Olympic boring bast#$s just me ?

**harrybarracuda** · 06-08-2012, 01:12 PM

Interesting comment, personally I'd like to know how good he would have been if he had his legs. For all we know he could be complete shite. The only way we'll ever know is to chop off the legs of the Gold medallist and see how fast he can run after that.

Of course, there may be some objections....

**alwarner** · 06-08-2012, 01:42 PM

According to wiki he had the amputation at a very young age, so it's impossible to know.

**FailSafe** · 06-08-2012, 01:45 PM

You're working under the assumption the blades give him an unfair advantage, which even experts can't agree upon.

If it was proven that he doesn't have an advantage, would it still be acceptable for him to run?

At this point it's unproven, so he has just as much right to run in the Olympics as anyone else- the fact he also qualifies to compete in the Paralympics is irrelevant.

**buriramboy** · 06-08-2012, 01:49 PM

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

What did you parents do with all their money? Piss it away?

After working for peanuts all they're lives apart from giving us a one week a year caravan holiday and a xmas present that never exceeded £5 there was no money for drink and besides they wasnt drinkers anyway. They bought a 3 bed semi and sold it to fund a poxy sweet shop business later in life , some worthless leasehold .

Anyway enjoy your Tories policy of the race to the bottom I'm sure your grandkids will enjoy it , they are even looking at ways of doing away with the minimum wage now to make the UK more " competitive ??"

So exactly which box do I tick as a working class person at the next election ?

So basically your parents had enough money to buy there own property so did ok in their working life and obviously didn't work for peanuts as you suggest, they then made a bad business/investment decision that can only be blamed on themselves but for some reason you want to blame the Tories.

How exactly is the Tory policy a race to the bottom?? It was Labour who let in millions of East Europeans, Labour who has bankrupt the country yet again, Labour who massively increased non productive public sector employment and increased all pay and benefits to public sector workers that in many cases they are higher than the private sector with no way of paying for it, otherwise known as foked up, brainless socialist policy. I could go on, but i generally find trying to talk politics with Labour supporters is a waste of time as they are all the same as in 'it's all the Tories fault' but if they actually bothered to open their eyes and look at the facts instead of listening to brain dead loony left rhetoric they may see who is actually to blame and who is trying to fix things.

**nigelandjan** · 06-08-2012, 11:52 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Why are you asking me?

Cause your the man on here with the answers

**Mr Orange** · 07-08-2012, 12:03 AM

Here in the Uk all I can say is that its been amazing

**blue** · 07-08-2012, 12:10 AM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by blue

Agree -and that torch tour was pathetic - they even had tax dodger Lewis hamliton carrying it , the organisers have no shame.

Typical of a poorly educated slob failure to criticise anyone who has achieved success through hard work. - which is what the Olympics are mostly about.

''poorly educated slob failure'' am I ??????
right ! you're suspended from my house as well as Issues

It's true though , I hate hard work success stories
give me effortless natural talent any day.

**nigelandjan** · 07-08-2012, 12:18 AM

Originally Posted by buriramboy

I could go on, but i generally find trying to talk politics with Labour supporters is a waste of time as they are all the same as in 'it's all the Tories fault' but if you bring on the " King " I will bow to the good and the great .

Ok as you asked so politely I give you " King Arthur " other people have notches cut on their bedposts I have the great man carved on my four poster

To round the evening off all stand please

**alwarner** · 08-08-2012, 09:36 AM

Originally Posted by FailSafe

You're working under the assumption the blades give him an unfair advantage, which even experts can't agree upon.

If it was proven that he doesn't have an advantage, would it still be acceptable for him to run?

At this point it's unproven, so he has just as much right to run in the Olympics as anyone else- the fact he also qualifies to compete in the Paralympics is irrelevant.

I do get your point, and like I said, it's a great story but - Would he have qualified for the event without the blades? No. So the blades have given him an advantage.

