Best thing about the Olympics?

Comments

• Tachyon

  2016-05-27 14:30:45

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  People competing to be the very best at what they do, the sheer athleticism.

  
  

  That and the whole international aspect, the sense of all these people from all these countries coming together for one big event (i guess a mini-Olympics could achieve something similar by giving each state a chance to showcase itself?)
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-05-27 16:11:52

  attractive athletes doing awesome things
• Yarrun XIX

  2016-05-27 16:17:11

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  I thought it was jokes about the hosting country digging its own grave and the Olympic village being drowned in condoms
• Bee

  2016-05-27 16:21:46

  I was going to say hazmats, but I like exaggeration.
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-05-27 16:53:48

  Bee said:

  I was going to say hazmats, but I like exaggeration.

  Should have said understatement; would have been funnier.
• Anonus

  2016-05-27 17:41:02

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Tachyon said:

  People competing to be the very best at what they do, the sheer athleticism.

  
  

  That and the whole international aspect, the sense of all these people from all these countries coming together for one big event (i guess a mini-Olympics could achieve something similar by giving each state a chance to showcase itself?)

  That would mean 50 teams, which would have to be narrowed down by event.

  Yarrun XIX said:

  I thought it was jokes about the hosting country digging its own grave and the Olympic village being drowned in condoms

  would my own mini-Olympics need a village?
• Anonus

  2016-05-27 17:48:47

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Goddammit. These mini-Olympics are going to be incredibly expensive, and half the reason they exist is to boost American morale without great taxpayer burden.
• Anonus

  2016-05-27 17:52:57

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  I cannot possibly hold these every year.
• Tre

  2016-05-27 20:10:41

  
  

  So hold it every Olympic bye year?
• Anonus

  2016-05-27 21:48:21

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  I wanted to hold the inaugural event in Denver in 2018, because doing odd years means I'm tempted to shoot for next year which is, given the size and scope of the event, unfeasible
• MetaFour

  2016-05-28 03:43:22

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  Why does a fantasy have to be feasible?
• Princess Alice

  2016-05-28 03:45:36

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  MetaFour said:

  Why does a fantasy have to be feasible?

  I've asked him this so many times that I can't even be bothered anymroe
• Imipolex G

  2016-05-28 03:46:47

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  A certain degree of verisimilitude seems to be a requirement for Anonus' fantasies.
  
  It's just a fact
  
• Anonus

  2016-05-28 04:08:24

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  MetaFour said:

  Why does a fantasy have to be feasible?

  I don't know

  
  

  It seems like more fun that way, on some level