Weirdness abounds everywhere, doesn't it. And Ima gonna share some of it with you all, just because!
Been watching, or trying to watch the Olympics and, well, it's weird. Normal countries, supposedly, but... The Russians are at the games, but not as a nation. As a committee. But it's not the Russians, who've been banned because of all sorts of shenanigans. It's the Russians, who haven't been banned. Okay. So the Russians, as a nation, aren't allowed to play, but the Russian Olympic Committee, which, apparently, has nothing at all to do with Russia as a nation (wink, wink, wink) is playing. Got that? There are no Russians in the Olympics but there are Russians in the Olympics. Not Russia the nation but Russia the committee.
My head hurts.
And then... Chinese Taipei. What? Lessee, we have (takes off shoes, starts counting) the Communist Chinese (the big country) and Communist Chinese Hong Kong (the little country that Great Britain gave away, the rat bastids) and Chinese Taipei. (goes to interwebs because head hurts more and more...) And... Because the ChiComs (the big country) and the ChiKongs (the little city/country, but only the actual communists in Hong Kong, not the non-communists in Hong Kong, because, well, communists and now my head really hurts) got all butt-hurt over the Republic of China (also known as the Republic of Taiwan) telling the People's Republic of China to, not so politely, go Copulate OFF, well, can't have the Republic of China/Taiwan be called an actual separate nation, because the Communist Chinese have totally subjugated-NOT the Nationalist Chinese that escaped to Taiwan, but the ChiComs, and now ChiKongs, consider FREE-COPULATING Nationalist China (in Taiwan) to be just a bunch of fruitcakes who are really still part of Communist People's Republic of Communist China.
Thus, well, butt-hurtzzzzzz ChiComs and other commies and we have the Republic of China/Taiwan being called Chinese Taipei. Because, apparently, the City of Taipei is the only place one can play Olympic style games on the island of Taiwan, which is occupied by the Nationalist Chinese.
Argh. My head hurts.
And then, well, we have a US Olympic athlete who the governing body of Gymnastics says is too good so in fairness, the governing body of Gymnasts will penalize the US Olympic athlete because she's too good. I thought all the copulating bull-scat from the good-old Cold War Olympic days was over. But... nooooooo. Because butt-hurts and everyone hates America or something.
Between this and other personal stuff, well, I wish she'd decided to drop out at the US Olympic Trials and open up her spot for another gymnast or two.
Gaaahhhh... My head hurts.
Then, of course, we have a tropical fish-imitating fembot soccer star and others who dissed the US flag and then proceeded to lose a game and now are having to fight to stay in.
And then there is a US sportscaster who is flaming about the use of a symbol of hatred at the Olympics. That symbol being the US flag.
Then, and don't laugh, watching Women's Trampoline Gymnastics, and come to find out that the great number of spectators in the stands are made up of athletes and their coaches and other team handlers and staff and.... Dignitaries. We'un peons and family members can't attend and watch in real life, but the copulating rat-bastiges who have lied, cheated and stole from us for the last year or so are able to fly in and watch whatever they want in real life. Just like some ancient feudal leader or some power-crazed warlord or something from some dystopian fiction, like "Mad Max" or "The Hunger Games."
My head has now split in two and I'm looking at myself. Pain, oh the Pain...
We have millionaire politicians who flew from Texas in order to stop legislation who are begging for care packages from home. What the Copulation? Buy your own damn chips and salsa. Better yet, go home and do your durned jobs! (see, I spoke Texan there...)
Seriously, though it's been crazy for a while, I didn't realize that we've entered into "The Sytem of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether" (wherein two normal people go to visit an insane asylum and things seem normal until they realize the crazies have taken over the asylum.)
Peace Out! Stay safe, and embrace your inner Rooftop Korean, or your actual Korean or whatever.
Alan Parsons Project was one of my "go-to" music selections when I needed to relax. And "The Cask of Amontillado" was a favorite in a weird sort of way...
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Yep. Mrs. Andrew has introduced me to a lot of music.
DeleteI introduced her to Alan Parsons, ZZ Top, ELO and others. Only Alan Parsons and ELO stuck, as apparently I have a serious Bubba-Rock affliction.
I love the whole House of Usher portion of "Tales of Mystery and Imagination." Perfect moody music that ends up somewhat uplifting.
Beans,
DeleteThank you for a re-introduction.
I remember all the vinyls, but I don't think we had this one.
I recognized the style as soon as it kicked in....brought back memories
Now I'm on a binge
You done good, there. I completely understood. I figure if a rep runs away from responsibility, they should forfeit all the perks. No special license plates, no pay, no nothing i.e. FIRED. I have zero respect for those excrement weasels.
