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If the Olympics are about sportsmanship and world togetherness, and not profits and public works contracts, the 2012 Olympics should be in Baghdad, Iraq.
By Bush and Co's time schedule (wink, wink), the US will have long before redrawn and democracy will be in full swing. Just think, we can have the whole world working together to build up Iraq's infrastructure and national pride in the spirit of the olympic games. Why should prosperous cities like Paris, London, and please no, NYC, reap the benefits of hosting the Olympiad? The world can simultaneously rebuild Baghdad's infrastructure, increase security and bring pride to the people who haven't yet been blown up. I'm tired of the Olympics being used for redevelopment of prosperous cities. Sure Barcelona and Athens were two cities who used the Olympics to strengthen, showcase and lift their cities from economic blight, and in the same vein Baghdad can do the same.
There's just the small matter of recognizing one-armed simitar decapitation, and roadside bombing as sports.
What is the true spirit of the Olympics, anyway?
2012 Olympiad: Iraq
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Posted 04 July 2005 - 05:15 PM
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Posted 04 July 2005 - 05:20 PM
Sounds like fun. But a those sound like dangerous games. I'd be a great at them!
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Posted 04 July 2005 - 05:48 PM
You forgot Aid money squandering and Syncronised suicide bombing.
I want to go back to the films of the 80's, where plots were simple, and explosions happened regularly....
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Posted 04 July 2005 - 05:50 PM
I personally can't see it actually happening (too much greed on behalf of the prosperous west), it does sound like a fine idea.
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Posted 04 July 2005 - 09:48 PM
I think that's a great idea!
Here are more sports:
-Oil-pumping.
-Statue throwing.
-Running 500 yards for your life.
Here are more sports:
-Oil-pumping.
-Statue throwing.
-Running 500 yards for your life.
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Posted 07 July 2005 - 12:09 AM
Hey the U.S. administration members could have an event to see how quickly they can put on a flak vest, be flown into the country in secret, make a quick speech in a walled compound, and then be flown out of the country in secret again.
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Posted 07 July 2005 - 04:48 AM
And the lefties can have an event to see who can talk the most shit.
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Posted 07 July 2005 - 05:15 AM
Well, seems like Londons won the Olympic bid, and someones practising the "100m blow up trains" on-site...
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Posted 07 July 2005 - 04:36 PM
QUOTE (SithAvenger @ Jul 5 2005, 02:48 AM)
I think that's a great idea!
Here are more sports:
-Oil-pumping.
-Statue throwing.
-Running 500 yards for your life.
Here are more sports:
-Oil-pumping.
-Statue throwing.
-Running 500 yards for your life.
And the one where noone would be able to get the medals:
- Weapon of Massive Destruction Finding.
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Posted 07 July 2005 - 04:55 PM
Dont forget the essential classic sports:
- Grenade throwing (like shotput, except you get extra points if you kill a terrorist with the grenade)
- Bullshitting the population into a war that doesn't need to be fought
- Cave searching
- tank racing
- Find the dictator! (you have to find which spider hole the dictator is hiding in. Bonus points if you fing Hitler of Stalin)
- Grenade throwing (like shotput, except you get extra points if you kill a terrorist with the grenade)
- Bullshitting the population into a war that doesn't need to be fought
- Cave searching
- tank racing
- Find the dictator! (you have to find which spider hole the dictator is hiding in. Bonus points if you fing Hitler of Stalin)
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Posted 07 July 2005 - 09:54 PM
And of course the ''Oil pool swimming''!
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Posted 08 July 2005 - 03:49 PM
QUOTE (Renegade @ Jul 8 2005, 08:45 PM)
Shouldn't this thread be locked for being completely out of hand and inappropriate..?
Nah.
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But I would suggest another olympic sport:
- Kuwaitball
A sport where you have to cling to the kuwaitball long enough to win.
There's lots of other balls in the game, but only that one gives the gold medal. It's easy to spot, it's the one with the oil spots. The other ones, with the blood spots, don't really count for the medal.
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