just john Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 No apologies if I'm out of step with this fat cat junket, I'm also out of step with Absolutely-Fabulous-BBC-One-review. I thought their take was hilarious, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 I expressed my opinion, roughly along the same lines as you, some days ago.The only other posting I've seen was from Clair. Fortunately the Humax is very near full. [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyh4 Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 It's alright for you. Living out of a hotel room means I am at the mercy of whatever channels they feel they should provide - and it seems most of them are swinging towards the only event in town (or should that be world). Even the news shows me how I can get to the stadium from the railway station!!!![:@] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillan Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Sorry Andy I am not following you round the forum, honest.I shall be watching a little as possible. Mrs 'Q' likes the athletics so I have got hold of some TV series and a few films to watch elsewhere in the house. I am also thinking of taking up fishing, I know it's sad but whats a chap supposed to do. [:(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Boris Johnsons take on it.Hilarious [:D][:D]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 [quote user="Benjamin"]I expressed my opinion, roughly along the same lines as you, some days ago.The only other posting I've seen was from Clair. Fortunately the Humax is very near full. [:D][/quote]Oh yeah, I'm tired of the whole thing already... and it hasn't even started!The current Adoration of The Torch and overall enforced joviality brings to mind the cringing Jubilee coverage...Bread and games... We must enjoy this, you must enjoy this, you will enjoy this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoneySuckleDreams Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 The only thing I am Olympic-ed out over is the 7 year whinge-fest that started as soon as London "won" the Olympics.I, for one, am looking forward to watching the Olympics over the following 3 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzer Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Plenty of choice-the BBC have 24 HD channels covering the Olympics I understand ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loiseau Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 I'm looking forward to it too, HSD! [:)]I am not remotely interested in sport, and have never knowingly watched anything from the Olympics in my life.But having been on a tour of the site under construction a couple of years ago, I am making an exception this year; I have even got tickets for one thing in the Olympic Stadium (£5 ticket for OAPs!), and now receive near-daily offers of tickets from the official website, if I cared to sign up for any more.As the Torch is travelling down the Thames on Friday almost past the end of my road, it would be churlish not to nip down and have a look from the towpath. And Bradley Wiggins et al will be tearing past the other end of my "village" on Saturday morning, so I might hike across the Common to cheer him on.In my bus- and car-borne peregrinations of the last four days, the roads have been eerily quiet (not the same at rush hour, I believe, which happily I can avoid).Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Pssst!Don't tell anyone, but I've just realised that the onion rings I've set out on the oven tray look just like the you-know-what rings ...[:-))]http://lockerz.com/s/227844431 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 You should be OK, unless you're having Count Jacques Rogge round for dinner. [:-))] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoneySuckleDreams Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 [quote user="Loiseau"]I'm looking forward to it too, HSD! [:)]and now receive near-daily offers of tickets from the official website[/quote]if you get offered anything for the heptahlon/decathlon please get in touch. No.2 son has a possibility of getting there in 8yrs so we are well up for the Olympics I'm hoping to be in Bushy park on Saturday to watch them fly through as i've got old flat mates who still live in Teddington with lots of floor space For all the bah-humbugs out there, there is always the off button - or DVD's. I mean, no one is forcing anyone to watch it, it's not like you live in North Korea is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted July 24, 2012 Author Share Posted July 24, 2012 [quote user="Clair"] The current Adoration of The Torch and overall enforced joviality brings to mind the cringing Jubilee coverage...Bread and games... We must enjoy this, you must enjoy this, you will enjoy this... [/quote]Abso - olympickle - lutely, nearly as bad as North Korea in the amount of propaganda thrust down everyone's throat,I don't enjoy this, I refuse to enjoy this, you will not enjoy this... [quote user="HoneySuckleDreams"] For all the bah-humbugs out there, there is always the off button - or DVD's. I mean, no one is forcing anyone to watch it, it's not like you live in North Korea is it? [/quote] For all those who enjoy the olympics out there, fine - enjoy ; this posting is clearly for those who won't. Despite the North Korea like entreaties like Clair said, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoneySuckleDreams Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 [quote user="just john "] For all those who enjoy the olympics out there, fine - enjoy ; this posting is clearly for those who won't. [/quote]Ok, that's me told good and proper not to interfere! I didn't realise Iwasn't allowed to comment. Long may your whinge-fest continue...maybe if you get really good at it someone will give you a medal [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted July 24, 2012 Author Share Posted July 24, 2012 [quote user="HoneySuckleDreams"] I didn't realise Iwasn't allowed to comment.Long may your whinge-fest continue...maybe if you get really good at it someone will give you a medal [:D][/quote]Of course feel to comment, after all we are all entitled to compete if we want, and there is more than one kind of medal, gold even, for a few . . . got tickets yet?