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    • The Olympics: better than they looked on the tin August 6th

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/05/olympics-better-than-looked-on-tinhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/05/olympics-better-than-looked-on-tinhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/05/olympics-better-than-looked-on-tin

    Charlie Brooker:

    Understand this: for 100% of my life so far, I found watching sport – any sport – marginally less interesting than watching cardboard exist. Now my eyeballs are eating it up, even while my brain fails to make sense of it.

    This. For the past two weekends, this.

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