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2012 Olympic flaming

I'm not really part of the tin foil hat brigade when it comes to the advertising at the Olympics. I don't like being advertised to, but I certainly don't think they wanted the olympics so that they could advertise on behalf of corporations instead of some other country. Someone was always going to host it. It's just a way of offsetting the ridiculous cost of all of those stadiums that need to be built because people from almost every country in the world will be coming here to spectate and take part. I mean when they awarded it to us there were several other countries representatives crying - do you think they were crying because they didn't get to plaster McDonalds logos all over their major cities or what?

I wasn't trying to say that but rather using McDonalds & Coca-Cola as easily recognisable emblems of the enormous corporate-agenda which goes hand-in-hand with modern international sporting events and really I suppose my core message or point I wished to make was that not only had I reached saturation point vis-a-vis all things Olympic-related in this country (and we have after all been hearing about this Olympics in the U.K. since before London was even nominated) but that I felt it was morally dubious how vast amounts (certainly hundreds of millions of pounds) of taxpayers money have been spent on this at the same time as we have gone into recession and now scores of building works in schools up and down the country have been put on hold indefinitely or cancelled altogether along with numerous other cuts to public services.......... and I was merely making the point that it worried me how the masses have accepted this obscene state-of-affairs en masse and without question and this worries and depresses me.

That's all (folks)....
 
I wasn't trying to say that but rather using McDonalds & Coca-Cola as easily recognisable emblems of the enormous corporate-agenda which goes hand-in-hand with modern international sporting events and really I suppose my core message or point I wished to make was that not only had I reached saturation point vis-a-vis all things Olympic-related in this country (and we have after all been hearing about this Olympics in the U.K. since before London was even nominated) but that I felt it was morally dubious how vast amounts (certainly hundreds of millions of pounds) of taxpayers money have been spent on this at the same time as we have gone into recession and now scores of building works in schools up and down the country have been put on hold indefinitely or cancelled altogether along with numerous other cuts to public services.......... and I was merely making the point that it worried me how the masses have accepted this obscene state-of-affairs en masse and without question and this worries and depresses me.

That's all (folks)....

The problem seems to be that no one has figured out how to make Olympic sports pay anything near the amount they cost I guess. It either has to be tax payer funded or funded via sponsorship deals, unless of course it's enormously popular like football - in which case you have millions of people filling stadiums week in week out and paying £50 a month to watch it on TV. Most of the athletes who aren't Usain Bolt are on like 16k a year for their relatively short careers. It does seem rather a bit of a disgrace that we are spending 'x' amount of money on the Olympics when other stuff is going down the pan, but I believe we signed upto it in the "good times", which were never going to end right? haha. There wasn't really any getting out of it once we'd signed upto it though, so we'll have to grin and bare it.

I'm sick to the back teeth of apparently needing a daily update on Seb Coe farting or some other trivial bullshit every day on the news too though. They are just on a massive 'push the olympics' spree to make us feel like it was a good idea to spend a fortune on something that was never going to pay it's own way!

MSB's been brainwashed by Marxists!

Priceless. You commie bastard Blunts.

I must admit it is a new one =D
 
The problem seems to be that no one has figured out how to make Olympic sports pay anything near the amount they cost I guess. It either has to be tax payer funded or funded via sponsorship deals

Umm or perhaps not take at place at all? Surely that's a third option.....
 
Umm or perhaps not take at place at all? Surely that's a third option.....

I think it would be a great shame if we discontinued perhaps the only thing that unifies every country, despite whatever wars or political bullshit is going on, for 2 weeks every 4 years. Don't you?
 
Fukin flaming round here on next tuesday dunno who .

Because it's within a few yards of the house i'll have a butchers just to see if anything goes wrong or something untoward happens .
 
Do they not charge a fucking horrific amount for tickets as well?

I honestly cannot see how it can be justified. Especially with people talking of construction work on schools etc being put on hold or cancelled so they can build some fucking athletics stadium that no-one actually wants or needs.

The only thing I remember about a specific Olympics (& I wasn't even alive when it happened)...

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Do they not charge a fucking horrific amount for tickets as well?

I honestly cannot see how it can be justified. Especially with people talking of construction work on schools etc being put on hold or cancelled so they can build some fucking athletics stadium that no-one actually wants or needs.


It's all bollox really especially the Opening Ceremony thats the biggest pile of shite .

Costs billions i think it really is the daftest i mean who gives a fuk about a Shite ceremony ?
 
Do they not charge a fucking horrific amount for tickets as well?

I honestly cannot see how it can be justified. Especially with people talking of construction work on schools etc being put on hold or cancelled so they can build some fucking athletics stadium that no-one actually wants or needs.

The only thing I remember about a specific Olympics (& I wasn't even alive when it happened)...

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I think the hope is that they will break even? We all know they probably won't though...
 
It's all bollox really especially the Opening Ceremony thats the biggest pile of shite .

Costs billions i think it really is the daftest i mean who gives a fuk about a Shite ceremony ?

Exactly. It's a horrible extravagance, I genuinely don't understand why someone in a slight position of power hasn't said "Hold on a minute, see this fucking MASSIVE amount of money we're spending here, why don't we actually spend it on something worthwhile?".

Cunts live in a fucking bubble, I swear to it.

Then there's the aftermath of all the stadiums that they're building. I don't exactly know much about it but as far as I can understand they are building these world class mega expensive stadiums that will be used for the purpose they have been built for about 2 weeks, then they'll just ram something else in it which clearly won't be using the building to it's full potential/value.

I'm totally dumbfounded as to why this is allowed to happen. Especially "during this economic climate" or whatever that patter is. Cunts need to get a fucking grip of themselves & spend money on shit that matters!!!
 
I didn't know they were actually building stadiums that is insane. I thought they were just going to use the football stadiums lol absolute stupidity.
 
You have captured the true essence of what being British is all about. The ability to laugh about this sad fact is also one of our greatest qualities.

Cheers(I think) Do you mean the fact that we are taught to look at ourselves as oppressive scum, or the 'fact' that we are scum as in our past repressive conquering ways?
 
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I think he's trying to explain that a big part of being British is not taking jingoism too seriously, and being able to laugh at the absurdity of the "traditional" national identity. Which you have to admit is impossibly pompous, pretentious and above itself, if sometimes charmingly so.
 
Yes, I believe Botfly is the vocal UKIP supporter you speak of.

But let's not be judgmental politics-wise, eh? Otherwise we'll open up that can of worms again. The one that blights every fucking thread. :D
 
I am very proud to be a UKIP supporter thank you very much. You can see what the EU is doing to countries like Greece and Spain, destroying national identity and democracy...I also believe that whilst Britain could be considered cunts of the past, they've brought many beneficial aspects upon the modern world, such as the Magna Carta. I don't think there is a problem with patriotism in itself; it's like not shitting on your own doorstep. The problem arises when trying to force your patriotism upon other nations like what the Yanks are doing right now across the Middle East.
 
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