[;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardian Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Heard on the radio this morning.To add to the recently invented verb (to) 'medal', there's a new one:................... to podium !!!! [:'(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 I'm not exactly looking forward to it, but I'm hoping to enjoy it while it's on.There are several sports I enjoy watching, swimming, horse riding, tennis, boxing etc, but on the other hand. I have a few DVDs on standby too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 I very much doubt I will make the deliberate decision to watch anything, but I will probably catch something as I flick through the channels.I'm on the fence about the games/sports/competition per se. I've always felt rather uncomfortable about crowing about someone else's prowess as if it were mine. Just because someone has a particular flag on his or her back doesn't mean their own achievement is mine to claim. As far as I am concerned, whatever sporting success is achieved by a team or an individual belongs to them and them only.For that reason, I have always intensely disliked the medal count in any sort of international competition and the glee which inevitably accompanies it.The idea that "this country" is better than "that country" because "this athlete" ran faster than "that athlete" just does not compute.I am fed up to the back teeth with the continuous coverage of The Progress of The Torch.I am baffled by the adoration shown to it, as if it were some rare artifact to be worshipped as it is carried aloft by our betters (Eastenders? Really?)I feel manipulated and force-fed by the Beeb which keeps running these "news" items every time I want to watch some real news.And if that makes me one of the "bah-humbugs", I'd rather be one of those than a sheep! [:D][IMG]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q296/clair46/e3519999.gif[/IMG] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 And if that makes me one of the "bah-humbugs", I'd rather be one of those than a sheep! Join us; we will make you welcome [kiss] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 LOL Clair, the News is now coming from a studio at the Olympics !Just because someone has a particular flag on his or her back doesn't mean their own achievement is mine to claim.If you live in the Uk and have bought a lottery ticket you may have helped support an athlete or two.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 [quote user="Russethouse"]Just because someone has a particular flag on his or her back doesn't mean their own achievement is mine to claim.If you live in the Uk and have bought a lottery ticket you may have helped support an athlete or two....[/quote]The key word is support. You can be proud of someone's achievement, whether you've supported them financially or not, but that's not what I'm talking about.I'm talking about the borderline jingoism this kind of international competition engenders in its audience. To me, the Games are not so much about sporting achievements, they're about flag-waving and chauvinism.Looking back at the news in England just a few days ago, you would have thought Bradley Wiggins had won the very first Tour de France, or that nobody had ever won it before he did!He and his team-mates are the ones who put in all the work over three long weeks, yet every news outlet is claiming is success as a great British achievement, as if the whole nation has been there knitting his yellow jersey for him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoneySuckleDreams Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 [quote user="NormanH"]And if that makes me one of the "bah-humbugs", I'd rather be one of those than a sheep! [/quote]be careful Norman, if the "baaaaaaa-humbugs" outnumber the rest of us, which herd becomes the sheep? [;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 [quote user="HoneySuckleDreams"][quote user="NormanH"]And if that makes me one of the "bah-humbugs", I'd rather be one of those than a sheep! [:D][/quote]be careful Norman, if the "baaaaaaa-humbugs" outnumber the rest of us, which herd becomes the sheep? [;-)][/quote]Don't point at Norman! He was only quoting me! [:)]Social influences are such that propaganda and persuasion will always win and I don't believe the sheep will ever be outnumbered... [IMG]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q296/clair46/dd7a8b7f.jpg[/IMG] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 At least the Border Agency strike (you know, the one where 12% of the members voted in favour) has been called off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Thats good news, but unfortunatley we can hardly fault the voting system of the union when we use pretty much the same system to elect governments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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