switchlogic:
Im now looking forward to a conspiracy theorist, of which there are many on this forum, to come along and trott out the tired lazy arguement that I’ve been brainwashed by the mainstream media.
If you consider the endless bad news stories about the games that are on BBC Radio, I would say everyone else on TNUK has been brainwashed, not you Luke.
I have to admit I’m a bit bored of the coverage now but even I liked the story about the comedy programme “2012” predicting various ■■■■ ups that are now actually happening…
I love that programme I think its hilarious. But there will be some ■■■■ ups at an event of this size, but they’ll be dealt with. Admittedly the G4S shambles is a big one but we can cope with even that. G4S have always been usless, personally I think someone in the government needs to grow some balls and tell the shambolic G4S to ■■■■ off entirely and we’ll deal with it ourselves. ONWARD.
att:
It actually makes me want to do something to cause a failure
You know, I thought it was just me…
Well maybe you can both club togther and form a terroist cell and blow it up. But being whingers on a forum I doubt you’ll do anything that means leaving the house.
Muckaway:
I really couldn’t care less if it goes well; People pay a fortune in road tax yet are treated as second class citizens just so a few athletes (many who do dull events like rowing in it’s various forms) can have their own private lane. I hope it all goes wrong (G4s have got the ball rolling) and the olympic loving flag waving loonies are made to look a right bunch of (generic term for ■■■■■■).
How can this country benefit from 2 weeks of gridlock?
Spot on and what a waste of ■■■■■■■ money.
G4S, I hope the ■■■■■ go Bankrupt, useless idiots. Military are here to pull those retards out of the dog ■■■, military, treated like ■■■■■ until they are needed, again.
switchlogic:
I love that programme I think its hilarious. But there will be some ■■■■ ups at an event of this size, but they’ll be dealt with. Admittedly the G4S shambles is a big one but we can cope with even that. G4S have always been usless, personally I think someone in the government needs to grow some balls and tell the shambolic G4S to ■■■■ off entirely and we’ll deal with it ourselves. ONWARD.
I think G4S have actually proved that you can have all the ‘Mission Statements’ and high-vis jackets you want but if you want something doing properly, you need to get the experts in.
Can anyone think of any other Industries that could do with such a healthy dose of reality check?
Bully for you Luke if the Olympics excite you. Big expensive displays of uninteresting hobbies like archery and diving certainly don’t interest me, but sitting in a massive traffic jam so a few Robin Hood wannabes can be treated like “heroes” or so a 90 year old Lollypop man can carry a torch infront of a Coca Cola truck does interest me.
Yep I can imagine that traffic jam ruined your life didn’t it, poor you. You really could do with cheering up a bit, its not healthy to moan so much. Everytime I see a new topic with your name on it now ‘I wonder what Muckaway is moaning on about now’. Getting stick in a jam behind the Olympic torch is hardly a disaster now is it, lighten up.
Muckaway:
Bully for you Luke if the Olympics excite you. Big expensive displays of uninteresting hobbies like archery and diving certainly don’t interest me, but sitting in a massive traffic jam so a few Robin Hood wannabes can be treated like “heroes” or so a 90 year old Lollypop man can carry a torch infront of a Coca Cola truck does interest me.
I’ve had the misfortune of running into this tawdry spectacle no fewer than four times in separate parts of the country. It’s the filth in the grey shirts and shorts running along guarding the ‘security bubble’ around the torch which is in fact one of thousands churned out that really makes me laugh, is there a sport-unrelated celebrity left in the country that hasn’t got their grubby hands on one for a few hundred yards?
Muckaway:
Bully for you Luke if the Olympics excite you. Big expensive displays of uninteresting hobbies like archery and diving certainly don’t interest me, but sitting in a massive traffic jam so a few Robin Hood wannabes can be treated like “heroes” or so a 90 year old Lollypop man can carry a torch infront of a Coca Cola truck does interest me.
Now come on Muckaway, if they asked you to represent the UK for your skills as a ‘Master Farter’ you would be in like a rat up a drain pipe. In fact I would be right behind you (well, not too close) cos I know you would blow them them away with your skills .
switchlogic:
Yep I can imagine that traffic jam ruined your life didn’t it, poor you. You really could do with cheering up a bit, its not healthy to moan so much. Everytime I see a new topic with your name on it now ‘I wonder what Muckaway is moaning on about now’. Getting stick in a jam behind the Olympic torch is hardly a disaster now is it, lighten up.
The day we went to Stratford and had the misfortune of being there when it came through was negated somewhat by the River Festival, which was very good. The torch was a minor irritant that I simply took the scenic route to avoid although when I told a shop assistant we’d be leaving before it got there, the reaction was like ■■■■■■■ in church loudly.
Pootling round the North Circular near Wembley all the cars were scrabbling to get out of lane 1 which is marked as an Olympic lane… 10 days before it takes effect. So found out what it will be like to have a lane to myself, bet they were wondering why milk tankers were allowed to use it…(muppets)…
They are the same on the A12 mate one car swerved out of one straight in to one of our trucks and I saw a van just stop in the outside lane. To be fair they have put more than enough signs up too.
