There's no avoiding it I suppose. Mrs Rum is a sports fan and the TV will be on endlessly and I fear I will be sucked in to the juvenile nationalism, at least at a token sort of level as the medal count mounts. I am actually looking forward to the opening ceremony which is supposed to be pretty impressive.
Who is looking forward to the games? Or not..
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I gather there are supposed to be 70 sheep in the opening ceremony...
Will there be 70 welshmen as well?
Will there be 70 welshmen as well?
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There will be X number of Welshmen, where X/70 = the number of sheep per man.JimC wrote:I gather there are supposed to be 70 sheep in the opening ceremony...
Will there be 70 welshmen as well?
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I'm looking forward to it, I've always enjoyed watching the Olympics, it's the only time I like watching sports.
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And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
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I rarely watch sports, but I did watch the two finishes of the Tour de France last week.
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\Horwood Beer-Master wrote:Watch me.Rum wrote:There's no avoiding it I suppose...
Which event are you in?
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This forum is better than the Comedy channel some days.
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The two metre stride-across-the-room-to-turn-the-telly-off.PordFrefect wrote:\Horwood Beer-Master wrote:Watch me.Rum wrote:There's no avoiding it I suppose...
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Well I am going to watch the opening ceremony which is on live in a few minutes. As to the sport...not so sure..
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You know for $37 million quid they could have just given everyone in the country a tab of Acid or some E. Would be much better than this pitiful shambles.
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any feed no fucking commercials.....grrrrr.
sound and video feed is good and the industrial scene well done. Could do without the voice overs. Fucking morons.
Very cute with HRM and Bond
sound and video feed is good and the industrial scene well done. Could do without the voice overs. Fucking morons.
Very cute with HRM and Bond
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