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Anyone else bored of it already? The hype is only gonna get worse too
There is a certain irony going on here. Just can't put my finger on it...
It just reminds me that after applying for 36 tickets over 18 events I got nothing, I'm still getting emails from London2012 asking whether I want to pay £2,000 to £3,000 for corporate tickets.
I was enjoying whatever government lackey was dispatched to Five Live this morning to justify the horrendous expense
"How will the Olympics, after all this taxpayers money spent, benefit someone in say Middlesborough, Salford or Glasgow?"
"Erm.... erm... erm..... well the government would like to see...erm... all deprived areas.... erm.... developed. Oh, Oh, oh, yes I've remembered now!!! ..... The Olympic torch procession will be passing through some of them!!!
Well whoop-de-****ing-doo!!! Thats £10 billion well spent then 🙄
Olympics: 27 July-12 Aug 2012
Stoner family charabanc in France to catch the end of Le Tour: 11 July-12 Aug 2012.
coincidence? mais non.
You're on your own peeps.
Anyway, since I too got cruelly overlooked in the tickets lottery they can go and **** themselves 🙁
I got a rather odd phone-call from the bank last night, saying I'd won a pair of tickets to the Olympics and could I come in and pick them up on Saturday.
Sounds a bit like one of those police sting operations used to catch people with outstanding warrants, but I'm pretty confident that they've got nothing too incriminating on me.
They wouldn't/couldn't say which event the tickets were for, so I'm imagining it's something like the paralympics freestyle synchronised crocheting qualifiers.
Complete indifference here. Just ignore the hype.
oh come on binners how can you dislike something that gave us this
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MONEY WELL SPENT IMHO
Quite like the Olympics tbh but rather not be paying for it and given it is all [ pretty much] Down South I will be watching on the TV just like every other one [ may get to a footy game if I am lucky]
Miserable gits
Looking forward to it
So it's 100 days to the Olympics. So ****en What?!
They lost any chance of general national goodwill by the exorbitant, incompetent, utterly unapologetic ticketing fiasco and mean-spirited, active exclusion of the public from "free" vantage points
All that's left is an expensive corporate ****fest IMO
I think you've summarised it perfectly there scaredypants
Just to show that there are people out there, outside London who are looking forward to it 😉
My father passed away last year and was a GB coach many years back, he would have loved to watch his sport here in the UK, all through his treatment he asked about the tickets I had ordered for us both, but did not have the heart to tell him that we were not going to get any from the lottery selection.
I will be glued to the TV, booked two weeks off, the rest of the family will be buggering off to the coast for two weeks, yes they have had enough of the Olympics!
Inspire a Generation......
What an utterly dire slogan!
Coming into Stratford Station this morn... the train driver said, "This is Stratford, home to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympics village” (or something like that). He didn’t sound too enthusiastic…. as the doors opened I heard the platform announcer say something similar, and he sounded even more bored by it all.
Shame I thought…. I’m starting to get excited….. Especially as when the train pulls out of Stratford(on the way into Liverpool St) there is the practice/warmup track (with a covered walkway leading 300M into the stadium) right by the train tracks.... super close.
But then, as we arrived into L Street the train driver said something on the lines of “this is London, home of the 2012 Olympics etc etc”… and I thought yeah that’s a bit silly… it’s 0645 and this train is only full of builders and traders and it will be the same guys sitting in the same seats who will hear it again tomorrow and for the next 99 mornings.
But all in all.... Olympics, euros footy, good British chances in the TdF and my own tri events... it going to be a great summer of sport and I'm looking forward to it
ohnohesback - MemberWhat an utterly dire slogan!
Care to come up with a better one then?
We'll fizzle in the olympics, Cav will win green and Wiggo place third or crash out of the TDF, the euros? now don't be silly!
I was enjoying whatever government lackey was dispatched to Five Live this morning to justify the horrendous expense"How will the Olympics, after all this taxpayers money spent, benefit someone in say Middlesborough, Salford or Glasgow?"
"Erm.... erm... erm..... well the government would like to see...erm... all deprived areas.... erm.... developed. Oh, Oh, oh, yes I've remembered now!!! ..... The Olympic torch procession will be passing through some of them!!!
Yes, it would be less insulting to our intelligence if they'd just be honest about it and admit it generally won't benefit anywhere except London, rather than spouting fluffy political blather ...
Inspire a Generation...... by cutting all the funding for them to [i]actually[/i] do anything sporting, and funneling into some big corporate shmooz-fest
Fixed it! 😀
Found one...
