I'm with you, Cord. I tried to at least watch the opening ceremonies, but thought that loading the dishwasher would be more fun… I usually don't even load the dishwasher, either. My son & daughter take turns doing it. I think I get more excited over the winter games. ?? At least, that's my story & I'm sticking to it!

Screw the Olympics.

Watching water boil is more fun then watching the Olympics.

Nope, I haven't even watched the swimming clip Whitney put up a few days ago. Sports just don't do it for me. In the past I have liked watching the Winter Olympics for the ice skating, but now I only get ABC so if I really wanted to watch them I'd have to download torrents or go to a friend's house, and that's just too much work for *blech* sports.

Christie Yamaguchi was the first Olympian that I really cared about, and I think Keri Strug was the last. The Olympics don't have that hateful spirit that I now enjoy so much in my sporting events. No watchie.

i watch it as i'm flipping past it…does that even count as watching it? to be honest i never watch this stuff. to me it just seems like a dick measuring contest between nations.

Hahaha, I thought I was the only one! Everyone at work kept talking about Michael Phelps…I was like "Who?" lol between taking care of the kids, working, and taking a weekend class, I just haven't found the time. More important stuff to do….

I couldn't care less about the olympics. I don't understand why some of the games are considered olympic worthy. I mean seriuosly…badminton?!? You've got to be kidding me. How is badminton olympic material but football is not? I just don't understand. What's next? A laundry folding team? What country can fold and press 10 loads of laundry the fastest.

Or perhaps horseshoes? Wait, that isn't already an olympic sport is it? God, please no. My Papa and entire redneck family could beat out any country in that "sport". Bring it on China!

I'm with you too. I've seen maybe a total of 6 minutes of the olympics and that was when i was drunk at a bar and it was playing on the tv in the background…and i'm not even sure i was watching it, I think I just subconsciously pieced together what happened the next day through the progression in the pictures of the evening.

ahh booze. you're my friend.

Can I still join the support group if I swear to only watch swimming? Are exceptions allowed?

Y'all are haters. In general I can't watch any sports at all but for some reason the Olympics get me every time.

I'd rather read my book.

I think you may've watched more of that crap than I have. I've heard of Michael Phelps, but I really have no clue. Sorry nation, next time get more man candy and I might watch.

I'm with kitten. The Olympics have offically gotten me. I love them.
And I am not afraid to admit it.
You all are missin' out - badminton rules!!!
:)

Yeah, Badminton rules when you're drunk at a family reunion. It's not a sport.

Quarters with tequila shots should be an Olympic sport. That I would watch.

I've watched swimming religiously, caught a little diving and a tiny bit of gymnastics and volleyball. I will probably tune out when it comes to track and field time, I just can't get into that at all. I see Oxygen is carrying synchronized swimming this year. That could be good for a laugh, I will just envision Martin Short doing the tomahawk chop in his life jacket.

I prefer the winter Olympics because I am a huge hockey fan. I also enjoy the luge and skeleton.

I'm not saying it's a sport Crumb, but it is just fun to watch how crazy and serious these people are about their "sports". I mean some of the badminton people are as muscular and ripped as other more sport-like athletes. That is why my husband and I like to watch the less mainstream events. Just because they beg the question - "How the heck do you get into that sport????"

I liked Phelps during the last summer Olympics but everyone's acting like he's so brand new, and for some reason it makes the whole craze very annoying.

blleeaaah. I don't watch the olympics either. Everyone in my office is all hopped up about them, but I just don't care.

Thank god. I should have known that I wasn't alone. Yeah, I want the US to do well, but will it bother me if Rushukstan beats us? Not really. Who knows - maybe it's just a wicked case of existential malaise, but I just don't give a flying fart.

That said, I'd still bang Michael Phelps (or pretty much any other guy on our swim team).

