Athens Olympics 2004

[llauma 0]

Strange nobody posted any pics of some of the 15.000 street dogs that were poisoned because of the great event, i saw on the TV news this morning, shocking, brutal and inhuman. I know because ive seen a animal die of poisoning when i was a kid, its not fast nor pretty .

That's pretty much the only way to do it if you want to get rid of alot of dogs fast... Not my oppinion but just a fact

[bn880 5]

Man, that is terrible, they did that for the Olympics? To clean up the streets?

[DracoPaladore 0]

The song at the beginning of the opening ceremonies were very very well done

[The Frenchman 0]

Right now they are showing a rerun of the Opening Ceremony on NBC. Maybe now I can see the entire thing.

[DracoPaladore 0]

When they were doing the Olympic timeline with the runner and greek flag, I thought he wiped out at that one section

Then I realised it was for World War One.

[ralphwiggum 6]

4 years of anguish and mad scramble at building everything, 4 years of misery for Athens due to the works,

you mean

Quote[/b] ]7 years of anguish and mad scramble at building everything, 1 years of misery for Athens due to the works,

Bjork? shit! better clear my guns or i'll shoot at my TV...the ceremoney does not get aired on NBC until 40 minutes from now.

Quote[/b] ]Some people don't understand the Olympic Spirit at all, it seems

indeed.

[The Frenchman 0]

Am I the only one that noticed that when Yemen came out, Adagio for Strings started to play? It was a nice change from that techno hell.

[Akira 0]

Am I the only one that noticed that when Yemen came out, Adagio for Strings started to play? It was a nice change from that techno hell.

Well they played Adagio until the last group (prior to Greece). What the hell? Like it was suppose to be depressing or something@!!

[Akira 0]

OH MY GOD KATIE COURIC SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!

[MilitiaSniper 0]

From the, "OFF the WALL Team."

GOOD LUCK TO ALL THE OLYMPIANS!

May you do your country PROUD!

For us... Go Team USA!!!

Sincerely, MilitiaSniper

     

[ralphwiggum 6]

just ended watching the ceremoney and congrats to Greeks for a great one! thoroughly enjoyed the ceremony

and bjork was not that ill-dressed

[Ex-RoNiN 0]

Strange nobody posted any pics of some of the 15.000 street dogs that were poisoned because of the great event, i saw on the TV news this morning, shocking, brutal and inhuman. I know because ive seen a animal die of poisoning when i was a kid, its not fast nor pretty .

Rubbish. They were not culled, unfortunately. Instead, in its great wisdom, the government decided to get them all off the streets, train their aggressive nature out, give them a series of shots to make them disease free, and let them free again.

I don't have much sympathy for dogs, much less stray ones. In Patras, for example, two kids had their faces torn off by stray dogs. I would much rather shoot 15,000 of these beasts than allow for one human casualty. You may think this is brutal, but you don't know what its like to have these pests running all around you all day.

To prevent the return of them, new dogs should have a chip with the dog owners' details implanted, so the owners can then be traced down and punished accordingly for neglecting their animal.

[Heatseeker 0]

Poisoning 15.000 dogs is too terrible to be true, i cant find the right words to describe this, death by poisoning is incredibly cruel has i have once witnessed. Dogs can kill but they can also save human lives, i still cant believe this really happened just because of the olympics ...

[Ex-RoNiN 0]

Poisoning 15.000 dogs is too terrible to be true, i cant find the right words to describe this, death by poisoning is incredibly cruel has i have once witnessed. Dogs can kill but they can also save human lives, i still cant believe this really happened just because of the olympics     ...

Did you even try reading my post

[Ex-RoNiN 0]

First Olympic Gold goes to China in the shooting competition.

Story

[SpeedyDonkey 0]

First Olympic Gold goes to China in the shooting competition.

Story

I actually saw the shooting thing. Never thought that it would be even remotely interesting, but it was. I was rooting for the Czech girl who came on third place.

