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GENERAL DISCUSSIONS! => What grabbed me in the news today => Topic started by: Rhona on August 14, 2008, 05:20:02 PM

Title: Olympic shame...
Post by: Rhona on August 14, 2008, 05:20:02 PM
Did anyone else see on the news the pretty little girl singing at the opening ceremony of the Olympics - turns out she wasn't singing at all but only miming the words to a pre-recording from another little girl who wasn't deemed pretty enough to be shown on television..........what a disgrace!  madashell
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: barb (Fry) on August 14, 2008, 07:56:54 PM
 I saw ir, and posted on other Olympic site yesterday

I agree a disgrace, for small child to be excluded on grounds of looks = too awful really.

there are lots of allegations about opening ceremony and recorded fireworks etc.  a sham

So Englands plans for flat pack temporary stadiums looking like a sensible idea
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: SandyB on August 14, 2008, 08:03:22 PM
My viewpoint .. as beautiful as the whole opening was .. there is still in the background the ugliness that has not yet left the  new emerging china .. Tibet , other human rights issues .. Mixed feelings ..
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP) on August 14, 2008, 08:05:58 PM
That looked and sounded so nice, what a shame  madashell
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: Bertie Horak on August 15, 2008, 04:22:41 AM
My word, how terrible.  A "not as pretty" little face would have made the song much more touching to me!  That is really sad.
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: DUNJA WRBKA on August 15, 2008, 06:20:07 AM
Yes I agree thats it a total disgrace but hey, China is not the only country to discriminate on looks...  Society does it all the time.  Either your not pretty enough  or thin enough.  Growing up as an overweight child I can honestly say I think I lived  through the discrimination often enough to realise that it does not only happen in China.

Look within yourselves?  Can you all honestly say that you have not atleast once discriminated against ugly, fat, unintelligent people?

I can right a book about the times I was discriminated against because as a child I was overweight...
These days I think twice before I pass judgement! image24

Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: Michael Alexander on August 22, 2008, 04:39:52 PM
I thought the CHinese were into their Karaoke.....   affe-red
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: Michael Alexander on August 22, 2008, 04:45:24 PM
No! She;'s Ugly......   image201
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: Paula Gottsch (Willson) on August 22, 2008, 09:32:29 PM
Quote from: Bertie Horak on August 22, 2008, 04:43:40 PM
I edited my own post out, so this space is where I lost it: (                                                   ).  Sorry.  Don't know how to remove a post     ...---...     Mr. moderator, please feel free to dump this post in the recycle bin!

What you mean "Mr moderator" you are one!!!    ha ha
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: Bertie Horak on August 23, 2008, 03:40:08 AM
 laughpoint Ja, Paula, but not on this board - only on the "Health board".  That will teach me a lesson - I'll have to read before I post, before I'm  yellocard!
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: Carl Wrbka on August 23, 2008, 05:41:50 AM
Latest news just in : A South African took three gold medals at the olympics yesterday.

Security stopped him at the gate... 202
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: Cherry (Alcock) on August 23, 2008, 06:58:06 AM
  image201 image201 So9unds about right!
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: Paula Gottsch (Willson) on August 26, 2008, 11:22:07 AM
Quote from: Bertie Horak on August 23, 2008, 03:40:08 AM
laughpoint Ja, Paula, but not on this board - only on the "Health board".  That will teach me a lesson - I'll have to read before I post, before I'm  yellocard!

to late!!!     yellocard

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Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: Bertie Horak on August 26, 2008, 03:30:13 PM
At least I'm coming home with a yellow card - most of our Olympic team came home with absolute NOTHING!
yellocard woo_hoo
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: Paula Gottsch (Willson) on August 27, 2008, 09:42:44 AM
 shame but no need to   image031 if they won everything what would be left for them to steal?!


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Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: Carl Wrbka on August 27, 2008, 09:50:32 AM
How did you get that yellow card past security, Bertie?
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: Bertie Horak on August 27, 2008, 11:21:36 AM
Just told them that it's a special international passport, given to VIP's and that I'm disgusted that they don't know about it yet.  So if they wouldn't let me pass, I'd call the boss.  They let me through. 202
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: Paula Gottsch (Willson) on August 27, 2008, 11:23:41 AM
 image201
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: Carl Wrbka on August 27, 2008, 11:29:17 AM
Why not just offer them a sip of your pink water? Guaranteed to get them running for their lives... ha ha
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: Bertie Horak on August 27, 2008, 11:59:52 AM
Pink water is out!  We now have green water with a peppermint flavour! beermug20

After all, this is a BARNATO practice!
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: georg ruf jr. on August 28, 2008, 05:29:15 AM
Quote from: Michael Alexander on August 22, 2008, 04:39:52 PM
I thought the CHinese were into their Karaoke.....   affe-red

That's the Japs Mike.
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: Florrie van Zyl (Muir) on September 20, 2008, 07:44:31 PM
Yes Dunja, we are all guilty of that. Kids can be very cruel. Unfortunately today with so many beautiful people on TV and in magazines, it is just getting worse. Apparently Australia seems to be less concerned with looks that the rest of us, there you get judged on how beautiful your heart is. Someone said the reason for this though, is that most Australian woman are not very good looking.
Title: Re: Olympic shame...
Post by: Carl Wrbka on September 21, 2008, 05:11:00 AM
Quote from: Florrie van Zyl (Muir) on September 20, 2008, 07:44:31 PM
Someone said the reason for this though, is that most Australian woman are not very good looking.

Must be due to all the inbreeding during the days that they were still a penal colony... image201

A while ago they ran a series of Australian soapies on SABC and I kept thinking to myself, geez, can't they find any better looking actresses? Some of them looked like they had just stepped off the set of "Deliverance".

It's a sad but true fact though, mostly to blame on those donnerse yanks. Judging a book by it's cover and not what's inside.