Rio 2016

[Black Orchid]

Fantastic to see the Brazilians prominent in these Games on their own home turf.

Thiago Braz da Silva winning gold for Brazil in the Pole Vault although was awesome to watch and he is one good looking guy too, which doesn't hurt.

It was a shame to hear more booing from the crowd aimed at the French competitor, Renaud Lavillenie, who got silver.

It's really bad form to boo. Really, really bad form!

[Neferti]

Tim Blair posted this:

Not one cent of US taxes are directed towards Olympic athletes. But look at how much Australia spends on swimming alone:

Swimming Australia has received the most funding under the Australian Sports Commission’s Winning Edge program – $38 million for the Olympic high performance program over the last four years. There has also been $3 million for athlete support grants and $4 million that has been spent on performance enhancement teams.

[Swimming Australia president John] Bertrand ($500,000) and [chief executive Mark] Anderson’s ($400,000) wages are almost $1 million annually in total.

This is ridiculous. Stop it. Stop all of it.

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/

Some of the reader's comments are spot on!

[Neferti]

Fantastic to see the Brazilians prominent in these Games on their own home turf.

Thiago Braz da Silva winning gold for Brazil in the Pole Vault although was awesome to watch and he is one good looking guy too, which doesn't hurt.

It was a shame to hear more booing from the crowd aimed at the French competitor, Renaud Lavillenie, who got silver.

It's really bad form to boo. Really, really bad form!

It's the sign of the times, Black Orchid. People are forgetting their manners and are becoming, ever increasingly, ruder than I ever imagined. I can also do "rude" but that was definitely NOT the way I was raised.

I actually had some strange teenager speak to me yesterday at Kippax when I had finished grocery shopping. He mumbled something and I said "I beg your pardon" so he raised his voice and said "Have you got 2 dollars?" and I gave him my best "disapproving look" and said "NO" ...... He just wandered off.

Makes me wonder whether I looked like I had 2 bucks to spare, or whether I would hand out 2 bucks to some snotty nosed kid. No doubt he had a mobile phone ...........