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London Olympics & British Culture

August 9 2008 at 4:50 PM
Anonymous  (Login politicalgain)
RedCoats(UK)

With a very impressive opening to the Chinese olympics, it seems that the Chinese are very proud of their hertiage. I was thinking though, the English culture as a whole seems hellbent on apologising and wallowing in self pity, not proud of the mark we've made on this world. I am not talking about the bad reasons, we all know about the slave trade and wars that have started.

Our country has had some of the world's greatest inventors, thinkers and soldiers. I am just worried that the olympics will be focussed on the new 'urban' Britain; the inner city 'graffiti' culture, black gangs and knife crime. Even our official olympic logo looks like something a thug would have come up with. Which message will we present to the world? Our Gloriest Past? Or our decaying present?

 
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brianm
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 9:20 AM 

I've been thinking exactly the same thing.

Knowing the muppets currently in charge of the country, the organization of 2012 will probably be put in the hands of people with the same mindset as those who gave us the pathetic contents of Millenium Dome.

I would expect to see a celebration of mediocrity & multi-culturism and a complete absence of genuine British history and culture.

But there's New Labour for you.

If we can oust these tossers the Tories just might do something worthwhile.



 
 

adonis
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 12:53 PM 

The last 3 Olympic Countries by the year 2012 would have showcased their culture, their achievements and their History which they are rightfully proud of, Sydney, Athens & Beijing. Unrivalled Historical Monuments to Inspire the athletes such as the Acropolis and Great Wall of China went some way to compounding their ideology, What will Britain showcase, The London Eye? LOL

The arrogant Loser Brits should not have been awarded the Olympics as they will not bring anything "magical" to the games,just a bunch of multicultural ghetto inspired themes, run by recovering Hoodie crackheads, substandard facilities which will be over budget and poor planning.

Lets not forget they are called the "Summer Olympics" and we all know the British weather in July-August is wet and windy so the designers of the logo should place a small umbrella above that Jazzy piece of sh!t they produced last year and give away a free umbrella and raincoat to every visitor and athlete!!

These will be THE games which will be labelled by Jacques Rogge as "The worst in history"


"if Christiannity and Turkish occupation hadn't stopped the Greek civilization from its advanced progress in mathematics , chemistry and physics the Greeks could have been to space 600 years before the Americans"
(Arthur C. Clarke)

6 words for the Turks to remember:-

Eurofighter TBA (Air dominance fighter)
S-300PMU-1 (unrivalled SAM technology)
SCALP (First Strike capability)
Leopard GR2 (Latest Gen Competitive MBT)
ERIEYE (AEW&C capability)
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Rzecz
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 1:01 PM 

They could show case the British being friends with all the peoples around the world!

Siege of Tobruk - One German POW said: "I cannot understand you Australians. In Poland, France, and Belgium, once the tanks got through the soldiers took it for granted that they were beaten. But you are like demons. The tanks break through and your infantry still keep fighting." Rommel wrote of seeing "a batch of some fifty or sixty Australian prisoners ... marched off close behind us—immensely big and powerful men, who without question represented an elite formation of the British Empire, a fact that was also evident in battle."


 
 

adonis
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 1:05 PM 

War mongering you mean Rzeczpospolita, the British have categorically glorified themsleves in Americas foreign policy over the last 15 years and as a result are Hated aroudn the World instead of Loved, a weak country governed by a weak Prime Minister with no credibilty in World affairs.

These will be the sh!ttest Olympics in history



"if Christiannity and Turkish occupation hadn't stopped the Greek civilization from its advanced progress in mathematics , chemistry and physics the Greeks could have been to space 600 years before the Americans"
(Arthur C. Clarke)

6 words for the Turks to remember:-

Eurofighter TBA (Air dominance fighter)
S-300PMU-1 (unrivalled SAM technology)
SCALP (First Strike capability)
Leopard GR2 (Latest Gen Competitive MBT)
ERIEYE (AEW&C capability)
Type 214 (has AIP technology )




 
 

Rzecz
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 1:55 PM 

There is sarcasm there.

Siege of Tobruk - One German POW said: "I cannot understand you Australians. In Poland, France, and Belgium, once the tanks got through the soldiers took it for granted that they were beaten. But you are like demons. The tanks break through and your infantry still keep fighting." Rommel wrote of seeing "a batch of some fifty or sixty Australian prisoners ... marched off close behind us—immensely big and powerful men, who without question represented an elite formation of the British Empire, a fact that was also evident in battle."


