Latest from the news wires ...so how do you feel about staging the greatest show on Earth, London folk?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I'm getting really excited, as it happens. I'll be a bit disappointed if we don't succeed. I really doubt I'll be in London still by 2012, but I think it'll be a real boost for the city, and most likely the whole country. I'm going to be on the edge of my seat until 12.41
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I really hope we get it even if only to piss Chirac off and make him pay for his illadvised comments at the weekend - it may make him even less inclined to align his stance with the UK and entrenched re the CAP at G8 but since that is likely (99.9999%) to be the case anyway there's no point in a softly-softly approach.
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
I will be pleased if any UK or Irish city gets the Olympics within my youth(ish). I don't think this should be a chance for Londoners and non-Londoners to sneer at each other's cities; everyone on our little island can jump on a train and within a couple of hours be able to witness some once-in-a-lifetime stuff. By going so close to the wire, London has hopefully boosted the chances of the likes of Birmingham and Manchester's future bids.
I would LOVE to be able watch Olympic standard events in some of my favourite sports: athletics, horsy things and gymnastics, and the opening ceremony would be cool too.
I think London's creaking transport system (even with this mythical new train line) would struggle with the extra influx of people. However, a mate of mine was working in Sydney during their Olympics and said loads of business just shut down or worked flexi hours. This sounds ace!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Yeah I can't believe we're down to the last two. I seem to remember there being a mood of "Don't even know why we're bothering - never had a chance" about a year ago. Now it's between London and Paris. C'mon. C'mon. C'mon.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Damn I saw that and thought it was decided - still in about 20 minutes from now we'll all find out that the bloody French have got it.
I would love London to get the Olympics - the rejuvination it would bring to some areas like around Stratford would be marvellous. And London people are much nicer than those uppity Parisian types, eh VP?
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
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Posted by discodamage (Member # 66) on :
of course london people are nicer than parisians! parisians are fucking *****. ive never met a single parisian who was anywere nice as me. ive never even met a parisian who was as nice as kovacs.
i REALLY REALLY REALLY want london to win. so much so that i am trying not to get excited.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Ooh tenterhooks. I'm working on a property newspaper that goes to press this afternoon - the first three pages are going to be different depending on whether we get the olympics. Real actual 'hold the front page'!
I think it would be gr9 to get 'em, as long as the people who know what they're doing - designers, transport types, etc - are allowed to get on with it and not suffocated by a millennium committe type wet blanket, a la dome.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by discodamage: of course london people are nicer than parisians! parisians are fucking *****. ive never met a single parisian who was anywere nice as me. ive never even met a parisian who was as nice as kovacs.
[OJ] God, you're a Sun-scribing racist bimbo[/OJ]
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
If we don't get it then we should pour every penny we were going to spend on fixing London up into training an Olympic team which will win every single gold medal and leave the stinking Frogs to choke on their own (superior, I grant you) food.
We could also divert some of the funds into a special fund for young stand up comedians to come up with a vast number of anti-French taunts which will be broadcast just after the pips on the BBC World Service as a homage to the French Resistance messages off of the War.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I really need the loo but can't leave my desk...what a dilemma.
Posted by discodamage (Member # 66) on :
hating parisians isnt racist. its just common sense.
the bbc website is up the cock. where else can i go to get an up-to-the-minute webflash? i usually use the telly for things like this but im betweeen domiciles at the moment.
Posted by discodamage (Member # 66) on :
what a time to be relying on dial-up!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
SHIT! BBC news sport has gone down.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
It's not working here, either. Everyone in the world is clicking Refresh.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Same here ! Rats Cocks !
Arrggghhhh!!!! Come on London!!!
Posted by discodamage (Member # 66) on :
guardian's arseing it too!
Posted by discodamage (Member # 66) on :
and my mobiles not working so i cant even ring my mate on the legacy team! this is a mare of unrivalled proportions!
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
And the winner is... LONDON! Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
From the cheer that just went up in Exchange Square, I reckon London got it.
Posted by discodamage (Member # 66) on :
are you joking? really?
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Serious? We got it ? I fucking hope so!
YAY!!! Sporting Life Says YES!!!
Excellent ! Fucking top!
