The Olympics are still dragging on! BBC TV is full of it. The press cannot get enough of it. Real news is pushed aside for people winning Gold! Naturally they have the Olympics at the time when England is on holiday. Scotland begins earlier but that is not known down here of course, 'Team GB or no Team GB!' With little news the media have to fill space and with home based folks winning Gold they are making the most of it. Each star is built up to the heavens, while each grubby little tabloid hack scourers the dustbins for tales of scandal and depravity to bring them down again. Folks wish for happy stories, especially in summertime, so the problems in Syria where thousands die and the Great Powers play dangerous games are pushed down the page. A mass shooting will be mentioned but clearly not as often as a 'Brit' winning a medal. The 'Daily Mail' reader whining about paying for the NHS and Benefit claimants happily allows billions to be spent on the Olympics, and the reward is a jingoistic handfull of medal! I noticed also that the 'Brit' Andy Murray won an Olympic Gold medal for playing tennis, while the 'Scot' Andy Murray only managed a Silver one in the tennis doubles. Typical! What is tennis doing there anyway? How many other daft sports feature here? Does Synchronised Swimming still get a shot? Basketball? Baseball? Cricket maybe? Dearie me no thanks. The football season has started, get this rubbish of the screen and ...hold on, wait a minute. If the Olympics finishes I suspect the banal pap that was there before will reappear. More Simon Cowell shows, more empty dance contests. Hmmm, OK, keep the Olympic coverage going for a while, spending another £40 Billion on this might be worth while after all.
That tactful, one time Italian leader, Mr Berlasconi has used one of his Italian newspapers to have a go at the German leader. Under the headline 'FOURTH REICH' a picture of Frau Merkel appears. A picture which tactfully shows her giving a wave which looks awfully like the salute that Herr Hitler chap used to give. Could he be attempting to imply something perhaps......? Shame on him.
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Does what never end? Oh, the Olympics. I was sure you must mean the football season. But everyone knows that never ends. Never, ever, ever....
I can't decide what our famous German leader is signalling.
A Polo perhaps
A box
or the hole where the Euro is disappearing into or
Perhaps the number of Gold medals she expects Germany to win!!
One wonders
It will end.
The Olympics will sadly end. Frau Merkel will sadly end. Even Mr. Italian ladies man will end. Not so sadly.
I hope your wit and sunshine will never end.
I was wondering how well the mail is being delivered? For I am fairly well acquainted with a former Royal Mail carrier, and I can certainly imagine him becoming quite confused by many of the mail boxes being painted gold in celebration of all of the gold medals that Great Britain has been winning. Sad. So very sad.
Hey, at least tennis is a real sport. I watched table tennis today played on a table about the size of my bedside table!
Still, I must admit that I enjoy the Olympics , it reminds me of one of the lines from "Desiderata"...with all its sham and drudgery, it is still a beautiful world...
A, Nonsense! The football season has been dead for weeks! I'm sure you listened in to Radio Scotland the other night when Dundee United played Dinamo Moscow, tell the truth!
Mametz, I know what she's signaling her Italian friend.
Max, Sunshine? It's raining here again!
Jerry, We won medals?
Kay, Tennis is sport?
Don't you think Merkel looks sort of pleading in that picture, as if she is someone in a shop trying to sell you something you don't really want.
Jenny, Good call, that's her, 'Trust me, I'm honest' look.
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