 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 4:09 PM 

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British Culture


There's a contradiction in terms.


 
 

adonis
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 5:05 PM 

The national dish is Curry ! LOL

Saysa it all to any culture it may have of its own.


"if Christiannity and Turkish occupation hadn't stopped the Greek civilization from its advanced progress in mathematics , chemistry and physics the Greeks could have been to space 600 years before the Americans"
(Arthur C. Clarke)

6 words for the Turks to remember:-

Eurofighter TBA (Air dominance fighter)
S-300PMU-1 (unrivalled SAM technology)
SCALP (First Strike capability)
Leopard GR2 (Latest Gen Competitive MBT)
ERIEYE (AEW&C capability)
Type 214 (has AIP technology )




 
 
brianm
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 5:36 PM 

"There's a contradiction in terms."

Hmmm...

Shakespeare
Kipling
Dickens
Wordsworth
Lawrence
Wells
Keats
Byron
Conan-Doyle
Burns
Fielding
Blake
Austen
Eliot (George & TS)
Owen
Defoe
Graves
Brooke
Shelley
Tolkien
Orwell
Malory
Marlowe

Elgar
Williams
Britten
Lloyd-Webber
Purcell
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Queen
The Who
Pink Floyd
Black Sabbath
David Bowie

Constable
Reynolds
Gainsborough
Blake
Turner
Hogarth
Reynolds
West

Jones
Wren
Vanbrugh
Paxton
Brown

Football
Rugby
Golf
Tennis
Squash
Modern boxing & hockey
Cricket
Snooker

The Tower Of London
Palace Of Westminster
Tower Bridge
St Paul's Cathedral
Buckingham Palace
Hampton Court Palace
Warwick Castle
Windsor Castle
York Minster
Canterbury Cathedral
Wells Cathedral
Edinburgh Castle
30 St Mary Axe
One Canada Square

Stonehenge
Silbury Hill
The Angel Of The North
The London Undegrond
The Severn Bridge
The Iron Bridge
Hadrian's Wall

Fish & chips
Yorkshire pudding
Cornish pasties
Chicken tikka masala
Sunday roast
Treacle tart & clotted cream

King Arthur
Robin Hood
Beowulf



 
 
brianm
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 5:41 PM 

"The national dish is Curry ! LOL

Saysa it all to any culture it may have of its own."

Actually the three dishes considered to be our national ones are fish & chips, the Sunday roast & chicken tikka masla - which is also a British invention.

Of course, being an ignoramus, you can't be expected to know that.



 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 5:42 PM 

India
China
US Colonies
Kenya

Phuck you, Brit. You've been outted.


 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 5:44 PM 

Britain is a Porky Pig nation fast on the road to becoming third world. It's a pigs hole infested by vast minorities of third worlders who hate the nation they live in.

Forget about Britain! It's going down the drain faster than you can say 'Jack Sprat could eat no fat!'. Another 20 years and the darkies will totally run that chithole.


 
 
brianm
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 5:50 PM 

"India
China
US Colonies
Kenya"

Yes, we helped develop those countries. Thank you for reminding me.

And we gave those countries (Or parts thereof) their independance, except the US, which was won thanks to the unappreciated help of France & Spain.



 
 
brianm
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 5:55 PM 

"Britain is a Porky Pig nation fast on the road to becoming third world."

You mean we're getting more like the US?


"It's a pigs hole infested by vast minorities of third worlders who hate the nation they live in."

Oh yes... which is why they keep coming here and sending back for their relatives.


"Forget about Britain! It's going down the drain faster than you can say 'Jack Sprat could eat no fat!'. Another 20 years and the darkies will totally run that chithole."

LOL! Keep telling yourself that. It makes you all the more hilarious!



 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 5:56 PM 

brian, Landos is senile and "adoni" is a two-faced midget, why do you bother? lol



 
 
brianm
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 6:26 PM 

"brian, Landos is senile and "adoni" is a two-faced midget, why do you bother? lol"

Because its fun!

And I confess that I have been known to enjoy shooting fish in barrels as well.

But I take your point.

I should be kinder to dumb animals.



 
 
Anonymous
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 9:06 PM 

Thank you Landos for your xenophobic attitude. Is it possible to get back on track?

 
 
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 9:22 PM 

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infested by vast minorities of third worlders who hate the nation they live in."



You mean like Adoni?



