Good clean fun,unsullied by the taint of a totalitarian Comunist regime...
I am trying very hard to aviod ,in it’s entirety the propagander exercise being carried out in an unnamed asian capital at present . So as an alternative I post a picture from this gallery of our celebration of the persuits and intersts of real Aussies…
Oh and even interstate greens can travel here by train and avoid the guilt of unnecessary air travel
Cheers Comrades
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A thoughtful and evocative post Iain.
I avoid(spellcheck) air and train travel and prefer bike, boat or walking.
Not a single Asian or dark face among your “real Aussies”, Iain. Coincidence?
Is it a “propaganda exercise” about China (sorry for mentioning that name) or is it just another generic Olympic marketing exercise?
I watched the first hour of the opening ceremony and switched it off because I had not seen one thing I would describe as representing either traditional or contemporary Chinese culture & history. It was very glitzy stuff but it was also vey bland, modernised & ‘homogenized’. Honestly it could have been held in any country in the world, just change the faces.
And looking at the events so far the only thing that reminds you it’s being held in Beijing is the smog.
The bottom line is that the Olympics is a sporting event and it’s about the athletes not the host country, which merely acts as a surrogate and sells its soul in the process.
It’s not a Chinese propaganda exercise and after it’s over nothing will have changed.
Ant
Crystal in number twelve and Milo in number eleven both have brown faces
Ray
I am trying very hard to avoid any mention of that sporting festival for the next couple of weeks….
Well just to keep you updated, Iain, Stephanie Rice won gold in the 400m individual medley in world record time. Kevin Rudd was there to congratulate her and there were no pictures of Mao in sight, just ‘real Aussies’ in the crowd.
And Grant Hackett bombed out in the 400m freestyle final – good, he’s a pain in the arse.
Actually I’ve just looked at the gallery and I see you’ve even included Afghans, Iain ( ‘Pasha’ in picture 8). That’s very multi-cultural of you.
Btw, if horse ‘dressage’ can be an Olympic event, why not dog trials?
Probably because there is a danger of the dogs being eaten
If I want to experience another culture, I travel to Asia. If I want to experience Australian culture from the 1970s, I travel to Queensland.
Mark didn’t we have the Whitlem government in the seventies?
Hmm I am sure that we have a better government than that here at present, even though the socialists are in power here…
Australia had Whitlam in the 70s, Iain. Queensland had Joh.
Plus Queensland has given us Big Kevin Rudd, who according to you is the ‘new Whitlam’ anyway.