Originally Posted by Pocaloca (Post 10199619)

.... 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/

Originally Posted by rugbymatt (Post 10199483)

If you had worked for at least 8 years towards something would you not be that excited? Its a question, I'm not being snide, its a genuine question.

Originally Posted by JLFS (Post 10199488)

Yes RM, thanks for the post, very amusing and whitty, it gave me a good laugh.
:thumbsup:
If anyone thought the event was good or bad, it does not take away the fact that te review was entertaining.

Originally Posted by Rambling Rose (Post 10200558)

Part of being British is that we can laugh at ourselves.

Originally Posted by Domino (Post 10200113)

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.

Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly (Post 10200056)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/oly...uras-loss.html

Shock horror. :blink:

Spain lose to Japan and then to Honduras to go crashing out of the Olympic football.

Originally Posted by Pocaloca (Post 10200645)

I agree totally. I was being ironic, after people said it was the Guardian doing all the whingeing. :p

Originally Posted by Rambling Rose (Post 10200558)

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.

Originally Posted by rugbymatt (Post 10201665)

Stevie, did you see this guy?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6dbh1PjDfwU

Originally Posted by anonimouse (Post 10201797)

Plenty of empty seats I see,

I would say these were most probably freebies, and wasted

Originally Posted by Lion in Winter (Post 10201981)

Just wondering, but is anyone in here actually interested in athletics and sport? You know, the Olympic Games?