**kmart** · 08-08-2012, 11:20 AM

Originally Posted by Blue water dreaming

No doubt a lot of Poms are doing it tough, but the majority are doing okay. Odd though that while the national sport of the indigenous Pom is whingeing, I don't see it on the Olympic agenda.

Seems like we've passed the "whinge-baton" over to your lot, Bruce?

Australian Olympic officials cry poor while rural sport battles for the basics | Western Advocate

Lack of government funding blamed for poor Olympics for Australia - Olympic News - Olympics - The Independent

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**klong toey** · 08-08-2012, 11:27 AM

Maybe Australia would be more successful if more of the indigenous population were competing for the country.

Originally Posted by Blue water dreaming

indigenous

**Begbie** · 11-08-2012, 12:30 AM

Nice summary from Craig Murray

Craig Murray

The London Olympics are already achieving the number one aim of the politicians who brought them here, which is making our politicians feel very important indeed.

The media is quite frenetic in its efforts to make us all believe we should be terrifically proud of the fact we are hosting the Olympics, as though there were something unique in this achievement. If we can’t competently do something that Greece, Spain and China have done in recent years, that would be remarkable. Of course the Games will be on the whole well delivered, sufficient for the media and politicians to declare it an ecstatic success. Some of the sporting moments will be sublime, as ever.

But did it have to be in London? We won’t know the total cost of the Games for months, but it will cost the taxpayer at least £9 billion and I suspect a lot more. I also suspect the GDP figures will, in the event, show that the massive net fall in visitor numbers has hurt the already shrinking economy further.

But to take the most optimistic figure, holding the Olympics in London has cost every person in the country an average of £150 per head in extra taxes. That is £600 for a family of four. Actually it is in the end going to be well over £2,000, as of course the money has been borrowed on the never never, and taxpayers are going to be paying it off their whole lives, along with the sum ten times higher they are already paying direct into the pockets of the bankers through their taxes.

The very rich, of course, don’t pay much tax, so they are not worried.

But to take just the figure of £600 extra taxes for a family of four, the lowest possible amount, and not including the interest. Is having the Olympics here really worth paying out £600 for? If Tony Blair had approached the head of the family and said “We are going to have the Olympics in London, but it’s going to cost you £600, would the answer have been from most ordinary people: “Yes, great idea, this is that important to us”?

People are not disconcerted because they don’t see that they have to pay. There is no special Olympics tax, and they pay their taxes in a variety of ways, and individuals are not the sole source of taxation. But this is nonetheless real money taken from the people in pursuit of the hubris of politicians.

I love sport. I hate the corruption of the International Olympic Committee, Fifa and the rest; I hate the vicious corporatism and militarisation of our capital and absurd elitism of the transport lanes; the sport itself I love. But with the economy contracting, and the NHS being farmed out for profit, is it really worth £600 for a family – and many families are really struggling in a heartbreaking way – is it worth the money to have the Olympics here rather than in Paris?

Of course it isn’t. I think many of us will feel an extra pleasure watching the Opening ceremony because it is British. Patriotic pride will surge. It is not wrong to enjoy the spectacle tonight on TV. The corporate well connected and ruling classes will enjoy it in the stadium.

But after you have watched it on TV, ask yourself this question. How much more did you enjoy it than enjoy watching the Beijing ceremony, and was that margin of extra enjoyment something that everybody in the room would have paid out £150 for?

Because they just did.

**klong toey** · 11-08-2012, 12:39 AM

I would imagine the PM will invite every gold medal winning team GB member round for dinner at No 10 soon.
Shake of hands a few pics might just win him the next election without the aid of the demoprats.

**FailSafe** · 14-02-2013, 03:30 PM

Blade Runner is back in the news:

Reports: Olympian Pistorius shoots dead his girlfriend

South African media are reporting that Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius has allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend after mistaking her for an intruder at his home early Thursday morning.
Multiple media outlets in the country, including the Mail & Guardian, citing local police, say the woman, 30, died at the scene at the athlete's house in Pretoria.

Reports: Olympian Pistorius shoots dead his girlfriend

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