Desigol
02-16-2006, 03:22 PM
JUST TOE CURLING
WHY is the BBC wasting a mountain of licence-payers' money covering Winter Olympic "sports" which we are dreadful at and care little about?
We don't know any of the rules, anyone who takes part in them or what they're playing with. (Is that beer-trays they're sliding on?)
We're constantly told that America and Australia batter us at summer sports because they're hot countries, so why are we so woeful at games played during the cold temperatures we seem to endure for 95 per cent of the year?
At the last Olympics, when we won gold for sliding stone bedpans and chasing them with brushes, Tony Blair told us: "The whole of Britain is really proud of them."
No we weren't. We were just waiting for the sex tests on the Scottish curlers to come back, to find out which one was Colin Hendry.
Experts predicted their success would encourage young people to take up winter sports. But it didn't, because the only time our young people get excited about ice is when it's in their vodka and Red Bull.
Why doesn't the BBC admit that when it comes to snowy stuff, the only thing our youth is good at, is uphill snorting.
Then send Pete Doherty over there and watch him clean up. Well, it'd be a bit less embarrassing than watching Clare Balding enthusing about the fluge?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/brianreade
WHY is the BBC wasting a mountain of licence-payers' money covering Winter Olympic "sports" which we are dreadful at and care little about?
We don't know any of the rules, anyone who takes part in them or what they're playing with. (Is that beer-trays they're sliding on?)
We're constantly told that America and Australia batter us at summer sports because they're hot countries, so why are we so woeful at games played during the cold temperatures we seem to endure for 95 per cent of the year?
At the last Olympics, when we won gold for sliding stone bedpans and chasing them with brushes, Tony Blair told us: "The whole of Britain is really proud of them."
No we weren't. We were just waiting for the sex tests on the Scottish curlers to come back, to find out which one was Colin Hendry.
Experts predicted their success would encourage young people to take up winter sports. But it didn't, because the only time our young people get excited about ice is when it's in their vodka and Red Bull.
Why doesn't the BBC admit that when it comes to snowy stuff, the only thing our youth is good at, is uphill snorting.
Then send Pete Doherty over there and watch him clean up. Well, it'd be a bit less embarrassing than watching Clare Balding enthusing about the fluge?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/brianreade