[bn880 5]

Strange nobody posted any pics of some of the 15.000 street dogs that were poisoned because of the great event, i saw on the TV news this morning, shocking, brutal and inhuman. I know because ive seen a animal die of poisoning when i was a kid, its not fast nor pretty .

Rubbish. They were not culled, unfortunately. Instead, in its great wisdom, the government decided to get them all off the streets, train their aggressive nature out, give them a series of shots to make them disease free, and let them free again.

I don't have much sympathy for dogs, much less stray ones. In Patras, for example, two kids had their faces torn off by stray dogs. I would much rather shoot 15,000 of these beasts than allow for one human casualty. You may think this is brutal, but you don't know what its like to have these pests running all around you all day.

To prevent the return of them, new dogs should have a chip with the dog owners' details implanted, so the owners can then be traced down and punished accordingly for neglecting their animal.

Err, just because of 1 incident condemming 15000 of the species is a little silly isn't it? Dogs are created by us, so I think we have some responsibility here. No animal volunteered to be bread to be a human's pet.

More on the sports: screw it, Canadian TV is showing the Canadian athletes already, while ignoring the rest as best as possible. You'd think they'd know to give the best overall coverage as we are a mix of all people, but no...

[Ex-RoNiN 0]

Strange nobody posted any pics of some of the 15.000 street dogs that were poisoned because of the great event, i saw on the TV news this morning, shocking, brutal and inhuman. I know because ive seen a animal die of poisoning when i was a kid, its not fast nor pretty .

Rubbish. They were not culled, unfortunately. Instead, in its great wisdom, the government decided to get them all off the streets, train their aggressive nature out, give them a series of shots to make them disease free, and let them free again.

I don't have much sympathy for dogs, much less stray ones. In Patras, for example, two kids had their faces torn off by stray dogs. I would much rather shoot 15,000 of these beasts than allow for one human casualty. You may think this is brutal, but you don't know what its like to have these pests running all around you all day.

To prevent the return of them, new dogs should have a chip with the dog owners' details implanted, so the owners can then be traced down and punished accordingly for neglecting their animal.

Err, just because of 1 incident condemming 15000 of the species is a little silly isn't it?  Dogs are created by us, so I think we have some responsibility here.  No animal volunteered to be bread to be a human's pet.  

I know, but the problem still requires solving. I also offered a solution to prevent from this problem showing again, once it has been solved.

Mind you, the decision of the government is bound to keep people like you happy, and people like me annoyed at the waste of time and money.

EDIT: By the way, its not just one incident.

[SpeedyDonkey 0]

You are discussing small dogs. Here's the real dogs.

[-33ker 0]

Man that opening ceremony was pretty lame... I've been watching it with a few friends and thank god we had enough beer!

I hope Germany will win a medal in the men's Air rifle competition!

[Guest]

OH MY GOD KATIE COURIC SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!

Words echoed across the world, every single day.

[The Frenchman 0]

So Ex-RoNiN, how much do you think your taxes will go up this year?

[DracoPaladore 0]

More on the sports:  screw it, Canadian TV is showing the Canadian athletes already, while ignoring the rest as best as possible.  You'd think they'd know to give the best overall coverage as we are a mix of all people, but no...

Well, Jeeze, you might think for being part of Canadian television they would focus on Canadian athletes

I can barely remember Canadian athletes, don't screw me up anymore by showing Germans, Albanians, Russians, Americans, and 198 other countries

[Ex-RoNiN 0]

So Ex-RoNiN, how much do you think your taxes will go up this year?  

Well, the games will put a dent of about 2-6% in our GDP. The EU will give us a bit more money than usual this year for this reason (I hope), so the taxes may only rise by about 5%

That's one of the very few reasons that make me glad to not live in Greece

[hellfish6 7]

The Serbia Montenegro vs. Argentina basketball game was fun! And I hate basketball!