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
With a section to vote for Paris! These people make me sick.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Woohoo! Olym-pics! Olym-pics! Olym-pics! Stick that up your arse Chirac!
Ah...
Right!
Great! We've been lumbered with the fucking olympics! It's going to cost a fucking fortune and will probably be a complete washout.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
lol - you'll be pleased to hear I got caught up in the excitement caused by my own hoax thread title; I've wasted the past 30 minutes trying to get 5 Live coverage over the internet.
Still!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: How do you all KNOW? The internet has fallen apart. There was a cheer outside, but how did they know?
We've just invited shedloads of foreigners into our country! Us taxpayers are going to be paying for these scummers to have a special village built for them! Then they'll run faster than good, honest British folks! And probably stay here on benefits afterwards! We should send them all over to Paris.
Posted by Fionnula the Cooler (Member # 453) on :
Well done London. I just hope they don't make the rest of the UK pay for it.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
They put on the office TV in the media room and all gathered round. It was a moment of inter-office bonding. Now we're all back to mostly ignoring each other.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Fionnula the Cooler: I just hope they don't make the rest of the UK pay for it.
That is exactly the sort of comment that is actually, really going round this office here in Manchester. Their grumpiness is just the icing on the cake!
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
All those who don't like watching sport should be made to pay for it.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Commiserating with the French representatives must be delicious!
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: All those who don't like watching sport should be made to pay for it.
I feel the same way about anal.
Posted by Fionnula the Cooler (Member # 453) on :
I mean, I know everyone on this forum lives in London so of course you're all going to be pleased and I'm pleased for you, I am, it's great that your transport systems will improve and grotty east end areas will see the benefit of millions of pounds, I mean, genuinely, it is. But is it not understandable that the rest of the country is kind of like ... *shrug*?
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
As long as there's a blanket ban on foreign teams bringing their own food we should be guaranteed loads of medals. Everyone else will be glued to the giant communal dunnies at the Olympic Village.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Oh don't be such a fucking lamer Fionnula. I live in Yorkshire and even I can see that the Games will bring a huge amount of benefit to the country in terms of tourism dollars, international profile and general morale.
Aside from which, few places in the UK are more than a morning's travel by train or plane from London so it'll look pretty weak of people in Scotland, Wales or the regions to start bleating about how it's "all that way down there".
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
quote:Originally posted by Fionnula the Cooler: I mean, I know everyone on this forum lives in London so of course you're all going to be pleased and I'm pleased for you, I am, it's great that your transport systems will improve and grotty east end areas will see the benefit of millions of pounds, I mean, genuinely, it is. But is it not understandable that the rest of the country is kind of like ... *shrug*?
Um, despite being the resident gobby northerner with remit for dissing London and wanking on ceaselessly about the excellence of Manchester, I'm chuffed London got the Olympics. Pisses off the French for a start. Just have to hope that London lot talk to the people who did the Commonwealth Games in Manchester seeing as that was the last large scale sporting event hosted in the UK and was stupidly, wonderfully successful.
Posted by Vanilla Online Persona (Member # 301) on :
I thought many of the events would be spread outside London. I know Cardiff is hosting quite a few of the football matches.
I'm delighted about the announcement.
I fucking hate the French.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
London pride on the BBC:
quote:Maybe all those idiots having a party just down the road from me in Trafalgar Square would also like to pay my, and all my colleagues, additional council taxes for the next 30 years? I know of hardly anyone in London who supported the bid, and I'm absolutely livid that Londoners (who are the only people being asked to pay for the thing) were NEVER given the opportunity to vote on it, whether by referendum or whatever. I'm gutted. Andrew Whiteside, London, UK
Who will win the war of bitterness? The French, the Scots or disaffected Londoners? Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
The Red Arrows did a flyover our office! Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Some people are never happy though are they. The population of London will be 14 million minimum by then. What's a pound each? 14 million pounds! Hoo-Wray.
Posted by OJ (Member # 752) on :
quote:Originally posted by ben: Oh don't be such a fucking lamer Fionnula. I live in Yorkshire and even I can see that the Games will bring a huge amount of benefit to the country in terms of tourism dollars, international profile and general morale.