I haven't watched the olympics since I was a small child and my parents (forced) me to watch it. I had to ask my husband who the heck Michael Phelps is because I kept seeing his name on here. He's a swimmer who won medals, that's all I know.
When people start discussing it around me, I always feel like Tommy in "Home For the Holidays," "…yeah, big winners."

Cord,
When do you turn thirty? Because your so painfully snide and whiny.

I like football, baseball and any MMA fight. I cannot stand the Olympics though. I watch TV very rarely and frankly I would rather catch an episode of Law and Order. Sometimes I feel a shade of guilt for not tuning in, but I figure my sister's passion for it more than makes up for me.

Only yesterday when people were over to watch it. But I was just fucking around on Stereohyped…
Gymnastics is kinda sweet, though.

I don't think we're haters. I've never been a fan, not even when I was younger. I don't want to swim MYSELF - why would I want to watch someone else do it?

Yeah, sorry…I can't agree with you on this one. Usually I can't get myself to care about sports besides football and baseball, but slap a five-ringed logo in the corner of the TV and I'll watch archery or water polo as if Jesus himself were a commentator.

i'm with ya. i'd prefer to watch the winter olympics for luge and skiing, but i wouldn't arrange my schedule around it.
mainly i'd rather not watch any olympics because i don't care to watch china's giant jerk-fest and spreading it's semen in the face of everything non-china.

i started off with a bang. watched the opening ceremonies which i have to admit were pretty rad. then passed out on friday night watching soccer and woke up saturday morning still watching soccer. which turned into handball. which turned into swimming. which turned into gymnastics (men's and women's). oh and i watched some diving. (them chinese sure can dive in sync.)

that was all in the span of the first three days. now i'm just tired. i can't keep up.

that men's relay race was pretty amazing. it's all downhill after that.

at least until table tennis starts.

i need a nap.

*wonders what being 30 has to do with being "painfully snide and whiny."*

y'all don't know what you're missing. i TiVo'd the opening ceremonies and i have the TiVo set up to tape the Olympics on Saturday so I can see his hotness go for the gold in swimming. so far i've caught synchronized diving, water polo, baseball, table tennis, archery and gymnastics. only because that's what was on and i was too lazy to push the channel button on the remote.

mae - wasn't that syncronized diving crazy? Those Chinese girls were so in sync - and everyone else, not so much.

yeah, that was bizarre. the chinese girls know their synchronicity.

so do the police.

Maybe they figured out, if you give the girls identical haircuts their - synchronicity :)- increases.

So christina. I have a burning question for you. Is having ideals and strong opinions that may go against societal norms something one should simply "outgrow" by their 30th birthday? If so, I missed the cut-off date and didn't get the memo. Praise Jeebus!

bb&b is my favourite.

Interesting Cord. I'm with you, I don't give a crap about the competitions, as a matter of fact, I laughed really hard when I heard the girls lost the gold in gymastics on their own errors. Is that mean?

The only thing i really like to watch are the ribbon dancers (because they're freaky bendy) and the ice skating. but i only watch if i happen to catch it. i never know when this shit is on.

i'm just waiting for someone to hit his or head head on the diving platform and get AIDS.

when does that part start?

to hit his or *her head…

it's not funny when you screw up the joke.

because AIDS and head injuries are teh hilarious otherwise.

Once I heard about the computer generated fireworks and the Milli Vanilli Chinese-style incident during the opening ceremonies, I have no love for the Beijing Olympics.

I fail to comprehend how the feats of strength and muscle-flexing of individuals translates into national pride…

Christina: how old are you? Because I'm sure I had mastered the difference between your and you're before the age of ten.

Kate, tune in, in about 2 years.

Cord you are not the only one. I just don't have any interest…I don't own a television; just a laptop and darn-it, the Olympics sneaks in like a rogue pop up artist
I could be on this awesome thread and BAM, there's a pop up declaring some Mike Phelps winning another gold medal for something he trained the majority of his life and took ample steriods for to prepare for…making him a superior human !!
(Kidding, y'all its a rant after all)