Olympic non-news

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In addition to not spending time at the vet (or "sleeping" on the couch cushion in the kitchen with an unwell dog), I'm guessing the athletes in Vancouver do not work at their day jobs during the Olympics.

I didn't have the oomph to touch the proto-slipper yesterday, and have paying work that needed to be done today.........

Perhaps I'll do some knitting tonight............

I had planned to go buy some more yarn, yesterday, to make up for what's being eaten up by the swatches.

I guess if I have a completed (including felting) test slipper by Friday, that will be quite reasonable, and then I can shop on Friday for more yarn...........



I have to say that I am being ... appalled by a lot of what happens at the winter Olympics.

I wrote my daughter, thanking her for choosing a sport that doesn't involve everyone having knives attached to their shoes.............

Watching all these people going way faster than people can go without gravity and specialized tools, watching them ski knee-trashing moguls, watching them flip and jump, or slide, basically naked, at 90 miles an hour.......

The issue is that they have to skirt the edge of disaster to win.

And when "disaster" can mean serious injury, maiming, or even death, well, I'm having a lot of trouble understanding how it is "fun"................. To do, and, even less, to watch................

I don't like it when the cameras are in the faces of people who are sad because they didn't do as well as they wanted and hoped to do. I was appalled at them showing that poor Georgian boy's death on international tv. I didn't watch. WHY do they show such things?

The people who ought to be concerned about adequate levels of safety, whatever that may mean, ought to watch, but to put it on tv for the prurient curiosity of the masses?

Ick.

Pandering to that is just ... appalling................

Shame on NBC.

And going on and on and ON about the disappointment of people who "were expected" to do better than they were able to do on the day?

Disgusting. They feel bad enough. Let them be.

Between closing my eyes because I don't want to see them fall, and being disgusted and appalled, I can't say I'm really enjoying the Olympic experience that much.

I know what I really need is a "best of" video, after the fact. Let me see the good bits, and the happy faces. Let me see that Dutch speed skater climb up into the stands after his race, to hug his girlfriend and his parents. Let me see the Chinese pair skaters break the Olympic record for highest short-program score.

It's enough that I know the moguls are trashing the young bodies who smash into them over and over, day after day. I don't want to see anyone fall, and I DON'T want to see them cry because they feel they let anyone down because someone else went a bit faster or a bit higher on the day..........................

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I am not a fan of activity that results in nearly everyone being "a loser." And when that activity is very likely to result in many people being injured (let alone killed).................. Why is this something to celebrate????????????

Baffled......................

Sigh!

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