Olympics
 

Anyone else sick of it already?

Everywhere you look there are adverts on TV and the obligatory 'diversity' too.

It's should be called the 'diversity games'. Propoganda on a scale with the Berlin, Moscow, and Beijing games.

I'm sick of seeing the same faces selling everything from credit cards to cereal.

And they even took any red out of the kit.

I know - but more than made up for watching Jessica Ennis in the new kit :norty:

Dave

hook, line and sinker

...the suckers are bought for nothing by the controllers - a semi-naked woman is all it takes :)

How they must laugh... :lol1:

Sscchhwwiinngg!

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TX.

The Olympics can fook right off imo.
...and She / he looks like a bloke :thumb:

One for you then Brun:

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TX.

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I'd rather the BBC showed the full F1 season than the Olympics.

As Al Murray says "It's going to be a little bit ****"

i hope its the biggest waste of money ever..... sick of hearing about it and its not even started yet..

it must have taken her a good couple of minutes over morning coffee to come up with that design

Im looking fwd to the games , theyre even talking bout it southen africa ffs like it was happening right now , had to tell em its july

Every other country would be getting behind it.

I work with a lot of US folk, and they are always asking if I am getting excited about it, and the Jubilee celebrations.

We are such a bunch of miserable gits.

I've got my tickets anyway!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks it the biggest waste of money ever.....
And the new kit looks **** too .......

Shame France didn't get it.


Welcome to bankrupt Britain ......

God help us!:lol1:

I am looking forward to it. There is alot of hype because its kind of a big deal :)

If beach volleyball is included I may tune in. :)

Yes - I'm looking forward to watching that.
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I won't be watching any of it.

waste of tax payers money.

I will be based at the Olympic site throughout the event and tbh would rather have both arms chopped off but that's life.....

shameful, shameful waste of public money.

run by those with no real attachment to those in this country struggling to get by.

same as the fcking ridiculous common wealth games coming up here - as soon as we hit difficult economic times, spastic ideas like this should be dropped.

in times of prosperity then maybe - but its just living outside our means.

complete and utter embarassment!!

I dont follow you logic , do they not generate income / tourism / economic benefits??

Yes but I think it is generally considered it will be a net cost.

Spot on. I can't wait for them. Truly a once in a lifetime opportunity. The Olympics have meant investment is areas of London that would never have got it otherwise, thousands of jobs, the renovation of the underground - And, there is every possibility they will turn a profit.

This thread is further evidence of just what a miserable bunch of moaners there are on here..

It's the Olympics, in our country, the only time in our lifetime

Stop moaning and enjoy

pete i dont beleive they do, over the complete cost of the project,

how is income generated calculated, and who gets the income is more my point.

income from tourism giving a real world economic benefit should be from foreign monies being spent in the country. moving moving around the south east i just dont see as being of benefit to the entire country.

Unfortunately we had bid and won during times or prosperity.

Hindsight is a great things to have.

Our country should not always consider the poor people. The middle class tax payer also wants to benefit by public spending. Building cheap houses for poor people does me no good at all.

but davy when the bid was placed "in times of prosperity" the cost was put at 2.4 billion - its now 9.2-ish billion and thats in our tougher financial climate.

i agree its easy to look back and pass comment, but as developments happened someone should have noticed and called it a day imo.

the whole country as individuals is having to make hard cutbacks, but our government is not? they are recouping revenue by hitting everyone harder.

in a buisness scenario, if you want to borrow money for an investment its unlikley to be given unless a decent return is proved likley. to add to that either this money is a loan, with interest, or its taken from revenue and a loan is needed to cover the costs of services where the money has been taken from.

i do like the olyimpics and other sporting events, just dont beleive its lavish set up is required - and when it was realised our position was not great, shouldve been either scrapped or cut back - as everyone else has had to do.

just my opinion

I have 4 tickets for the Beach Volleyball,

get in

It will absolutely not make a profit.

As for investment...worked for the dome. :lol1:

What is it with the UK and state/government over-spending on big projects?

Dome, Wembley, NHS IT system, MOD procurement, Scottish Parliament building...the list is endless.

that one makes me sick, and have you seen the state of it!!

then they had to close it when bits started falling off the roof!!

thats what happens when you let idiots run riot with someone else's money.