Olympic Conclusions

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To be honest, thank God's it's over.  I should have loved it, but today the Olympics is more about corporate greed and national prestige and patriotism than anything else.  And what are all these professional athletes and sports persons doing there?
I heard one interesting comment on the radio as to what should actually be in the Olympics, one sports pundit offering the opinion, if any sport has it's biggest moment  elsewhere  then it probably shouldn't be in the Olympics.  That makes sense to me.  As much as I loved to see Bradley Wiggins win gold, not to mention get pissed and smoke a few roll ups, I don't understand why the road race and time trial are open to pros.
The coverage.  Please keep it off the news channels.  And thank god for Al Jazeera!  Second, do we have to be so focused on ourselves, and oh those painful ten times too long interviews with the winning (British only)  athletes.  The best coverage I found was on foreign news channels, free of the UK's self obsessed patriotism.
As for all you 'asylum seeking' anti-immigration EDL and BNP supporters, well the  UK wouldn't have won that many medals without a little immigration over the last few decades. 
As for those opening and closing ceremonies, I didn't watch them, I hate all that crap.  Sure some sort of ceremony is needed, but now it's just 'look at us' - 'we are better than you' throw a few hundred million at it patriotic bollocks exercise. 

So as we celebrate the achievements of the brightest and best of our young athletes at home, also spare a thought for the brightest and best of our young people in the armed forces, currently overseas fighting and dying for the rights of immigrants to come here and hate us.

The biggest numbers of 'asylum seekers' in the last few years coming to the UK have been Iraqi and Afghan.  That's cos the poor kids in the armed forces, who know nothing of the countries they are fighting in, or what they are fighting for, are over there fucking up countries for our rich leaders stupid global political fantasies.  We got fucked in Iraq, we are getting fucked in Afghanistan, as anybody with half a brain knew we would, it's time to get our good young boys and girls out of it and back home with their families where they belong. 
Meanwhile I watched "Is football racist" I think that's what it was called.  Sure amazing progress has been made in terms of racial tolerance.  But yeah, one point made by this programme was, if half the players are black or from other minorities, well where are all the black managers?  Good question.

To point out our differences as this current obsession with celebrating diversity does, is to divide into segments rather than unite as a whole.

As one friend put it to me.  I'll be happy when the day comes that I'm just Scottish, not an Asian Scot, or Scottish Muslim, just Scottish.  But we still have a long way to go Rusty.