I don't want to spoil your pleasure, but I'll pass thanks.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3762638

Leave it to mopaul to create a thread that bluntly expresses exactly how out-of-touch are way too many liberals.

"I hate the Olympics."

Key word being "hate."  Liberals just hate.

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[Lauri]

what did Bob Costos (Kostos?) say the Chinese price tage was for making that stadium/city/opening ceremony? 40 Billion dollars? will the city make all that money back?

i really have no idea, but i will say this about the athletes; i think if you prove yourself to be at the top of the game in any sport and win the medals, you should be able to parlay that into whatever lucrative career you can. an athlete's career is relatively short and if people are willing to pay them big bucks, so be it.

as long as our govt isnt giving them money, i dont care how much money they make..

[BannedFromDU]

I think the real Olympics should look something like this:

All events and competitions are the same, only they randomly draw people between the ages of 18 and 35 from each country to compete. Doesn't matter if they don't swim, run, or throw the discus. They get a couple of days to practice up, and then it's go time. Now THAT would tell you who has the best athletes.

[jendf]

I don't begrudge any of these athletes either, Lauri. Most of them have trained hard and put their bodies through hell to be the best. They deserve this kind of stage. If you can get past the politics of the host country and the athletes who didn't get there honestly (dopers), what's left is a field of inspiring athletes that motivate me to go out and do my best when I work and play. It's fun to watch the best of the best.

[delilahmused]

There's a tremendous amount of work and sacrifice involved. Granted, it takes athletic ability but raw talent isn't enough. Mopaul's jealousy is showing.

Cindie

[franksolich]

Face it, folks.

When you're reading the phalloscraping primitive MoPaul, you're looking at a guy nearly 60 years old (he was born in 1950, if I recall correctly), who's spent his whole life wrapped up in anger and resentment.  The phalloscraping primitive was one of the last victims of polio before that vaccine was developed during the mid-1950s, and one unfortunate side-effect of it is his remarkably big ass.

The phalloscraping primitive has posted photographs of himself before; that's one big one.

It's very sad such a thing happened to the phalloscraping primitive as a young lad, a fate one would not wish on anyone, even if a primitive, but bad things happen to people all the time, to all people.

What makes the phalloscraping primitive such a big-assed loser is his refusal to accept, adapt, and move on.

His Freudianly-obvious jealousy of the "physically fit" (in quotation marks, because things are not always as they seem to be) has crippled, deformed, stunted, the phalloscraping primitive far more than the polio virus ever did.

[DixieBelle]

well said frank. his black heart is showing.