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Re-arrange these maybe ?Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View Post
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You are both always welcome to drop in at number 15. We get a free bowl of soup every evening.Comment
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Brown Windsor for me if there's any, please Lat!Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View Post
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Following my encounter with the chicken truck cluckin' its way to the slaughter room at the far end of town (see#1), just behind the beatboxin' cola bus, a nice wee bowl of cockless leekie would go down a treat, Lat. Go easy on the fizzy!Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View PostComment
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Very welcome John but you will need to be here early to get one of the teaspoons. Don't worry about us though. We've got a few candles in and a second-hand oil stove. I'm sure we will get by one way or another.Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostComment
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.....I sounded sour for which apologies. I am pleased that there are positive accounts of the torch procession here and in the media. I suppose as we now have the Olympics, people might as well enjoy them. However, significant parts of London are rather less keen than, say, Cornwall and Northumberland.
The capital is paying for a torch procession across the whole of this country. It is also paying for an opening ceremony which is to promote the British (English?) countryside. Everyone should be paying for such things, if these things have to be paid for - not just Londoners.
This event is yet another Blair legacy. It is symbolic both of his and Brown's economic fantasy land and how the Coalition often has identical attitudes to those of New Labour. Unlike the Jubilee where 60 years is 60 years, the expense and disruption could easily have been avoided. We should not have been bidding/grandstanding against France but bidding with France, if we had to bid at all, ie have taken a leaf out of the book of Euro 2012 (and 2008) where costs have been shared.
Yesterday, the Minister was trying to convince us that it was coming in under budget. That is a budget which has at least quadrupled. Talk about moving the goalposts. When mildly pressed on that point, he tried to say that all the extra was because of a change of emphasis onto regeneration. What absolute rot!
The disabled are being used everywhere by the organisers to make the project sympathetic, just when their benefits are being reduced and even cut. I don't blame the spectators one jot. Even I am finding it difficult not to be manipulated by all the hype but in the southern part of this borough, we - and that includes those of us with no income - won't get anything for all the years of subsidising it.Last edited by Guest; 14-06-12, 12:34.Comment
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eeer I think we are ALL paying for it not just those in London .........Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View PostComment
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But not as an additional amount of Council Tax Mr GG? We are paying separate amounts for Croydon, London Mayor/Police/Assembly, and Olympics and this is lasting many years.Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostComment
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Indeed its most ridiculousOriginally posted by Lateralthinking1 View Post
but not as outrageous as the idea of the opening being a virtual Ambridge to the strains of Blake's Jerusalem which seems to miss out most of GB......
I'm hoping for a rerun of Adam and Ian's wedding as the centrepiece of the opening together with a bit of pig sticking and some rather good black pudding being handed round ..............
Maybe we will have the Darrington cricket team dressed in pink to serenade us ?Comment
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Not quite in the spirit of Barry Larkins, Lat, but the protests are out there which probably explains the Met motor cycle outriders hand slapping their wasy down past the primary school kids.Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
As one guy who retired from the polis a couple of years back said to me at the side of the road in Coupar Angus, 'There's a power of overtime going on here - and the cops arenae locals'. Maybe the Cola Co are pickin' up the tab instead of you Londoners, Lat! Boris'll see you alright.
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Actually that is the part most likely to draw me in.Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
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...........I feel genuinely sorry John that it is your thread that should have got the nostrils flaring. Nothing personal you understand. Seeing your link made me wonder what had happened to Mr and Mrs Glenister. They probably just disappeared with some shadowy figures on a very dark night:Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostNot quite in the spirit of Barry Larkins, Lat, but the protests are out there which probably explains the Met motor cycle outriders hand slapping their wasy down past the primary school kids.
As one guy who retired from the polis a couple of years back said to me at the side of the road in Coupar Angus, 'There's a power of overtime going on here - and the cops arenae locals'. Maybe the Cola Co are pickin' up the tab instead of you Londoners, Lat! Boris'll see you alright.
(What this article does show is that to date we have been paying since 2006!)Comment
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aaaha I've got it nowOriginally posted by Lateralthinking1 View PostActually that is the part most likely to draw me in.
the flame in the stadium will be in the form of a burning barn ...................with someone falling off the roof while trying to erect a flag
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...all part of the service Lat! That day in Coupar Angus is as close as I'll get to the Olympics and I know it's a major burden for many in the British Capital. Don't worry about the flaring nostrils - as long as it's no yer breeks that are flared!Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View Post
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