• Mighty@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As a kid, the Olympics was a fun thing to look forward to. Now whenever I see my city/country applying for anything similar, I’m up in arms

    • iByteABit [he/him]@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      It used to be something good back in ancient Greece, before we had the need to make a supershow out of fucking everything and each time trying to one up the last in pyrotechnics and gimmicks

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      Even as a kid i didn’t really get it. I liked to watch the best off they showed on tv or when someone broke a world record or something. I thought that’s what the Olympics are. Then one day my friend asked me if i wanted to watch the winter Olympics and i was excited. Just to sit there for hours just watching the most boring thing i have ever seen. And that was before i even knew about the steroid hypocrisy and uow scummy it is

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      1 year ago

      I think London 2012 may have been the only Olympics in my lifetime that wasnt some kind of humanitarian travesty.