Aside from which, few places in the UK are more than a morning's travel by train or plane from London so it'll look pretty weak of people in Scotland, Wales or the regions to start bleating about how it's "all that way down there".
I hate to tell you but the moaning's already started in Yorkshire. There are some world class sporting facilities in Sheffield of all places, and there are fears that the city just won't see the benefit. Apart from maybe as a training village.
I'm having a wild guess that Cardiff's going to feel the same when Wembley is finally finished and it finds itself being unceremoniously dumped and the FA not returning its calls.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
God bless the red arrows. Wiltshire boys.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by ben: London pride on the BBC:
quote:Maybe all those idiots having a party just down the road from me in Trafalgar Square would also like to pay my, and all my colleagues, additional council taxes for the next 30 years? I know of hardly anyone in London who supported the bid, and I'm absolutely livid that Londoners (who are the only people being asked to pay for the thing) were NEVER given the opportunity to vote on it, whether by referendum or whatever. I'm gutted. Andrew Whiteside, London, UK
Who will win the war of bitterness? The French, the Scots or disaffected Londoners?
Yes - there's absolutely no chance that hosting the Olympics will actually bring money into the country and provide any kind of economic lift. Not a jot.
Posted by Fionnula the Cooler (Member # 453) on :
The Scots will be livid every time it's mentioned on the news, yes. My brother wanted Paris to get it just to annoy the English. Yes, he is a lamer. But so is any English person who hates the French. The French hate you right back though. I remember one of the stewards outside the Louvre treating me with total disdain when I asked him how exactly you were supposed to get into the actual museum, until he realised I wasn't English but Scottish and proceeded to sneak me past the three-hour-long queues and in through a secret door.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
Olympic Timetable:
1. Announcement made - Joyful cheering and overt pride. Red Arrows fly over Uber's office.
2. 3.5 minutes later - How much is it going to cost? I don't like sports anyway. I'm moving house. Hrmph, no more grants for anyone else except East London for the next 18 years then.
3. Three years before Olympics - Building begins. Roadworks, endless dust and drills and cranes everywhere. Major doubts set in.
4. One year before Olympics - Nothing is finished. Tonight with Trevor McDonald (the chap at the beginning for 30 seconds, you know the one) exposes shocking delays and escalating costs.
5. One month before Olympics - Nothing is finished. This will be a complete disaster. Rest of country looks other way and pretends it's nothing to do with London.
6. The Games commence - Everything runs superbly, everyone is happy, plaudits all round, what a triumph for this great city.
7. Two days after the end of the Games - Disastrous Olympic Legacy. Newspapers reveal the ongoing costs of the Olympics and find a local schoolchild who was told he couldn't go for a swim in the Olympic pool, thus proving that the locals aren't even benefitting from the facilities.
8. Six months after the Olympics - What Olympics? Oh yeah, I remember them. Where are they next time anyway?
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
quote:Originally by Tony Bear: It's not often in this job that you punch the air and do a little jig and embrace the person next to you. It's a fantastic thing and I'm thrilled.
Ahhh. Bless.
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
Lots of places all over the UK hold important sporting events at unique and historic locations- the Grand National in Liverpool, the snooker thing in Sheffield, golf or something in Scotchland, Wimbledon etc. Holding the Olympics in London doesn't denigrate any of these; it's just acknowledging the capacity and infrastructure of our largest city. Manchester did a fine and understated job for the Commonwealth Games, but really, that is a chickenfeed event compared to 2012. The Olympics is a lumbering behemouth that gets more massive each time, and there are realistically very few cities in the world that can accommodate it. I'm not 100% confident that London is totally up to the job, but I'd rather it came here than got given to Birmingham or Sheffield ffs as a charity gesture. IOC Chairman Jacques Rogge: "yes, it was a controversial decision to award the 2012 Games to Rotherham, but you know how touchy these Yorkshire folk are, and they hate the way London gets all the attention. It would definitely be the best thing for Britain to give the Games to some provincial town and watch them fuck it up."
My understanding is that Cardiff's excellent Millennium Stadium was built as a kick-arse sporting venue in its own right, not just as a temporary place while Wembley gets sorted out. I'm sure it's done very well out of renting out to the FA over the last couple of years.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: God bless the red arrows. Wiltshire boys.
The Red Arrows are based in Lincolnshire.
