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What are you going to say next...All Muslims aren't terrorists..........yadda yadda.
Not potential to let their mate/relative in with an unchecked backpack then...of course not:unsure: |
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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Let us hope someone does:fingerscrossed:
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Re: The Olympics
Originally Posted by jackytoo
(Post 10174982)
The bigger the shambles the bigger the deilight for ex-pats:cool:
They interviewed 2 recruits on TV the first one was called Mohammed:blink: |
Re: The Olympics
Originally Posted by jackytoo
(Post 10175405)
What are you going to say next...All Muslims aren't terrorists..........yadda yadda.
Not potential to let their mate/relative in with an unchecked backpack then...of course not:unsure: Most likely they are looking for things that might upset the sponsors, like six-packs of Pepsi or the wrong sort of trainers. |
Re: The Olympics
Originally Posted by jimenato
(Post 10175461)
I expect there could easily be one called Seamus as well:sneaky:
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Good to see the "sport" of the Olympics is being discussed. Don't suppose any of you lot called Jeremy Vine today did you?
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If only the Olympics were about sport! From today's Independent;
Britain flooded with 'brand police' to protect sponsors "Olympic security is in disarray, but organisers are taking no chances with corporate deals... Hundreds of uniformed Olympics officers will begin touring the country today enforcing sponsors' multimillion-pound marketing deals, in a highly organised mission that contrasts with the scramble to find enough staff to secure Olympic sites. Almost 300 enforcement officers will be seen across the country checking firms to ensure they are not staging "ambush marketing" or illegally associating themselves with the Games at the expense of official sponsors such as Adidas, McDonald's, Coca-Cola and BP. " |
Re: The Olympics
Originally Posted by Pocaloca
(Post 10175537)
If only the Olympics were about sport! From today's Independent;
Britain flooded with 'brand police' to protect sponsors "Olympic security is in disarray, but organisers are taking no chances with corporate deals... Hundreds of uniformed Olympics officers will begin touring the country today enforcing sponsors' multimillion-pound marketing deals, in a highly organised mission that contrasts with the scramble to find enough staff to secure Olympic sites. Almost 300 enforcement officers will be seen across the country checking firms to ensure they are not staging "ambush marketing" or illegally associating themselves with the Games at the expense of official sponsors such as Adidas, McDonald's, Coca-Cola and BP. " that is a Trading standards matter - unless all those depts have been closed down by bankrupt local councils. |
Re: The Olympics
Originally Posted by Domino
(Post 10175600)
that is a Trading standards matter - unless all those depts have been closed down by bankrupt local councils.
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Re: The Olympics
Originally Posted by rugbymatt
(Post 10175501)
Good to see the "sport" of the Olympics is being discussed.
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Re: The Olympics
Originally Posted by jackytoo
(Post 10175652)
Aren't you getting your countries mixed up:confused:
Trading Standards is part of UK's council set up as is Health and Safety (except for large manufacturing) Most of the councils in the UK are operating on a knife edge closing down any/all "non-core" services such as elderly care transferring thousands of staff to outsourcing companies the only people left "on the books" are the senior officers and the councillors. |
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Haven't heard of any going bankrupt as in can't pay their staff wages like Spain. Services are still the same here, even the mobile library with free DVD loan. Sure they will be cutting down...so they should.
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I see the driver of a bus transporting athletes from the airport to the Olympic village got lost, resulting in them spending 4 hours driving around London after getting off a transatlantic flight. Their comments on Twitter weren't very complimentary.
Was G4S responsible for training the bus drivers too? Obviously haven't invested in any sat navs!:D |
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And on a more worrying note, I've just read on the Manchester Evening News website that Greater Manchester Police had to provide officers at short notice this weekend to protect security of athletes staying at a hotel in Worsley after staff employed by G4S failed to report for work. If the rest of us are reading this stuff, then so are the criminal fraternity and it doesn't take a genius to work out that police forces around the country are going to be over-stretched. I sincerely hope that nothing on the scale of last year's riots kicks off anywhere, as the consequences don't bear thinking about.
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