I've always found the British police polite, approachable and very professional. I wonder why your experience is different

Precisely.

Cman simply adds further weight to my different planet theory.

So now there's a bid from the F1 organisation to take over the Olympic stadium, so maybe a little good will come from it at the end of the day and definitely preferable to allowing that uncouth west ham mob getting their hands on it.

The interesting thing about that is that I would love to see that vile cretin Sugar try and bully his way past Ecclestone.

Seems things aren't running too bad. I realise it may come as a disappointment to some of you but.......

http://travelblog.dailymail.co.uk/20...to-arrive.html

I have to say there are certain parts near where I live where the police carry automatic weapons. I suspect it's because various politicians and leaders live in that area (Connaught, near Edgware Road). There is also a place near Regents Park where I've seen armed police on occasions - again I suspect it's where someone important lives. And yes, when I worked on a contract down at Heathrow the sight of armed police was not exactly uncommon, nor is it unknown to see them at major train stations. However I don't expect to see the traffic police or the normal street patrols carrying them.

... and you won't. They don't just hand them out to any serving copper, they have to be carefully vetted, trained and have to put in quite a bit of practice and are appraised on a regular basis.

There are now several olympic threads running. Shouldn't they be combined?

Alternatively as this one is on siesta time perhaps it should be reserved for only positive Olympic posts.

Yes, isn't it strange when almost everyone says they aren't interested in it

Not just you lot on here running the Olympics down before it's started

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...oggy-mess.html

Love it or hate it almost everyone has strong views.

It could be the lifeblood of BE for the next few weeks, though to be hoped not too much claret is shed.

On the other hand according to this a massive 80percent of Brits have no interest in the Olympics at all.

http://sport.uk.msn.com/olympics-201...ent-of-britain

mostly started by the same person

they never asked me but I have no interest
my heart sank when it was announced we had been successful
I thought it was a waste of money then even more so now

I can understand the frustration that war battered Britain, on its
uppers and in need of financial support managed to host the 1948
Olympics in the interest of bringing together the world after a very
bitter war. And since then had been rebuffed over the past years.
But the Olympics has lost its way, the committee has been proved
to be corrupt and it is all in the hands of a few international brands.

bah humbug

Olympic gibberish: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/oly...gibberish.html