Having said all that, I didn’t watch a lot of the Olympics mainly because it just annoyed me. We seem to have been a bit too happy, smiley, everything is fine with China. Let’s review a few of the news stories that came out during the games.
The fireworks were pre-recorded.
Nobody turned up so they rounded up groups of students to make the stadiums look full.
To construct the new venues they bulldozed people’s houses with compensation.
People’s families suffered due to the people being involved in the games being taken away to camps so they couldn’t look after their families.
The fancy trains that said “made in China” on them were actually made by a company in Canada – who were ordered to de-badge them and put “made in China” on them in an attempt to stop people associating said term with crap quality. When in fact, of course, it is, hence why they went to Canada for their trains.
They spent a third of their GDP on the games, rather than feed their people.
They decided the young girl who was singing was too ugly so they hid her behind a curtain and put a better-looking girl out there miming.
They managed to perform the closing ceremony without using any amplification on the drums.
They had people carrying “nothing to see here” boards on standby as seen when the Hungarian weightlifter bent his arm back.
Their no doubt equal and fair selection process for the hundreds of people dancing in the stadium somehow presented any overweight or even slightly imperfect people from appearing.
Finally, the coordinator for the ending ceremony of the Olympic games said the western world couldn’t do amazing ceremonies like China did because…
- We respect human rights
- We have no dicipline and stop every 15 minutes for coffee breaks
- We only work 4 and a half days a week
- We aren’t willing to suffer enough
- However he does complement North Korea on their ability to stage such performances.
Did I miss anything?
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Tags: bejing, china, international relations, olympics, Politics, sport
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