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RE: Olympics
August 13, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Is that super-commercialized horseshit finally over?
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RE: Olympics
August 13, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Olympic games..? Hmm, sounds somewhat familiar..

(I'm not a great fan of watching sports Tongue)
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RE: Olympics
August 13, 2012 at 1:44 pm
I liked the opening and closing bits... the stuff in between I ignored.
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RE: Olympics
August 13, 2012 at 2:06 pm
(August 13, 2012 at 11:28 am)jonb Wrote: Do you know about the people working as stewards in venues that have had their jobs taken away for the duration?
Evidence please.
Quote:What about all the unemployed that would have had their benefits removed if they did not 'volunteer'?
Evidence please.
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RE: Olympics
August 13, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Meh, I was hoping for Iron Maiden to make a show in the ending. Gess I was hoping too much! Big Grin
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RE: Olympics
August 13, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Oh but the Spice Girls! The entirety of that event was worth it just for those 4 minutes and 45 seconds of girl power.
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RE: Olympics
August 13, 2012 at 2:29 pm
(August 13, 2012 at 2:10 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Meh, I was hoping for Iron Maiden to make a show in the ending. Gess I was hoping too much! Big Grin

Up the Irons!

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RE: Olympics
August 13, 2012 at 2:31 pm
I'm just glad that the American media can finally get back to reporting all of the other useless shit going on in the world.
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RE: Olympics
August 13, 2012 at 3:42 pm
(August 13, 2012 at 2:06 pm)Tiberius Wrote:
(August 13, 2012 at 11:28 am)jonb Wrote: Do you know about the people working as stewards in venues that have had their jobs taken away for the duration?
Evidence please.
Quote:What about all the unemployed that would have had their benefits removed if they did not 'volunteer'?
Evidence please.

1. Lords cricket ground is one of the venues where staff have been affected.
2. A cousin of mine was given exactly that proposition.
This will not qualify as evidence because there is no published data that I know of, on the other hand they are in my personal experience. As with most things, those that liked the Olympics will think it is not true those that don't like it will be inclined to take my word for it. Who is going to investigate? Nobody that likes the british Olympic propaganda. It's like the story of how britain got the thing in the first place. We beat the French, it was not at all that the French decided to pull out was it?

I am not that interested in most sports, but that is not what I am against, and I think people who complain about a little disruption so what. But the the Olympics is just another church, who owns it and who benefits and who pays, is the first question to ask, however pretty it might look.
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RE: Olympics
August 13, 2012 at 3:48 pm
I heard the olympics is where a dumb ass with a really bad mop of hair making an idiot of himself on a zip line for all to see.
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