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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 9:34 PM 

ha nice one Mike love it

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adonis
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 10:16 PM 

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infested by vast minorities of third worlders who hate the nation they live in."

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You mean like Adoni?


Millions of others have that same view, they hate that grime infested rotten on it's knees nation!


"if Christiannity and Turkish occupation hadn't stopped the Greek civilization from its advanced progress in mathematics , chemistry and physics the Greeks could have been to space 600 years before the Americans"
(Arthur C. Clarke)

6 words for the Turks to remember:-

Eurofighter TBA (Air dominance fighter)
S-300PMU-1 (unrivalled SAM technology)
SCALP (First Strike capability)
Leopard GR2 (Latest Gen Competitive MBT)
ERIEYE (AEW&C capability)
Type 214 (has AIP technology )




 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 10 2008, 11:06 PM 

Wow, now that just pisses me off. It's one thing if you get ignorant and racist outsiders making generalizations but to have a foreigner living in another country, talking down and being plain ungrateful to a country that allows you to spit in its face, is bad enough. Now as a foreigner living in Britain I'm entitled to criticize certain aspects of its society and its domestic and foreign policies. But I will not talk down to 60 million people on the simple basis that I'm a guest and it would be plain wrong of me to do so. I get the impression that many foreigners/immigrants completely take advantage of Britain's overall tolerant and very pc culture.


 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 11 2008, 4:34 AM 

What really pisses these Brit bass-turds off is they know I'm right. Their nation is going down the tubes. All you read about is the darkies running rampant and stabbing everyone. They've turned Eng-a-land into a chit hole. Not that it was all that great to start with, but at least it was safe for the most part. Now it's a hole.


 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 11 2008, 5:28 AM 

Whatever the reason if the British stuff up the opening to the London olympics, the French, Irish, separatist Scots and other (brit haters) would be celebrating this.


 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 12 2008, 5:21 AM 

England isn't safe. I wouldn't go to their Olympics unless they spend $ 1 Billion on a new state-of-art security system.

I'm advising all my friends to boycott London Olympics.


 
 

Anonymous
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 12 2008, 8:57 AM 

I really think Paris should have won the 2012 Olympics, instead of London. Just comparing the two cities and you can see which one is much better to host it.


 
 
brianm
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 12 2008, 9:01 AM 

"What really pisses these Brit bass-turds off is they know I'm right."

We know you're a right moron!


"Their nation is going down the tubes. All you read about is the darkies running rampant and stabbing everyone. They've turned Eng-a-land into a chit hole. Not that it was all that great to start with, but at least it was safe for the most part. Now it's a hole."

That's because you are anglophobic and only look for the bad. That's what you get for listening unquestioningly to sensationalist news rather than using your brain.

The levels of violence & murder is a small fraction of what it is in the US, even allowing for population numbers.

Yes, they hit the news a lot here - because they are rare. If the US maintained the same level of coverage of murders there you wouldn't have time for any other programmes.


"I'm advising all my friends to boycott London Olympics."

That's OK. We don't want you or Adoni anyway.

We may let in "darkies running rampant and stabbing everyone" but we have to draw the line somewhere and you two would sooooo lower the tone.



 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 12 2008, 12:55 PM 


Type 98G

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Whatever the reason if the British stuff up the opening to the London olympics, the French, Irish, separatist Scots and other (brit haters) would be celebrating this.



In much the same way as the French, SOME Irish, seperatist Scots and other brit haters would celebrate ANYTHING that puts Britain in a bad light, and i do mean ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING.

Who gives a sh>t what these sorts of people think.


Quote:
I really think Paris should have won the 2012 Olympics, instead of London. Just comparing the two cities and you can see which one is much better to host it.



Apparently the judges (people far better informed than yourself) didn't agree with you.


 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 12 2008, 2:46 PM 

'SOME Irish'

Really, so the Irish got over the Northern Ireland problem then ?


 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 12 2008, 4:06 PM 

I get the impression that many foreigners/immigrants completely take advantage of Britain's overall tolerant and very pc culture.

If a country is so stupid as to have a "tolerant and very pc culture" then being insulted and taken advantage of is the least punishment that it deserves.


F.uck an eye for an eye. You take my eye, and I will kill you, and all those you care about. That is our policy.

 
 
brianm
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 12 2008, 5:35 PM 

"Really, so the Irish got over the Northern Ireland problem then?"

Yes. Since 10th April 1998.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast_Agreement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Belfast_Agreement_referendum%2C_1998



 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 12 2008, 9:05 PM 

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I'm advising all my friends to boycott London Olympics.



