Is that a confusing comment? Maybe it is. However, if you knew me, you'd realize it's true. I don't know much about the things going on around me. Did I say "don't"? Okay, I meant "didn't". Really.
But once again, which a person with A.D.D. can say often, I digress.
When I was little, I don't think I knew I had siblings. Oh, I knew there were other people in the house where I lived. I also knew how to find my way home. I had friends, too, and we often did things we shouldn't have done. We were boys. Boys always do things they never tell their parents. If you have a boy, ask. My siblings knew I was there. They knew they had a little brother. Of course they did. After all, it was all about me all the time every day of every year, until I got about 18. Oh, and I had a little sister, and of course, she was spoiled rotten. I wasn't. No I Wasn't!
But, during my 19th year (yes, 19th because at the end of that year, I turned 19 but was still 18 throughout the duration. Do the math. First birthday, 0, 2nd birthday, 1, etc. The first birthday was the day I was born, duh.), I went through a change. I started understanding that Christ died for me. I knew that there were girls, and if I was to have any like me, I better learn how to keep other people happy.
You might ask me, "How does the sacrifice Christ made relate to girls?" It's really quite simple. Christ died that I might live. I can't have a girl love me, unless I give all I have, short of my life, to keep her happy. I also learned that with some, that's just not enough. They just can't seem to be kept happy. They need your blood, sweat and tears, too. Of course, I learned to give that, too, and still it wasn't enough for some of them. Oh well. Their loss.
Now back to the Olympics, or rather, NBC's alleged coverage thereof.
NBC SUCKS!
Anyone who has ever watched MSNBC (or as Rush Limbaugh rightly calls them, PMS-NBC), knows they are unabashed progressives who think anyone who isn't is a "hold onto their guns and god" losers. Of course they are the minority, but while they have viewers, they will continue in their arrogance.
As I've watched the Summer Olympics, I'm well beyond disappointed in their coverage. They can't do a single sport without making stupid comments that show they have no respect for their viewers' intelligence. Well, either that or they have none of their own, and aren't ashamed to put it on display.
One very intelligent comment was something to the effect, speaking of a gymnast when she was very young, "and all her friends where just kids!" No, really?! Her friends that were her own age, were kids? Holy cow, how could that be? Just kids? I thought maybe they were adults, like she was...
Okay, I've left the uh... best, for last.
The videography. I can't call it that without feeling like I've insulted videographers.
How many nose-pore-close shots of the ONE athlete they have decided to focus on do we have to see before we feel claustophobic? Really NBC. Get off it already! AND, the athlete they have chosen to focus on, with a very slight mention of the other athletes in the event, often doesn't even win!
It would be a little different if the athlete they were focusing on was even from the United States. I mean, aren't they an American network? Aren't they? Honestly, I think they work for either the United Nations, or the International Olympic Organizing Committee, or even just olympic.com (the official website of the olympic movement) and really have no allegiance for the country that gives them the freedom to be morons.
Okay, be honest. Aren't you sick of looking up athlete's noses, or at their butt when they bend over? I wonder how clever the engineers in the trucks think they are for leaving those shots onscreen so long?
If they broadcast the Olympics next time, I'll not watch. It's the least I can do.
About the olympics themselves. I really need to leave my competitiveness at home (figuratively speaking because I always watch them at home) because though I love watching the non-sports sports, such as diving and gymnastics, I still hate the judging. I know enough to see when a participant has been given poor marks, and I still believe that the judges mark participants from non-socialist countries lower than those from the countries that are communist. Maybe that's just me.
Of course, I also notice when a participant from one of the non-free countries are marked below their performance. I don't like unfairness no matter who gets the short end of judging. I do like the new scoring they use in gymnastics. It's much better than the "10" point scoring of the past. If they had the current scoring back in the iron curtain/eastern bloc days, Nadia Comaneci would not have scored a perfect "10". That's my belief anyway. I saw a video of her uneven parallel bar routine and I saw several deductions.
The problem with any "judged" sport is simply this: the judges get carried away with the enthusiasm of the spectators. I know how that feels because I was a high school football and basketball official for 14 and 10 years, respectively. Because there are rules and I knew them almost cold, I wasn't influenced as much as if I had been a gymnastics judge, which I could have been. I learned how to judge, but didn't get, or go looking for, the opportunity.
Before I leave the judged sports, back to NBC. Why in the world when an American wins the 10 meter platform gold medal, don't they show the medal ceremony? And even when they have shown the ceremony, why haven't they shown more than one person getting awarded their medal? Do they think we don't care to see the whole ceremony? I am so disappointed I can't stand it. This is fresh on my mind because I just watched David Boudia win the gold medal, and NBC didn't show the medal ceremony. I'm convinced they hate the anthem, and more, the country itself.
It's my opinion, and I've seen significant agreement in the world, that the judged sports aren't really sports because you can't ever know who actually wins. The winners are based on nonobjective judgments made by silly, fallible humans. In real sports, there's a score, or a measured outcome. We know who wins a footrace because they are the first one across the finish line. We know who wins a football, hockey, basketball, or baseball game because they scored more.
On a different topic, but back to the olympics. I wonder when a broadcasting company will have the honesty, and morality, to show how wicked and vile the olympics has become. Did you know the olympic people provide condoms for the athletes in the village? See this article and you'll find out more than you wanted to know about the debauchery found there. Yes, debauchery. The Romans had nothing on these folks.
I'm sorry to end on a negative thought. Life is like that, isn't it... (not a question)
Back to what I started with about me as a kid: I will be who I will be, and will do what I will do because I'm me, and I [finally] know who I am. It took years, but I finally know. I worry about those around me who don't know themselves and have to rely on the opinions of those around them, and also worry if those opinions aren't positive, or don't make them feel good.
And again, I'm Karl...
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