Olympics

[jonb]

Here during the 2000 Sydney games,there were many times more volunteers than were needed. My nephew was a driver,and had the time of his life. I suspect claims about the Brit unemployed may be exaggerated. Perhaps they were ALLOWED to volunteer?

Actually so many found ways of getting out of it, they had to call the army in to cover for them.
The trouble with Britain is the underhand way things are run, nobody admits there is a sort of workfare, but it goes on under the table. The system is supposed to be one thing, but it works in an entirely different way. We are supposed to have a national health system, but 70% of people with mental heath issues never get treatment. On the other hand you get parts of it which are truly world class. Nobody wants to confront the cost it would be to take all the service up to a high standard, but nobody wants to admit there are areas that are severely lacking, so the politicians argue a bit over a minor point, shift a bit and then the real issue is swept under the table.
'Perfidious Albion' as Napoleon said, oh you know which one, the other one, not our one, the short one, no I'm not saying our one is a short one, I'm talking about the other one, who actually by the standards of his day was not a short one either, but thinking about it I have never met our one, so he might be a short one, who can say? (Whoops wrong thread.)

PS Pad your things show when I copy them, is it just that they don't like you?