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View Poll Results: Are you sick of the Olympics?
Yes 29 15.85%
Oh god yes 80 43.72%
I am sick of the Olympics 26 14.21%
My television has been unplugged to save my sanity 48 26.23%
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Old 04-08-2008, 08:45 PM   #1
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This damned thing hasnt even started yet and already I am rather pee-o'd about missing all the decent television (whats left of it) in favour of Bruce "the Lunchbox" McAvaney telling me about how every athlete on the screen has "run the race of his life".

Thought I'd be safe with Top Gear being on SBS but no, even then I will miss it and get all the boring non-commercially usable sports like cycling and synchronised swimming.

Bugger the Olympics, I know the Chinese locked their people out of the internet but why is Australia locking us out of something better to watch?

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Old 04-08-2008, 08:48 PM   #2
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Hmm...I might just be spaz, but I feel you're pushing an agenda here...

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Old 04-08-2008, 08:48 PM   #3
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Yep, fed up with it yesterday already when Channel 7 was promoting it instead of showing the car racing after the commercial breaks.
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Old 04-08-2008, 08:51 PM   #4
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Yep, fed up with it yesterday already when Channel 7 was promoting it instead of showing the car racing after the commercial breaks.
"I'm ready to flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy yyyyyy"

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dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee???

im sick of the ads. not of the olypics seeing as how they havent started yet
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Old 04-08-2008, 08:51 PM   #6
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I am sick to death of hearing about it too.
And when I just heard of Top Gear copping a 2 week break for them, well I spat it....
Its gunna be flogged to death on channel 7, it dont need to be on all the other channels as well. All we will hear on the news after the doom n gloom is olympics this n that.

All I can say is the house DVD player and Limewire downloading whatever I want to watch are my best friends and free to air TV can go take a running jump in the lake without any of my viewing time or ratings support.

And they wonder and cry poverty when people download tv shows.

I am over it all.
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Old 17-08-2008, 03:47 PM   #7
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I am sick to death of hearing about it too.
And when I just heard of Top Gear copping a 2 week break for them, well I spat it....
Its gunna be flogged to death on channel 7, it dont need to be on all the other channels as well. All we will hear on the news after the doom n gloom is olympics this n that.

All I can say is the house DVD player and Limewire downloading whatever I want to watch are my best friends and free to air TV can go take a running jump in the lake without any of my viewing time or ratings support.

And they wonder and cry poverty when people download tv shows.

I am over it all.

ha ha ha welcome to my world when it comes to AFL. the crap is on 7, then 10 and the freaken footy show on 9... give us girls a break ffs.

I love the olympics, its only on for 2 weeks so deal with it :P unlike AFL on nearly all year round. stupid sport. Rugby ftw!!
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Old 17-08-2008, 04:08 PM   #8
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I love the olympics, its only on for 2 weeks so deal with it :P unlike AFL on nearly all year round. stupid sport. Rugby ftw!!
I love the Olympic's also so for channel 7 to show Port Adelaide (Yuk) vs Collingwood (Yuk) on Friday night instead of the Olympic Games they could have transfered the footy to there footy partner Channel 10.
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Old 04-08-2008, 08:52 PM   #9
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It's 2 weeks out of every 4 years so I don't really care. I like to watch it a bit
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It's 2 weeks out of every 4 years so I don't really care. I like to watch it a bit
I agree with you on this. It's not like the Olympics are on every year. Hell, just about every show on TV these days is crap anyway so it'll be something different to watch for 2 weeks. Hopefully they cut out all the dancing, singing, model and amazing race shows!
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Old 18-08-2008, 02:14 PM   #11
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I agree with you on this. It's not like the Olympics are on every year. Hell, just about every show on TV these days is crap anyway so it'll be something different to watch for 2 weeks. Hopefully they cut out all the dancing, singing, model and amazing race shows!
But its not anythng different, its a swimming, commercial break, and Aussie ****fest for channel 7. I was really looking forward to them....now I cannot wait untill they finish. Channel 7 done a royal job of buggerising them up for their own benefit. Swimming this, swimming that, oh noes, better replay it, people might want to see it more than 276 times...

Watching soccer...play is building up, building up...approaching goal in a nice position...ADDBREAK. Last night watching a gold medal race (some crazy long distance thing). It was all tight and bunched up...ADDBREAK...some russian bird is like half a lap in front with most of the race ran (due to 74.3 commericals). Awesome channel 7, just awesome....

Re comment above about the commentry. Wholeheartedly agree.
Its an Aussie ****fest by the usual extremely way over the top biased assed idiots that usuaully dont know anything about the sport that they are commentating except for that it has Australians in it.

Beach volleyball yesterday - Aus vs Brazil (from what I gather the best in world)..Brazil leading 18-10 or something and Australia get a lucky point. The silly commentator suddenly gets up and about and barks up "AND HERE COME THE AUSSIES (at 18-11) THEY HAVE A GOOD CHANCE HERE (of beating the world champs who only need 3 points to win)" cocommentator "I HAVE A GOOD FEELING - THESE GIRLS LOOK LIKE THEY HAVE WHAT IT TAKES":

Yeah well done, bark it up and **** along. The Brazillians won it 21-13.

Sure we all live in Aus and (mostly) are Australian....but geez, maybe about time for ch7 to show some decent non australian events that are original instead of swimming replays.

SBS gets my airtime, even if it is crappy quality. Unbeknown to Channel 7 most ppl want to watch the Olympics and see quality atheletes from AROUND THE WORLD competing (and being animal-like) in a variety of events other than swimming.
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Old 18-08-2008, 08:31 PM   #12
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Beach volleyball yesterday - Aus vs Brazil (from what I gather the best in world)..

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Best Olympic sport to watch women's beach volley ball.... funny when then men play the stands are empty...
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The Polish womens volleyball team might have a few words to say about that one!!!
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OMG, Top Gear not showing the next two weeks? I have the telly to myself as the missus is away for two weeks and I can't watch my Top Gear???

Now I'm really, really, really, really, really, really, really fed up with the Olympics.
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OMG, Top Gear not showing the next two weeks? I have the telly to myself as the missus is away for two weeks and I can't watch my Top Gear???

Now I'm really, really, really, really, really, really, really fed up with the Olympics.
They're old anyway, just download Top Gear.
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Bring it on! how can anyone be sick of it when they havent even started yet!! Go the Boomers and Opals!



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Can't wait for the terrorist bombers to ruin it. Can't stand it.
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As long as there is still porn on the net and porn still means naked women then i think i'll be just fine.
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As long as there is still porn on the net and porn still means naked women then i think i'll be just fine.
what is it with you and porn on your computer??
thats the third time this week i read that.
plenty of bandwidth to burn huh
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Yeah, methinks I'll be surfing the intertron a bit more while it's on, except for maybe the womens gymnastics....

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Bloody Olympics seem to be stopping ever good show on TV.

I was so glad when the last Olympics were on I was in the wilds of Alaska and heard zip about it and was very grateful. My only wish was that I was back there.
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City Homicide, Channel Seven 8.30pm Monday nights.
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anything that is not related to the Olympics.....LOL
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