Olympinonsense

[Northender]

I see from the BBC News website that tickets are still available for the opening ceremony. 'Sell-out games' eh?

[Beef Oven]

Well I know how seriously you take things like flags and national anthems, scotty

Mind you it'll be a while since you've heard the Scottish anthem on the winner's podium

I like this version ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnKkN-DjXt8

Do you think it was done with a bontempi?

That reminds me, we won't be seeing Voula Papachristou on the podium. She's been kicked off the Greek national team and won't be coming to London. Serves her right for her tasteless 'joke' on twitter. I for one won't be sorry - serves her right.

[scottycelt]

Mind you it'll be a while since you've heard the Scottish anthem on the winner's podium

That's because every time we win our numerous gold medals at the Olympics the incompetent host country idiots insist on playing God Save The Queen ...

BTW, a second 'honest and unfortunate mistake' has now been revealed. Apparently a Welsh athlete has been described as 'English' in an official programme, and is reported to be none too happy about it.

What the heck do you think all this silly fuss is about, amsey ... ?

[scottycelt]

That reminds me, we won't be seeing Voula Papachristou on the podium. She's been kicked off the Greek national team and won't be coming to London. Serves her right for her tasteless 'joke' on twitter. I for one won't be sorry - serves her right.

Nonsense, you obviously consider (correctly) that she would have further greatly enhanced the London scenery and can't bear the fact that she now won't be arriving ...

[Beef Oven]

Nonsense, you obviously consider (correctly) that she would have further greatly enhanced the London scenery and can't bear the fact that she now won't be arriving ...

No way, you're all wrong on this one Scotty.

Anything or anyone (including wrong-branded training shoes worn by working class east-end kids) that goes against the Olympic spirit (or suggests that the Earth circles the Sun) must be dealt with swiftly and robustly in order to preserve the sanctity (and other multi-faith terms) of the Olympics.

Yeah, some might say she's nice looking, but that is hardly the point and I hadn't particularly noticed anyway.

[kernelbogey]

I see from the BBC News website that tickets are still available for the opening ceremony. 'Sell-out games' eh?

Just £2,012 or £1,600....

[EdgeleyRob]

just £2,012 or £1,600....

what each !

[kernelbogey]

what each !

Yup. And not including yer BigMac and yer Coke.

[Lateralthinking1]

She appears to have missed the ballot paper when placing her "X". Perhaps she wants to be a ballot paper, knowing that Greek elections were fixed. I am not sure which is more concerning to decent folk. Her immature views about Africans or the international state Twitter police. Without this circus, we would have had the pleasure of knowing neither. Now that is an inspiring dream!

Next time you see someone with an OBE after their name and ask yourself "how the hell did they get it?", it is likely to be for a "sterling" bit part role in the organisation of the Olympics. It's been very effective. Where else would you find American Republicans and the North Koreans in complete agreement other than on the fact that Great Britain plc is total rubbish? Back in the capital, you can't stick a knitted version of the rings in your window as it is against the market economy. However, two thousand quid tickets have not been reduced in price due to a lack of demand. The market wants its pounds of flesh and is prepared to be as inflexible as communism in order to try to get them. Funny that, given that its "forces" are supposed to be as unstoppable as the climate.

Some said that the ticketing website was the worst that has ever been devised. Every time you put something in the basket, it went back to the home page and you had to start again. The cable car and the railway with overhead cables don't work in the heat. Several people have been left like caged animals dangling in the skies for an hour. Army people have had to abandon their holidays on returning from Afghanistan for several weeks in a real hell hole. Unions have threatened to strike purely on a whim and have been criticised for doing so on low turnouts when it is has been alleged that managers intimidated staff against voting.

Transport workers have still succeeded in getting money for old rope. Millions have turned out to look at a ropey bit of old candle being paraded as if it were the holy grail. One of the biggest cooperative housing projects for the disadvantaged has been razed to the ground. And protesters and the homeless have now "disappeared" in this Orwellian scene. There is a budget underspend in newspeak and a chronic overspend in the real world. 50% of people are now getting a university education and they can't even get a nation's flag right. There have been 12 mile traffic jams so that a few international posers can pose around in London. Last minute decisions to have variable signs for the lanes haven't even worked when many are showing the same thing day and night.