ReplyDeleteFunny how if a Rethuglican runs it's because the rethuglican is petty and childish, but if a Demon-c-rat runs it's all noble and good and stuff.
DeletePersonally, if I was Abbott, I'd sick some bounty hunters on their copulating arses...
When the Olympics was here in Atlanta the IT company I worked for encouraged employees to volunteer while getting paid from the company. My National Guard unit could also put me on orders so I double dipped for 6 weeks. I serviced and repaired the CCTV that was used behind the scenes and in the Olympic Village. When the athletes were not competing they were having sex everywhere. After their events those world class athletes were more focused on world class screwing. I have heard this about subsequent games and I have become anti-Olympic sports. I want nothing to do with them.
ReplyDeleteI look at Athletes much like I look at actors and actresses and musicians and other entertainers. "Dance, Monkey, Dance." I don't want to listen to their pie-holes when they're not on whatever stage they're on. I don't want to know about what weird lives they lead off the stage.
DeleteJust... Dance, act, perform, run, juggle, gargle swords, swim like there's a shark behind you, that sort of stuff.
I mean, if I want to, I can go and hang with athletes and actors/actresses and singers and performers of all ilk, but I've found that most are really weird when not performing.
Outstanding Beans! Never thought I'd see a few Americans rooting for the defeat of certain American teams in the Olympics because of their SJW virtue signaling. Moving to Anime myself since there is a lack of SJW/virtue signaling there that has become prevalent in the American comic scene. BTW...... all animals are equal but some are more equal than others as you stated re: Olympic audiences.
ReplyDeleteI'm mot actively wishing certain SJWs complete and abject failure, but ever since OrangeManBad, I've been having so many schadenfreudistic moments that I think I've permanently damaged something.
DeleteAs to PinkHair Girl who plays with soccer balls, well, yeah... First the courts find out she and her teammates get paid far above what the average male professional soccer player at their level gets paid. Then they lose to a bunch of 15 year old boys. Then they take a knee, then they turn their backs and then they continually open their pie-holes like they expect us to follow what they spout out of said pie-holes. So, well, Ha! HAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I have been enjoying watching real patriotic athletes put their right hands on their chests and sometimes sing the words when the National Anthem is played because they won.
Beans, the only Alan Parsons project I really remember (probably because of age) was "Eye in the Sky" - which, it seems, has become strangely prophetic.
ReplyDeleteI have been reading Pausanias' Description of Greece, which is a mid-2nd Century A.D. tour through the Greece of that time. One of the stops on his tour - the one I am reading through now - was Elis, where the Olympic Games were held. As he wanders through the town, he records many different statues and memorials to bygone Olympic athletes - turns out even 2500 years ago, athletes had a certain pride about themselves. And they were no strangers to controversy as well: at one point Astylus of Crotona won three races, one in the short race and two in the long race. But because after the first victory he proclaimed himself to be not an inhabitant of Crotona but of Syracuse to pleases the ruler of Syracuse, the inhabitants of Crotona condemned his house to be a public prison and tore down the statue of him set up after his first victory at the temple of Lacinian Hera. All that is old is new again.
This is the Olympics I have followed by far the least. It is sad in some senses, because there are some great stories - the young woman from Alaska who won her swim competition (and trained in a 25 yard pool) with her entire town cheering her own, the young swimmer from Tunisia that came out of nowhere in lane 8 to win. These are, to my mind, what the Olympics really are about: pure athleticism and competition and the surprise victory.
But there are other people that have to make it about what they think is important.
The only thing that heartens me in this area is the sense that, in a lot of ways, that is being firmly rejected. The final viewing and earnings count will not be out for a while, but I suspect NBC will have taken a bloodbath economically speaking - so much so hopefully, that they and the US Olympic Committee will seriously rethink how athletes behave. The other thing I think these athletes that are motivated by other things than competition and country will discover is that without winning, people are a great deal less interested in what you have to say, which is the ugly twin and inevitable downfall of celebrity.
We have forgotten, I think, that the Olympics were not only a competition but effectively a national truce in Greece between the various poleis, a setting aside of city pride and politics and a focus on what made them similar through the Games.
We have also forgotten, as a whole (but not by those here at the Chant), that the Olympics celebrate all things... Martial. For the most part.
DeleteThe classic games up until they started adding frou-frou like Ballroom Dancing and Skateboarding are all Games of War. All of Track and Field is about winning while fighting. Even swimming is about winning at war. Equestrian. Archery and shooting sports. Gymnastics (yes, what is called artistic gymnastics but we all just call gymnastics is all about war war war baby.)
