Olympics..soon

[ACE]

Yeah ACE, but what do you REALLY think? :D

That the money should have been spent on something worthwhile like the NHS, schools etc.

[ACE]

[tomatoada]

I do agree.   I am still shocked at the choice of sponsors.
I think the allotments should have been fenced and kept as a show place for visitors.  But I too think the choice of  venue is wrong.

[JENIAN]

Yeah ACE, but what do you REALLY think? :D

That the money should have been spent on something worthwhile like the NHS, schools etc.

The NHS needs ergant influx of cash to workers on the front line but that will not happen.......... YET :-[ 

[Melbourne12]

Just for a laugh, we went the long way round to visit our son and d-i-l yesterday afternoon, via Stratford and the DLR.  Stratford station has been extended quite astonishingly, although whether the costs of that have been counted in the budget for Seb Coe's Little Sportsday I rather doubt.

As you travel south from Stratford on the DLR you get a very clear view of the stadium and the park.  I didn't realise just how small it all is.  The stadium is obviously stadium-sized, but the surrounding running tracks and fields are very modest. 

It certainly didn't look like 9 billion pounds worth to me.

[Digeroo]

I heard there were still tickets.  Decided to try and book.  Said there were tickets costing £20.12. But in the end the cheapest were several hundred.  No wonder they are unsold.
And you cannot wear a tshirt with pepsi on it.  You can only pay with a visa card.  Which is odd since Lloyds (an official sponsor) changed my credit card to mastercard a few years ago without asking permission.

I agree about the news focusing on bad news.  Enjoyed news in Austria where even bad news has a good twist.   So flooding concentrated on neighbourliness and near miss disasters.  A flooded telephone exchange concentrated on how fast they managed to get a temporary replacement up and running.   Every news broadcast has several success stories.  

We certainly need more good news and less bad.

I  think the allotments as the centre piece of the olympic village would have been great.

[Ninnyscrops.]

Well we've got the Olympics and not a lot we can do about it now. About the money spent, yes it could have gone to better causes but the top guys and gals would have creamed it off along the way, I think somehow, too.

We've got road closures because of the cycling, and special lanes we have to avoid, but it's only for a short time.

Despite the above, I still wish all our lads and lasses who have worked so hard to get into the team all the very best.

Ninny

[Jeannine]

Just for the record Ace I have to say, there is virtually no bad press filtering through here, the only negative stuff I have seen and that was them talking to the head boy of security, was on the British channel here.

I do think the allotment would have been an absolutly great part of the area though, so very typically British, I think it would have fit in wonderfully.

XX Jeanninme

[dtw]

Let's hope our brave troops manage to stop any terrorists from attacking us.
As G4S could fight their way out of a wet paper bag.

[lillian]

I heard there were still tickets.  Decided to try and book.  Said there were tickets costing £20.12. But in the end the cheapest were several hundred.  No wonder they are unsold.
And you cannot wear a tshirt with pepsi on it.  You can only pay with a visa card.  Which is odd since Lloyds (an official sponsor) changed my credit card to mastercard a few years ago without asking permission.

Some Paralympic tickets are still available at reasonable prices. Going to the Para swimming and open ceremony. Can't wait. :) :)

[Deb P]

Saw a bit on telly this morning about the IOC having their bash at Buckingham palace with Queenie last night..  also admitted that the enforcement of sponsors rights to sole use of words and Olympicish symbols was 'over zealous' and they had been asked to be more lenient......way too late mate!!  I am disgusted about how this has been policed, it could not have undermined the British publics spirit any more effectively.

I watched the documentary about Tom Daley last night and actually felt much more positive about the whole shebang as a result....this is what we should be getting excited about, concentrating on the sportsmen and women getting the chance to represent their country.....come on team GB!!! 8)

[SamLouise]

For a chuckle; Borish Johnson's Olympic Welcome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEDFMKjhLRw  ;D

[Digeroo]

 ;D ;D   Mega I nearly wet myself. ;D ;D ;D

The bit about the digestive biscuits just creases me up.

Heard yesterday games are expected to make a profit.  Of course they will, the tax payer pays and someone else makes the profit.

On a more positive note watched interesting programme about diver Tom Daley.

[Jeannine]

So, how does he get away with that?

XX Jeannine

[Tin Shed]

Tickets are certainly still available for the Para Olympics  - have just bought two tickets for the athletics ......and the OH's ticket only costs £5 and mine was £30 ;)
They are only for a 3 hour session, but I really want to see the Olympic complex before it gets takn down.

[lillian]

My tickets also included a zone 1-9 travelcard and there is a dedicated train travel website for olympic ticket holders. Price of a return train ticket from norfolk to London at a very reasonable  £16 :)

[Digeroo]

Somewhat surprised that there were so few spectator for ladies football.  Why were the tickets so difficult to buy?

[Digeroo]

So, how does he get away with that?

I presume it is a spoof.  I am sure that Boris has nothing to do with it.  Just bits of him cut from thousands of clips.

[elvis2003]

Im still in shock that macdonalds is the chosen so called restaurant to sponsor the event,what a missed chance to promote healthy eating along with healthy living

[Digeroo]

I am more in shock to discover Dow is a sponsor.  Is this why Aminopyralid was relicenced?
According to Wikipedia the sponsorship extends to 2020.  So I assume we will be eating Aminopyralid in our food until then,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Chemical_Company

They are also connected to not paying compensation for the BHOPAL tragedy. They were also behind DDT and agent orange.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

[Flighty]

Sadly the Olympic ideals have long been subverted by the IOC and corporate sponsors in the cause of monetary greed.