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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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)
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."
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Gold..... What is it good for? You can't eat it, you can't smoke it, yet everybody wants it.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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Louche: Officially the most mean spirited person about Liverpool, ever.
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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.
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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?
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.
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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?
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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:
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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.
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.
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