So it's funny when someone tries to read a pacifistic non-national slant into the most non-pacifistic nationalist competition ever short of actually beating people to death (like what India did to China last year, beat them to DEATH) or launching various kinetic energy devices and potential energy storage devices at each other.
Beans, were it up to me (no-one has consulted me, somewhat surprisingly enough), I would just revert back to the original Olympic events. Chariot racing could be fun! Also we should bring back the hoplitodromos, the 400 m run in helmet and shield and include the greaves (unlike those fools that ditched the greaves in 450 BC). Just in financing alone, think of how much money we could save by having one (or possibly two) tracks!
DeleteYep, and of course my favorite. IF you do a Marathon correctly, you run as fast as you can for 25.4 miles and then say something and then die. Just like the original runner.
DeleteBut every time I mention this, I get the strangest looks from people. It's almost like they don't know what the original Marathon was and what happened there.
Beans, for whatever reason I have taken a shining time the Ancient Greeks of late. The more I read and study, the more amazing they become.
DeleteBeans, you left out the preliminary part of the Marathon-spend hours as a runner delivering orders before the 20-some mile run.
DeleteTB - yep. The Ancient Greeks really were amazing. Not exactly politically correct in these fallen times, but, dang, they got the job done and did a whole heck of a lot of thinking and doing.
DeleteBut our betters tell us that all of that 'white achievement' was horrible and done on the backs of slaves (who were mostly, well, white) so that means all of the Greek stuff is insignificant to the achievements of the sub-Saharan Africans or something.
JL - Well, I'd love to see the Marathon Beach Dash. Armor up with up to 80lbs of bronze and iron, and start running down a 20 degree gravel-covered beach. Extra points for each 'Persian' you 'kill' who are also trying to 'kill' you. And then, once in the water, try not to drown, while 'fighting' 'Persians' and then get back up to the beach above the water line. Awards are given to the survivors of the water entrance/exit who have scored the most 'kills.'
DeleteAnd you could couple it with a 'combat first-aid' competition, and include the water-sports people with 'Armored Greek Water Rescue.'
And then do rowing. All those countries who embrace Western Civ get Greek-style single-tier galleys (with rams) and those who don't get Persian style biremes and single-level galleys. And then, well, go to it! Medals awarded for surviving and for number of 'enemy' galleys disabled.
Beans, I approve of this sport. Extra points awarded if you beat the arrows.
DeleteWe are living in a time where Saul Alinsky's twelve rules for radicals is the de facto rules for government, IMO. The "media" just reports what they are told to report with a large does of "approved" opinion. Copulate all of them.
ReplyDeleteYup. It's the Inmates of the Asylum who are running things. Common Sense and a non-insane outlook on life are considered 'abnormal' by our insane and diseased 'betters.'
DeleteI've begun watching the Olympics with the sound off. Makes for better viewing. Or better yet, just catch the well distilled video recaps on u-tube. Look up Bobby Finke.
ReplyDeleteI like listening to some of the commentators, like in trampoline gymnastics or the shooting and archery, because the commentators actually explain what the heck is going on. The rest, like you do, I watch with the sound off.
DeleteAnd since I don't watch things live, I can fast-forward past the boring commercials, the jabber-blabber idiots and the boring portion of the competition (like, well, the 1500 meter crawl. Who really is interested in the 14 minutes before the final lap? You can see what's going on by fast forwarding at 3X speed and see who's in the top 3 at every turn.)
And, well, I'm a Citizen of the United States. I really don't give a copulation as to what Eldick of Elbonia is doing. Show me the US athletes or go to something else. Yes, I am nationalistic and durned proud of it.
As soon as international sports started allowing men to compete as women all the anti-doping stuff became hypocritical. The ban on Holy Mother Russia should have been lifted.
DeleteTruly. Disqualify a female for having too high natural testosterone, but allow actual flooded-testosterone 'girls' compete. Yep. That makes sense.
DeleteI know, in all fairness, allow men, women, trans, whatevs to compete in one competition. After all, they keep telling me women are as good as men, right?
As to the Russia ban, either ban all Russians or don't ban any. Punishing the country by allowing their athletes to compete under 'Not' Russia is just stupid.
I haven't watched a single minute. Ofcourse, I've been too busy.
ReplyDeleteIt's okay... Don't miss some of the previous announcers and am really enjoying fast forwarding and muting and ignoring all the stupidity and just distilling it all down to the actual game.
DeleteKatie Ledecky and Simone Biles are ship's sponsors of new build "BIG E"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CoXRoPZ9j4
Jim
I'm glad that there will be another Big E. Some things are more important than yet another politician's name.
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