We have had athletes disappearing with their medical records who for some reason still expect trust and support. There are rocket launchers on tower blocks. Every one who is involved in this project either talks through his nose rather than his mouth, can't comb his hair or needs to scrape off slime every morning before stepping out of the house. This has been the longest week on record. It is as if the damn thing will never begin and it has completely taken over the media. For the first time, I think I understand the term "axis of evil". It looks very much like Livingstone, Jowell, Johnson, Hunt, Cameron, Buckles, Idowu and Coe.

[Beef Oven]

She appears to have missed the ballot paper when placing her "X". Perhaps she wants to be a ballot paper, knowing that Greek elections were fixed. I am not sure which is more concerning to decent folk. Her immature views about Africans or the international state Twitter police. Without this circus, we would have had the pleasure of knowing neither. Now that is an inspiring dream!

Next time you see someone with an OBE after their name and ask yourself "how the hell did they get it?", it is likely to be for a "sterling" bit part role in the organisation of the Olympics. It's been very effective. Where else would you find American Republicans and the North Koreans in complete agreement other than on the fact that Great Britain is total rubbish? Back in the capital, you can't stick a knitted version of the rings in your window as it is against the market economy. However, two thousand quid tickets have not been reduced in price due to a lack of demand. The market wants its pounds of flesh and is prepared to be as inflexible as communism in order to try to get them. Funny that, given that its "forces" are supposed to be as unstoppable as the climate.

Some have said that the ticketing website was the worst that has ever been devised. Every time you put something in the basket, it went back to the home page and you had to start again. The cable car and the railway with overhead cables don't work in hot weather. Several people have been left like caged animals dangling in the skies for an hour. Army people have had to abandon their holidays on returning from Afghanistan for several weeks in a real hell hole. Unions have threatened to strike purely on a whim and have been criticised for doing so on low turnouts when it is has been alleged that managers intimidated staff against voting.

Public transport workers have still succeeded in getting money for old rope. Millions have turned out to look at a ropey bit of old candle being paraded as if it were the holy grail. One of the biggest cooperative housing projects for the disadvantaged has been razed to the ground. Protesters and the homeless have "disappeared" just as in Orwell. There is a budget underspend in newspeak and a chronic overspend in the real world. 50% of people are now getting a university education and they can't even get a nation's flag right. There have been twelve mile traffic jams so that a few international posers can pose around in London. Last minute decisions to have variable signs for the lanes haven't even worked when many are simply showing the same thing day and night.

We have had athletes disappearing with their medical records who for some reason still expect trust and support. There are rocket launchers on tower blocks. Every one who is involved in this project either talks through his nose rather than his mouth, can't comb his hair or needs to scrape off slime every morning before stepping out of the house. This has been the longest week on record. It is as if the damn thing will never begin and it has completely taken over the media. For the first time, I think I understand the term "axis of evil". It looks very much like Livingstone, Jowell, Johnson, Hunt, Cameron, Buckles, Idowu and Coe.

Excellent analysis - spot-on

P.S. Your OBE observations could not be more to the point

P.P.S. I have just re-read this post and I must ask , is this the best ever post on this chat room!?

[Lateralthinking1]

Excellent analysis - spot-on

P.S. Your OBE observations could not be more to the point

P.P.S. I have just re-read this post and I must ask , is this the best ever post on this chat room!?

Thanks Beef Oven. I appreciate the good comments. I'm more than happy though to receive no answers to the question.

Unlike those who spend seven years being manipulative, furtive and a bit rubbish to get a gong, I banked the five gold stars I got for handwriting at the age of seven and moved on to what I hoped (wrongly) would be something like reality.

[scottycelt]

She appears to have missed the ballot paper when placing her "X". Perhaps she wants to be a ballot paper, knowing that Greek elections were fixed. I am not sure which is more concerning to decent folk. Her immature views about Africans or the international state Twitter police. Without this circus, we would have had the pleasure of knowing neither. Now that is an inspiring dream!

