The Olympic Ranting Thread

asim18

asim18

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Good lord it has gotten seriously worse round here!

Journeys which take 5 minutes are taking 20+ minutes!

Caught a bus earlier today; a stretch of road which normally takes no longer than 45 seconds to traverse took a whopping 13 minutes. And then you have an embarrassing and annoying message recorded by Boris Johnson which gets played every 5 minutes.

I'm absolutely sick of the sight of all those brand new Olympic branded BMW F10s clogging up the roads with spotty faced teenage drivers who have barely learnt to drive. In the car yesterday evening and a stretch of road which normally would take no longer than 10 minutes to traverse took almost an hour.

I am also absolutely sick of the "ZION" logo. Went to the O2 earlier, thought I'd get some peace at the cinema down there, and BOOM.... A massive queue for airport style X-Ray security checks with the Zion logo at every 5 metre interval. Me and my mates bought a ****load of drinks from the nearby Tesco store, had to throw it all away. :mad:

I heard all the rumours of **** happening, but I remained optimistic.

Several of my mates have already left the country weeks ago! Prime reason: Olympics. Why don't I have rich parents :(


So yeah... Affected by the lolympics??? post in here.
 
Parking is out of control where i live with all the bed n breakfasts full.

I feel anyone who parks and the car takes up 2 spaces should get a hefty fine regardless of having paid for the ticket to park the vehicle...
 
Good luck to both of you gentlemen.

I really don't understand the utter retardation in place at the O2. I mean I had a 2 inch blade on me which I carry all the time. It went through the X-Ray no problem. But I had a bottle of Coke in my hand and it got confiscated.

If I had the knife in my pocket it would have been confiscated as it would have tripped the detector, yet if I had the drink in my pocket I could have carried it in unimpeded.

Pointless. Simply pointless.

The intense retardation beggars belief. What a pointless waste of soldiers. They must be well ****ed off fannying about at the O2.
 
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I await the typical "asim, why dont you pull out your mac10 and tell people to get out of your way" type comments.

Seriously though, must be a pain for the locals!
 
Asim, you're a disgrace. You have no reason to carry a blade. You're a pathetic little child.

Let's not pretend that this thread is anything but Asim trying to be the 'big-man'. There was no reason that he had to admit to carrying a blade, yet he decided to tell us. It's attention seeking, and totally pathetic.
As I said before, you're a pathetic little ****. As is everyone else that carries a knife.
 
Ahleckz said:
Asim, you're a disgrace. You have no reason to carry a blade. You're a pathetic little child.

Let's not pretend that this thread is anything but Asim trying to be the 'big-man'. There was no reason that he had to admit to carrying a blade, yet he decided to tell us. It's attention seeking, and totally pathetic.
As I said before, you're a pathetic little ****. As is everyone else that carries a knife.
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Sometimes, threads on my clothes come lose. That is one reason I carry the most useful tools conceived by humankind.

Grow up. It's legal.
 
If that's the case, and I've never had the need to fix my clothes on the fly, then I'm sure you can wait until you get home. Or failing that, buy appropriate clothing.

I don't care if it's legal, that is no reason to carry a knife. No one needs to carry a knife day to day, especially not to the cinema. People that carry knives to a cinema have no place in modern society.
 
Ahleckz said:
If that's the case, and I've never had the need to fix my clothes on the fly, then I'm sure you can wait until you get home. Or failing that, buy appropriate clothing.

I don't care if it's legal, that is no reason to carry a knife. No one needs to carry a knife day to day, especially not to the cinema. People that carry knives to a cinema have no place in modern society.
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Please. Stop trolling. The knife (keyring) would cause more injury to oneself if one tried using it as a murder weapon (non-locking). One could bash someone to death more effectively with their fists. CHOP THEIR FISTS OFF!

I really don't have time for this.

But seriously.... What do you propose for fists, legs, baseball bats and other sport equipment, bar stools, tables, chairs, glass bottles, bricks, *insert biggest etcetera of all time here* all of which are exponentially more effective at causing harm than my 2 inch keyring mounted orange peeling blade???

Remember, people hurt people. Or do you honestly think the tools are the cause?
 
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There is this puzzling thing organized at Kidbrook Interchange on A2. Last week lights syncro was changed, so traffic from Kidbrooke into A2 northbound gets 10 seconds, A2 southbound into Kidbrooke gets whooping 40 seconds and flow of three lane A2 traffic from Kent going into London is shortened to 10 seconds. This is odd because Kidbrooke is a derelict area with width access restrictions, no olympic significance, no olympic lanes leading to it and there is absolutely nothing going on in there with exception of council estate demolitions.

In effect, the entire A2 traffic to London is clogged at the lights for days and Transport For London point blank refused to explain why they make hundreds of thousand people queue for days, beyond generic "to help manage traffic flow into London in light of the Games family now arriving in the capital" and "our advice to motorists is clear – avoid driving in central London". But how is artificially clogging up A2 helping traffic flow? It's almost as if they made a conscious decision to create massive artificial tailbacks so people from Kent give up going to appointments, do deliveries or commuting to work.
 
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asim18 said:
I chose to watch a film. The disposal of liquids was simply a requirement for being able to watch the film. :p
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Generally you are not allowed to bring your own refreshments into cinemas anyway so your having to throw them away is a moot point as you shouldn't have been taking them in to begin with :p
 
Richie said:
Generally you are not allowed to bring your own refreshments into cinemas anyway so your having to throw them away is a moot point as you shouldn't have been taking them in to begin with :p
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I hope they don't relocate those X-ray machines to the Cineworld foyer after the Olympics are over :eek:
 
wow, so much whinging, can't you guys man up for 2 weeks till it's over with? It's the UK's chance to impress the whole world but all you guys seem to care about is that your bus takes 10 minutes longer.
lol
 
I went to the O2 on Monday and had no issues getting inside, they weren't checking anything and I had a bag full of sweets.

An added bonus was the rephasing of the traffic lights on the A2, as someone who needs to go through Kidbrooke to get home I was pleased at how I didn't have to worry about queueing up.:D
 
Hamish said:
wow, so much whinging, can't you guys man up for 2 weeks till it's over with? It's the UK's chance to impress the whole world but all you guys seem to care about is that your bus takes 10 minutes longer.
lol
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London > rest of the world, regardless :p
 
I am looking at what would be a "legal" 2" blade on my desk at home (a Swiss army knife), and let me tell you, that could be easily used to kill someone.

I won't personally insult asim, but as others have said, there is simply no reason to always carry a knife with them.

Quite frankly, it shows the failing of the security at these venues, as you certainly would not be able to take a 2" blade onto an air plane, and they are operating a similar level security at the venues.
 
Hamish said:
wow, so much whinging, can't you guys man up for 2 weeks till it's over with? It's the UK's chance to impress the whole world but all you guys seem to care about is that your bus takes 10 minutes longer.
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No it isn't the UK's chance to impress the world its the UK's chance to make a massive loss by hosting an event that has never drawn profit for the host nation, and worst of all their using UK taxes to fund the English Olympics >.<
 
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