this is so stupidly hyperbolic one can only assume it's put on for the benefit of the kleptocrats in the royal boxes who might fancy a eurofighter or two to take home
― nakhchivan, Monday, 7 May 2012 23:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
rest if thread you can just c&p whatever ian sinclair wrote this week
― nakhchivan, Monday, 7 May 2012 23:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
jesus christ vip lanes for 'the olympic family'
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
this is such a load of fetid aids cum
if u care about the olympics u are a wasteman
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
olympic ownage
― ciderpress, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
click play to see what risible cunts the ioc are
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Friday, 15 June 2012 17:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
they can't silence us all
― Number None, Friday, 15 June 2012 18:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
fetid risible waste bawheid bawheid bawheid
― boxall, Friday, 15 June 2012 18:04 (11 months ago) Permalink
the olympics are an excuse to make some horrible cunts some money. yes/no?
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
there's that, then there's being a project for every autocratic regime ever, and a hideous drain on public finances, and probably a load of other things
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
the chutzpah of the cunts is something else, if u thought fifa's behaviour in south africa was transparently venal then the way the ioc parasites treats ever unfortunate host city as extraterritorial possessions for the duration is another level
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
The 2004 Athens Olympics cost nearly $11 billion by current exchange rates, double the initial budget. And that figure that does not include major infrastructure projects rushed to completion at inflated costs. In the months before the games, construction crews worked around the clock, using floodlights to keep the work going at night.
In addition, the tab for security alone was more than $1.2 billion.
Six years later, more than half of Athens' Olympic sites are barely used or empty. The long list of mothballed facilities includes a baseball diamond, a massive man-made canoe and kayak course, and arenas built for unglamorous sports such as table tennis, field hockey and judo.
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
hopefully we can use the shooting range at some point in the future to take some cunts out.
― jed_, Friday, 15 June 2012 23:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
they don't want anyone going near their bloody stalag on wanstead flats
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/wfnews/9780326.LEYTONSTONE___WANSTEAD__Police_to_remove__anti_social__groups_during_Olympics/
― DG, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 10:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
Oh, just calm yourselves and take in the beach volleyball.
― how's life, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 11:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
this US-unis-made-in-China farce sums up every good reason to torch the Games.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 July 2012 14:21 (10 months ago) Permalink
if you don't care about Mary Kom you're dead inside imo
― perry en concrète (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 14 July 2012 14:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
I don't know who anybody is, even the cover boy swimmer who has a non-Phelps face.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 July 2012 14:54 (10 months ago) Permalink
looking @ her wikipedia she appears to be an indian woman who punches people in the face
― iatee, Saturday, 14 July 2012 14:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
she might win a medal for best face-puncher
well, I support that.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 July 2012 14:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
esp if she face-punches some Yanks.
SportsPro has rated Mary Kom as the 38th most remarkable athlete in the world.[15]
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 14 July 2012 15:02 (10 months ago) Permalink
she's a mother of two from debilitating poverty in India who's now going to box in the Olympics
― perry en concrète (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 14 July 2012 15:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
that's a bit more of a story than katie taylor, i guess
― thomp, Saturday, 14 July 2012 15:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
really really want her to get the gold
― perry en concrète (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 14 July 2012 15:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
London!:
By the end of the day, organizers were struggling to explain how three buses carrying dozens of athletes, officials and journalists to the Olympic Village from Heathrow Airport lost their way in the maze of London’s streets, causing one American medal hopeful, the 400-meter hurdler Kerron Clement, to post a Twitter message in desperation after four hours aboard a bus that should have made the distance in 45 minutes.As The Independent noted, the 24-mile journey took about twice as long as the men’s Olympic marathon winner was expected to take for the 26.2-mile course on foot.“Athletes are sleepy, hungry and need to pee. Could we get to the Olympic Village please,” he wrote as the driver, struggling to understand the route given by the bus’s GPS device, finally abandoned repeated forays up dead-end streets and pulled out a map. “Um, so we’ve been lost on the road for 4hrs. “Not a good first impression London,” Mr. Clement added....Similar dire accounts came from Australian athletes and officials, fresh from a 20-hour flight.Damian Kelly, a spokesman for the Australian delegation, described their bus driver as desperate in his apologies when their journey to the village also ran on, for about four hours. “The driver just said, ‘I’m sorry, I’m lost. It’s my first day on the job and I’m lost,’ ” Mr. Kelly said. “We were moving, we were in the Olympic lane, and we were going places, we just weren’t going where we were supposed to go.”None of this seemed to perturb London’s mayor, Boris Johnson. “I understand that some of our visitors took the scenic route,” he told the BBC. “They saw more of our fantastic city than they would otherwise have done. And that’s no bad thing.”The mayor added, “What thing of beauty does not have its imperfections?”
