The olympics...

ACG · **Posted:** Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:09 am

someones looking for a job at the mail...

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2012/07/a ... tural-crap

he's well qualified as well according to wikipedia https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/ ... 00/photo/1

oboogie · **Posted:** Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:41 am

I'm stunned by this quote:

Quote:

Singer-songwriter Billy Bragg tweeted: 'Impressive though (the opening ceremony) in Beijing was, they didn’t have any great pop music to play, did they?'

He's the only 'celebrity' quoted, it's in the sub-heading, they haven't called him "lefty", or socialist, or traitor or anything....just singer-songwriter. :shock:

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z21sC3NJRP

Safe_Timber_Man · **Joined:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:13 am **Posts:** 723

The announcements in French has been very upsetting for them, it's a "DISGRACE". On a sidenote, it was brilliant, and I think even the Daily Mail is going to struggle to bring this down.

shyamz · **Posted:** Sat Jul 28, 2012 3:13 am

mojojojo wrote:

It's actually quite positive at the moment. Wait until the columnists receive their instructions though...

"Armani for the Italians and Ralph Lauren for USA, but chav tracksuits for Team GB? - Why did our British athletes not step out in couture is the REAL opening ceremony travesty, by Liz Jones - clotheswhore and non-writer, 54 (except her face)".

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7342

Safe_Timber_Man wrote:

The announcements in French has been very upsetting for them, it's a "DISGRACE". On a sidenote, it was brilliant, and I think even the Daily Mail is going to struggle to bring this down.

The line seems to be to swing in behind rather than be crushed beneath the juggernaut.

Comments though... Danny Boyle had better avoid Golf Club Bars, and Surrey, and Thailand for several months.

Arnold · **Posted:** Sat Jul 28, 2012 10:32 am

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Cyclists protesting against Olympic restrictions arrested after scuffles with police outside Opening Ceremony

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z21uLGWUtY

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An officer loads the bicycles of arrested cyclists bicycles into a bus after the Critical Mass bike protest

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sat Jul 28, 2012 10:35 am

Any idea of what they were protesting about? There was some faux-outrage on Twitter (after all, what did they expect to happen?) but no idea of what they were trying to achieve, apart from disruption and a likely criminal record.

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Sat Jul 28, 2012 10:48 am

I read on teletext that it was a regular monthly mass bike-ride.

As for the main event, the usual joyless, pig-ignorant, ranting, ill-informed and deluded dregs of humanity - a.k.a Mailtards - are waking up.

Watchman · **Posted:** Sat Jul 28, 2012 10:52 am

Safe_Timber_Man wrote:

The announcements in French has been very upsetting for them, it's a "DISGRACE". On a sidenote, it was brilliant, and I think even the Daily Mail is going to struggle to bring this down.

I may be wrong but I thought French was the "official" language of the Olympics;

Arnold · **Posted:** Sat Jul 28, 2012 10:53 am

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Any idea of what they were protesting about?

Olympic road restrictions apparently. Although I would have thought it possible that the reported several dozen police vans and bus used to remove the bikes caused more congestion.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sat Jul 28, 2012 10:58 am

Again I ask, what did they expect to happen?
The air of outrage at being expected to follow some instructions on Twitter was both palpable and a bit pathetic.

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Sat Jul 28, 2012 11:10 am

A seemingly positive, factual article with some decent pics (they went with a GOSH rather than NHS over stadium shot, though - maybe I'm being picky) However, the tried and trusted one hand on the cheap digicam pointed at the telly, the other down the front of the trousers technique seems in evidence from the resident photographer on these two fap-fodder shots...

Norwegian canoe-kayaker Mira Veras Larsen carries her nation's flag into the stadium

The Portuguese team arrive with their flag, led by judo star Telma Monteiro

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ourse.html

davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3839

They must have been up all night but at least they've fond something to moan about. It was in FRENCH.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sat Jul 28, 2012 12:36 pm

Have no fear, Heffer's got his crack stormtroopers on the job:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... ified.html

The NHS did not deserve to be so disgracefully glorified in this bonanza of left-wing propaganda
By RICK DEWSBURY

A vicious right wing bigot wrote:

If only those behind the biased spectacle last night had spared a thought for the likes of Kane, and the many others who have been failed by NHS, would we have had an opening ceremony we could be proud of. Sadly - despite all the hype about how brilliant it was - we cannot.

hel · **Posted:** Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:08 pm

Arnold wrote:

Quote:

Cyclists protesting against Olympic restrictions arrested after scuffles with police outside Opening Ceremony

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z21uLGWUtY

Quote:

An officer loads the bicycles of arrested cyclists bicycles into a bus after the Critical Mass bike protest

Is this an officer from the Redundancy Department of Redundancy?

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