The Olympics
Jul 29th 2012, 11:05 pm
#406
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Re: The Olympics
.... Let's have some whingeing from the dear old Telegraph!
"The London Olympics are the most Right-wing major event in Britain’s modern history. Billions of pounds are taken from poor and middle-income taxpayers and service users to build temples to a corporate and sporting elite. Democratic, grassroots sport is stripped of money to fund the most rarefied sport imaginable. The police and the state are turned into the enforcement arm of Coca-Cola. How did this event suddenly become the toast of the Left?
Corporations who make people fat and sick – or, in one case, actually maimed and killed them – are allowed to launder their images; the London Paralympics, in a detail you simply could not make up, are sponsored by Atos, the firm repeatedly accused of bullying disabled people off benefits. Meanwhile, the main sponsors – the people of Britain – are largely excluded from the event they paid for."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/an...ered-the-left/
"The London Olympics are the most Right-wing major event in Britain’s modern history. Billions of pounds are taken from poor and middle-income taxpayers and service users to build temples to a corporate and sporting elite. Democratic, grassroots sport is stripped of money to fund the most rarefied sport imaginable. The police and the state are turned into the enforcement arm of Coca-Cola. How did this event suddenly become the toast of the Left?
Corporations who make people fat and sick – or, in one case, actually maimed and killed them – are allowed to launder their images; the London Paralympics, in a detail you simply could not make up, are sponsored by Atos, the firm repeatedly accused of bullying disabled people off benefits. Meanwhile, the main sponsors – the people of Britain – are largely excluded from the event they paid for."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/an...ered-the-left/
if you have ever been "dealt with" by ATOS, an inefficient organisation that provides 25 pages of questionnaire to claimants, 99% of which are not relevent you would understand ?
if you had requested tickets to even minority sports and been refused to find that huge blocks of seating in prime positions were totally unoccupied wouldn't you be pissed off ?
if you had been allocated tickets that had never arrived so had to queue for 3 hours to get a ticket to find that when/if you left your seat the computer system would reallocate the seat and sell it again ?
there are more snoopers reporting possible infringement of copyright than there are people protecting the borders, all paid for by British Olympics not the corporations concerned.
Jul 30th 2012, 2:08 am
#407
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Re: The Olympics
I'd be excited of course but would never dream of acting like that in front of the world, far too 'Jerry Springer'.
Jul 30th 2012, 7:52 am
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Re: The Olympics
For those who are sports fans, I hope they enjoy it.
Jul 30th 2012, 9:10 am
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Re: The Olympics
how can stating facts be interpreted as "whingeing"
if you have ever been "dealt with" by ATOS, an inefficient organisation that provides 25 pages of questionnaire to claimants, 99% of which are not relevent you would understand ?
if you had requested tickets to even minority sports and been refused to find that huge blocks of seating in prime positions were totally unoccupied wouldn't you be pissed off ?
if you had been allocated tickets that had never arrived so had to queue for 3 hours to get a ticket to find that when/if you left your seat the computer system would reallocate the seat and sell it again ?
there are more snoopers reporting possible infringement of copyright than there are people protecting the borders, all paid for by British Olympics not the corporations concerned.
if you have ever been "dealt with" by ATOS, an inefficient organisation that provides 25 pages of questionnaire to claimants, 99% of which are not relevent you would understand ?
if you had requested tickets to even minority sports and been refused to find that huge blocks of seating in prime positions were totally unoccupied wouldn't you be pissed off ?
if you had been allocated tickets that had never arrived so had to queue for 3 hours to get a ticket to find that when/if you left your seat the computer system would reallocate the seat and sell it again ?
there are more snoopers reporting possible infringement of copyright than there are people protecting the borders, all paid for by British Olympics not the corporations concerned.
Jul 30th 2012, 9:12 am
#411
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Re: The Olympics
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/oly...uras-loss.html
Shock horror.
Spain lose to Japan and then to Honduras to go crashing out of the Olympic football.
Shock horror.
Spain lose to Japan and then to Honduras to go crashing out of the Olympic football.
Jul 30th 2012, 9:42 am
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Jul 30th 2012, 10:32 am
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Re: The Olympics
Right now for me one of the best things about living in Spain is that I can completely avoid the Olympics if I want to. I didn't watch the ceremony. I don't normally watch much sport so I don't suppose I'll watch any of the events either. Much too nice outside to sit in front of the TV for hours.
For those who are sports fans, I hope they enjoy it.
For those who are sports fans, I hope they enjoy it.
Jul 30th 2012, 8:47 pm
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Re: The Olympics
It's good to see so many people made so happy by this event. I'm still not sure about the following happy worker - she's become a bit of a Youtube star already though. 
Jul 30th 2012, 8:52 pm
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Re: The Olympics
Stevie, did you see this guy?
Jul 30th 2012, 10:34 pm
#416
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Re: The Olympics
Plenty of empty seats I see,
I would say these were most probably freebies, and wasted
I would say these were most probably freebies, and wasted
Jul 30th 2012, 11:08 pm
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Re: The Olympics
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Jul 30th 2012, 11:50 pm
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Re: The Olympics
A huge scandal and loads of folk stuck outside wanting a seat.
The sponsors and Olympic committee have kept more than they could ever use on top of which they were flogging lots of them on the black market back in their home countries a few weeks ago, fifty different countries according to reports.
The UK has put on a good show but sadly are being let down by the usual tales of Olympic greed and corruption.
Jul 31st 2012, 1:22 am
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Re: The Olympics
Just wondering, but is anyone in here actually interested in athletics and sport? You know, the Olympic Games?