[i]putting it in and out particularly hard[/i] 😯
😉
Those clever Olympic people have already thought of that and their website explains how all the different regions will benefit. Take Wales for instance ([url= http://www.london2012.com/about-us/the-people-delivering-the-games/the-nations-and-regions-group/wales.php ]link[/url])How will the Olympics, after all this taxpayers money spent, benefit someone in say Middlesborough, Salford or Glasgow?
Followed by two pages of management-speak bollox, including this little gemOur vision is to maximise the economic, sporting, cultural and social benefits of the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games for Wales, in a sustainable manner.
We will do this with full regard to opportunities for promoting equality, social inclusion, bilingualism and the profile of Wales in the world.
So nothing that actually costs any money then.The objective in terms of legacy is not to re-invent the wheel [b]or invest in large projects linked to the 2012 Games[/b].
It's not called the LONDON Olympics for nothing.
I love the Olympics...BUT..
All that's left is an expensive corporate ****fest IMO
+10.000.000 😥
s, proceed no further, even if you can find your way around the members only security that the people who run that website have put in place. That way lies madness...
And my slogan? Think of what we could achieve... (if we'd spent the £11 billion more wisely)
s, proceed no further
Dont worry I have no intention to proceed any further, dont think my eyes could take any more abuse 😉
Fantastic, 100 days until the brown stuff REALLY hits the spinning thing in London!
I can't see it being anything but chaos from start to finish, despite all the statements otherwise I don't think London is ready for it.
Oh but they are... They've got aircaft carriers and water cannon and missiles... that'll stop those ticket touts, or was it metal thieves who are The Greates Threat To The Games...
With the adult population of UK circa 50 million my back-of-envelope calculations make that equivalent to 90 cans of Special Brew each. What an opportunity missed !if we'd spent the £11 billion more wisely
We fly out on our hols on the 28th, fly back on the 11th...
After seeing a pic of the 'Olympic Torch Relay bus' which is essentially a fridge-pack of Coca Cola on wheels, this could turn out to be the corporate whoring olympics to end them all.
Yup, when I realised that the torch was being ferried around in a transit van, my heart sank just a little bit more about the whole corporate circle jerk nature of it.
Eddie Izzard seems much more inspiring sport wise.
[url] https://twitter.com/eddieizzard [/url]
Out of the 28 posts so far not many positive views on the LONDON olympics???
I like many cant quite see where the benefits are for the rest of us - in my local town in the Southwest they are just shutting the local swimming pool [which was volunteer run anyway] they shut the Bridgwater pool and built a Tesco.
Jobs for the boys and a nice gravy train for Coe [Tory boy] which we will be paying for for years to come - good BBC breakfast this morning where it was pointed out that the last few cities where the olympics were held had no benefit and in Athens case we know whats happened to Greece!
when I realised that the torch was being ferried around in a transit van, my heart sank just a little bit
if it is good enough for the pope ....
The Olympiczzzzzzzzzzzzz.............
The [url= http://www.channel4.com/programmes/10-oclock-live/video/series-2/episode-6/s2-ep6-very-high-finance ]budgetry restraint*[/url] has been exemplary
*Naughty words NSFW
[url= http://www.london2012.com/news/2012/04/millions-of-people-around-the-uk-get-ready-to-welcome-th.php ]Millions of people around the UK get ready to welcome the world to London in 100 days' time[/url]
Why do I get the feeling I'm living in North Korea ?London 2012 celebrates 100 days to go to the Olympic Games today by confirming that millions of people around the UK are getting ready to welcome the world to London.
Yep, it's not value for money, yep, it'll be a corporate logo-fest but I still can't wait.
I think it'll be great as the olympics fundamentally always is - brilliant sport on tap for three weeks.
There's no question about who's benefit this whole sorry circus is being run for
[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/apr/13/olympics-2012-branding-police-sponsors?INTCMP=SRCH ]Corporate **** fest[/url]
But Hey... we'll all be able to watch the £10 Billion sports day on telly. If you've a high boredom threshold, that is?
Surely, given the amount of money that has been spent on the Olympics that could have gone to a much wider selection of activities and projects that would have benefited a much larger number of people, the slogan should be:
"Look what you could have won" 🙂
copyrighted by Jim Bowen I'm afraid"Look what you could have won"
Only 100 days till my commute into canary wharf is stuffed.
Aaah a refreshing load of responses from the usual stw grumpfest! I'm looking forward to it, we shall be going out when the torch passes through our town and yes I do hope to get hit by a freebie thrown from the passing corporate train!! Do you all think it would have been better held somewhere like middlesborough?? Doesn't quite have the same status does it??
TBH, as I'm not a great tv watcher or newspaper reader, virtually the only things I've seen (and there seem to be a great many of them) have been about the paralympics and paralympians.so I'm imagining it's something like the paralympics freestyle synchronised crocheting qualifiers.