Including you that's a grand total of one less person attending the 2012 games then, what a shame.

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 12 2008, 11:49 PM 


Type98G

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'SOME Irish'

Really, so the Irish got over the Northern Ireland problem then ?


Please tell me you know more about the recent unpleasantness in the six counties than you appear to.

For your information (and your information only please, i don't want you spreading it around) there are a large number of Irish Brits in the North that are actually quite loyal to the crown, hence the tag LOYALISTS.

Sheesh.


 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 13 2008, 12:35 AM 

I bet some ugly long beard muslim extremists will have the privilege to be the opening act of the olympics.




On a serious note: I sure hope the brits will not be PC and show the multi-cultural society they have, a society which no one really wants.


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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 13 2008, 2:12 PM 

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Lets not forget they are called the "Summer Olympics" and we all know the British weather in July-August is wet and windy so the designers of the logo should place a small umbrella above that Jazzy piece of sh!t they produced last year and give away a free umbrella and raincoat to every visitor and athlete!!




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brianm
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 13 2008, 2:25 PM 

"On a serious note: I sure hope the brits will not be PC and show the multi-cultural society they have, a society which no one really wants."

Amen!



 
 

Danmas
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 13 2008, 4:37 PM 

The Most offensive and Un-PC ceremony would go like this:

fill up the stadium with water and have Sir Francis Drake and Henry Morgan having some fun and then re-enact Trafalger, drain it and do Waterloo and then have a big battle of Britain flyover, like all the airworthy spitfires in the country.

Or Find all the annoying celebrity chefs, big brother z-list celebs, chavs, islamists and all that is wrong with modern Britain/England etc and have robin hood and the archers of Againcourt do target practice on them whilst pumping out loud versions of Rule Britania, Pomp and Circumstance and Jerusalem.

I would pay to watch

On a more serious note something with steam trains maybe.... very important British invention. Brunel?


 
 

Rzecz
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 13 2008, 5:08 PM 

Actually good point, the British are the inventors of the industrial revolution and the huge leaps forward in the sciences. Made a massive chimney with huge bellowing smoke coming out of it with poor little johnny shoe shiner cleaning big boss Barry Winklers boots lol

Siege of Tobruk - One German POW said: "I cannot understand you Australians. In Poland, France, and Belgium, once the tanks got through the soldiers took it for granted that they were beaten. But you are like demons. The tanks break through and your infantry still keep fighting." Rommel wrote of seeing "a batch of some fifty or sixty Australian prisoners ... marched off close behind us—immensely big and powerful men, who without question represented an elite formation of the British Empire, a fact that was also evident in battle."


 
 
Anonymous
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 13 2008, 5:44 PM 

I guess the french must like the song Waterloo or the music from ALLO ALLO ridiculing their military prowess ?


Some of the scenes in the inaguration could be filled with natives with spears from Great Britians old colonies some Zulus, Indians from India and Indians from USA, Chinese from Hong Kong bearing rice bowles and opium, and thankful arab tribes parading in a tribute to their liberator from the Turks Lawrence of Arabia, together with the dominion peoples of Australia, Canada, New Zeeland etc etc

and why not some token Vikings who on the opposite wheren`t colonized but brute and barbaric colonizers way back in time

Some Celts and German Saxons could play out a theatric battle in the Olympic arena like in the film King Arthur



Seriously though I think it is probably right to keep some sort of balance between self promotion and inviting generous global celebrations

Britian could and should not be so pc correct and self annihilating as its elite wants, but a mix of inviting both foreing and british artists and potraying Great Britians amazing history with perhaps some outreach and flatter to some other cultures, and yes why not the french, Indians, Chinese and even ze Germans would be just right ofcourse coupled with some irony to









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Anonymous
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 13 2008, 6:02 PM 

When you think of it there has probaly not been much or any Humour or irony at the Olympic Inauguration Ceremonies that has been, most of them has been totally pretentious and stilted without much cracks of jokes especially the Moscow Olympics and yes also the chinese a bit

But one shouldn`t go over line in any direction Olympic Games should be bombastic and pompous with Impressive festivities

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Danmas
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 14 2008, 3:01 AM 

Actually maybe contemporary music, i mean Britain has put out a lot of quality and very influential music in the past 45 years. (note i don't like all of these but many people would)

The Animals
The Who
Kinks
Beatles
Stones
Clapton/Cream
Deep Purple
Led Zep
Black Sabbath
Sex Pistols
The Clash
Stone Roses
Oasis
The Prodigy
Chemical Brothers
Radiohead
Coldplay
Arctic Monkeys
The Verve
Massive Attack
Pink Floyd
Muse

A musical theme would be good as long as it isn't ruined with a token hip hop artist rapping about the "Ghetto". Hip Hop should be left to the yanks

 
 
Anonymous
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 15 2008, 5:07 PM 

We should land a Harrier in the main stadium in the opening!

