London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

purplepanda

Fratton Fred wrote: »

The Olympics is the biggest event in the world and it brings in a lot of revenue as well.

It's a once in a lifetime event so the cost should be a secondary concern.

Total waste of taxpayers money & very few jobs have gone to locals according to some news reports, tourist numbers are actually down by a third due to greedy hotels putting up prices. :rolleyes: Many charities had servere cuts in government grants & lottery money to pay for the games

Every Olympic city since Montreal 76 has been riddled with massive long term debts. Especially Athens


There will be transport chaos across London & many will stay indoors due to security concerns, still at least Seb Coe & the rest of the celebs / leeches are quids in

Bollox to the Olympics It should have been self financing IMO & not a burden on the state :mad:

3ndahalfof6

purplepanda wrote: »

Total waste of taxpayers money & very few jobs have gone to locals according to some news reports, tourist numbers are actually down by a third due to greedy hotels putting up prices. :rolleyes: Many charities had servere cuts in government grants & lottery money to pay for the games

Every Olympic city since Montreal 76 has been riddled with massive long term debts. Especially Athens


There will be transport chaos across London & many will stay indoors due to security concerns, still at least Seb Coe & the rest of the celebs / leeches are quids in

Bollox to the Olympics It should have been self financing IMO & not a burden on the state :mad:

so putting all this behinds you what event will you be going to see :D:D

pickarooney

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Gymnastics (the legal ones of course)

Ha, coming from someone who will watch it for obsession reasons and absolutely not perving...China's team are all legal this year, USA have 3 16 and under, same with Romania. Russia have 2 16, 1 17. Just so you know. I don't get why it's worth perving over..the vast majority have no figures at all?

I saw a few pictures of Nadia Comeneci at 50 the other day. Let's say she grew into hers.

bnt

I think the Olympic mascots, Wenlock & Mandeville, epitomise every thing wrong with what's going on in London. The eyes are cameras, watching everyone at all times:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67TjxI6c76I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13X2t1qofsY

If you dare, you can buy a figurine of one of them in a police uniform on Amazon : guaranteed to give your kids nightmares about jackboots kicking in their bedroom door at 3am. Sample Amazon review:

Please be aware, that there is simply no need to 'buy' this product. It will simply appear in a prominent place in your home, and the appropriate remuneration will be taken. (Credit card, bank account, flesh & blood or soul)

It cannot be destroyed, it cannot be removed. You will obey Wenlock, as he speaks for the glory that is the OLYMPICS(TM) and will not be ignored.

The camera embedded in the unrelenting, unblinking eye is of a high quality, and transmits a stream of your actions and innermost thoughts so that any potential crimes against the OLYMPICS(TM) will be stopped before you've even committed them.

On the plus side, the crystal case seems to be the source of all his unnameable power, so won't bump up your electricity bills, and doesn't require dusting.

Chuck Stone

Fratton Fred wrote: »

No need to get personal.

Apologies.

I've heard plenty of people in London say the same thing, but there are also thousands of people who have been employed as well

I just think they'd be better employed doing other things like building infrastructure that regular British people will actually get to use.

The Olympics is the biggest event in the world and it brings in a lot of revenue as well.

There's not a hope in hell the £16Bn will be recouped.

It's a once in a lifetime event so the cost should be a secondary concern.

I don't think many British taxpayers would agree with you that costs should be a secondary concern.

Pherekydes

Confab wrote: »

Load of bollocks. 'Oooh, I can run faster than anyone else!' Great, but how useful is that, exactly?

Well, my ancestors didn't get eaten by lions. :pac:

Jesus Shaves

bnt wrote: »

I think the Olympic mascots, Wenlock & Mandeville, epitomise every thing wrong with what's going on in London. The eyes are cameras, watching everyone at all times:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=576

Corruptedmorals

pickarooney wrote: »

I saw a few pictures of Nadia Comeneci at 50 the other day. Let's say she grew into hers.

Ah once they retire they're normal. And Nadia retired 32 years ago!

