'I hate the Olympics'

“What (Prime Minister David) Cameron must do is declare war on the IOC: he must paint out the Olympic rings on their Zil lanes; he must remove the Olympic rings from Tower Bridge; he must cancel the tax-holidays [not a phrase you'd normally hear me use but difficult times call for exceptional measures] for all those businesses which have been battering us to death like baby seals with the ginormous blood-stained, brain-spattered club of their noisome Olympic sponsorship tie-in credentials; and then – damn it, why not – he should announce the immediate cancellation of the games on health n safety n finance grounds because let's face it a) we can't afford them b) our creaking infrastructure can't cope, especially not now the M4 is broken and wouldn't it be, like, so awfully tragic if some Olympic Fat Cat in his armoured Zil (or whatever it is the bastards have chosen as their OFFICIAL OLYMPIC SPONSOR VEHICLE TM this year) were to plunge through a crack in the Chiswick flyover? and c) the whole business is tacky and unedifying and horrible and nationally humiliating, like being invaded by the Disney Corporation and everyone being forced to wear mouse ears in solidarity with the Dear Leader.”

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100170726/i-hate-the-olympics/

(‘Hate’ is an aw’flee harsh word, don’t you know. In my case, ‘I have an extreme dislike for the Olympics.’ It’s all quite wasteful of time and tax money and benefits only “Official Sponsor of the Olympics” types and a few dozen amateur (guffaw allowed) athletes who garner thousands and thousands of dollars and pounds and euros.

(And most extremely dislikeable of all, it’s in the middle of baseball season.)