For me the Olympics were interesting, but they finished in the weekend.
However the media are having another burst at trying to rub shoulders with short term celebrities. It’s been hard to avoid the gaga reporters meeting returning athletes at Auckland airport. But I’ve mostly managed to. I just don’t care for the Olympic aftermath.
Gezza
/ 24th August 2016For me, the most interesting Olympic aftermath will be the probably inevitable discovery of a few more drug test anomalies …
Kitty Catkin
/ 24th August 2016Someone in the Herald asked if Usein Bolt would be as fast if he was the same size as other people. What do they want him to do-put himself through a hot wash cycle and shrink ? Refuse to take part because he’s taller than some of the others ?
Gezza
/ 24th August 2016Ridiculous. If he turned out to be made of acrylic, he’d just get bigger anyway.
Gezza
/ 24th August 2016And thinking about it some more, probably the most well-known Olympic aftermath when all the hoohah has gone away, will be all the unfortunate things that will now happen to, and be said about, Ryan Lochte.
Kitty Catkin
/ 24th August 2016Well, his sponsors are showing their opinion…his stupidity has probably cost him a brilliant career.
duperez
/ 24th August 2016Let them have their aftermath. Very soon it will all be forgotten as the All Blacks have more games, another league coach sees his job on the line and many of our sports people are sent back to their places of neglect until they provide again some hope of reflected glory.
Zedd
/ 24th August 2016I hear that the Olympic committee didn’t have the balls to ban the entire Russian team (as drug cheats) BUT they are intending to now do so, with the their paralympians ! 😦
I also heard that it maybe ‘a bit selective’.. there are a few whispers (inc. a champion sprinter.. not mentioning any names) BUT would they really strip ‘everyones hero’ of a few golds, if they did find he (or she ?) could possibly be a drug cheat ?
😀
I for one, seriously doubt it.. or not until the next decade or three ?
Zedd
/ 24th August 2016btw; an infamous drug cheat (again not mentioning names) reportedly stated that ‘everyone competing at the top elite level is likely using drugs.. in order to be competative, in the modern era !’ (paraphrased by I&I)
Kitty Catkin
/ 24th August 2016There’s little point in not naming names; the remark will have been made to the press and could be easily found-if anyone’s that interested. It’s been said before and will be again.
duperez
/ 24th August 2016So a well-known drug cheat reportedly stated that ‘everyone competing at the top elite level is likely using drugs.. in order to be competitive, in the modern era !’
if you had to interview Mahe Drysdale, Hamish Bond and Eric Murray would you put the question to them? And if they said, “No, we do not use banned drugs,” would you believe them?
Alan Wilkinson
/ 24th August 2016Yes. I’d like to see you telling Val Adams you didn’t believe her. I wonder how far she could throw you.
Kitty Catkin
/ 24th August 2016I’d like to see them ask it of any one of the All Blacks and then say that they were liars.
SideshowBob
/ 24th August 2016Pete you have the same few commenters who dominate every thread. I look in here maybe 5 or 6 times a day but no more. I’m sick of them so goodbye.
Pete George
/ 24th August 2016An odd first comment if that’s what it is. If you had joined in before there would have been more variety.
Conspiratoor
/ 24th August 2016Reminds of a line in a salty limerick. ‘…and instead of coming he went’. Certainly an unusual way of announcing your departure though.
But he does kind of have a point don’t you think pg
Gezza
/ 24th August 2016I agree. It’s outrageous the same idiots are the only ones ever commenting here. We need a lot more & better left wing nutjobs than we’ve got, for example, and a few more from the centre middle. Just saying…
Conspiratoor
/ 24th August 2016Godammit G don’t you ever take anything seriously. Must you be so damn upbeat all day! I sometimes wonder if there are others out there perhaps not so vocal as GrowthNinja, who have left before they came as it were, for much the same reason
Gezza
/ 24th August 2016Yes, I do. When there is something to be taken seriously.
Do you think (much though I hate to criticise) for example that of late the items for discussion have been somewhat lacking in meatiness, perhaps, and could this be a contribution factor to the daily outbreaks of jokiness, bitchiness & occasional commentarial squalor?
Alan Wilkinson
/ 24th August 2016Well, yes, misery loves company but that doesn’t mean we are obligated to provide it. I’m sure there are plenty of other blogs for them not to come in.
