Having the Olympics is nice
and it's really quite good if you can get along to an event. But it is quite a lot of inconvenience wrapped in an enormous amount of media hype.

To be honest, seeing the Paralympics is better than the Olympics because tickets are reasonably priced whereas Olympics tickets are hideously expensive and impossible to get.
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Wed 6 Jul 2005, 12:50, archived)