Poll: are you looking forward to the olympics?

Looking forward to Olympics?

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This thread is just full of pessimism. Anywhere else in the world and people would be excited, or at least looking forward to it. But no, we as a nation would rather that Eastenders remained in its usual slot and the athletes not waste their precious time training for 4 years in sports that, apparently, nobody cares about. Who needs medals anyway? Why can't they get proper jobs?!

You sound like a bunch of elderly folk :p

Edit: By you, I mean you, pessimist
 
not at all, think theres a lot more things we could have done with the money.

much as there trying to make us believe it will produce legacies for years to come i simply don't believe them based on other olympics and experience of the way they **** things up.
 
looks like not many people care and i bet almost all of the ones that do care couldnt get any tickets anyway...

what a huge money pit... i bet its good networking for people in goverment though and they will make a killing from all the meetings with corporate people that will no doubt be given free tickets to the best events.
 
I live in London and couldn't get a ticket for the one event I wanted. Now I'll be paying for the whole mess in council tax for the next n number of years, and didn't even get to watch that event.

Olympics? Go **** yourself.
 
Cr0fty said:
This thread is just full of pessimism. Anywhere else in the world and people would be excited, or at least looking forward to it. But no, we as a nation would rather that Eastenders remained in its usual slot and the athletes not waste their precious time training for 4 years in sports that, apparently, nobody cares about. Who needs medals anyway? Why can't they get proper jobs?!
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Is that true or are you just judging the world by what you see on TV? Watching the BBC today you'd think the country was gripped by Olympic fever, ultra positive vox pox from the public interviewed and overly smiley correspodants reporting. To people seeing that from overseas they probably think we're all excited about it.

Foreign media does the same thing so all you see is a false impression that everyone in that country is excited about it. I would hazzard a guess that with the human rights issues in China, the majority of the Chinese population had bigger things to worry about than the Olympics last time out for example.
 
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As you say, most people who really wanted to go didn't get any tickets. I applied for about £2000 worth and got nothing. My parents got a few tickets but they are having to leave a few because they can't justify going to london for 40 minutes of one event when they tried to book up whole days.

I am looking forwards to the olympics but whoever designed the ticketing system deserves to be shot.

I did lose a little faith in the country when "Will-i-am" was running with the torch, ignoring the crowd and tweeting as he went. The man is such a grade A **** with little talent and an ego that makes me want to murder the man. I am actually embarrassed by "the voice" and the fact that these people are supposed to be our top artists.

The olympic torch relay should celebrate those that have given to their community or are an example to others. Not some idiot who can't dress himself without looking like an extra from the nutcracker.
 
Blimey, and I thought I was cynical!
I'm going to guess that a lot of people on here will get more into it once it's here. I for one can't wait, with everything else, it's going to be a great summer of sport.
 
postbox said:
Blimey, and I thought I was cynical!
I'm going to guess that a lot of people on here will get more into it once it's here. I for one can't wait, with everything else, it's going to be a great summer of sport.
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Can this lady here, who you've never heard of, throw a small round disc slightly further than this other woman you've never heard of....oh the excitement!!!
 
I'd say i was, I like to watch a few of the events and hopefully see us win some medals. It's also better than seeing all this doom and gloom about the economy on the Tv all the time.
 
I am looking forward to the event, and I hope that it will be successful.

However I am not looking forward to everything else that comes along with hosting the Olympics such as the increased security and fear of an "incident".

I'm living abroad in Brussels for the next year, and the queueing situation for Heathrow and St. Pancras and many other international airports is already getting stupid!
 
I'm looking forward to laughing at the carnage we'll see at London airports.
Not looking forward to the anti-climax that will be London 2012 as a whole though.

Will be interesting to see just how good a job Britain does at ******* away billions of pounds though. At wasting money, I think we'd be on the podium.
 
estebanrey said:
Can this lady here, who you've never heard of, throw a small round disc slightly further than this other woman you've never heard of....oh the excitement!!!
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I know you jest, but it's kinda the point is it not? showcasing sports you may never have seen or heard of before. Don't like that one? switch over using the other 10 channels, there's bound to be something you're moderately interested in. Unless of course you're a bit strange and don't like sport ;)
 
postbox said:
I know you jest, but it's kinda the point is it not? showcasing sports you may never have seen or heard of before. Don't like that one? switch over using the other 10 channels, there's bound to be something you're moderately interested in. Unless of course you're a bit strange and don't like sport ;)
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If those 'sports' were intrinsically exciting they'd already have a world wide following and established tournaments of their own to play in.

And sports that already do fit the above criteria shouldn't be there, like football. The athletic events are the only ones that fit the event and I'm reluctant to use the word sport to describe what are mono-skill events (who is the fastest, who can throw this object the furthest etc).
 
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