I have absolutely no idea what else we're good at apart from cycling 8)
It should have been held in Manchester - would have been much better.
also they should have taken the opportunity to slim things down abit.
You just know its going to be crap - the corporate whoring taken to extremes, look at the rubbish logos and mascots and its sucked money out of sport in the rest of the country. Once again London gets the money - the rest of the UK has to pay for it.
this thread reads like a script from "Grumpy Old Men " 🙄
The only person on here ( imho ) who may have a complaint is about the commute to Canary Wharfe being stuffed but then again any one who works in that corporate glass house deserves all the hassle they get 😈
Me ? Can't wait ...
As I've said before and will continue to say I think its fantastic to have the games in the UK, ok it is London 2012 and we all end up helping to pay for it but Harrogate 2012 on the stray was just never going to happen was it ?
Day off booked to see torch going through town and YES , I will be acting like a silly school boy trying to blag freebies rather than a grumpy old 54 year old moaning about how the traffic is affected
2 weeks booked off work to take in as much of the games as possible, either by watching tele or going to London Town and taking in as much of the atmosphere as possible ( with or without tickets )
AND Time Trial is still free so at least one must be there day ( imho )
TandemJeremy - MemberIt should have been held in Manchester - would have been much better.
Now thats something I agree with.
Why ?I think its fantastic to have the games in the UK
Olympic games in Paris, watch all events on telly for free.
Olympic games in London, watch all events on telly for £11,000,000,000
Olympic games in Paris, watch all events on telly for free.
Olympic games in London, watch all events on telly for £11,000,000,000
Rusty90 has it!
Apparently the 8 football matches in Glasgow will benefit the local economy to the tune of £6million. Which is great as obviously no-one in Glasgow will have paid a penny towards the London games
you may have a pint but that's 11Bn of our money being spent on it and yes I know more gets spent on other stuff but they don't endlessly bang on about it in the media telling us how good it's going to be for [i]the whole country[/i] which is just bollocks frankly.this thread reads like a script from "Grumpy Old Men "
Sports for doing not watching IMO, can just about manage a 5min traisl/jumps video, I can't even sit and watch cycling (a sport that I love) for any decent length of time. So not much appeal for me but plenty of other aspects to moan about. If they'd spent 11bn trying to get the population into sport instead of the corporate whorefest I'd be backing them.
Bloody hell you lot are miserable.
Do you think the whole corporate side of it would be any different in any other part of the world? That's just par for the course these days.
Personally I'm looking forward to it, the same as I would look forward to it if it was in any other country.
I am indeed a miserable old ****! Its not really the point. I just can't equate the figure of 11 billion quid (of our money!) to whats basically a glorified school sports day. With added canapes and wine laid on for the privileged members of the PTA.
There's something very British about landing an event with this kind of monumental bill attached, just as our economy goes into meltdown. I think we can safely assume that the people who caused said meltdown will be the same ones happily clinking their champagne glasses as they watch the 100 metres from their corporate boxes?
Do you think the whole corporate side of it would be any different in any other part of the world? That's just par for the course these days.
Perhaps whatever Olympic spirit still exists will shine through the barrage of branding once the event starts. There does seem to be a creeping increase in the prominence and reverence of corporate sponsorship.
I'm sure I'll still enjoy watching a bit of it. I guess when the games is in Rome, Beijing or Johannesburg, you just can sit back and enjoy it without the nagfest that it MUST be more special because we're hosting it. If anything, for me it detracts from the excitement, because we've been fed a drab diet of press releases and promotions for the last three or four years. I was more excited about Sydney and Beijing.
And the mascots look like strange alien cocks, as well.
Me too - no more, no less (but 11Bn+ poorer as a nation)Personally I'm looking forward to it, the same as I would look forward to it if it was in any other country.
The money thing is a bit of a misnomer though as with any investment there is a return whether it be by the increase in visitors/tourists, increase in trade, the use of facilities for communities/sports after the games or indeed the increase in employment to design,construct and serve the games.
TBH with the economy as it is it will provide a timely boost, not to mention the feel good factor....oh wait.
Well, I've recently had to pay to have an operation carried out privately as the NHS thinks it's OK to keep people waiting 6 months with no date any time soon. So s'cuse me whilst I tell Lord Coe et al where to shove their Olympics.
It's morally abhorrent to the many citizens of the U.K. who are faced with an uncertain future and poor quality of life.
I suspect the sentiment and antipathy towards London was the the same in the 1908 and 1948 depending on your view point. You can't please everyone all of the time.
