"John Hancock" from the Taipei Times informed his readers yesterday that Olympians are keepin' out of mischief now:
This time around, two-thirds of the 100,000 free rubbers available in the medical clinic are still waiting to be picked up, according to reports.
Instead of bedroom gymnastics, athletes are collecting pins, the athletes’ Village Life daily newspaper would have us believe.
Hmm. So either human nature itself has changed within the last four years (and just in time for the Genocide Games!) . . . or maybe the athletes are aware the walls have ears.
And possibly eyes as well.
UPDATE: Am I being paranoid? Recall this story from April:
Athletes who display Tibetan flags at Olympic venues — including in their own rooms — could be expelled from this summer’s Games in Beijing under anti-propaganda rules.
Pray tell, how exactly do the Butchers of Beijing monitor what flags people put up in the privacy of their own rooms?
UPDATE (Sep 8/08): More on Chinese surveillance here.
I don’t know what’s scarier. The 1984 surveillance or the many Chinese people (like my collegues at work) that support this police state and buy the propaganda hook line and sinker.
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I’ll really going to have to sound out some of my Taiwanese friends about the Games. I haven’t the slightest idea what average people here think about them.