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
Those BBC "Have Your Say" sections really are a comedy goldmine. I think my new favourite is:
quote: My sympathies to the British taxpayer, who is now forced to fund this morally bankrupt track and field meet. Doug Stephens, Toronto
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
He's not wrong - RAF Scampton - home to 617 Sqdn AKA the Dambusters, and of course the Red Arrows (Although technically they have two bases - Akitiri in Cyprus where they do their winter training)
Wiltshire? I think he got confused with the Blue Eagles, the British Army Display team which are based out of Middle Wallop which I am sure is in Wiltshire.
[ 06.07.2005, 09:25: Message edited by: Waynster ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Dude on the left is my dad's cousin or something...
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Can he get us a Micheal Aspel's autograph?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: Those BBC "Have Your Say" sections really are a comedy goldmine.
They've been really pissing me off, actually. Nearly all the London ones are all like "Harumph. Council taxes. Blah blah blah." How short sighted is that? With all that construction work, infrastructure work going on it means money being spent on London workers who then go out and spend elsewhere. Plus the regeneration of an area that's currently a bit of a shithole. God! Can't people see past their own Council Tax payment to the bigger picture.
Worst of all is when they go "Oh all my colleagues' council tax will go up", yeah right, you give a fuck about your colleagues: that's just deferring the fact that you're worried *you* might have to pay more, despite the fact that the work being done will mean more money going around.
As for the rest of the UK, it's hardly like it's such a vast Isle that no-one anywhere else is going to notice - contracts aren't just going to be going out to London firms, there's going to be an impact throughout the country. It's like a big club with free money for everyone!
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
quote:Originally posted by Waynster: Middle Wallop
lol excellent. I want to live in Middle Wallop.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Waynster: Can he get us a Micheal Aspel's autograph?
They don't keep in touch. From what I've heard, Aspel just hands over the red book and fucks off.
He never calls... Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
"Cela prouve que le Comité est anglo-saxon, c'est les Anglais. (...) Cela fait mal au coeur."
"C'est horrible. je suis super triste."
"C'est dégueulasse."
"C'est une grosse déception."
God, they know how to whinge don't they?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Uber Trick: I want to live in Middle Wallop.
Oooh, is it time for a Funny Place Names thread?
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: As for the rest of the UK, it's hardly like it's such a vast Isle that no-one anywhere else is going to notice - contracts aren't just going to be going out to London firms, there's going to be an impact throughout the country. It's like a big club with free money for everyone!
True, the whole of the North West benefitted from Mancunia's Commonwealth Games moment. Except Liverpool. They didn't give Liverpool any money. Or free tickets. Or anything. Which is as it should be.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Those sneaky Lincolnshire fucks. I was thinking of Stonehenge.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
Ah, The Stonehenge Arrows. Those famous flying rocks known for their amazing flying displays trailing plumes of coloured granite dust in their wake.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Uber Trick: lol excellent. I want to live in Middle Wallop.
There is an Upper and a Lower Wallop as well.
Posted by OJ (Member # 752) on :
quote:Originally posted by dang65: Some of these are good for a laugh.
" "C'est dégueulasse."
I really love that word. It's one of my favourites, try saying it without a look of utter contempt.
Speaking of which, Louche, enough about Liverpool. Stephen Gerrard's not leaving now so there'll be no mass outpouring of grief to annoy you.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Fifteen minutes of BBC's North West news was about Stephen fucking Gerrard last night. Including exciting shots such as a blacked out car and small crying child fan. On the day there were two armed seiges going on, not to mention myriad other exciting things. The extent of this coverage - exclusively football, exclusively fucking Liverpool made me insane with rage. I had to go to the pub to calm down and everything.
Anyway, Liverpool has citywide mourning on a weekly basis. Steeped in faked up melodramatic attention seeking grief, that city. Grr.
Oh. You said enough about Liverpool, didn't you? Sorry.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
Is there anywhere else on the planet where two cites as close together as Liverpool and Manchester have such genuine loathing for each other? They're less than thirty miles apart. The few Liverpudlians that work here have to keep their mouths shut most of the time, which is an absolutely astonishing feat for a scouser.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Do you think the Red Arrows practice the flight of sorrowful defeat in case we didn’t get the bid or do you think somebody went into a burger bar in Islington and asked for a ‘Wimpylympic’ party and the Arrows launched out of a missile silo filled with balloons cakes, and fighter jets.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
quote:Originally posted by dang65: Is there anywhere else on the planet where two cites as close together as Liverpool and Manchester have such genuine loathing for each other?
