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Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 |
What a waste!!... The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
Julie Send message Joined: 15 May 12 Posts: 279 Credit: 126,042 RAC: 0 |
Further confirmation that "Money Talks, Decency Walks".... Less Olympics and more Corporalympics? Poor kid. What happened to him was horrid. I has a MiniCity :) http://en-ki-du.myminicity.com |
Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 |
Further confirmation that "Money Talks, Decency Walks".... Cronyism...Great Britain on the slippery slope down-hill to oblivion. So these chaps supplied sponsorship to these Olympics. As businessmen then they would have assessed the likelihood of financial gains to be made via this sponsorship money will be paying them back many times over above their initial investment. The whole shebang stinks of nepotism to me I just hope then that the UK and world Olympics committees are proud of it all. The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
Julie Send message Joined: 15 May 12 Posts: 279 Credit: 126,042 RAC: 0 |
Further confirmation that "Money Talks, Decency Walks".... Too bad they can't be happy with their VIP air conditioned, catered guest areas/boxes and their functional formal dinners. Now they have to take happiness from kids. If anything, it is teaching others (especially like the kid they displaced) how to be greedy butterballs. (can't swear lol) I has a MiniCity :) http://en-ki-du.myminicity.com |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Yep, & without kids like that, who's going to be able to watch future olympics..no sportsmen no show! |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Huh? Whoever is advising the public had better return from the planet "Muppetdom" First, trains & tubes & now roads? Just how is the city going to cope? Earlier, they had stated that the extra long weekend for the jubilee is going to cost the economy, just how will a month with no access save the economy? Please do not use the roads |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
I think you'd better think a lot more before posting comments like that! I have been a Transport worker for over 30 years & regardless of how the Daily Mail words their headlines, this report is correct. But then again, it's expected from someone who has declared that they were a civil servant! Pen pushers just do not know what "real Work is" |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
London 2012 Gridlock Games "The Mall, incredibly, will be off limits to everyone – including pedestrians and cyclists – for almost four months, starting this month and not reopening until the last day of September. It seems a high price to pay for beach volleyball". 3 months to clean up all that sand? Hmmn, the council workers on a "work-to-rule" then..... ...more than likely the Bus drivers greed might rub off on them...."Give us £1k & we'll clean it up in a week...... |
bobby Send message Joined: 22 Mar 02 Posts: 2866 Credit: 17,789,109 RAC: 3 |
The Daily Mail is fast becoming anti-establishment, and undermining society. It has some form in that regard. I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ... |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Looking forward to seeing the beach volleyball - the met forecast is for rain throughout this month with the occasional glimse of sunshne early next month. How about an olympic sand castle building competition...... |
Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 |
Looking forward to seeing the beach volleyball - the met forecast is for rain throughout this month with the occasional glimse of sunshne early next month. Better still, how about a tsunami that washes the whole Olympics shebang away. The event soon to be forgotten one month after it has ended and all at a cost of £24 billion. Holding the Olympics is a luxury these days, a luxury no country can really afford to waste money on. So all we have gained from this affair is a few extra affordable houses, (that were once termed council houses) to house the jobless in who will need their rents paying for them too. So not only have the Londoners paid for the Olympics, they've also paid to have these homes built plus now having to pay the occupants rents too. All this too so that Olympic dignities can hoyty-toyty in their limousines putting their noses up to the ordinary motorist as they pass them along the road in their priority lanes. A useless bunch of amoebic layabouts creating a showcase stage to prance about on because their self effacing hedonism makes them believe they are so important. Along with them we get governments pandering to it all because they wont to share this stage too because of the self belief that because the Olympics is successful seeing me on this stage must mean to all that I'm successful as well. The whole operation geared to giving people backhanders, fronthanders, uphanders and downhanders and lets not forgetn the drug taking athlets either. Whats their reason behind the drug taking? because they wont to win a coverted gold, not really. It's what comes with winning a gold....product endorsements guarranted to make each gold medal winner a £1 million at least. They dont care about the prestige in gaining a gold they care only about the money they can make from it. They don't care about you or your country but only about them selves. The Olympics is wrotten to the core run only for the benefit of those in privaleged circles to champagne it, wine and dine it for the day, free of charge of course and quite honestly time this farce was bought to an end. U.R.A Conman won the 1000 meters on Johnson & Johnson Anabolic steroids. You too can run the 1000 meters in under 5 seconds when you use.... ....Johnson & Johnson Anabolic steroids.....Fully endorsed by the World Olympics Committee. Well, they must be endorsing it under the table or why then are they not life banning athletes who get caught using them?????????? The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
You forgot the "ass kissers" |
Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 |
You forgot the "ass kissers" Thanks, Sirius;...."AND ASS KISSERS TOO" The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
To go along with the above.... Drug takers in the Olympic circle Those 2 old fogies seem active enough - they on Viagra? |
Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 |
Viagra. fully endorsed by the World Olympics committee for use by all those involved in the "Pole Vaulting" events....to avoid discrimination all Russian woman pole vaulters actively encouraged to take it??? The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
That would all depend on the length of the poles |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Interesting posts have cropped up in the Trade Union thread, so rather than continue to contaminate it, posting replies here...... 1245848 The above post referred to the 1976 Olympic legacy.... Here's the 2004 legacy...2004 Olympic Legacy |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Can't locate anything similar for the Peking olympics of 2008, except that it is quoted to have cost $40 billion. In the 4 years since they ended, just wondering if those stadiums & other facilities are in use today. Personally, I feel that the Olympics have gone well past their "sell by" date & time to end them as they no longer serve any useful purpose. As already stated by others that they are a once in a lifetime event & worth supporting, I find this extremely selfish.... ...for one's pleasure now, our children have to pay for that pleasure & when the time comes for their pleasure, they won't be able to afford to either attend as a spectator or as an athlete. The times we are now living in, the original concept of these games no longer exist. |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
Women's beach volleyball is what it's all about. me@rescam.org |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Personally, I feel that the Olympics have gone well past their "sell by" date & time to end them as they no longer serve any useful purpose. For now! Riddle me this - Why was there a 1500 year gap between the original Olympics & the current one? |
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