Home

Advertisement

 
Previous | Memories | Tell a Friend | Next
 
jdbuzz
jdbuzz
24 April 2008 @ 11:25 am
Symbolism  

Swastikas, US flags and Olympic torches. Crucifixes and pictures of Allah. All symbols.

They represent love, devotion, hatred or death and people get so worked up about them. yet they are just... symbols, inanimate representations.

This Olympic torch stuff is really annoying the crap out of me. It is a bloody torch for fuck's sake! the media in all forms have humanised the thing.

"The torch was whisked away to safety overnight"

"The torch was welcomed to Australia by..."

and so on.

I'm just waiting for the torch to develop a bloody headache one day soon and decide not to go out jogging.....

This whole Olympic thing is one big yawn to me. Some of the sports are enjoyable but not that many.

As for Olympic ideals... They clearly died for the majority of people when professionalism took over.

Furthermore, I think every four years is far too often to have to endure the opening and closing ceremonies and why can't we put in place a total news embargo on the Olympics until say a week before the games start?

Miserable killjoy ain't I?

;-)

Tags: , ,
 
 
John is feeling: bored
John is listening to: The Circle Game
 
7 comments | Comment Here
 
( Post a new comment )
Lisa's Journal[info]onlylisa on April 24th, 2008 04:31 am (UTC)
Yeah same.
Where was the outcry when they were awarded the games??
(Reply) (Thread) (Link)
jdbuzz[info]jdbuzz on April 24th, 2008 07:03 am (UTC)
Very good point Lisa. They've all been sitting back all this time and NOW decide to make a big noise. Nothing has changed for years. Tibet has been a part of the Chinese empire since before Adam(Goodes) was a lad!
(Reply) (Parent) (Thread) (Link)
Jasmine[info]a_life_verbatim on April 24th, 2008 06:44 am (UTC)
it annoys me too, so so fucking much!

this post was really amusing though - finally, someone else thinks the same!
(Reply) (Thread) (Link)
jdbuzz[info]jdbuzz on April 24th, 2008 07:04 am (UTC)
Thank God it's not just me then!

Sometimes you almost feel as if you're a lone voice and then you realise that your LJ friends are a little bit more discerning than the run of the mill crowd.
(Reply) (Parent) (Thread) (Link)
Linda312[info]linda312 on April 24th, 2008 10:13 am (UTC)
I'm with you; they should do away with this torch fiasco. Be interesting to see how much today's 'torch run' through Canberra cost in terms of security, upcoming court appearances, re-ignition of tension between Chinese & Tibetans within Australia etc. At one stage, AFP officers protecting the runners, were jostling with Chinese security personnel protecting the torch. When the security personnel start shoving and pushing each other, it's time to blow the torch out and simply say "Fuck this! Let's go home".
(Reply) (Thread) (Link)
MiniMee[info]mininirime on April 25th, 2008 12:16 pm (UTC)
""It is a bloody torch for fuck's sake!""

My sentiment exactly.

The OG will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. It really ought to be cancelled this time round.

But then what would a pure commoner such as myself, know about the ways of the world?
(Reply) (Thread) (Link)
peter1610[info]peter1610 on April 29th, 2008 11:45 am (UTC)
I agree !..it's like these AFL supporters.. bloody fanatics some of them.. ooops :-)
(Reply) (Thread) (Link)
 

Advertisement