Next time you see someone with an OBE after their name and ask yourself "how the hell did they get it?", it is likely to be for a "sterling" bit part role in the organisation of the Olympics. It's been very effective. Where else would you find American Republicans and the North Koreans in complete agreement other than on the fact that Great Britain is total rubbish? Back in the capital, you can't stick a knitted version of the rings in your window as it is against the market economy. However, two thousand quid tickets have not been reduced in price due to a lack of demand. The market wants its pounds of flesh and is prepared to be as inflexible as communism in order to try to get them. Funny that, given that its "forces" are supposed to be as unstoppable as the climate.

Some said that the ticketing website was the worst that has ever been devised. Every time you put something in the basket, it went back to the home page and you had to start again. The cable car and the railway with overhead cables don't work in the heat. Several people have been left like caged animals dangling in the skies for an hour. Army people have had to abandon their holidays on returning from Afghanistan for several weeks in a real hell hole. Unions have threatened to strike purely on a whim and have been criticised for doing so on low turnouts when it is has been alleged that managers intimidated staff against voting.

Transport workers have still succeeded in getting money for old rope. Millions have turned out to look at a ropey bit of old candle being paraded as if it were the holy grail. One of the biggest cooperative housing projects for the disadvantaged has been razed to the ground. And protesters and the homeless have now "disappeared" in this Orwellian scene. There is a budget underspend in newspeak and a chronic overspend in the real world. 50% of people are now getting a university education and they can't even get a nation's flag right. There have been 12 mile traffic jams so that a few international posers can pose around in London. Last minute decisions to have variable signs for the lanes haven't even worked when many are showing the same thing day and night.

We have had athletes disappearing with their medical records who for some reason still expect trust and support. There are rocket launchers on tower blocks. Every one who is involved in this project either talks through his nose rather than his mouth, can't comb his hair or needs to scrape off slime every morning before stepping out of the house. This has been the longest week on record. It is as if the damn thing will never begin and it has completely taken over the media. For the first time, I think I understand the term "axis of evil". It looks very much like Livingstone, Jowell, Johnson, Hunt, Cameron, Buckles, Idowu and Coe.

Well, I take your point, but isn't it great to see all these happy, smiling faces on the streets of London? . The highlights for me were that delighted little girl carrying the torch into the Globe Theatre and also the brave young services lady at No 10 Downing Street, plus all these inspirational disabled folk taking part.

I have previously moaned about gross incompetence at last night's humiliating farce at Hampden. Today's events around London seemed to me brilliantly organised and thoroughly heart-warming.

Congratulations to all involved!

[Lateralthinking1]

Well, I take your point, but isn't it great to see all these happy, smiling faces on the streets of London? . The highlights for me were that delighted little girl carrying the torch into the Globe Theatre and also the brave young services lady at No 10 Downing Street, plus all these inspirational disabled folk taking part.

I have previously moaned about gross incompetence at last night's humiliating farce at Hampden. Today's events around London seemed to me brilliantly organised and thoroughly heart-warming.

Congratulations to all involved!

I am very pleased, scottycelt, that they are delighted. Most though would be equally delighted by a day at the seaside without all the cost and the hype. In some ways I am impressed that there are many who can genuinely still believe in the Olympics dream when this country has reinforced recent American efforts in destroying it completely. The one thing in the Americans' favour is at least their commercialism, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, coca cola, burgers and all, has been efficient.

Currently, I feel warmer towards the Paralympics than the Olympics. However, through no fault of the athletes themselves, they too are tainted in this climate. Ordinarily they would be inspirational. But as Remploy closes and benefits are cut, they are being used to justify a survival of the fittest policy. If they can do it, so can you, and if you can't, well, you should be able to. The Government will not give you support. Brazil I think will do them better, being now a more advanced country.

[Pianorak]

Yup. And not including yer BigMac and yer Coke.

Official food of the Olympics - Mcdonald's,
Official drink of the Olympics - Coke,
Official chocolate of the Olympics - Cadburys,
Official disease of the Olympics - Diabetes Type 2.

[Lateralthinking1]

Two good memories (pre-dictatorship):