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Olympics
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RE: Olympics
(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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Olympics - by Godschild - August 13, 2012 at 6:25 am
RE: Olympics - by Darwinian - August 13, 2012 at 7:35 am
RE: Olympics - by jonb - August 13, 2012 at 8:24 am
RE: Olympics - by Napoléon - August 13, 2012 at 11:03 am
RE: Olympics - by jonb - August 13, 2012 at 11:28 am
RE: Olympics - by Tiberius - August 13, 2012 at 2:06 pm
RE: Olympics - by jonb - August 13, 2012 at 3:42 pm
RE: Olympics - by Tiberius - August 14, 2012 at 1:30 pm
RE: Olympics - by jonb - August 14, 2012 at 3:16 pm
RE: Olympics - by Tiberius - August 14, 2012 at 8:34 pm
RE: Olympics - by jonb - August 15, 2012 at 9:53 am
RE: Olympics - by Tiberius - August 15, 2012 at 3:58 pm
RE: Olympics - by Tiberius - August 13, 2012 at 9:08 am
RE: Olympics - by pgrimes15 - August 13, 2012 at 10:34 am
RE: Olympics - by Tiberius - August 13, 2012 at 11:26 am
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RE: Olympics - by jonb - August 13, 2012 at 12:07 pm
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RE: Olympics - by padraic - August 13, 2012 at 8:38 pm
RE: Olympics - by jonb - August 13, 2012 at 9:53 pm
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RE: Olympics - by jonb - August 13, 2012 at 10:34 pm
RE: Olympics - by Reforged - August 13, 2012 at 11:07 pm
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RE: Olympics - by jonb - August 17, 2012 at 3:10 pm
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RE: Olympics - by Reforged - August 17, 2012 at 11:43 pm
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RE: Olympics - by jonb - August 18, 2012 at 1:38 am
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RE: Olympics - by Shell B - August 18, 2012 at 1:44 am
RE: Olympics - by Reforged - August 18, 2012 at 2:02 am
RE: Olympics - by jonb - August 18, 2012 at 2:23 am
RE: Olympics - by Tiberius - August 18, 2012 at 6:44 am
RE: Olympics - by Welsh cake - August 18, 2012 at 8:08 am
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