The olympics...

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Mon May 07, 2012 10:55 pm

By the same token I'm actually intending to make a stand by boycotting Italia '90

ezinra · **Posted:** Tue May 08, 2012 12:32 pm

Last time I was at an airport, the cheapest bottle of water I could find on the other side of the security barrier cost £1.85. And it was genuinely impossible to bring my own. Should I be boycotting all air travel, not to mention trains and motorway service stations?

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7330

I am shocked to discover that I unknowingly boycotted both the Moscow and LosAngeles Olympics - not to mention (Prenatally) Stockholm, Amsterdam and Berlin (Up yours Addie!).
I'm currently boycotting something about snooker, and will soon boycott some county cricket.

KevS · **Joined:** Sun Feb 07, 2010 1:59 pm **Posts:** 385

More misery guts spouting nonsense on the story about the torch relay starting.

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waste of taxpayers money, the whole thing
- fiona, durham, 19/5/2012 3:02

As opposed to the story that Mail Online is trumpeting at the top of the page (this being buried down below what seems like 25 stories about American z-list celebs that nobody has ever heard of) of the what looks like two dozen RAF planes doing a flypast over Windsor Castle whilst another several thousand Armed Forces personnel stroll past Brenda.

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Is anybody really interested in this over-priced fiasco. Send the Olympics back to Greece for hopefully the final straw for the euro.
- Swamp Duck, North East Realist, 19/5/2012 0:09

Too right. Nobody gives a damn about it, I mean look at Falmouth, could be a ghost town.

And look! It's the start of 28 Days Later recreated in Truro!

And as we speak I'm watching it going through Newquay, which appears to be like Sheffield after Threads.

Oh wait, my mistake, most of Cornwall appears to have turned up.

storygirl · **Posted:** Sat May 19, 2012 3:56 pm

KevS wrote:

More misery guts spouting nonsense on the story about the torch relay starting.

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waste of taxpayers money, the whole thing
- fiona, durham, 19/5/2012 3:02

As opposed to the story that Mail Online is trumpeting at the top of the page (this being buried down below what seems like 25 stories about American z-list celebs that nobody has ever heard of) of the what looks like two dozen RAF planes doing a flypast over Windsor Castle whilst another several thousand Armed Forces personnel stroll past Brenda.

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Is anybody really interested in this over-priced fiasco. Send the Olympics back to Greece for hopefully the final straw for the euro.
- Swamp Duck, North East Realist, 19/5/2012 0:09

Too right. Nobody gives a damn about it, I mean look at Falmouth, could be a ghost town.

And look! It's the start of 28 Days Later recreated in Truro!

And as we speak I'm watching it going through Newquay, which appears to be like Sheffield after Threads.

Oh wait, my mistake, most of Cornwall appears to have turned up.

I am waiting for the moment when Dacre realises people like a bit of pageantry and the Olympics and the Mail goes all pro. A few more scenes like those above will tell him where the money is.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sat May 19, 2012 4:22 pm

To quote Mrs Armsteen "This torch nonsense is doing my fucking head in!" and then she went out...

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Sat May 19, 2012 6:48 pm

It's the same every time. People whinge and moan for years in advance about the cost or the hype or blah blah blah, but when they actually see other people enjoying it they either don't want to be seen to be not joining the herd or they feel an actual sense of enjoyment from it.

See Jubilee 2002.

KevS · **Joined:** Sun Feb 07, 2010 1:59 pm **Posts:** 385

Oh dear

Althea · **Posted:** Sat May 19, 2012 8:07 pm

KevS wrote:

Oh dear

I lol'd.

KevS · **Joined:** Sun Feb 07, 2010 1:59 pm **Posts:** 385

Police estimates of 100,000 having lined the streets of Cornwall today. Which considering the population of the place is about half a million would seem to answer the question about if anyone is interested about this "over priced fiasco" somewhat comprehensively.

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4289

Right then, what's been going on in this thread?

I was boycotting it as it's to do with Olympics (or EU-lump-dicks as I insist on calling it to no one's amusement but my own), but it's fifteen pages long now and the boys in the pub are talking about it so I want in on it.

That Chris Hoy's legs, eh? Makes you proud to be English.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Sat May 19, 2012 8:50 pm

Hoy's legs are Scots legs. Just sayin'....

Althea · **Posted:** Sat May 19, 2012 8:53 pm

mojojojo wrote:

That Chris Hoy's legs, eh? Makes you proud to be English.

Those things are monstrous. Truly.

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4289

Abernathy wrote:

Hoy's legs are Scots legs. Just sayin'....

I know, I was being silly. I love cycling. And Scottish legs.

Paul · **Posted:** Sat May 19, 2012 9:28 pm

Apparantly anything that goes wrong or any patient that dies for the next few months, it is the result of money spent on the Olympics.

Baby dies after mother is forced to give birth in hospital waiting room as midwives were 'too busy to move her into a bed'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... y-bed.html

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They can fund billions to the flipping Olympics but cannot keep hospitals open hence that is why we are having tragedies like this. This is so sad and so avoidable.

- Nas, London, UK, 18/5/2012 15:45
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We can splash out on the Olympics and the Jubilee but we can't afford enough midwives. There is nothing to celebrate in this country if we can't look after each other properly. We need to get our priorities right.

- aw, UK, 19/5/2012 8:28
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