Shryke

I don't agree with a few things about the games in how they are set up and run but I really do enjoy watching the gymnastics/athletics and everything else.
All I read about the event is fuss and more fuss. I don't get the impression that anyone in London is impressed with the goings on.
I can't help but feel that some of the resentment to the games that is being voiced has at least a little to do with Camerons government themselves.

opinion guy

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Should we ban Christmas as well?

Yes

skinny90

Confab wrote: »

Load of bollocks. 'Oooh, I can run faster than anyone else!' Great, but how useful is that, exactly?

It's very useful if your stinking rich because of it...

Wacker The Attacker

pickarooney wrote: »

I saw a few pictures of Nadia Comeneci at 50 the other day. Let's say she grew into hers.

She'd definitely still get it.

Mint Sauce

Problems already, drivers getting lost, and issues with the Olympic Village.

Anyone who has stayed in a Holiday Inn, who are oddly one of the Organisers at the the Village, might share those problems.

kfallon

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

She'd definitely still get it.

She is now a sexual gymnast!!!

Can we 'Sticky' this thread for the duration of the Olympics?

Wacker The Attacker

kfallon wrote: »

She is now a sexual gymnast!!!

Can we 'Sticky' this thread for the duration of the Olympics?

Big strong gymnastic fanny on her

Carbon Bootprint

Personally, I'll be drooling over watching Darya Klishina of Russia in the long jump.

Plazaman

Uh Oh. The first of the Olympic athletes started to arrive yesterday but there are various cracks already starting to show in the logistics for the 2012 Games. Things like :

* The first athletes to arrive get lost for 4 hours because the bus driver cannot use GPS (or the Olympic Village has yet to be updated on the major GPS systems) - Linky

* 3,500 British Troops will have to be called in to provide security as Security Company G4S failed to recruit enough staff yet will pull 54 million pounds from the deal - Linky

* The only food inside the Olympic Village will be Mc Donalds despite protests from Doctors. The worlds largest Mc Donalds has been built there. No other vendor is allowed sell chips (except one or two traditional fish and chip stalls) - Linky

I love the Olympics and am looking forward to watching some great events in the comfort of my own pub home. Not wishing bad on the event but, it'll be interesting though to see what strange things will go wrong in an event as big as this. Anyone else think disaster is looming? I could just be a bad news junkie.

chin_grin

The Olympics to me: more televised sporting events to ignore.

kfallon

chin_grin wrote: »

The Olympics to me: more televised sporting events to ignore.

What do you watch on TV instead of sport?

Carbon Bootprint

Well, they've mounted surface-to-air missiles on buildings surrounding the Olympic complex, so what could possibly go wrong? :eek:

kfallon

For two weeks I'll be a fan of swimming, I hope Gary O'Toole is on the RTE panel, always enjoy listening to him when they are paddling in the pool for Gold!

chin_grin

kfallon wrote: »

What do you watch on TV instead of sport?

....that's a very good question! Usually xbox....pew pew pew pew pew! :pac:

kfallon

chin_grin wrote: »

....that's a very good question! Usually xbox....pew pew pew pew pew! :pac:

*sniggers* Playing virtual cowboys & indians with some 12 year old Chinese kid :pac:

Only kiddin' :P

Biggins

Plazaman wrote: »

Uh Oh. The first of the Olympic athletes started to arrive yesterday but there are various cracks already starting to show in the logistics for the 2012 Games. Things like :

* The first athletes to arrive get lost for 4 hours because the bus driver cannot use GPS (or the Olympic Village has yet to be updated on the major GPS systems) - Linky

* 3,500 British Troops will have to be called in to provide security as Security Company G4S failed to recruit enough staff yet will pull 54 million pounds from the deal - Linky

* The only food inside the Olympic Village will be Mc Donalds despite protests from Doctors. The worlds largest Mc Donalds has been built there. No other vendor is allowed sell chips (except one or two traditional fish and chip stalls) - Linky

I love the Olympics and am looking forward to watching some great events in the comfort of my own pub home. Not wishing bad on the event but, it'll be interesting though to see what strange things will go wrong in an event as big as this. Anyone else think disaster is looming? I could just be a bad news junkie.

1. The problem with the first one is not the fault of the Olympics or the sports people/assistants/drivers - its the fault of the GPS service providers such as Germin not updating their data.

