Wednesday 20 August 2008

Non-blog plug

Morning,

Thought I'd put a shameless plug out for my band - "I have a table, this is my table, get away from my table".

We have a myspace here - http://www.myspace.com/ihaveatable
And a garageband here - http://www.garageband.com/artist/I_have_a_table

and we're on facebook groups too.

Tuesday 12 August 2008

The Real Olympic spirit

What's the fucking point of the Olympics? It's just a stupid expensive event with sports that aren't good enough to have proper competitions of their own. People mindlessly run, or swim, or throw things....its boring. It's like a school sports day except it goes on for a month and there's no chance of skiving off and drinking cider in the park.

We're told about the "Olympic spirit" as if it's represents some human goodness.

The Olympic spirit is about competition and trying to be better than everyone else. It's purely an egotistical endeavour. The athletes who can run the fastest or jump the furthest have no real useful qualities for the human race. Not once has someone running a hundred metres increasing our understanding of the world we live in. Not once has someone throwing a shot put reduced poverty or inequality....it's just a self led ambition to be the best at something.

And while I'm at it, swimming is not, and has never been, a sport....it's just something you do to stop yourself drowning.

The athletes pretend that they do it for their country and hide their ego behind flags and anthems but when it really comes down to it they just want to be able to say...I'm the best, and we hold them up in great esteem, give them knighthoods, pay for their training and buy the products they sponsor. So that's why I'm saying fuck the Olympics, fuck the corrupt IOC, fuck Redgrave, Radcliffe and Sue-Cocking-Barker.

We never win anything anyway.