Olympics - 8 years to prepare and they mess up on day 1 (well minus 2 actually)
26 July 2012, 05:54 PM
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26 July 2012, 05:54 PM
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Meh.
It needs this to be like this to be truly watchable...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5CH5eHNpTc
It needs this to be like this to be truly watchable...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5CH5eHNpTc
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26 July 2012, 06:06 PM
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26 July 2012, 07:29 PM
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Its like two people who who specialise in being wrong having a battle and F1 fan losing at fact checking and spelling ability all at once.
26 July 2012, 07:39 PM
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26 July 2012, 07:45 PM
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Oh Martin, I have LooneyPrangBin on ignore and now I know what he said.... fortunately it wasn't worth reading as usual so no harm done 
Seriously though even given my misunderstanding of the situation (caused in no small part by Sky News claiming it cost £80 million this morning) is £80 million not a bit of a waste of money even if it's for 4 ceremonies.
Sure if people want to enjoy the sport then fair enough I guess, but £80 million on ceremonies for a country in the economic doldrums.... sorry, but seems like a complete waste to me
Seriously though even given my misunderstanding of the situation (caused in no small part by Sky News claiming it cost £80 million this morning) is £80 million not a bit of a waste of money even if it's for 4 ceremonies.
Sure if people want to enjoy the sport then fair enough I guess, but £80 million on ceremonies for a country in the economic doldrums.... sorry, but seems like a complete waste to me
26 July 2012, 07:59 PM
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Oh Martin, I have LooneyPrangBin on ignore and now I know what he said.... fortunately it wasn't worth reading as usual so no harm done
Seriously though even given my misunderstanding of the situation (caused in no small part by Sky News claiming it cost £80 million this morning) is £80 million not a bit of a waste of money even if it's for 4 ceremonies.
Sure if people want to enjoy the sport then fair enough I guess, but £80 million on ceremonies for a country in the economic doldrums.... sorry, but seems like a complete waste to me
Seriously though even given my misunderstanding of the situation (caused in no small part by Sky News claiming it cost £80 million this morning) is £80 million not a bit of a waste of money even if it's for 4 ceremonies.
Sure if people want to enjoy the sport then fair enough I guess, but £80 million on ceremonies for a country in the economic doldrums.... sorry, but seems like a complete waste to me
This is a tiny amount of money for UK PLC to advertise its culture and history for 3.5 hrs to a worldwide audience of billions.
There are many brands that spend 10 times that amount
And apart from that, this is a national celebration, a chance for people to have a knees-up.
This is an absolutely fantastic thing we are about to do
26 July 2012, 08:03 PM
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That's as maybe, but it does not need £80million chucking at the ceremonies! As Les, I think, said earlier it's all about trying to outdo the preceding host's ceremony and that is a game we should not be playing!
26 July 2012, 08:07 PM
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If it was about out-doing Bejing then we'd of spend £200M on the open ceremony alone.
26 July 2012, 08:14 PM
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Sorry Martin, but I do think there is an element of that.
Personally I have no time for the Olympics as it has bene rammed down our throats for months now and I genuinely think the country has far more important issues it shoud dbe addressing than having politicians and other 'important' people distracted by something that will ultimately be nothing more than history in a few weeks time.
Anyway I fear as entrenched as we are we will have to agree to disagree.... let's see what the legacy is in 4 years time then we'll know who's right! Whatever happens let's hope it doesn't end up like Athens 2004!
Personally I have no time for the Olympics as it has bene rammed down our throats for months now and I genuinely think the country has far more important issues it shoud dbe addressing than having politicians and other 'important' people distracted by something that will ultimately be nothing more than history in a few weeks time.
Anyway I fear as entrenched as we are we will have to agree to disagree.... let's see what the legacy is in 4 years time then we'll know who's right! Whatever happens let's hope it doesn't end up like Athens 2004!
26 July 2012, 08:21 PM
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Not all the money for the Olympics is being "wasted" as such though is it? Alot of cash has gone in to the pockets of people working on designing and building the whole event. I know quite a few people involved in it all that have been very glad of the work it's provided in these hard times and are a little sad it's all coming to an end. Although there is still lots of work to be done after the event closes.
26 July 2012, 11:30 PM
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Well we disagree yet again
This is a tiny amount of money for UK PLC to advertise its culture and history for 3.5 hrs to a worldwide audience of billions.
There are many brands that spend 10 times that amount
And apart from that, this is a national celebration, a chance for people to have a knees-up.
This is an absolutely fantastic thing we are about to do
This is a tiny amount of money for UK PLC to advertise its culture and history for 3.5 hrs to a worldwide audience of billions.
There are many brands that spend 10 times that amount
And apart from that, this is a national celebration, a chance for people to have a knees-up.
This is an absolutely fantastic thing we are about to do
Well said.
27 July 2012, 08:41 PM
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28 July 2012, 10:18 PM
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Looks like LOCOGs 'elitist' ticketing policy has come full circle to bite them on the ****...
The amount of empty seats at a lot of the events today is tragic and sad. And the alleged reason? Many (all?) of said seats were set aside for sponsors, rather than the general public.
Sickening really, the evident, "I don't give a stuff about the games, I just want my bloody millions!", city banker-like attitude of these sponsors.
As has already been argued, this whole corporate whoring bollox goes against the whole ethos of what the games are about.
But then we already new this would prob. happen due to the ticket allocation debacle on the run up to the games. Groan.
The amount of empty seats at a lot of the events today is tragic and sad. And the alleged reason? Many (all?) of said seats were set aside for sponsors, rather than the general public.
Sickening really, the evident, "I don't give a stuff about the games, I just want my bloody millions!", city banker-like attitude of these sponsors.
As has already been argued, this whole corporate whoring bollox goes against the whole ethos of what the games are about.
But then we already new this would prob. happen due to the ticket allocation debacle on the run up to the games. Groan.
Last edited by joz8968; 28 July 2012 at 10:24 PM.