Are you watching the Olympics?

[sunday]

1 minute ago, rmgill said:

Because to you, nothing is sacred. You don’t even have pride in England or being English. You’re too woke to care. 

I quite remember a exchange on "third sexes" in which someone did seem to build a rage.

[rmgill]

So he has a hentai kink?  *Shrug*
 

I mean I suppose gothy cat girls are fetching and cute, but the cat part is just window dressing. A cute 25 year old with some nice ink and modest piercings, sure cute as hell. I’d be just as opposed to any sort of cosmetic surgery to 12 year olds. Same as tattoos and any sort of dramatic piercings. For a 12 year old. If they are too young for a full sleeve tattoo they’re too young for a decision on a double mastectomy and a fallo-plasty  

I guess Stuart doesn’t understand that trans gender surgery for kids is more radical than islamic clitorectomies and other brutal surgeries.  
 

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[Skywalkre]

It's on in the background for me as I'll always watch sports if there's any on TV, but unless a major event is on (such as today's Team USA basketball game) I'm not really paying attention.  Like it's been for decades now if you want the best stuff, and live, you have to pay/stream to get those.  I heard the cost isn't that much this year but I don't have the time. 

The Olympics used to be a big deal in my household.  Apparently some extended family were major US players in a smaller sport back in the 80s.  But... with what the games have become (too expensive and burdensome for the host nations) and considering the sports represented (some just... why?) it's lost a lot of its luster.

[Roman Alymov]

1 hour ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Oh, and I thought this was somewhat amusing. Maybe a comment about not bringing politics into sport.

 

So what? It is not something new

https://pravda-en.com/world/2024/07/19/643059.html?ysclid=lz6150xlke250362855 

19.07.2024, 14:16
Ukrainian athletes were allowed not to shake hands with Russians at the Olympics
  The president of the NOC of Ukraine, Vadim Gutzeit, said that this was allegedly done to avoid "provocations" against Ukrainians. According to him, the agreement was reached with the participation of international sports federations in those sports where a mandatory handshake is expected.

A year ago, the International Fencing Federation removed Ukrainian Olga Harlan for refusing to shake hands with Russian Anna Smirnova after winning the 1/32 finals of the World Championship. After this incident, the FIE relaxed the rules, eliminating the requirement for a mandatory handshake at the end of the match.

Edited July 28, 2024 by Roman Alymov

[R011]

I'd watch if we could get a repeat of the 1956 Hungary vs USSR water polo match with a Ukraine vs Russia match.

[sunday]

I think Russia is not participating.

[Skywalkre]

1 hour ago, sunday said:

I think Russia is not participating.

Some of its athletes are under a neutral banner (if you see AIN for a country those are Russian or Belarusian Olympians).  Only 32 of them competing, according to internet searchers, though.

[R011]

39 minutes ago, Skywalkre said:

Some of its athletes are under a neutral banner (if you see AIN for a country those are Russian or Belarusian Olympians).  Only 32 of them competing, according to internet searchers, though.

Yep.  No team sports, just individual Russian and Belarus athletes.

[Stuart Galbraith]

12 hours ago, rmgill said:

Because to you, nothing is sacred. You don’t even have pride in England or being English. You’re too woke to care. 

Thats because im not English, im British. You Americans never quite grasp the difference.

 

 

[seahawk]

18 hours ago, Murph said:

This:

 

The actual funny thing is the outrage by the woke left over the criticism of the ceremony. Obviously what they did is protected by the freedom of art and the freedom of opinion, but so is the criticism.

[Der Zeitgeist]

6 minutes ago, Stefan Fredriksson said:

Agree 100%. The other day I watched table-tennis. After the matches, they... touched... eachother. Horrible.

[Stuart Galbraith]

24 minutes ago, seahawk said:

The actual funny thing is the outrage by the woke left over the criticism of the ceremony. Obviously what they did is protected by the freedom of art and the freedom of opinion, but so is the criticism.

Its possible to find the ceremony over the top and in cases shambolic, and find  the attempt to inject culture war and perceive it along politically loaded lines as patently  absurd. That kind of reminds me of hippies trying to find reference to cannabis use and the counterculture in The Lord of the Rings (and yes, they did try).

