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[incandescens]

Great Britain has done surprisingly well in the Olympics. I'm astonished. Though it's going to be a heck of a standard to live up to in four years time in Rio.

Ah well, at least it'll be all over soon. And while I admit I have been enjoying watching bits and pieces, and that half the office has a browser window pointed at the live text feed from the BBC, it'll be nice to be able to watch the news and get actual news, rather than Constant Olympics Rehash.

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Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.

-- Wodehouse

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[archangelbeth]

At least there's online sites for real news?

(The TV in Applebee's, t'other day, had... synchronized swimming? I swear, they had GILLS, staying under the water and flipping their fins feet around in perfect unison with each other! Also, I need a jaw-drop emoticon.)

[incandescens]

True. Thank heavens for t'internets.

(It's astonishing what some of the competitors can do! Sometimes you can watch them and think "maybe I could do that if I really trained, or if I was under extreme stress", but other times you just look at it and marvel.)