Conspiratoor
/ 24th August 2016I don’t think the material lacks gravitas G. Any more meatiness and we’d all be hairy arsed cavemen…
Gezza
/ 24th August 2016Well then I’m going to break with tradition and agree with Al that Rickshaw Rupert (or whatever his name was) doesn’t have to visit – if he doesn’t want to become another one of those of us who rightly see ourselves as one big crappy family.
Gezza
/ 24th August 2016* Btw – shouldn’t that be ‘cavepersons*?
Gezza
/ 24th August 2016And just one more small thing perhaps c. What other blog could I instead visit where there is a daily Social Chat where I might get to hear and see, often, the most enjoyably rewarding music?
Or post about my dear old dad’s challenges with reality as ma & me witness his descent into ever-increasing loss of dignity as one of the sad realities, for some, of the ageing process afflicts him – and receive a small, but so helpful, supply of comments which help keep this in perspective & let me know that others care about that?
Conspiratoor
/ 24th August 2016I get you G. I hold the same view. However I do wonder how many sideshows out there swing by, look and say yeah nah for much the same reason as ninja bob. See you on the other side. Cheers,c
Gezza
/ 24th August 2016So, what would you like to see done about this, and what strategy would you advocate c?
Heading over to the other side meantime …
Conspiratoor
/ 24th August 2016What I would do G would refresh the gene pool but it would go down like a cup of cold sick. And besides it’s not the pg way. His blog his rules. Cheers,c
Gezza
/ 24th August 2016Yes all very well c but refreshing the gene pool & replacing it with what?
That’s the big question. Wouldn’t it be easier for others just to pop over the pool @ TS, TDB or KB, or (shudder, shudder) WO?
Nelly Smickers
/ 24th August 2016According to the *URBAN DICTIONARY*……….
SideshowBob: The expression is a generic term for an *insignificant person*
example: Q. “Who’s that loser she’s going out with?”
A : “SideshowBob”
Blazer
/ 24th August 2016why bother even posting to announce you are leaving…believe me ,absolutely no one gives a ..shit!Some people.
Gezza
/ 24th August 2016Ignore him B, he’s just a bloody Sideshow.
Hasn’t got a Dog’s show.
Not even a freakin Slideshow.
Nelly Smickers
/ 24th August 2016Kitty Catkin
/ 24th August 2016(hands out boxes of tissues to everyone)
There, there, don’t let Bob upset you. Come on, Blazer and Gezza…..blow hard. That’s right. And again. All better now ? Now you, Pete. Let’s see that nice big smile again.
Gezza
/ 24th August 2016I’m not upset Kitty. Btw – who’s Bob?
Kitty Catkin
/ 24th August 2016That’s the spirit, Gezza ! Kitty’s brave little soldier !
patupaiarehe
/ 24th August 2016patupaiarehe
/ 24th August 2016Alan Wilkinson
/ 24th August 2016Your contributions might have been missed had there been any. In their absence, nothing becomes you like your leaving.
Kitty Catkin
/ 24th August 2016Be brave, Alan. The rest of us are bearing up. (hands Alan a box of tissues)
Kitty Catkin
/ 24th August 2016The Phantom Downticker may have been identified. I’ll have some soon, I bet.
patupaiarehe
/ 24th August 2016Don’t let the door hit you in the arse as you lurch on outta here 😀
Gezza
/ 24th August 2016Missing him already patu – wotsisname, I mean. 😥
patupaiarehe
/ 24th August 2016We havn’t seen the last of him, he won’t be able to help himself….
Gezza
/ 24th August 2016Who?
Conspiratoor
/ 24th August 2016I’ll bet you a dollar to a knob of goat poo Pat, he hangs around incognito for lurch’s incisive commentary. It’s compelling stuff!
patupaiarehe
/ 24th August 2016You’d best be wearing rubber gloves when you open any courier packages from now on C 😉
Kitty Catkin
/ 24th August 2016Damn it, I was just about to say that ! 😀
A university friend’s bratty little boy used to squawk ‘I love you and miss you ! I love you and miss you !’ ad nauseam when one of his doting parents went out.
We love you and miss you, Sideshow Blob !