The correct position to take is indifference. Its France, so of course they try to show off how different they are to anyone else. Why, im kind of surprised they didnt stage a riot of Gilet Jaunes, just to display contemporary France.

Sometimes a fat guy wearing a dress, is just a fat guy wearing a dress. There is no need to overthink it.

[seahawk]

They apologized already:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/28/paris-olympics-organisers-apologise-to-christians-for-last-supper-parody

 

[sunday]

[futon]

“Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. [The opening ceremony] tried to celebrate community tolerance,” the Paris 2024 spokesperson Anne Descamps told a press conference. “We believe this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offence we are really sorry.”

Clearly there was, those degenerates.

[urbanoid]

14 hours ago, rmgill said:

So he has a hentai kink?  *Shrug*
 

I mean I suppose gothy cat girls are fetching and cute, but the cat part is just window dressing. A cute 25 year old with some nice ink and modest piercings, sure cute as hell. I’d be just as opposed to any sort of cosmetic surgery to 12 year olds. Same as tattoos and any sort of dramatic piercings. For a 12 year old. If they are too young for a full sleeve tattoo they’re too young for a decision on a double mastectomy and a fallo-plasty  

I guess Stuart doesn’t understand that trans gender surgery for kids is more radical than islamic clitorectomies and other brutal surgeries.  
 

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I'm a traditionalist when it comes to gothy catgirls, I want them without penises.

[sunday]

16 minutes ago, futon said:

“Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. [The opening ceremony] tried to celebrate community tolerance,” the Paris 2024 spokesperson Anne Descamps told a press conference. “We believe this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offence we are really sorry.”

Clearly there was, those degenerates.

Yep. If not, then there should have been resignations, and cancellations.

People of the wrong thinking ilk have been forced to resign, or cancelled by far less. Even a Nobel prize winner.

[sunday]

People could have hobbies, like pretending to dwell under a bridge.

Edited July 29, 2024 by sunday

[futon]

43 minutes ago, sunday said:

Yep. If not, then there should have been resignations, and cancellations.

People of the wrong thinking ilk have been forced to resign, or cancelled by far less. Even a Nobel prize winner.

Butthurt trans that can't explain themselves in a dignified way are enabled by media trolls.

[sunday]

20 minutes ago, futon said:

Butthurt trans that can't explain themselves in a dignified way are enabled by media trolls.

Yes, it is very edgy, and "safe" at the same time.

Ez 33:11

Edited July 29, 2024 by sunday

[Peasant]

I've noticed an obvious trend with the Hollywood movies and pop-culture in general: can you even remember the last time a character in a triple A video game or big budget movie being portrayed as a genuine Christian and not as completely evil and hypocritical?

I can only think of Joshua Graham, from Fallout: New Vegas.

[Stuart Galbraith]

1 hour ago, urbanoid said:

I'm a traditionalist when it comes to gothy catgirls, I want them without penises.

On this point im in full agreement.

[sunday]

21 minutes ago, Peasant said:

I've noticed an obvious trend with the Hollywood movies and pop-culture in general: can you even remember the last time a character in a triple A video game or big budget movie being portrayed as a genuine Christian and not as completely evil and hypocritical?

I can only think of Joshua Graham, from Fallout: New Vegas.

Perhaps American Sniper too.

Edited July 29, 2024 by sunday

[rmgill]

3 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Its possible to find the ceremony over the top and in cases shambolic, and find  the attempt to inject culture war and perceive it along politically loaded lines as patently  absurd. That kind of reminds me of hippies trying to find reference to cannabis use and the counterculture in The Lord of the Rings (and yes, they did try).

 

It was a literal play on the last supper with people in drag. It was deliberate and obvious symbolism. 
 

 

3 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

The correct position to take is indifference.
 

Then I expect you to take everything Donald Trump says from now with indifference. 

3 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Its France, so of course they try to show off how different they are to anyone else.

More Gay? More fabulous? 

3 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Sometimes a fat guy wearing a dress, is just a fat guy wearing a dress. There is no need to overthink it.

Well its not Michael Palin. 

[rmgill]

3 hours ago, urbanoid said:

I'm a traditionalist when it comes to gothy catgirls, I want them without penises.

A noble and fair request.