2012 olympics to be held in London
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Good lord! If we got so pissed everytime somebody insulted George Bush, Americans would be a perpetually pissed off people 
I believe that insulting politicians is a birth right of a free people! Well, actually all people. It\'s just easier and less dangerous in a free country.
I believe that insulting politicians is a birth right of a free people! Well, actually all people. It\'s just easier and less dangerous in a free country.Oh sure... we\'ll give up a FEW, but we\'re more into quantity then quality...lolOriginally posted by Spacemunkie
No anger here
It\'s pure hilarity:bouncy::flip:
It must have been a real pain getting the opportunity to win the World Cup at home Astorderire......???
Of course our 100m relay team has no chance against you Yanks Markus....
Why so anti-Fox News? I understand that they have a bit of a \'right leaning\', but you can\'t think CNN or any of the networks is completly unbiased. Honestly, Michael Moore himself couldn\'t write the news better for some of them. Fox News gets the blame for the conservative viewpoint of the country, when it really just the exact opposite. Fox News wouldn\'t be so popular if there wasn\'t someone watching...
Now, having said that, I STILL watch CNN, and the Networks for News, but I mix in some Fox News too. Isn\'t that being fair and balanced? Plus, I think they are all full of it!!! I don\'t consider myself liberal or conservative, I think they are both full of themselves and other things!!lol
Now, having said that, I STILL watch CNN, and the Networks for News, but I mix in some Fox News too. Isn\'t that being fair and balanced? Plus, I think they are all full of it!!! I don\'t consider myself liberal or conservative, I think they are both full of themselves and other things!!lol
I\'m really hacked off about it!
It\'s going to cost a bloody fortune, which we will all have to pay, and it\'s not like London actually needs any more visitors now is it?
From what I remember about Athens, the stadiums were half empty and most of them are now apparently in mothballs.
Whoopee! Higher taxation..I\'m thrilled:|~
It\'s going to cost a bloody fortune, which we will all have to pay, and it\'s not like London actually needs any more visitors now is it?
From what I remember about Athens, the stadiums were half empty and most of them are now apparently in mothballs.
Whoopee! Higher taxation..I\'m thrilled:|~
Originally posted by dauber22
Good lord! If we got so pissed everytime somebody insulted George Bush, Americans would be a perpetually pissed off people
You mean we AREN\'T?
lol@ supervike - Actually, my beef with Fox News stems mostly from their reporting style rather than so much their content when I first started watching them. They may have changed since then, I don\'t know. I did hear a great liberal reporter once say that she listens to Limbaugh and other conservative talk shows all the time though, and said that if she wasn\'t aware of what the other side was actually saying then she wasn\'t really being responsible.
As for the Olympics...meh...I don\'t think we\'ll ever see \'em here in Seattle, at least. I think our freeway system would physically collapse if we tried to have them here. lol
Drake Farstrider
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Congrats to London. Hopefully you won\'t f**k it up like Athens did.
No sh!t, you think congestion is bad now, think how bad the I5 corridor through downtown Seattle would be. It would be A nightmare. Although maybe they would finally get off their a$$\'s and fix the Viaduct.
We have Olympic quality facilities here, but i would not want to deal with it. It was bad enough for the \'89 Goodwill Games.
No sh!t, you think congestion is bad now, think how bad the I5 corridor through downtown Seattle would be. It would be A nightmare. Although maybe they would finally get off their a$$\'s and fix the Viaduct.
We have Olympic quality facilities here, but i would not want to deal with it. It was bad enough for the \'89 Goodwill Games.
Legacy Account
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Because last time I looked, I had the right to question/criticise anyone I wanted in the UK. It\'s called freedom of speech you see.
And because Chirac is bent as a nine bob note - but you lot keep electing him!!lol
Infidel Castro
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Finn bloody beat me bloody to it he bloody did.
All the money that will be raised and spent to achieve two weeks of sports is just plain wrong. They should be looking to put money into improving school and out-of-school sports for all our fat little darling children. To say that an Olympics will inspire kids to get off their arses is spin-doctoring of the highest order and about as transparent as you can get. Put the money into swimming pool buildings (50m length for full-on Olympic standards) and make sure there are facilities worthy of the word facilities in every major town AT LEAST. More and better equipment should be given to schools as well as compulsory school games whether kids like it or not, as they need to know what healthy living is. Running tracks, indoor football/rugby pitches, 7\'s, 5-a-side, gymnastics, the whole bag! That\'s where the problem lies here, not in a need to inspire our obese kids.