 
 
brianm
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 15 2008, 9:02 PM 

"We should land a Harrier in the main stadium in the opening!"

I like your thinking!!!!

Plus a Red Arrows flypast.

It's only a shame there are no more Concordes flying...



 
 
Anonymous
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 15 2008, 9:43 PM 


If the chinese liked to showcase their invention of the first paper gunpowder and wood block printing the brits might give them the industrial revolution in their opening ceremony







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adonis
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 15 2008, 11:14 PM 

The British are known for their sense of humour so hosting the games is funny in itself!


"if Christiannity and Turkish occupation hadn't stopped the Greek civilization from its advanced progress in mathematics , chemistry and physics the Greeks could have been to space 600 years before the Americans"
(Arthur C. Clarke)

6 words for the Turks to remember:-

Eurofighter TBA (Air dominance fighter)
S-300PMU-1 (unrivalled SAM technology)
SCALP (First Strike capability)
Leopard GR2 (Latest Gen Competitive MBT)
ERIEYE (AEW&C capability)
Type 214 (has AIP technology )




 
 
Hawkssss
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 17 2008, 8:39 AM 

Here is the london olympics symbol...what do you think? Mayor of London dubbed it an "accident"....l1o1l11o1l1o1l kind of funny....



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Anonymous
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 17 2008, 12:37 PM 

I see the usual tossers are evident in this forum lol

and hi guys im on vacation/holiday abroad. was in germany, now poland.

 
 
Anonymous
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 17 2008, 3:20 PM 

Too bad it seems that the Upper Class in Britain still control many of the most important things in the country. They have no sense, no understanding of value for money and are totally devoid of reason. The Olympic logo is the embodiment of a crap system and shows one of the worse sides of British culture.

 
 
brianm
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 24 2008, 4:49 PM 

I must admit that today's 8 minute preview has made me feel a lot happier about our prospects for putting on a decent games in 2012:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/london_2012/7577999.stm
http://www.network54.com/Forum/233672/thread/1219583722/last-1219592511/Best+thing+about+Beijing+2008-+British+Part+of+closing+ceremony%21

Perhaps there's hope for us yet.



 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 24 2008, 5:31 PM 

The Brits will screw up the 2012 games. They always do.

Their conduct during the 1908 London Games was typically appalling. The blatant cheating by British officials to give their athletes an edge nearly killed the modern Olympics then and there.

They nullified the 1-2 finish by US 400 meter sprinters because they said they had "blocked" the English runner who finished third. British officials insisted the race be rerun the next day but the US team (and the rest of the contestents) refused so the Brit runner ran alone and was given the Gold Medal.

Then the Brits insisted their tug-of-war team be allowed to participate in non-allowed hob nail boots because the team was composed of British policemen and that was "their standard kit".

There were several other examples of blatant bias by British officials and the whole affair came off in a desultory fashion and left a bad taste in everyone's mouth. There was talk of cancelling future games, but cooler heads prevailed and the 1912 Games in Stockholm once more were conducted in a spirt of good will.

FAWK THE BRITS...!!!


 
 
brianm
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 24 2008, 11:30 PM 

"Their conduct during the 1908 London Games was typically appalling. The blatant cheating by British officials to give their athletes an edge nearly killed the modern Olympics then and there."

Actually the 1908 London Games SAVED the Olympics.

The first three were all unmitigated disasters - so much so that only 12 countries bothered to compete in 1904 in St Louis.

Less than half the events in 1904 contained any competitors from outside the US!

Things were so bad that Italy was desperately trying to find a way to get out of hosting the 1908 Olympics until their prayers were answered in the form of Vesuvius erupting and they had to 'sadly decline.'

The UK stepped forward at the last minute and the games were an enormous success - media interest was huge resulting in the 1912 games being the first when all five continents were represented.

The cheating, if any, was wildly exaggerated. There were no international rules for the Olympics in 1908. Therefore if you played in the UK you played British rules.

