crackerjack
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It wouldn't have been sour-faced at all. It would have been pure gurning sex face elation.
Well obviously I'd make an exception in your case.
It wouldn't have been sour-faced at all. It would have been pure gurning sex face elation.
I'll take that overly florid guff a thousand times over the perverse and sour-faced delight I can imagine many here taking had the whole thing been a catastrophe.
Point is, in brief: Johnson and Cameron emerge with a massive PR boost as the Olympics have been judged a success. If it had fucked up in some way, that PR boost wouldn't have been so evident, and that would be a good thing. The reality is that Britain is pretty grim for a lot of people at the mo', and three weeks of rowing doesn't change that in the slightest.
If you let everybody cheat, there would be a natural limit because people would die more often, and look disfigured.
It struck me a while ago that the natural solution would be to legalize everything, and have a sort of 'constructor's championship' in athletics like they do in Formula 1. Like, you'd have one guy representing GSK, another for AstraZeneca, another for Monsanto, and so on. You'd occasionally have runners exploding in a fleshy mist as they crossed the finish line but that would just add to the spectator appeal.
Then there's 'gene doping', which is what that 15-year-old fish girl is being accused of.
It struck me a while ago that the natural solution would be to legalize everything, and have a sort of 'constructor's championship' in athletics like they do in Formula 1. Like, you'd have one guy representing GSK, another for AstraZeneca, another for Monsanto, and so on. You'd occasionally have runners exploding in a fleshy mist as they crossed the finish line but that would just add to the spectator appeal.
Sounds like a Ballard short story of some sort.