Newcastle and Sunderland. One memorable (and memorably sarcastic) piece on the regional tv news when I was living up in Darlington featured probably the most fanatical (and fanatically Mackem-hating) Newcastle fan in the world.
He refused to have anything red/red-and-white in the house, even to the point of not eating streaky bacon because of its being a queasy visual analogue for the Sunderland team strip.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Cool ! The beach volleyball is to be held on Horseguards Parade (when the queen troops her colour anually), and the shooting events are to be held at Woolwich Arsenal (where I did my basic training)
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
Best French reaction piece yet...
quote:Charles Bremner, Paris Correspondent of The Times, was in the square opposite the town hall when the news came through:
"I was standing with around 5,000 people, all ready for a party. We were watching the session on two large screens with a French police band dressed in white and standing by, ready to play.
"And then as the moment approached, the sky darkened and a light rain started to fall around a minute before the announcement.
"The news was greeted by silence and disbelief. There was a smattering of booing and some weeping, but most people just started to shuffle away.
"But then the screens cut to London and showed pictures of the celebrations in Trafalgar Square and there was an eruption of booing. At which point the deputy mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, started to speak to the crowd.
"She told the crowd to treat the news in the spirit of fair play and that the process had been fair. And then there was some clapping and the rain started to fall harder and the band started to play a medley of James Bond tunes. It was quite funereal."
Posted by turbo (Member # 593) on :
Great that London got it - I was actually hoping they would. Where are they going to put all the people though? Just thinking about it makes my brain hurt. London is so incredibly full that I can't possibly imagine having anything as big as the Olympics there.
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
See also Portsmouth and Southampton. What would be really good would be the entire populations of these two taking each other on, until both towns imploded and dropped off the edge of the south coast.
Re The Pool. Any football story is always headline news in both Manc and Scouseland. I imagine Beckham's exit was equally hysterically covered, probably with poignant shots of the number 7 shirt hanging in a merchandise shop and interviews with "stunned and betrayed" fans.
In the aftermath of the GLORIOUS RED VICTORY, I read in one of the (respectable) papers about what a shambles the Turkish venue for the final was: stadium in the middle of nowhere, coaches having to drop fans off about a mile away from the gates, a long walk across debris-strewn wasteland, poor printing and poor lighting meaning it was difficult to read information off the tickets, very few ground staff to direct people to their seats etc. The journalist commented that if the Liverpool fans hadn't been so good humoured about the delays and chaos, there may well have been crowd trouble. Good old Liverpool, eh Louche?
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: Re The Pool. Any football story is always headline news in both Manc and Scouseland. I imagine Beckham's exit was equally hysterically covered, probably with poignant shots of the number 7 shirt hanging in a merchandise shop and interviews with "stunned and betrayed" fans.
Heh, the best news item I've seen that nice Gordon Burns present recently was the footage of police in riot gear beating Man U fans with sticks after they tried to attack the Glazers. That rocked. I could've taped it and watched it again and again and again. I would've done if I had a video recorder.
quote:In the aftermath of the GLORIOUS RED VICTORY, I read in one of the (respectable) papers about what a shambles the Turkish venue for the final was: stadium in the middle of nowhere, coaches having to drop fans off about a mile away from the gates, a long walk across debris-strewn wasteland, poor printing and poor lighting meaning it was difficult to read information off the tickets, very few ground staff to direct people to their seats etc. The journalist commented that if the Liverpool fans hadn't been so good humoured about the delays and chaos, there may well have been crowd trouble. Good old Liverpool, eh Louche?
Why good old Liverpool? Because they didn't riot at a bit of inconvenience? Surely we shouldn't be commending them for being basically decent? Did anyone commend the Wimbledon crowds for not having a bit of a riot when rain stopped play? I think it's a bit much to say oh well done for being good humoured just because we''re so used to football violence and hooliganism it's almost expected.
