Not in the least...what better memory to have than a picture of yourself sloppy drunk, on the can, at the Olympics that you were participating in? I'd post it world wide, and have great stories to tell the grandkids....oh wait...no wife, no kids, no grandkids....fuck it, they should just shoot every damn Kiwi on the planet, twisted, drunken sheepfuckers.
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The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough.

Said Byrne, "I'm just really keen to make sure something silly like this doesn't overshadow the incredible performances that they had."

yeah, cuz that won't happen now that the whole world knows about it.

First question: how can you tell that the guy is drunk from the photo? If he's making a stupid face, then how is that different from clowning around sober? (I always thought Kiwis had a sense of humor.)

Another question: is it the fact that he's drunk (again--something that may or may not be apparent from a photograph) or that he's on the toilet that is supposed to be offensive?

Final question: where does the TMI factor/crowd figure into this, and do we, as PR'ers, think this is an overreaction? Or not?

That is all. (Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go get drunk and sit on the pot.)

Pulling My Pants Down For Peace, Plop and Posterity!

Soooooooo...the Chinese can lie, cheat, and manipulate at the Games, but an Aussie taking candid pic of a trashed teammate on the can is an automatic ejection? What the hell??

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"...I once ate a roadkill possum that had been raised on a diet of carp. I cooked it over a fire fueled with old tires and dog shit. [My fart] put to shame the sewers of Calcutta."
- ChiefThunderbutt

The whole Olympics were a giant propaganda machine for the Chinese--tricked up, made up, faked, with the truth plastered over in too many ways to count. The taking of this picture of genuine humanity--a guy taking a dump (whatever his physical condition) in a foreign land--deserves a reward. I'm not sure what the prize should be, though I'm told that in Japan somewhere there is a statue of a Golden Turd. Maybe give these swimmers a small mockup of that.

The taking of this picture of genuine humanity--a guy taking a dump (whatever his physical condition) in a foreign land--deserves a reward.

No kidding. Taking a dump in a foreign country is a true test of one's mettle even under the best of conditions - to say nothing of when the toilet in question is, in all likelihood, infusing your ass with untold levels of poisonous lead, while simultaneously filming your bowel movement from several different angles to ensure it doesn't try to free Tibet on its way out.

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"...I once ate a roadkill possum that had been raised on a diet of carp. I cooked it over a fire fueled with old tires and dog shit. [My fart] put to shame the sewers of Calcutta."
- ChiefThunderbutt

"but an Aussie taking candid pic of a trashed"
He was from New Zealand. That's like confusing the English from the Scottish.

In awarding the Olympics to rogue governments like China and the former Soviet Union, etc., the IOC shows that the only thing it's interested in is political correctness. And they barely protest when 8 or 9 year-old Chinese gymnasts compete and win against the required age of 16 year-olds.
Same old, same old. Add the number of professional athletes now competing for countries and the Olympics is now a complete sham.

Pulling My Pants Down For Peace, Plop and Posterity!

He was from New Zealand. That's like confusing the English from the Scottish.

You're right - I got mixed up on the term 'kiwi.' I forgot that it applies to New Zealanders instead of Aussies. I DO know the difference between the two and I apologize for any unnintentional offense it may have caused.

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"...I once ate a roadkill possum that had been raised on a diet of carp. I cooked it over a fire fueled with old tires and dog shit. [My fart] put to shame the sewers of Calcutta."
- ChiefThunderbutt

Think about it. The drunk guy probably had friends & family visiting the Olympics too. Or maybe he was trying to impress a girlfriend from home or an international one during all the Olympic excitement. No wonder he was embarrassed. Maybe it showed a body part you should not be seeing or maybe it showed his lack of body hair since swimmers shave so much, thus, making him feel less then a man. But its his fault for getting drunk. The coach should have made the 3 guys responsible take a public poop & that would have solved everything.

I wonder who among us would be that upset about having a picture of us on the pot and drunk circulating around our circle of peeps. I'd be embarrassed for sure, but weirdly enough, there is always a new picture, new scapegoat, and things tend to get funnier with time.

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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

If you don't win a medal your drunken photo on the pot might make a good souvenir.

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Eat chilies and feel the burn!!

Bilgepump.......You comment leads me to believe that you think there is something wrong with being a twisted, drunken sheepfucker.

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Eat chilies and feel the burn!!

Chief, I think Bilge was wrong about the Kiwi's. I don't think they're twisted.

Out in the pasture protecting the flock from marsupial carnivores, a few to many swigs from the old wine skin, the seductive bleating of thousands of ewes, every kiwi has his breaking point.

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Eat chilies and feel the burn!!

ok...the boi that got photograpghed happend 2 be a close family friend...get ur facts rite media!! he was not embarressed at all...he actully thort it was quite funny. so therefor it was not an offence to send the photos round..yet i do think that those older boys that did send the photo arround should know better than that!

The spelling and grammar in the above post is as embarrassing as being photographed taking a shit. At least thats what I thort.

Are we the media? I want some of what that boi is drinking. I hope I am not photograpghed while drunk!

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Eat chilies and feel the burn!!

PD, given that the author evidently knows the lad in the photo, and is "a close family friend", I suggest you give the sheep a break, its damn difficult to type with hooves.
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The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough.

tut tut people, please get your geography right, the team in question is NEW ZEALAND, not australian, though you would have had it correct when you suggested the sheep shagging, IF the team were austtalian, as we NZers do not shag sheep, although in some instances it might be preferable to shagging some of our male population, who are truelly not "shameful shitters", farters, sharters or anything else bowel/body function related.

I've been photographed while totally shitfaced before and although I was a little embarrassed at the time... I can look back at the fond memories now. I still can't share the pictures with my children.... but that time will come some day. "here's one of mommy, with her head in the toilet bowl. See that lady holding mommy's head up by the ponytail? That's your auntie doodie. Mommy's got some pictures of her all drunked up too... some day you'll do the same thing when you're a big grown up."

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Rock-n-roll! Poopy-poo!

Please get your facts straight. China had nothing to do with the team members being ousted at the end. The New Zealand Olympic Committee made the deciding factor. See:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4669956a1823.html

Get your facts strait, Eddie; nowhere in the article do I state or even suggest that the deciding faction to remove the athletes from the village were Chinese officials.

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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

Geez so they were drunk? Big deal! They could have been on steroids or worse. Instead they choose to penalize these people for taking pics on the crapper? Ya know this could be a good opportunity for some turd terrorism. I think I would go to Mike Byrne's office or where ever he is staying and leave a real big steamer right there in his room or office.
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AHHHHHEMMMMMMMMMM JUST CLEARING MY THROAT!! ;)