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  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #60 - July 27, 2012, 11:45 AM
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19011788
    ^ What a bell end.
    Each of us a failed state in stark relief against the backdrop of the perfect worlds we seek.
    Propagandhi - Failed States
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #61 - July 27, 2012, 11:52 AM
    Quote from: Abood on July 27, 2012, 02:24 AM
    Fair enough. But even if the Olympics generated a profit, who would that money be going to? Why is a city willing to spend on private investments, but not address the problem of poverty and social injustice within its jurisdiction?

    The Olympics are just another example of corporate capitalism, where any profit generated goes to the big, private companies, and any loss incurred is thrown on the public.
    The Guardian

    I don't care. I can't even pretend to care. I don't look at the Olympics in only the narrow scope of how much money it's gonna cost. It just cheapens it. I'm not a lawyer or a banker or a financial adviser. I can't muster the energy to argue the case.

    We're paying for the Olympic games. We get the Olympic games. That's the deal. A monumental occasion. Sporting history in the making. Lifting the spirit of an entire nation, inspiring a generation. For one glorious moment in history, we are the host nation of the entire Olympic ethos and home of the Olympic flame. The whole world will be watching. Let's put on a show and spare no expense.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #62 - July 27, 2012, 11:59 AM
    Quote from: Abood on July 27, 2012, 11:38 AM
    Just because a previously bad area was renovated doesn't mean the poor are going to benefit. Gentrification tends to lead to a skyrocketing of prices that marginalizes the working class and favours the middle and upper classes.


    I don't hold any brief for the Olympic games. I just don't believe that it can be depicted definitively as something that is not going to be of benefit for the people of east London of all incomes over the long term given the billions of transport and commercial infrastructure that, along with the Channel Tunnel terminal (which means that it is now connected to France and mainland Europe), has changed a destitute part of the city completely.

    My only grouse is that I wish other cities in the UK would receive larger slices of the infrastructural investment cake.

    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


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    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #63 - July 27, 2012, 12:42 PM
    Quote from: Ishina on July 27, 2012, 11:52 AM
    I don't care. I can't even pretend to care. I don't look at the Olympics in only the narrow scope of how much money it's gonna cost. It just cheapens it. I'm not a lawyer or a banker or a financial adviser. I can't muster the energy to argue the case.

    We're paying for the Olympic games. We get the Olympic games. That's the deal. A monumental occasion. Sporting history in the making. Lifting the spirit of an entire nation, inspiring a generation. For one glorious moment in history, we are the host nation of the entire Olympic ethos and home of the Olympic flame. The whole world will be watching. Let's put on a show and spare no expense.

    Do you really need to be a lawyer or banker or financial adviser to care about the economic and social justice side of any major event?

    I'm not saying you can't enjoy and celebrate your country bringing the whole world together -- hell, I'm not a huge fan of the sports and I still enjoy watching the games sometimes -- but you can't just ignore the downside of the Olympics.

    It's not like I'm ordering you to join the protests and boycotts.
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #64 - July 27, 2012, 01:00 PM
    Quote from: Abood on July 27, 2012, 12:42 PM
    Do you really need to be a lawyer or banker or financial adviser to care about the economic and social justice side of any major event?

    I'd have to do incredible mental contortions to find an issue of social injustice that warrants my concern. I'd have to be detached from the event in its whole fulsomeness and see the event in only numbers to find an issue with the economics that warrants my concern. It just seems like trivial and petty nitpicking in the full-spectrum scheme of things.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #65 - July 27, 2012, 01:14 PM
    Getting around London is a massive ball ache atm. You can't move for idiots in purple tracksuits wandering around like headless chickens, failed Addison Lee drivers given BMW's to drive around like lunatics in their own lanes and military fatigues abound like there's some sort of coup going down. Oh, and corporate branding everywhere. It's basically a jolly for bureaucrats to jizz tax money on useless shite that no one will give a fuck about in a year's time. The only good thing is that some new apartments have been built (a small proportion of which will be available for social housing tenants), although I'm pretty sure developers would have built them, anyway, given permission. It's mainly people who live outside London who are drinking the kool-aid, and all the rich cats who can afford tickets.

    Personally, I couldn't give a flying fuck and can't wait for it to be over so they can remove all the surface-to-air missiles from people's rooftops.