As The Independent noted, the 24-mile journey took about twice as long as the men’s Olympic marathon winner was expected to take for the 26.2-mile course on foot.
“Athletes are sleepy, hungry and need to pee. Could we get to the Olympic Village please,” he wrote as the driver, struggling to understand the route given by the bus’s GPS device, finally abandoned repeated forays up dead-end streets and pulled out a map. “Um, so we’ve been lost on the road for 4hrs. “Not a good first impression London,” Mr. Clement added.
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Similar dire accounts came from Australian athletes and officials, fresh from a 20-hour flight.
Damian Kelly, a spokesman for the Australian delegation, described their bus driver as desperate in his apologies when their journey to the village also ran on, for about four hours. “The driver just said, ‘I’m sorry, I’m lost. It’s my first day on the job and I’m lost,’ ” Mr. Kelly said. “We were moving, we were in the Olympic lane, and we were going places, we just weren’t going where we were supposed to go.”
None of this seemed to perturb London’s mayor, Boris Johnson. “I understand that some of our visitors took the scenic route,” he told the BBC. “They saw more of our fantastic city than they would otherwise have done. And that’s no bad thing.”
The mayor added, “What thing of beauty does not have its imperfections?”
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
Also, Nick Buckles, supergenius:
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/07/17/sports/olympics/17reuters-oly-4gs.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
I don't make it out to any of the Olympic boroughs much (apart from Hackney). Is there a feeling that the "regeneration" project will bring much of lasting benefit?
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 07:30 (10 months ago) Permalink
I've encountered quite a lot of negativity when speaking to small business owners and people living near to the Olympic site but I really don't know if that is straight forward NIMBYism or if there are wider problems. I know that traffic restrictions into the area will cause some problems. Some local tenants I've met have told me that they had their contracts have been terminated so that the landlords will be able to make some £s on rent. This obviously doesn't address the "regeneration". Looking at the Olympic site there doesn't appear to be any way that the structures can be put in to use, maybe somebody knows about this? Locally to me there have been some smaller architectural changes and shop facades put in that look decent. They have appeared along Mile End / Whitechapel Road but tbh they make the rest of the area worse. There doesn't seem any point in doing a quarter of the street really well and leaving the rest to rot.
― mmmm, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 13:36 (10 months ago) Permalink
Tom Daley is 18 years old in my opinion.
― the new dire homonomoreboobsativity (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 13:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
We thought we were hosts like the queen is at a posh garden party, when actually we're hosts in the way that John Hurt is in Alien.
― Roz, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
must read
http://deadspin.com/5928972/the-haters-guide-to-the-2012-london-summer-olympics
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 July 2012 14:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
Anyone who can't appreciate the delights of table tennis and handball an die for all I care.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 28 July 2012 15:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
otm xyzzzz
― lex pretend, Saturday, 28 July 2012 15:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
god, this deadspin piece is vile
― thomp, Saturday, 28 July 2012 15:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
comedy xenophobia. great.
― thomp, Saturday, 28 July 2012 15:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
drew magary should get hit by a car
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 28 July 2012 15:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
i remember when i wrote hatchet pieces of that caliber when i was like, 14
― moesha my reflection (donna rouge), Saturday, 28 July 2012 15:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
guys, get this - there are sports that people care about less than other sports
― thomp, Saturday, 28 July 2012 15:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
he's right about Wrestling though
― PSOD (Ste), Saturday, 28 July 2012 16:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
Not the least bit interested in any of it.
― *tera, Saturday, 28 July 2012 16:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
Well, as long as you don't write articles like that its ok.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 28 July 2012 16:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
prefer the anger to the humor
I hope Obama will be watching this instead of doing stuff tho
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 July 2012 16:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
We thought we were hosts like the queen is at a posh garden party, when actually we're hosts in the way that John Hurt is in Alien.― Roz, Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:07 PM (2 weeks ago)
― Roz, Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:07 PM (2 weeks ago)
haha that enigmatic graun commenter was my brother! awesome
― DG, Sunday, 5 August 2012 22:45 (9 months ago) Permalink