2. G4S will be losing 50m from the 284m contract so that others brought in, can cope with their exposed inadequacies. LINK

3. Further concessions have been made to other food sellers in the village. McDonalds no longer have the sole right to sell chips. LINK

chin_grin

kfallon wrote: »

*sniggers* Playing virtual cowboys & indians with some 12 year old Chinese kid :pac:

Only kiddin' :P

No, I can't play online....I suck.....seriously....really bad....terrible even....

Mint Sauce

Right, which Mod keeps changing my thread title.

:mad:

arybvtcw0eolkf

irish-stew wrote: »

So here we go, you excited yet?

*9 days till the Football competition

PS. COME ON KATIE TAYLOR!!

Honestly I get the gitters at every Olympics, I can not wait and have taken leave from work to watch the Judo.

'come on Katie Taylor and Lisa Kearney.

'Jeeze I won't sleep tonight now!.

Mint Sauce

Leonardo Hot Waiter wrote: »

Honestly I get the gitters at every Olympics, I can not wait and have taken leave from work to watch the Judo.

'come on Katie Taylor and Lisa Kearney.

'Jeeze I won't sleep tonight now!.

Just been looking at some of the timetable to see what events I can potentially catch.

rainbow kirby

Will be heading over on the August bank holiday weekend, I have tickets for athletics on the Monday morning. Can't wait

westendgirlie

Enjoy rainbow

I think it's better to attend the athletics at the heats as you get to see everyone race. Never say never if the favourite doesn't make it to the final.

Run_to_da_hills

Just 20 out of 300 G4S staff turn up at Olympic venue and the games have not even started yet. LOL.

Staff at G4s would probably know a lot more of what is going on behind the scenes than any one else working there and with word and rumors getting around of anything unusual or suspicious one would expect these people to be the first to want to opt out.

This story has already surfaced so wouldn't surprise me about the high number of absenteeism in the firm.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174809/Nick-Buckles-G4S-boss-yields-angry-calls-police-Army-cover-costs.html

Father Damo

Jesus Shaves wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=576

I love that forum :pac: I can never tell for sure if they are mentally ill or incredibly stupid.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056638920

Run_to_da_hills

Yesterdays Irish Times.

http://i49.tinypic.com/2rdb4sn.jpg

skinny90

Anyone see the bolt documentary on bbc.what a guy!

inforfun

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

I cant wait.

It is a superb opportunity to perv at scantily clad athletic young women. Diving, Tennis, Gymnastics (the legal ones of course) and a whole host of other lovely ladies

A bit like this??

Father Damo

inforfun wrote: »

A bit like this??

Are number 2 and 3 twins?

Einhard

inforfun wrote: »

A bit like this??

:eek:

Mint Sauce

Carefull with what you wear if going to any of the events guys. No flash mob marketing then like there was during the World Cup.

Makes the whole thing with Mccey D's being the only food available (well almost) in the Olympic Village a little clearer as well.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

irish-stew wrote: »

Carefull with what you wear if going to any of the events guys. No flash mob marketing then like there was during the World Cup.

Makes the whole thing with Mccey D's being the only food available (well almost) in the Olympic Village a little clearer as well.

The Olympics have just lot a lot of face with me having read that article. Lord Coe can protect who he likes, but if he can't deliver a completely open, equal, event, he should never have gotten involved in it.

Run_to_da_hills

That's an awful shame considering the amount of money and effort that was put into this international sporting event.

One would think that if they dropped the price a bit they might be able to get rid of a lot more of them.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/700000-olympics-tickets-unsold-7953201.html

K-9

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

That's an awful shame considering the amount of money and effort that was put into this international sporting event.

One would think that if they dropped the price a bit they might be able to get rid of a lot more of them.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/700000-olympics-tickets-unsold-7953201.html

Poland and the Ukraine had loads of unsold seats for the European Championships, still considered a success. It isn't all about bums on seats or profit!

WoollyRedHat

Something going on in London?

Biggins

Israel fears new Munich massacre.
Mossad believes the bombing of a Bulgarian bus was a precursor to an attack on the London Games, writes Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv

ISRAELI agents fearing an “anniversary attack” on Israel’s athletes at the Olympic Games in London are hunting Iranian-backed terrorists in Europe.

