The olympics...

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 9:50 am

I might go with my grand-daughter. She's going to the swimming (Mum was at one time an Olympic hopeful) and is a keen swimmer so is on about it.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 6:01 pm

One of the days I'm on holiday in July it goes through about 5 or 6 miles away, going to pop over and have a butchers

Squeaker · **Joined:** Sat Mar 31, 2012 3:23 pm **Posts:** 727

oboogie wrote:

Just found out that the torch is coming through my village on the 17th of June. I may have to take a hypocritical stroll up the road for that. I wouldn't travel to see it, but as it's passing within 300m of my front door it seems churlish not to.

It's passing about 5 miles from us on the same day, if the weathers like this we'll make a day of it at Crimdon beach

ps Are you a Haswell Plough trotter?

oboogie · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 7:57 pm

Squeaker wrote:

ps Are you a Haswell Plough trotter?

Nah, Sherburn Village.

Squeaker · **Joined:** Sat Mar 31, 2012 3:23 pm **Posts:** 727

oboogie wrote:

Squeaker wrote:

ps Are you a Haswell Plough trotter?

Nah, Sherburn Village.

It must be a bugger peddling back up that bank from Durham.

oboogie · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 8:10 pm

Squeaker wrote:

oboogie wrote:

Squeaker wrote:

ps Are you a Haswell Plough trotter?

Nah, Sherburn Village.

It must be a bugger peddling back up that bank from Durham.

If you mean Sherburn dip, it is but at least it doesn't last long and you've just had a mile downhill from Dragonville to get your breath back. What's worse is climbing out of Durham up to Gilesgate gasping for air and only getting diesel as all the buses and lorries change down. Actually I don't go that way any more and use the Old Durham route, a more gentle hill, scenic and no traffic.

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

Squeaker wrote:

ps Are you a Haswell Plough trotter?

eddyk · **Joined:** Mon Aug 02, 2010 11:19 am **Posts:** 422

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

The great Olympic fiddle: Farce as London Symphony Orchestra is told to mime at opening of Games

Members of the LSO, widely acclaimed as one of the world’s finest orchestras, were shocked to discover last week that they will be required to give a ‘pretend performance’ at the ceremony, while the actual sound filling the stadium will be from a recording the same musicians made six weeks ago.

The comments are the typical Olympic hating rubbish.

On another forum I am on, one of the organisers of the 1984 Los Angeles Opening ceremony and foremost experts on the subject of Opening Ceremonies had this to say....

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Music in these big events HAVE to be recorded. Big stadia are NOT concert halls. There are dead spots in these venues; therefore, the acoustics are crap. So that the audio is distributed properly for the show and every paying person, from the one who paid 6pence to see the show, to the one who paid $3,500 for an AA seat, can be given their proper due insofar as the presentation, the music has to be pre-recorded and the various tracks played and balanced over the PA system. (And that's why that little Chinese girl in Beijing also had to lip-synch, never mind that it was another girl's voice.)

The performers too need to hear the music, and many times on the field, the music does not reach all the spots from the orchestra which is usually situated in one corner. Therefore, the music has to be canned AND played over the loudspeakers.

eddyk · **Joined:** Mon Aug 02, 2010 11:19 am **Posts:** 422

I fully expect articles along the lines of, 'Olympic failure as tens of thousands of tickets go unsold.'

These will undoubtedly almost all be football tickets.

They are surprisingly struggling to sell 76,000 tickets to New Zealand Womens Vs. Egypt Womens at Old Trafford.

awayman · **Joined:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:50 am **Posts:** 18

oboogie wrote:

Just found out that the torch is coming through my village on the 17th of June. I may have to take a hypocritical stroll up the road for that. I wouldn't travel to see it, but as it's passing within 300m of my front door it seems churlish not to.

It's going within 500 metres of my front door and I wouldn't turn out except to piss on it.

The Mail will go through the full cycle on the Olympics, from made up stories about waste and excess to made up stories about nasty lefties who aren't patriotic enough about the olympics and its made up traditions.

In the rest of Britain that isn't blessed with olympic largesse the rest of us will just carry on wondering when if ever we'll get decent athletics or cycling facilities, and the Mail will continue to ignore us...

Arnold · **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:01 pm

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Thousands more Olympics tickets go on sale ... but the bad news is they cost as much as £2,000 EACH (No wonder no one's buying them)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1xIhOXE6Y

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Alternatives, such as an auction, would have raised more revenue, but would have been resented even more by a British public that had already forked out £9.3 pounds towards getting the Games ready.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7339

Arnold wrote:

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Thousands more Olympics tickets go on sale ... but the bad news is they cost as much as £2,000 EACH (No wonder no one's buying them)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1xIhOXE6Y

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Alternatives, such as an auction, would have raised more revenue, but would have been resented even more by a British public that had already forked out £9.3 pounds towards getting the Games ready.

Almost as good value as the Royals (who cost 3/-6 as any fule know).

eddyk · **Joined:** Mon Aug 02, 2010 11:19 am **Posts:** 422

Only 1 ticket costs £2000. An AA Ticket to the Opening Ceremony. The best in the house and all the VIP treatment that comes with it.

This £2012 ticket has been known about for 2 years.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:39 pm

Dear sweet baby Jesus and the orphans. Danny Boyle appears to have spent a high proportion of the 81 million quid cost of the games' opening ceremony on mind-altering hallucinogenic drugs:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jun/12/london-2012-olympic-opening-ceremony

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2842

Currently top-rated on the Mail's version of this story:

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Don't they mean England's ONCE green and pleasant land which is now dangerously overpopulated!
- toolate, london, 12/6/2012 11:39

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1xbPj1qI1

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