[url= http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/after-the-party-what-happens-when-the-olympics-leave-town-901629.html ]or possibly not[/url]TBH with the economy as it is it will provide a timely boost
I hope it's a success, I hope everyone has a nice time, everything runs smoothly and it boosts the economy. I really do. Unfortunatley I'm not optimistic that all those things will happen but I'm damn sure that apart from the [i]possible[/i] boost to the economy* there'll be bugger all benefit for the north and west of our nation (feelgood factor aside)
*yes a big boost to the economy would be pretty bloody good, but my point still stands i think
You can't please [s]everyone[/s] the mugs who are paying for it all, in that irrelevant faraway land outside the M25, all of the time.
FIXED 😀
A recent survey says 50% of those in the north couldn't give a stuff about the olympics.
The newly fashioned SS can kick your door down, storm in and rip down any anti-olympics posters in your residential home if you live within the olympic zone.
Journalists are being heavily harrassed on public property by badly trained private security quoting anti-terror laws.
Families in private housing have been booted out so the private landlords can rent the places for much more during the olympics.
I don't have tickets, or a television. I guess people online will fill me in.
I'll be glad when it's 100 days since the Olympics. FFFing adverts that now depict the entire populace of the UK as needing sports clothing/nutrition etc. S0d off!
I've never been a big fan of sport but I'm afraid the greed fest that the Olympics has now become means I don't even really give a stuff even about the cycling.
Rowing and nearly all the horsey events 😉I have absolutely no idea what else we're good at apart from cycling
I still find it incredible that we have, as a nation some of the best cyclists in the world, yet the average Joe on the street (or mostly driving his car) hate us
c_g - sorry to hear about your op, waiting 6 months is terrible, however I hope now its over you get back to riding and full health.
Yes agree that Manchester should have held the games, after all we have the infrastructure and knowhow left over from the Commonwealth games, also Manchester is bang centre of the U.K.
Rowing and nearly all the horsey events
And sailing too I think.
Basically any sitting based sport 🙂
Im looking forward to the olympics but im getting fed up with the overexposure of some of the athletes namely Jessica Ennis, i did really like her at one time but now she is irritating - and the sad thing is im not even sure she wants to keep parading about with her 6 pack showing - im sure team GB management are playing a big part in this - she must be under so much pressure maybe it would be a good idea to focus on training now rather that Vogue magazine?
Usual tedious cynicism and above-it-all nonsense on here.
It the OLYMPICS! In LONDON! In the UK!
Have some pride.
Can't wait!
On my way home last night i noticed a couple of posters informing me of possible delays and road closures whilst the Olympics are on.
Not quite sure what events we are hosting in Leith but i'm suddenly much more excited.
Oh and there was no police presence as the wheelchair basketball was played on a boxed junction. So that Canary Wharf commute will be a right pig.
I'll be looking forward to it as I would any other olympics. Do I feel any better or worse because the games are in London? No.
They are the London games and London's reputation is on the line. I just hope it doesn't become a British problem if it all goes wrong.
Usain Bolt at 9.4 and 19 secs will be something to behold. Bring it on.
Think of it as 130 days till the majority of southerners realise what a big con, theyve bought into, the massive amount of cash and disruption theyre going to be paying back for a long time, along with the realisation us Northerns where telling them all along they where getting stuffed.
Then there is the problem over who is going to pay for the security and maintainace of all the buildings for a long time until the southerns can actually afford to live in them.
Then we will have Panorama, watchdog, the one show, and many more all doing exposes on the waste and how it all failed.
But not to worry a few chavs will have new tracksuits, and trainers.
I am quite excited about the running and cycle racing.
Is it too late to have this event added?
I can't wait. Really looking forward to it.
Oh, and did I mention that I have tickets to the men's MTB? 8)
Hey project...you do know that it's not just southerners who are paying for the Olympics don't you?
There's certainly a feeling of 'you're not invited'
I was really really excited, but everything seems shut off from me. Box Hill being the biggest let down.
So I'll try and catch a bit on telly along with the athletes mums and dads.
It puts me in mind of a squib.. a thoroughly moist one
I really can't wait...
I think it's going to be brilliant.
It's this sort of pointless waste that enrages me...
Remember this next time a community group has to close for want of a small grant.
Ohnohesback
see, the childs face defence is now recognised nationally“It was quite a big structure and it could have collapsed with a child playing on the beach near to it.
Just another 116 days to go
But don't forget the paralympics to follow...
Fabian Cancellara FT(olympic)W
that would make a much better race for me than the sky squad squashing everything and launching Cav.
is that bad?
Unlikely, given that he won't be riding as he's banned till August 5thFabian Cancellara FT(olympic)W
It's kept me gainfully employed for 9 months and I can happily be far away from it when it happens knowing that I've had my 1/200,000th of that £10 billion 🙂
"Unlikely, given that he won't be riding as he's banned till August 5th"
Your getting your Fabians mixed up with your Albertos 🙂