And the US has never liked playing by other peoples' rules - hence American Football & Baseball being such poor copies of Football & Cricket.

And again, if cheating did occur it wasn't one sided...

The Irish officials helping Petrie over the line to a disqualification so that Irish-American Johnny Hayes could win the Marathon comes instantly to mind.



 
 

(Login Landos)
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 25 2008, 2:34 AM 

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The Irish officials helping Petrie over the line to a disqualification so that Irish-American Johnny Hayes could win the Marathon comes instantly to mind.




Uhhhh, it was more like BRIT OFFICIALS helping him over the line so an American wouldn't win. Britain was going through one of it's periodic anti-American periods at that time and having the Yanks win more medals than Britain just wasn't going over well. Note this was just a few years after the 'America' came over and cleaned the clock of all British yachting competition to the extent the Brits were hiding until the Queen shamed them into competing-US won the Guineas Cup staring the 'America's Cup' series.

Brits can't take losing, they cry like babies.


 
 
brianm
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 25 2008, 9:31 AM 

"Uhhhh, it was more like BRIT OFFICIALS helping him over the line so an American wouldn't win."

Nope. They were Irish. It was featured in a documentary a few weeks ago.


"Brits can't take losing, they cry like babies."

LOL! It's plainly evident that it is you who cannot take losing, scratching around for excuses as you have been.

And when you do lose, boy do you whine!




 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 25 2008, 5:16 PM 

Phuck you, ass wipe British neer do well.


 
 

gaz
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RedCoats(UK)

Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 28 2008, 5:05 PM 

I will once again refer you the fact that I have worked for the border & immigration agency for two years ive recanlty left to work for hsbc, but as ethnicity goes in the uk 91% of the population is white leaveing the outher 9% constitueing everthing form chinease to africans i think you will find that theres plenty more countrys than the uk with far larger immigrant populations, crime rates are falling ok so knife and gun crime is going up show me a country where it isnt and they kill thereself not white people I cant get my head round why people think the uk is full of immigarants unless you read the SUN newspaper which quite frankly if you do your opinion is no more usefull than a 5 year olds.

 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 28 2008, 6:11 PM 

British cities have become cesspools of black on white crime. Everybody and their brother knows that. Brits I know who now live in the US tell me the same thing.


 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 28 2008, 7:26 PM 

The defending 400 metres Olympic champion. Fania Halkia, from Greece has tested positive for steroids. This makes her the FIFTEENTH Greek to fail a drugs test in the last 3 months.


15 Drug Cheating Greeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 28 2008, 7:32 PM 

Venues rot as Greece loses its Olympic gains


Six months after the Athens Olympics, all is not well. Around the canoe-kayak course, in the city that hosted the world's 'unforgettable, dream games', lights that illuminated the site now swing, hopelessly, from cords of broken wire. It is hard not to miss the galloping necrosis enveloping so many of the 36 venues either purpose-built or upgraded for the Games. For the neglect does not end here.

On the other side of the Olympic facility, in the inner sanctum of the world-class basketball hall, the roof is leaking. Buckets, dexterously placed around its carpeted stadium, collect droplets the size of large coins. Across town, on the ancient Marathon route, the drains are clogged. They are also blocked at the multi-million-pound building that served as the press centre during the Games. And, at the rowing centre in Skoinias, the waters have turned stagnant brown. There, officials wonder what to do with a facility now widely decried as an environmental disaster.

One of the smallest nations ever to host the globe's biggest sports event, Greece had hoped the Olympics would transform its citizens' lives as never before. Instead, they are discovering that the 16-day bonanza may have been pure folly. This week, as their government prepares to release a long-awaited bill stipulating the venues' 'post-Olympic usage', many are wondering whether staging the Games was little more than an exercise in economic flagellation.

The biggest Olympics ever, and the most expensive in terms of security, the event is believed to have cost about £7 billion, five times more than originally expected. Such a bill, say economists, will take at least two decades to pay off with Greeks as yet unborn footing most of it.

'The hefty post-Olympics bill is already being compounded by the devaluation of the sports venues,' opined the authoritative daily Kathimerini, summing up the mood. 'And all the while, the collective memory of the euphoria of the Games continues to fade.'

Last week, the country's Alternate Culture Minister, Fani Palli-Petralia, admitted what Hellenes had feared most. 'We didn't have a reliable post-Olympics plan,' said the politician who headed preparations for the Games. 'Many venues were designed without their post-Olympics use in mind.'