Yeah it will be a pain in the arse for those of us that live and work in London and I’m gutted I never got any tickets I wanted but I will be going to a couple of the big screen events but I am looking forward to it as London is a great place to live and visit and it has helped lots of business survive in the last few troubled years.
kr79:
London is a great place to live and visit and it has helped lots of business survive in the last few troubled years.
Christ I can see Carryfast composing a 3,000 word essay now blaming Thatcher and Harold Macmillan and telling us a segregated Olympics in Hicktown would be much better than that ■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■ ■■■■ multicultural ■■■■ hole London
We may be lucky Geoffrey is very busy on the old time forum telling them why it’s British hauliers fault that Gardner leyland erf etc failed because they wasn’t demanding 700bhp roadtrains in 1957.
Any way Geoffrey does have a point about some things being better in the old days the tug of war was an Olympic sport until 1920 and pistol dueling until 1912. We should bring things like this back be a great crack.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, just as everyone is entitled to make videos where they think they are comedians. The normal approach is if you don’t like it, don’t read or watch (I only managed to stomach one video). Regarding the limpix fiasco, I spend most of the weekend with a guy who has become fairly famous for his previous success a few years back and even he says that they are bulling it up too much and peeing people off. I admire the athletes who have trained for years to take part in their chosen sport, but don’t like the fact that pro’s are now allowed to enter. It kind of reduces the meaning IMO.
I spent a couple of hours with some professor type guy on a train on Monday afternoon, finance whiz-kid. He was telling me how NO limpix has ever come even near to breaking even cost-wise. The Govn is spouting that it may change the mind-set of our younger generation and they might turn to sport rather than sniffing glue behind the local co-op and that that in its-self in immeasurable. Can’t see it myself though, when the tennis is on TV, the locals round here queue for the tennis courts, next week they are empty again.
Regarding leaving the house, one of us left it quite a few times, packed their kit up and went racing all round the world. Wonder which one of us it was…
El Griffo:
It has just been reported on TV news that a coach full of athletes have been lost in London and they are supposed to be on route to Birmingham. I suppose its just teething troubles but i wonder where they have got their drivers from, maybe Mumbai,Karachi,Bucharest or Lithuania, lets hope it all goes well in the end but i’m not holding my breath.
Heard on the radio an athlete tweeted 4 hours from heathrow to Olympic village as driver was lost. Surely they did route training before they started.
I applied to go down driving coaches or even service busses during the busy period - accom was provided along with excellent wages - I recieved an email back saying “due to the high number of applications and internal transfers, my application wasn’t required”
At least I know where I’m bloody going and how to read a map
Just seen BBC News reporting tradesmen refusing to work in London during the fiasco; Good on them, let’s have a few more doing that. Saw a report about how florists can’t get flowers to undertakers but hey, the Archery competitors are there. What a useful profession that was is in Henry VIIIs’ time.
When’s the olympic jousting and cannon firing taking place?
Just seen the report about the South Korean flag being displayed next to the North Korean team. Sums the whole thing up.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, just as everyone is entitled to make videos where they think they are comedians. The normal approach is if you don’t like it, don’t read or watch (I only managed to stomach one video).
Christ what is it with this bloody forum these days? Why is it when ever I comment people seem to think I’m saying they shouldn’t have an opinion? It’s a bloody forum, I have an opinion, you have an opinion we all have opinions. Just because I voice mine doesn’t mean I think you shouldn’t yours. If everyone stopped reading and commenting on posts they don’t agree with the forum would be dead in a week. IT’S HOW FORUMS WORK. Feel free to voice your opinion, but be prepared for people to disagree with you. I am.
DoYouMeanMe?:
He was telling me how NO limpix has ever come even near to breaking even cost-wise.
Who cares? Why should everything be about how much money it makes. We’ve seen where an obsession with money leads us.
DoYouMeanMe?:
Regarding leaving the house, one of us left it quite a few times, packed their kit up and went racing all round the world. Wonder which one of us it was…
Jolly good, I’m very glad for you. I do hope you had a lovely time. My comment about leaving the house was of course a joke though. Most people do leave the house at some point. You seem like a fairly intelligent chap, so surely you much see that-
DoYouMeanMe?:
att:
It actually makes me want to do something to cause a failure
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, just as everyone is entitled to make videos where they think they are comedians. The normal approach is if you don’t like it, don’t read or watch (I only managed to stomach one video). Regarding the limpix fiasco, I spend most of the weekend with a guy who has become fairly famous for his previous success a few years back and even he says that they are bulling it up too much and peeing people off. I admire the athletes who have trained for years to take part in their chosen sport, but don’t like the fact that pro’s are now allowed to enter. It kind of reduces the meaning IMO.
I spent a couple of hours with some professor type guy on a train on Monday afternoon, finance whiz-kid. He was telling me how NO limpix has ever come even near to breaking even cost-wise. The Govn is spouting that it may change the mind-set of our younger generation and they might turn to sport rather than sniffing glue behind the local co-op and that that in its-self in immeasurable. Can’t see it myself though, when the tennis is on TV, the locals round here queue for the tennis courts, next week they are empty again.
Regarding leaving the house, one of us left it quite a few times, packed their kit up and went racing all round the world. Wonder which one of us it was…
I am with you. Those Limpic villages will make great ■■■■■ houses and crack dens