It is 40 years since Palestinian radicals crept into the Olympic village in Munich in an audacious operation that ended in the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches, a German policeman and five of the eight attackers.

Now intelligence analysts in Tel Aviv fear the Iranians are back in the terrorist game in Europe and may be aiming to pull off a spectacular act of reprisal in the eye-for-an-eye war over their nuclear weapons programme.

The alert sounded for the security services last week when Israeli tourists were ambushed and killed by a bomber in the resort of Burgas in Bulgaria, the first attack of its kind in that country.

...Mossad has detected almost every terrorist plot by its foes — the last one in Cyprus only a few days earlier. Since May 2011 it has prevented more than 20 attacks, almost two a month. Yet there was not a shred of warning about the Bulgarian bomb. “We smelt that something was going on, but we didn’t know how to put it into context,” said a senior security source.

The Israelis became convinced it was part of a bigger plan — and they suspected the target was the London Games.

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/Europe/article1086151.ece

It could be something - I hope it really comes to nothing.

Mint Sauce

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

That's an awful shame considering the amount of money and effort that was put into this international sporting event.

One would think that if they dropped the price a bit they might be able to get rid of a lot more of them.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/700000-olympics-tickets-unsold-7953201.html

Whilst alot of those tickets are for the footballing events, its also one of the biggest selling events. as the football is a knock out event after the first round I would imagine more would be sold then.

Alot of tickets have only just gone on sale as well, following returns of tickets that had already been bought, and from international sales. Don't forget those figures also probably include the Paralympics.

Like everything else, differnet media outlets will give slants on the story. This event will be far from a shame.

Mint Sauce

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

There might even be more seats up for grabs when people read this.

Report: Israel fears 'anniversary attack' at Olympics

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4258554,00.html

Erm, two posts before yours.

Jesus Shaves

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

There might even be more seats up for grabs when people read this.

Report: Israel fears 'anniversary attack' at Olympics

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4258554,00.html

There's a very real possibility of a terrorist attack at the olympics, this is the most high profile olympics we've ever seen.
As regards to what the Israeli's are saying it's only another attempt at making the world feel sorry for them, they'd probably go as far as staging a terrorist attack.
I wouldn't like to be living in London at the moment.

Father Damo

Jesus Shaves wrote: »

As regards to what the Israeli's are saying it's only another attempt at making the world feel sorry for them, they'd probably go as far as staging a terrorist attack.
I wouldn't like to be living in London at the moment.

Jesus, are you people multiplying by the day? I am pro Palestinian and detest Israel, but staged attacks, that is fcuking retarded and you know it.

Run_to_da_hills

Jesus Shaves wrote: »

There's a very real possibility of a terrorist attack at the olympics, this is the most high profile olympics we've ever seen.
As regards to what the Israeli's are saying it's only another attempt at making the world feel sorry for them, they'd probably go as far as staging a terrorist attack.
I wouldn't like to be living in London at the moment.

No one in their right mind should attend these games,and people should avoid the city Ctr.

We could also see absenteeism among military presence after G4l back down, some say staff at G4l security got wind of 200.000 plastic coffins discovered in a warehouse.

my brothers ex is attending and she has been warned.

Jesus Shaves

Father Damo wrote: »

Jesus, are you people multiplying by the day? I am pro Palestinian and detest Israel, but staged attacks, that is fcuking retarded and you know it.

Did i say i think it would happen? NO
But i am open minded, anything can happen

There's a huge difference between someone who looks at the 2 sides of the coin and someone who is biased like yourself.

Biggins

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

No one in their right mind should attend these games,and people should avoid the city Ctr.

We could also see absenteeism among military presence after G4l back down, some say staff at G4l security got wind of 200.000 plastic coffins discovered in a warehouse.

my brothers ex is attending and she has been warned.

Fellows was also informed that 200,000 casket linings that can hold four dead bodies each have been shipped into London in preparation for the Games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnXFCPdoDAg

Also: http://www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=ssKbXvst0Wk&feature=youtube_gdata