    Each of us a failed state in stark relief against the backdrop of the perfect worlds we seek.
    Propagandhi - Failed States
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #66 - July 27, 2012, 01:24 PM
    Must be terrible. And for a whole two weeks, too. That's like forever.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #67 - July 27, 2012, 01:29 PM
    This is quite sweet

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3hS4nvs8A
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #68 - July 27, 2012, 01:45 PM
    Quote from: Ishina on July 27, 2012, 01:24 PM
    Must be terrible. And for a whole two weeks, too. That's like forever.

    I take it your street is also closed for two weeks and lined with green berets?
    Each of us a failed state in stark relief against the backdrop of the perfect worlds we seek.
    Propagandhi - Failed States
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #69 - July 27, 2012, 01:46 PM
    Quote from: thinkfree on July 27, 2012, 01:14 PM
    Getting around London is a massive ball ache atm. You can't move for idiots in purple tracksuits wandering around like headless chickens, failed Addison Lee drivers given BMW's to drive around like lunatics in their own lanes and military fatigues abound like there's some sort of coup going down. Oh, and corporate branding everywhere. It's basically a jolly for bureaucrats to jizz tax money on useless shite that no one will give a fuck about in a year's time. The only good thing is that some new apartments have been built (a small proportion of which will be available for social housing tenants), although I'm pretty sure developers would have built them, anyway, given permission. It's mainly people who live outside London who are drinking the kool-aid, and all the rich cats who can afford tickets.

    Personally, I couldn't give a flying fuck and can't wait for it to be over so they can remove all the surface-to-air missiles from people's rooftops.




    and yet i wish i was in London for the next couple of weeks. if i was working in london i'm sure i'd just chill and try to join in the fun and atmosphere (as i know plenty of my family will be). anyhow, i hope the thousands of visitors enjoy their stay in London.

    and you didn't have to be rich to get tickets - just incredibly lucky when the draws were made. i think ticket prices started from around 50 quid.

    the foremost wish i have though is that we get to the end of the games without any major security incident.
    ''we are morally and philisophically in the best position to win the league'' - Arsene Wenger
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #70 - July 27, 2012, 01:54 PM
    Quote from: Blade Gunner on July 27, 2012, 01:46 PM
    the foremost wish i have though is that we get to the end of the games without any major security incident.

    We'll be lucky, given the G4S monkey's they've outsourced the security detail to.

    I'm starting to enjoy the fun, though:
    http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html
    Each of us a failed state in stark relief against the backdrop of the perfect worlds we seek.
    Propagandhi - Failed States
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #71 - July 27, 2012, 01:59 PM
    that's the spirit  Tongue
    ''we are morally and philisophically in the best position to win the league'' - Arsene Wenger
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #72 - July 27, 2012, 01:59 PM
    Quote from: Abood on July 27, 2012, 11:38 AM
    Just because a previously bad area was renovated doesn't mean the poor are going to benefit. Gentrification tends to lead to a skyrocketing of prices that marginalizes the working class and favours the middle and upper classes.


    So what? There is nothing illegal about that, neighborhoods are always changing.

    Some neighborhoods get poorer, and the middle classes move out because of the deterioration of public services and the increase in crime.

    Other neighborhoods get richer and renters canot afford to live there anymore so they move out. But that is what happens when you rent a property, you don't own it so you have no claim over it.

    For anybody that owns a property or a business in a poor area, gentrification is what they are hoping for.
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #73 - July 27, 2012, 02:07 PM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEDFMKjhLRw

    Get some burgers or else you get eaten by bears.  Cheesy
    Each of us a failed state in stark relief against the backdrop of the perfect worlds we seek.
    Propagandhi - Failed States
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #74 - July 27, 2012, 05:38 PM
    http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/07/26/2228162/saudi-female-judoka-not-allowed.html

    and Judo has banned the veil on safety grounds!
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


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    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #75 - July 27, 2012, 05:45 PM
    London is a nightmare. I'm staying indoors until this shit is over.
    "its fashionable to be an ex Muslim these days"
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #76 - July 27, 2012, 10:19 PM
    I wonder what the rest of the world thought about that opening ceremony. Very British.

    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


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    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #77 - July 27, 2012, 10:48 PM
    Please be explaining that opening. 
    So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
    My political philosophy below
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwGat4i8pJI&feature=g-vrec
    Just kidding, here are some true heros
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBTgvK6LQqA
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #78 - July 27, 2012, 10:59 PM
    I don't know how to exactly. But I like how we make a celebration of our socialised health care system   part of the Olympic opening ceremony.
    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #79 - July 28, 2012, 12:20 AM
    Quote from: deusvult on July 27, 2012, 10:48 PM
    Please be explaining that opening. 


    dunno man. that was some weird shit.



    hehe
    ''we are morally and philisophically in the best position to win the league'' - Arsene Wenger
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #80 - July 28, 2012, 12:23 AM
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #81 - July 28, 2012, 12:26 AM
    Quote from: Abood on July 28, 2012, 12:23 AM
    (Clicky for piccy!)


     Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
    "its fashionable to be an ex Muslim these days"
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #82 - July 28, 2012, 12:48 AM
    How boring was that, rather watch myself age in the mirror than watch that. Admittedly I watched when the adverts were on Big Brother. Of what I saw Mr bean was good but the bit where they highlight a white woman with a mixed race kid entering a house, I thought Wtf, yeah this is Britain, single mothers with brown kids!!

    Rather they re-enacted the London riots. Would have been more entertaining.

    Got it recorded so will watch for better overview, esp the teams coming out, the Pakistani. Still the teams coming out reminds me of the results section of the Eurovision song contest, without the results in the end.

    Thank goodness the action starts soon. Will the British get the natural lift of being the home country? I will stick my neck out and say no. Hope they do though.

    I am my own worst enemy and best friend, itsa bit of a squeeze in a three-quarter bed, tho. Unhinged!? If I was a dog I would be having kittens, that is unhinged. Footloose n fancy free, forced to fit, fated to fly. One or 2 words, 3 and 3/thirds, looking comely but lonely, till I made them homely.D
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #83 - July 28, 2012, 12:50 AM
    Oh yeah they had VT of kissing scenes. Including a gay one. Nothing wrong with that per se but did we need any kissing scenes. Is that a first for Olympic opening ceremony?
    I am my own worst enemy and best friend, itsa bit of a squeeze in a three-quarter bed, tho. Unhinged!? If I was a dog I would be having kittens, that is unhinged. Footloose n fancy free, forced to fit, fated to fly. One or 2 words, 3 and 3/thirds, looking comely but lonely, till I made them homely.D
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #84 - July 28, 2012, 12:56 AM
    Quote from: Ishina on July 26, 2012, 07:28 PM
    ^ Athletes don't just take 4 years off lol.


    Yeah but I take 4 years off from watching certain sports. Some sports you only watch when they are at the Olympics.
    I am my own worst enemy and best friend, itsa bit of a squeeze in a three-quarter bed, tho. Unhinged!? If I was a dog I would be having kittens, that is unhinged. Footloose n fancy free, forced to fit, fated to fly. One or 2 words, 3 and 3/thirds, looking comely but lonely, till I made them homely.D
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #85 - July 28, 2012, 01:21 AM


    Tories gonna tory.
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  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #86 - July 28, 2012, 03:13 AM
    Quote from: devilsadvokat on July 28, 2012, 12:48 AM
    How boring was that, rather watch myself age in the mirror than watch that. Admittedly I watched when the adverts were on Big Brother. Of what I saw Mr bean was good but the bit where they highlight a white woman with a mixed race kid entering a house, I thought Wtf, yeah this is Britain, single mothers with brown kids!!

    Rather they re-enacted the London riots. Would have been more entertaining.

    Got it recorded so will watch for better overview, esp the teams coming out, the Pakistani. Still the teams coming out reminds me of the results section of the Eurovision song contest, without the results in the end.

    Thank goodness the action starts soon. Will the British get the natural lift of being the home country? I will stick my neck out and say no. Hope they do though.



    I liked it. I didn't get half of it and the other half was weird but it was British and not British like touristy British.
    So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
    My political philosophy below
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwGat4i8pJI&feature=g-vrec
    Just kidding, here are some true heros
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBTgvK6LQqA
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #87 - July 28, 2012, 08:15 AM
    Apparently, Danny Boyle is responsible for the first lesbian kiss ever broadcast on Saudi TV. Bravo!
    Each of us a failed state in stark relief against the backdrop of the perfect worlds we seek.
    Propagandhi - Failed States
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #88 - July 28, 2012, 09:58 AM
    A friend in...I can't remember which ME country...reported on Facebook that the opening ceremony got replaced by a film around the time of the kiss. Will trawl to see where they were.
  • Re: London 2012 Olympics
     Reply #89 - July 28, 2012, 10:01 AM
    I saw part of the ceremony but was travelling for most of it. Did they hold a one minute silence for the Israeli athletes murdered in Munich?
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