On Tuesday, exactly 205 days after the Games opened in spectacular style, Athens's centre-right government will advertise around two dozen of the installations at one of the world's grandest real-estate fairs in Cannes. Officials hope that by showcasing the facilities, constructed in cities across Greece, international investors will be lured into snapping up lucrative leases, boosting the country's tourism.

'We've had to work through endless documents to identify what the exact legal position and permissible uses of the facilities are,' sighed Christos Hadjiemmanuil, who heads the state-run company set up to oversee the sites. 'They [the Socialist former administration] were more concerned about not facing resistance during the building process than coming up with a strategy for the post-Olympic Games period.'

Cities bidding for future Olympics might learn a lesson or two, say Greek officials now working overtime to devise ways of cap italising on the extraordinary expense. Just maintaining the installations amounts to €60 million (£41.3m) a year. Since the Games, the eerily empty stadia have been rented out on short-term leases to the likes of pop singer Nick Cave, partying bank boards and the German car manufacturer BMW - a far cry from what most Greeks had envisaged.

'Financially the Games were a disaster,' says Hadjiemmanuil, a 41-year-old finance lawyer seconded from the London School of Economics to oversee the transition. 'We didn't need so many permanent venues; a lot of them could have been temporary. If London wins the [2012] bid, preparations could easily be a lot cheaper.'

But despite misgivings about overspending, the bespectacled academic says he is convinced the facilities are both 'viable and valuable... It would be very easy to convert some of the facilities to low-end commercial uses, like supermarkets for instance, but that's not the point,' he insists. 'The point is to find large-scale solutions that bring together culture, sports, entertainment, leisure and tourism.'


 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 28 2008, 7:36 PM 

Organisers of the 2012 Olympics in London have been warned against being saddled with a legacy they don’t want – by the people still paying for the 2004 Games.

As Beijing hands the Olympic baton to London, there is growing anger in Athens over what the Games have left behind in the ancient city.

Many of the venues built for the 2004 Games in the Greek capital now stand locked, deserted, covered in graffiti, and inaccessible to the public.

And that Greek public is increasingly asking what will happen to those expensive venues and how much the Games will eventually cost them.

Official figures put the final cost at £8bn but there are fears it could nearly double.

Stefanos Kalopisis, who was part of the Olympic kayak squad in 2004, said: "The Games were great for Athens. But the cost was huge.

"Greece is not a rich country and we had problems with things like health system and education system. People ask whether it was worth it."



 
 

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RedCoats(UK)

Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 28 2008, 7:39 PM 

Shall i post more Landos, on how NOT to run an Olympics, there is plenty of it just a Google search away.....

 
 

Jason
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 28 2008, 8:11 PM 


gaz

I've been posting the exact same thing on this forum for years, all of it from the official figures on immigrant numbers in the UK overall and even the figures for many individual cities. All in an effort to convince those people on this forum that state bollocks about the subject that things are the complete opposite of what they are claiming.

The end result is that we still get arseholes like Landarse stateing the same thing over and over again ignoring the facts that have been shown to them.

It's nice to get the information from someone who worked in the immigration service to pass on your experience of what is really happening but don't expect to get anywhere with these sorts of people, they're too stupid to understand what you're saying.


 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 29 2008, 4:20 AM 

London is a chithole. Why deny it?


 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 29 2008, 11:55 AM 

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London is a chithole. Why deny it?


It takes one to know one, you little Greek fag.

 
 

gaz
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RedCoats(UK)

Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 29 2008, 2:54 PM 

I know exsactly what your saying i have posted simler things before but to no avail, The nice thing is it doesnt matter, I live in doncaster and work in sheffield now yes the city centre have all kinds of races but go what 10 miles out of the city centres and the only place you will see any ethnicity is in take away restaurants, i personaly have no problem with controled immigration plus the point system is soon to be implimented which is based on the aussie system which i was personaly part of implimenting, immigrations keeps our labour pool well stocked and allows us to better weather the finiancial instability in the world recantly something i learned for hsbc, It also helps to motivate our own citizens to better them selfs by nessecity outherwise they may loose there jobs to better compition in the same way business my constantly change and adapt to keep/improve the market postion and so helping stimulate the economy, another little fact for all these luvly people their money actually helped hsbc which is the worlds largest company and naturaly britsh maintain its position as the world leading bank and pumped billions of dollers into the british economy, it was ironicaly set up to help with trade from china back in the 1800s and still to this day funnels huge sums of cash away from the countrys who hate us for takeing the lands, we still take everything but we no longer have to invaide you to get it. Its a funny thing called corporations and its much more effective than militery forces, they tend not to create insurgancys only customers, Get ma new mercedes next month, britian is such a terrible place lool please note the sacrasam.

