Comments on: London’s Olympic Village Is Falling Down

By: val

val — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:36:53 +0000

It would take a protest from the People if the Government go ahead. Tessa Jowell
seems to think money should be made available to carry on with the development
on the grounds it would keep people in work……..think how many small Businesses
could keep their employees in work manufacturing instead.

By: dairy

dairy — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:18:02 +0000

why can’t we just cancel it…?

By: chenier

chenier — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:15:20 +0000

I gather Chelsea turned their toes up for the first time in 4 years.

Not that you are gloating or anything like that…

By: Lone Pigeon

Lone Pigeon — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:02:52 +0000

The advice is duly noted. I’m truly grateful you brought up the subject of Blue. Being a Liverpool fan it gives me great pleasure to here the word Blue. One Nil One Nil One Nil One Nil………sorry got a bit carried away there…….

By: chenier

chenier — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:58:11 +0000

I wish I could do tekkie things; we could match that picture of Sarkozy laughing his head off at Brown to the soundtrack and have the perfect aural caption.

However, do avoid spending too much time reading the political pages; I worry that you may end up as a Norwegian Blue if your blood pressure goes too high…

By: Lone Pigeon

Lone Pigeon — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:49:44 +0000

If you can find one of those with the bird laughing and rolling around on the floor on it’s back with it’s legs in the air then yes spot on.

By: chenier

chenier — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:47:24 +0000

I thought it was you after you’d heard the latest explanations from the politicians…

By: Lone Pigeon

Lone Pigeon — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:40:42 +0000

that’s me after a few pints

By: chenier

chenier — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:25:40 +0000

Lone Pigeon in disguise…

By: agw

agw — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:19:26 +0000

Athens asked Sydney to help out.
The Australian response was a classic:
See: You What?

By: chenier

chenier — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:03:28 +0000

Yes; it would be accurate to describe it as a catastrophe.

But there is an unwillingness in the media to accept that the entire house of cards has fallen; people are having trouble grasping that it was all an illusion, the biggest Ponzi fraud of all time.

So I anticipate a lot of fuss over the Olympics; perhaps we could start a petition on the Number 10 website for a sensible solution like giving it back to Beijing…

By: val

val — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:55:58 +0000

chenier

To be honest, there wasn”t much enthusiasm among the populace for hosting the Games in Britain , it”s been a loss leader for most Countries and only London showed
any enthusiasm. It”s not just the cost of Building and developing the Railway, who can afford to cross the World to attend.?

Why don”t we suggest the Games are suspended, they were during the War and you could class what”s happening now as a catastrophe.

By: chenier

chenier — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:34:12 +0000

I agree whole heartedly, Val.

The Chinese prime minister is due to attend the Group of Twenty meeting on the 15th November; Gordon could corner him then and beg him to do his bit for Britain…

By: val

val — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:28:09 +0000

The theory is that it will take at least two years (providing there are n o more skeletons
in the financial cupboard) for the Economy to pick up, why doesn”t common
sense prevail and GB ask China to host the games again? Don”t let pride get in the
way, which is more important, helping people financially to hang on to heir homes and
jobs…or financing the Games?

By: PeterMac

PeterMac — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:02:22 +0000

Blair started with the decision about the Dome and finished with the decision about the Olympics.
And the nation stood back and did not try to stop him.
One can only hope that all those socialist and Nu Labur supporters who voted for him for all those years get hit financially, and begin to realise what that disastrous government did, and has done and is doing to the country.,

By: chenier

chenier — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:07:35 +0000

Sounds like an excellent plan, which means that there’s no chance of anyone adopting it…

By: Grande Finale

Grande Finale — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:16:18 +0000

Added to that they can run walk and cycle to get here, so there!!

By: Grande Finale

Grande Finale — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:15:03 +0000

chenier Says:

October 25th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
They did?

We can’t fit half a million people into the site, thank the Lord; my big worry is that they will simply order all the Barbican residents to move out for the duration and billet the athletes in our homes.

There are only 2000 apartments here, but blow-up mattresses aren’t that expensive…
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It maybe time to make a stand on the environmental impact and prove to the world that less is more. The games are about the human spirit not massively expensive showpieces.

A giant tent village, a few hundred recycleable candles, the teams could bring sandwiches and bottled water with them ! Think along the lines of a major international scout jamboree!

What does it take to run a race anyway ? a football pitch size piece of short turf !!

By: chenier

chenier — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:38:34 +0000

They did?

There are only 2000 apartments here, but blow-up mattresses aren’t that expensive…

By: Lone Pigeon

Lone Pigeon — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:22:42 +0000

And china make my point in a certain way. Their opening ceremony was mainly manual labour. I’m not sure how much they spent on the opening ceremony but even I know that it doesn’t cost that amount of money to get half a million people to hold a card up and turn it every so often to create what has been one of the most amazing visual human efforts spectacles aver produced in the last god knows how long