What\'s more, my lovely lady-friend works within the Lottery sector dealing with Heritage as a Grants Officer and she doles out money according to schemes that benefit the public and improve our surroundings. They are likely to see redundancies all across the board because of money being redirected to improve a part of London rather than the communities in Wales. Fucking marvellous.
I\'m angry.
And every politician is bent anyway.
All the money that will be raised and spent to achieve two weeks of sports is just plain wrong. They should be looking to put money into improving school and out-of-school sports for all our fat little darling children. To say that an Olympics will inspire kids to get off their arses is spin-doctoring of the highest order and about as transparent as you can get. Put the money into swimming pool buildings (50m length for full-on Olympic standards) and make sure there are facilities worthy of the word facilities in every major town AT LEAST. More and better equipment should be given to schools as well as compulsory school games whether kids like it or not, as they need to know what healthy living is. Running tracks, indoor football/rugby pitches, 7\'s, 5-a-side, gymnastics, the whole bag! That\'s where the problem lies here, not in a need to inspire our obese kids.
What\'s more, my lovely lady-friend works within the Lottery sector dealing with Heritage as a Grants Officer and she doles out money according to schemes that benefit the public and improve our surroundings. They are likely to see redundancies all across the board because of money being redirected to improve a part of London rather than the communities in Wales. Fucking marvellous.
I\'m angry.
And every politician is bent anyway.
Hmmm. I wonder how long it\'ll take bob geldof to start saying the olympics should be held in Africa / cancelled to help feed Africa.
I was also amazed at the simple fact that the olympics aren\'t in new york. Wall street\'s there, I thought the olympics went were the cash was? As to the whole facilities thing, We did okay out of the olympics down here. Well, Sydney did, I guess. There\'s a big arse stadium up there, and some swimming pools, too. We still ran it at a loss. I don\'t think that a modern olympics has resulted in a profit for the host nation inside of five whole years. It\'s a trickle effect, I suppose.
@ Reverend: Yep. The olympics, brought to you by...
McDonalds, official restaurant of the 30th olympiad, and...
Coca Cola, Official soft drink of the 30th olympiad.
It\'s all kinda messed up on all kinds of different levels. The problem is that the advertising crammed in between the sport is more effective than the sport itself.
I was also amazed at the simple fact that the olympics aren\'t in new york. Wall street\'s there, I thought the olympics went were the cash was? As to the whole facilities thing, We did okay out of the olympics down here. Well, Sydney did, I guess. There\'s a big arse stadium up there, and some swimming pools, too. We still ran it at a loss. I don\'t think that a modern olympics has resulted in a profit for the host nation inside of five whole years. It\'s a trickle effect, I suppose.
@ Reverend: Yep. The olympics, brought to you by...
McDonalds, official restaurant of the 30th olympiad, and...
Coca Cola, Official soft drink of the 30th olympiad.
It\'s all kinda messed up on all kinds of different levels. The problem is that the advertising crammed in between the sport is more effective than the sport itself.
Infidel Castro
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I know Sydney must have some great facilities after the Olympics, but I reckon you probably had facilities in Sydney before the Olympics that were 10 times better than anything around our neck of the woods lol
I want to see the money put all round the UK, not focussed in one place. It\'s ridiculous. And I want my lady to keep her job as well!
I want to see the money put all round the UK, not focussed in one place. It\'s ridiculous. And I want my lady to keep her job as well!
I stopped caring about the Olympics some years back, when they started allowing professional athletes from the NBA and the NHL and the like participate.
Amateur athletes are what they should be about, IMHO.
It\'s all far too commercial for me to enjoy, now. So\'s Christmas, for that matter.
Amateur athletes are what they should be about, IMHO.
It\'s all far too commercial for me to enjoy, now. So\'s Christmas, for that matter.
Infidel Castro
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Down with the Olympics! Down with the Olympics!
Sure, sydney\'s got some great facilities, and yeah, it had some good ones before that. Australians are sport mad, after all. Too bad I\'ll never go there and see them. It\'s an 8 hour car trip, 12 hours by train. And there\'s nothing in sydney I really want to see. Apparrently there\'s like one good shop for buying minis, paints etc.
Infidel Castro
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But there\'s more to life than minis Monolith!