[ 06.07.2005, 11:12: Message edited by: Louche ]
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
I think the implication was that fans from other, lesser teams may have got more impatient more quickly, and created problems for an understaffed and ill equipped venue. But the good old Liverpool fans kept a potentially dodgy situation at bay.
I'd rather see the Wimbledon fans rioting and hooliganising than groaning along politely with Tiger Tim's every fluffed shot, and singing with Cliff Richard. Also, there should be more heckling at snooker matches and crowd chanting at golf games.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: I think the implication was that fans from other, lesser teams may have got more impatient more quickly, and created problems for an understaffed and ill equipped venue. But the good old Liverpool fans kept a potentially dodgy situation at bay.
Kind of oh well done, you've moved on from Hillsborough?
Posted by OJ (Member # 752) on :
quote:Originally posted by Louche: Anyway, Liverpool has citywide mourning on a weekly basis. Steeped in faked up melodramatic attention seeking grief, that city. Grr.
Not anymore. These days they're alternated with public floggings (but only for Boris Johnson) and spontaneous eruptions of joy expressed by climbing onto the roof (European Cup winning).
If only Margaret Thatcher would visit, there'd be ritual witch burning too and the NWDA could market the whole area as a mediaeval theme park.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Louche: Kind of oh well done, you've moved on from Hillsborough?
Boris? Is that you?
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
quote:Originally posted by OJ: If only Margaret Thatcher would visit, there'd be ritual witch burning too and the NWDA could market the whole area as a mediaeval theme park.
An innovative part of the Capital of Culture celebrations, perhaps? But how to incorporate the endless wanking on about the Beatles?
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Louche: Officially the most mean spirited person about Liverpool, ever.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
quote:Originally posted by ben:
and the band started to play a medley of James Bond tunes..."
lol
[ 06.07.2005, 12:26: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by Bandy (Member # 12) on :
New picture wired across from Reuters. Paris outskirts 16:04 GMT:
Posted by The Stoat (Member # 813) on :
I really, really, really didn't want this to happen. For the first time in my life, in anything, I was rooting for France.
That's the Lea Valley fucked. Bye bye, Hackney Marshes.
I think I'll spend summer 2012 touring Paris, Madrid, Moscow and New York.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Stoat: I was rooting for France.
Well, they might need to find something new to replace baseball and softball, so keep practicing and you might be France's first rooting gold medalist.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
I've been thinking about the Olympics and wondering if I could train to become Olympic-standard in something before 2012. I'm not letting the fact that I'm 31, massively unfit and totally uninterested in sports put me off. I'm thinking about synchronised swimming, but has anyone else got any other suggestions?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Hammer throw?
[ 08.07.2005, 10:00: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
Shot put?
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
quote:Hows about throwing a 2ft ball of flame 66m. Well that's what a couple of americans did to celebrate independace day - Crazy! To view the movie go to the bottom of the page on http://www.sorinex.com/living.asp
Crazy.
Uh-oh:
quote:AAA Championships and Olympic Trials Women Hammer Final - 16:05, Saturday 10th July Men Hammer Final - 16:15, Sunday 11th July
At the time of writing there are still some tickets available for the Saturday, Sunday is sold out. Good luck to all who are competing.
I don't think that gives me enough time to practice. Better check out shot putting.
edit: WAIT! There is no video! Crazy lying Americans! What else have they been lying to us about then?
[ 08.07.2005, 10:12: Message edited by: Uber Trick ]
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
Hmmm, well after some intensive research I don't think that athletics is for me, although this is a good website if you think it could be for you (and according to the site it doesn't matter how old you are!) *
No, I'm pretty sure that synchronised swimming is the one for me, I've been reading all about the gelatine for the hair and the make-up to bring out the features. Plus you get to do this:
Anyone else fancy becoming an Olympic-standard athlete? Dang could do cycling, couldn't he?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Men's 100m?
Posted by squirrelandgman (Member # 201) on :
Darts.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Has this women crammed a different kind of boy in her mimsy? How the hell would she float otherwise?
[ 08.07.2005, 10:35: Message edited by: New Way Of Decay ]
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
i'm guessing you mean buoy. but boy works too.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by doc d: i'm guessing you mean buoy. but boy works too.
