The Olympic Flame Arrives In England

Yeah, I hate the Summer Olympics, as there is not really a single event in there that interests me from a spectator's perspective. Add to the boredom the way television handles it, and I just prefer not to watch any of it. The Winter Olympics I enjoy, however, because there are quite a few events that interest me, both as a performer and spectator.

I do understand but you have no idea of cold until you are in -40 and live in igloo so your cold is my warm.






I like a couple things like gymnastics but do not go out of my way to watch. I enjoy the winter olympics as well.

I guess maybe I relate more to winter and have no idea what its like to see summer sport or take part in one in real life.

Throw a little snow in there instead of sand and you can relate to beach volleyball a bit more eh?

OMG are you trying to kill me. No way I am going out in -40 in a little bitty swim suit to play volleyball. I'd die of exposure in 2 minutes. So now I understand it less.

Each year on Survivor I wait for them to do a Canadian version and put them with no supplies in the Yukon where it can dip to well below -40 and see what happens.

Maybe they should have a polar bear swim event, and then we'll see how Michael Phelps does.

Now that, that I can relate to as we have that here. There are clubs for it. Now that would be an event. None of this silly warm or temperature controlled water. We are on to things Leon.

To the topic, I have seen the torch in person and its pretty cool.

Yeah, I saw it when I was a kid and they had the Olympics in LA, 120 miles north of us. They ran it through San Diego on their way up. As a result, I get the hype going on in England. Last time we had an Olympics in the USA before that one was some 50 years earlier. Which is why I thought it quite unfair to the rest of the world that we got them again a mere 3 Olympics later, in Atlanta. WTF?

I thought you meant you saw people doing polar bear swim in LA and I was like WTF.

Yeah, it is pretty cool. I do not think my country has had them often. I think BC, Montreal and Calgary had them and not sure if that was winter or summer.

That was all Winter Olympics.

Is there even a summer up there?

Last year and year before was actually warm here I had little pants imported in from your country. I think you guys call them shorts.

My summer is not your summer. Your winter is probably warmer than my summer. And that is even at best about a month long of nice weather. But last few years really warm for us and not used to that at all. But others would find my warm and heat wave either cold or normal temps.

Yeah, or you would run into a serious housing issue, as all your igloos would melt.

And I would have no mode of transportation if all the snow melted and it got too hot, the dog sled is not good trying to go off the snow.