The Olympic Ranting Thread

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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I wouldnt worry Ahleckz he strikes me as someone that is scared of his own shadow lol.

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yer_averagejoe said:
Did I just witness someone defending carrying a knife for the purpose of cutting loose threads?

I carry a pen knife when I'm on a long cycle, for obvious reasons. I can't think of any day to day situation where one would urgently need a knife.

Yet Another Manly Asim Thread.
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My dad's always carried a pocket knife. He's never stabbed anyone, and I have in fact seen him cut loose threads with it ;) He's 64 this year.


Olympics, thanks to you I won't be going anywhere near London till you're over. There was a gig I wanted to go to, and a possible party, oh and my sis asked me to join her family to watch some events, but it's confusing enough driving anywhere near the place with too many fines to risk normally, never mind with these latest additions. I'll just stay away thanks.
 
I don't even live in London but I'm fed up hearing about the olympics...and EVERY SINGLE BLOODY COMPANY IS TRYING TO CASH IN TOO!!!

They are selling worse tack than some chinese counterfit shady looking character, and charging a premium as it has a logo on it...sod that.

The quicker it is over the better!
 
Regarding the olympic lanes, why are they even there? Isn't the 'village' where the participants staying beside the main stadiums?
 
v0n said:
Oh, the whole world is impressed. If they aren't impressed yet, they will be very impressed after TV crews roll into town and spot that ghetto soviet banner "Poplar welcomes" on derelict half collapsed estate next to Balfron Towers on A12. As a driver commuter I am very impressed too.
I am impressed by signage that creates absolutely crazy traffic issues by providing up to six different dates and hours about multitude of different olympic related things on the same stretch of the road to buses and cars often driven by people who don't read english fluently enough to understand what's expected of them when passing such amount of reading material at 30mph.

I am impressed that they cancelled all turns across entire The Highway from limehouse tunnel all the way to Tower Bridge and managed not to provide any signage at all that if you take Limehouse Tunnel you won't be able to turn for 4 miles until you find yourself in £10 congestion charge zone. Yeah, turning right is for kittens! Real men drive straight only. Like a boss

I am impressed that in most places we managed to create olympic lanes with use of top notch modern technology.
Technology that squeezes five lanes of traffic into two:

Teleport two lanes of traffic before road turns into £120 bus lane and £130 olympic lane


Get rid of traffic completely without providing any diversions:

I am sure it's perfectly reasonable to ask millions of commuters to be late or suspend their business, and it wouldn't be reasonable to ask someone from "olympic family" to be aware of traffic and perhaps turn up at event site appropriately earlier. I've never been so proud in my life. :D
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Well as someone with an outsiders perspective the whole world is impressed (at least the bit I'm in). Probably because they don't read the Daily Mail and aren't crying over a few road closures.

If you really don't want to be part of the olympics all you need to do it stay out of central/east London for TWO WEEKS and you've had over SEVEN YEARS to plan to go somewhere else. There is the entire rest of the country or even the world you can escape to. Sorry but I've no sympathy.
 
Ahleckz said:
Regarding the olympic lanes, why are they even there? Isn't the 'village' where the participants staying beside the main stadiums?
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I believe they are there for officials and VIPs. No doubt the sponsors will have access to them as well.
 
Ahleckz said:
Regarding the olympic lanes, why are they even there? Isn't the 'village' where the participants staying beside the main stadiums?
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Because all the events are happening in the Olympic Village right...?

I'll give you that its pretty rubbish that the Sponsors and such get carted around wherever they like, but many of the Athletes will still be competing in Events taking part across London and outside of it where the lanes will get them there quickly.
 
The traffic was horrendous as I took my wife to work this morning....three times as much traffic as normal......there were three cars in front of me at the Traffic Lights for heavens sake....damned Olympics.....;)
 
People moan when the Olympics cost the tax payer money, so we get huge investment through sponsorship to lower that burden and now people are moaning that the sponsors are getting preferential treatment.
 
Nexus said:
Wow, some incredibly miserable people in this thread.
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Exactly, nobody here last night was miserable:

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All the whingers and whiners should shut themselves up in a darkened room for three weeks and let the rest of us enjoy ourselves. :p:D
 
I'm not looking forward to the next few weeks, but I solely blame my company. Where our office is based by Monument, it takes me about half an hour to walk to and from work. This is fine, and a number of the new people have actively sourced flats and accomodation close to the office with the impending Olympic issues.

So our company ups and moves offices from The City to Vauxhall, for some bizarre and unknown reason, affective July 27th. Now half the office have got to travel back East, towards to Stadium, at 7pm-8pm every evening. It's going to be a farce, and the company will have no one to blame but themselves when everyone turns up late or complains about the timing of the move :mad:

Personally, I'm mixed about the Olympics - I'm very much looking forward to streaming everything to my desk and not doing any work for the next few weeks, but I'm becoming quite concerned that the whole transoprt network will buckle.

Last week the District line was suspended. Today there were announcements at Whitechapel and Aldgate East (minutes from the Stadium) that the Hammersmith & City line was a mess, and the next train wouldn't be along for 20-30 minutes. These kind of fluff ups are commonplace in London, and I can see them becoming more frequent as the Games progress. I genuinely hope it all goes smoothly, but I can see this being quite embarrassing.
 
toshj said:
I'm not looking forward to the next few weeks, but I solely blame my company. Where our office is based by Monument, it takes me about half an hour to walk to and from work. This is fine, and a number of the new people have actively sourced flats and accomodation close to the office with the impending Olympic issues.

So our company ups and moves offices from The City to Vauxhall, for some bizarre and unknown reason, affective July 27th. Now half the office have got to travel back East, towards to Stadium, at 7pm-8pm every evening. It's going to be a farce, and the company will have no one to blame but themselves when everyone turns up late or complains about the timing of the move :mad:

Personally, I'm mixed about the Olympics - I'm very much looking forward to streaming everything to my desk and not doing any work for the next few weeks, but I'm becoming quite concerned that the whole transoprt network will buckle.

Last week the District line was suspended. Today there were announcements at Whitechapel and Aldgate East (minutes from the Stadium) that the Hammersmith & City line was a mess, and the next train wouldn't be along for 2o-30 minutes. These kind of fluff ups are commonplace in London, and I can see them becomg more frequent as the Games progress. I genuinely hope it all goes smoothly, but I can see this being quite embarrassing.
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Want the best transport tip in London.... get a Bicycle. ;)
 
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