The UK has had mass unemployemnt, and apart from some easily contained rioting, very little dissent or action against it. We just put up with it, more fools we…
No piped music or radio. Sales staff who know what they are talking about. And Stock some Genesis bikes! Also the sort of attitude that yes, your bike may be old, but we’ll do our best to find spares for it and keep it running rather than try to sell you a new one!
We could go for the comedy angle, as haapened when Diana Ross opened the World Cup in the USA by scoring a goal… she missed but the grand climax started anyway…
I don’t think the Thames has frozen since the early 1800s, and it can’t now, due to the fact the Thames bridges have more widely spaced supports, there is no still or slower water to be able to freeze.
I wouldn’t be nominated. In the unlikely event that I were to be I’d decline as I don’t believe in the honours system and wouldn’t kneel under any circumstances to Mrs Windsor.
And there’s the other big fallacy, that somehow the olympics is going to get the obese out and puffing away. Well it may for a couple of days, after which they will say a collective “sod this” and go back to the beer and burgers.
And don’t forget the exclusion of the local communities from ‘their’ games. As happened in Weymouth where at the announcement of the games the yokels were all excited about being able to view the sailing events. Ahem… the public parks are to be sealed off and used for ticket only spectators.
It’s worse than that ditch_jockey. A few years ago there was a report of an austrailian resident, who was also a member of the House of Lords, who flew to the UK on holiday to participate in one of the Lords debates. Only in the UK could such a thing be allowed…
The net effect is likely to be negative. Two examples: Tourists who might otherwise have come to London are likely to be frightened away due to the expectation of higher hotel charges and lack of availability due to the ‘lympics. And the West End theatres are likely to suffer a ‘bloodbath’ according to Andrew Lloyd Webber for the same reason. The inevitable disruption of normal life and economic activity in the ‘special areas’ needs to be considered, but I doubt if you’ll hear about that when the BBC really get orgasmic about this pointless act of national masturbation.
