A farce where officials of the hosting country deliberatily falisfydocuments in order to get underage competitors in?
Reminds me of when there was a movement recently to get an Avril Lavigne video to the venerable 'most watched' post. Someone commented 'What a shame they had to cheat to get it there.'
(Reminds me of when there was a movement recently to get an Avril Lavigne video to the venerable 'most watched' post. Someone commented 'What a shame they had to cheat to get it there.'
Ratsta,
Sun 24 Aug 2008, 6:20,
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the world is becoming a deceitful placeit just takes a massive sporting event to get it to really shine. I have the luxury of watching merkan television up here in Canuck-land. And my , it is incredibly biased towards the competitors from the great states. Even when they come next to last, they still did the best.... In patriotic eyes.
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Sun 24 Aug 2008, 6:23,
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No different here in Auslandia.I wanted to find out something about a Merkin athlete the other day so I went to the local paper's website. All I could find was info about Auslandian athletic prowess and a few footnotes about for'n competitors. Unless of course they fucked up then it's "OMG! hahahaa Laugh your arse off at this poor bastard as his guts spill out all over mat because he tried to lift too much" or whatever.
It's no different when the cricket's on. Auslandian team wins "OMFG THEY'RE HEROES I WANNA BOOF EM!" and if the other side wins it's not "Good show, Johnny Foreigner!" it's "Oh our boys must've been having a bad day. They've worked so hard, must've been the smog in the air, the noise of the crowd, the colour of the umpires codpiece" or whatever. No possibility that Johnny may have actually played a better game that day!
cunts.
(It's no different when the cricket's on. Auslandian team wins "OMFG THEY'RE HEROES I WANNA BOOF EM!" and if the other side wins it's not "Good show, Johnny Foreigner!" it's "Oh our boys must've been having a bad day. They've worked so hard, must've been the smog in the air, the noise of the crowd, the colour of the umpires codpiece" or whatever. No possibility that Johnny may have actually played a better game that day!
cunts.
Ratsta,
Sun 24 Aug 2008, 6:29,
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i think canadian tele is a bit less biased,its like we're the misfit kids who are just happy to be there, and we are trying to make friends however we can..
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Sun 24 Aug 2008, 6:32,
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I watched five minutes of seven's (primary olymipic b/caster) coverageon friday. An Aussie had finished 10th. And oh what a performance that was, a fantastic effort, a comeback from an injured toenail and a dramatic fight back from 11th place. They even interviewed him. Fuck the winner. I still dunno who won the race.
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Sun 24 Aug 2008, 6:42,
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"in other news, our glorious and patriotic competitors performed magnificently in poorly organised competition in obsequeous foreign nation""next comrades, the weather"
and they just don't fucking get it
(and they just don't fucking get it
discomeats This canoe,
Sun 24 Aug 2008, 10:09,
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