That was my clever play on words damo Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Pistol shooting's probably a piece of piss, isn't it? Do that Uber. Wear a stetson and smoke a cheroot. You don't even need to be any good at it. Eddie Edwards with a gun. And tits.
[ 08.07.2005, 10:46: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay:
quote:Originally posted by doc d: i'm guessing you mean buoy. but boy works too.
That was my clever play on words damo
i was being "a **** "
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: Pistol shooting's probably a piece of piss, isn't it. Do that Uber. Wear a stetson and smoke a cheroot. You don't even need to be any good at it. Eddie Edward with a gun. And tits.
Interestingly, when i went back to a school reunion at that private school, it transpired that one of my old friends had been on the olympic shooting team (I say friend - I'd been out of touch with him for about 7 years, by that point, and this was ten years ago). And - now listen carefully Jonesy, because this bit concerns you - all the kids I remembered as being some of the biggest wankers in the school were taking the piss out of it. Not to his face, mind, cuz he wasn't there. But they were slumping around mocking how 'easy' it would be to get into an Olympic shooting level. They'd all been big sports nits, back in the day and none of them had achieved anything in their respective fields.
[ 08.07.2005, 10:51: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by doc d: i was being "a **** "
Ah! An olympic sport in it's own right.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
Air sports Bandy Billiard Sports Boules Bowling Bridge Chess DanceSport Golf Karate Korfball Life Saving Motor Cycle Racing Mountaineering and Climbing Netball Orienteering Pelote Basque Polo Powerboating Raquetball Roller Sports Rugby Squash Surfing Sumo Tug of War Underwater Sports Water Skiing Wushu
Bandy is an Olympic Sport?!
[ 08.07.2005, 11:00: Message edited by: Uber Trick ]
Posted by SilverGinger5 (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: That was my clever play on words damo
Whatever happened to Stevie X?
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Oooh boules! Boules roules. Let's have a TMO boules team, and knock those Frenchies out of the park at their own game. We could celebrate with a Gregg's 'baguette'.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Why not cribbage? I'm fucking evil at Cribbage - or headbanging? Sychronised pogo? Happy slapping?
The olympics should be updated for more trivial pursuits enjoyed by the common man/youth of today.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
I just emailed the President of the Federation of Artistic Roller Skating. Or F-ARS as they like to abbreviate. Certainly would be if I joined.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
It just bounced back Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
quote:Originally posted by Waynster: The olympics should be updated for more trivial pursuits enjoyed by the common man/youth of today.
the olympics were never meant for the common man. we had gin. and prostitutes. and scrofula.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
I wonder how Scrawny feels knowing that her boyfriend is an Olympic sport? I imagine lots of women competing for Bandy, Scrawny being the current Bandy-holder, an Olympic sized flirtathon being staged in 2012 at a bar in Soho.
Posted by scrawny (Member # 113) on :
Not great, actually.
I imagine Bandy's probably quite taken wiith the idea of being a trophy. Actually I've just thought of a way to make thi more fun - can there be a men's event too that only beautiful gayers are allowed to enter, with Bandy as the prize? That would be aces.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
I don't make the rules Scrawny but the Secretary General is called Mr Rolf Käck if you want to contact them, the email address is: interbandy@rusbandy.ru for the International Federation of Bandy - www.internationalbandy.com Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
In light of Thorn's post, I take back what I said about shooting being easy, Uber. When I quite seriously suggested you take up pistol shooting, wear a cowboy hat and smoke a cheroot I hadn't really considered how tricky the sport might be to master, or how difficult it would be to become a famous Olympic loser like Eddie Edwards.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
that is fantastic
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote: The modern form of Bandy started to take shape in the 18th century
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
quote:Originally posted by herbs: Oooh boules! Boules roules. Let's have a TMO boules team, and knock those Frenchies out of the park at their own game. We could celebrate with a Gregg's 'baguette'.
I got a blue (well, quarter-blue) for my university at petanque. It is topp.
Posted by scrawny (Member # 113) on :
quote: BANDY MOVES ONE STEP CLOSER TO OLYMPIC STATUS
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I just hope they don't make the rest of the UK pay for it.
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I was thinking of Stonehenge.