 
 

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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 30 2008, 1:51 PM 

You have to be a British journalist. I recognized your command of the English language by your use of correct punctuation.


 
 

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Middle kingdom(China)

Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 30 2008, 9:59 PM 

british culture? come on. don't make joke. UK has no culture.

 
 

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RedCoats(UK)

Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 31 2008, 12:39 AM 

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british culture? come on. don't make joke. UK has no culture.


Strange that you choose to use 007 as a login then.....last time i checked 007 was part of the British cultural entertainment industry....


 
 

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Middle kingdom(China)

Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 31 2008, 5:51 AM 

Strange that you choose to use 007 as a login then.....last time i checked 007 was part of the British cultural entertainment industry....
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come on man. go make a search. china have 3000+years of spies history, and you claim the spies as british cultural? loll.
don't kidding me. even spain have longer historiy than your british.

 
 

gaz
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RedCoats(UK)

Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 31 2008, 11:29 AM 

Nope im not a journalist, im 19 have held a job as an exsecutive officer with the home office since I was 17 and have now left and taken a job as a trainee mortgage manager with hsbc which I find most interesting, Altho I do thank you for thinking that I did attend university or even sixth form to become a jounalist, I left school at 16 albeit with good grades and have continued to pick up extra qualifications in the form of NVQ ever since, Another sign of Britians sucessful education system.

 
 

gaz
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RedCoats(UK)

Re: London Olympics & British Culture

August 31 2008, 11:32 AM 

A SIDE NOTE TO QQ007, He was not saying that Britian was the oragin of espionage only that 007 designation is part of the british enspionage services made famous though the british entertainment industry, chinease spies have never been know as double 0s please dont come back with such lame responses.

 
 

adonis
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

September 6 2008, 9:02 AM 

Britain or "Great" Britain as they stupidly call it sucks american c0ck! they know it BUT they are stupid and hard headedness and cannot admit it, it is over run by darkies who go around terrorising the local population, it rains all the time and their women are FORCED to holiday abroad and get rammed by Greeks, Blacks, Spanish because their faggot guys cannot satisfy them...LOL

I love the way the Brits stand together fighting a pointless battle in WAFF when they know UK has become a sad state of affairs, hospitals don't work, schools dont work, travel system decrepid, PC brigade rules ALL!! i could go on...

Leave that sh1t hole you call home and get a tan and chill out!!


"if Christiannity and Turkish occupation hadn't stopped the Greek civilization from its advanced progress in mathematics , chemistry and physics the Greeks could have been to space 600 years before the Americans"
(Arthur C. Clarke)

6 words for the Turks to remember:-

Eurofighter TBA (Air dominance fighter)
S-300PMU-1 (unrivalled SAM technology)
SCALP (First Strike capability)
Leopard GR2 (Latest Gen Competitive MBT)
ERIEYE (AEW&C capability)
Type 214 (has AIP technology )




 
 

(Login QQ007)
Middle kingdom(China)

Re: London Olympics & British Culture

September 11 2008, 3:32 AM 

A SIDE NOTE TO QQ007, He was not saying that Britian was the oragin of espionage only that 007 designation is part of the british enspionage services made famous though the british entertainment industry, chinease spies have never been know as double 0s please dont come back with such lame responses.
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so. are you gona to say you Brittian guys gona to put 007 in olympics shows? oh. yeah. that's a damn cool idea. go head english man. let whole world
see your GB is just a joke.

 
 
Anonymous
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Re: London Olympics & British Culture

September 13 2008, 1:38 AM 

I am sure you Poms will do a great job. We'll have our great Aussie revenge...note to self.."BUY More LOTTO Tickets".

007 Noodle Tosser is just jealous. There is no doubt the chinese did a great job with the Beijing Olympics but there is no reason to crap on about others.

 
 

(Login QQ007)
Middle kingdom(China)

Re: London Olympics & British Culture

September 13 2008, 8:46 AM 

oh. come on man. westerns always say: china this is bad and china that is bad, boycot beijing olympics, they even don't know about what's going on in china.
I just wana do the samething to london, don't be unhappy. let's face to my complains, I have responsbility to let you know, how's GB's looks in my mind.

 
 
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