The Olympic Ranting Thread

My campus is full of armed guards with MP5's and a ridiculously oppressive and rather suspicious security presence, to say the least. Since May time we've been not-so-fondly referring to our campus as 'East Berlin' or 'the Gaza Strip', and students have been complaining to the administration pretty much constantly. Paying students, with no consultation, have had their campus turned inside-out for the Olympic circus. We've been relegated to second-class citizens whilst 'the talent' swan around with security escorts, whilst Olympic officials get precedence and obeisance from our university principals, etc. It's such a pantomime.

As someone not even remotely interested in the Nazi spectacle and fascist fetishisation of athletic prowess, I have a lot to rant about. Tourists are one thing, but being relegated to a person with the status of a Palestine is another.
 
CIA and FBI establish threat center in London...LOL @ foreign agents at our GAMES.

We aren't good enough to look after our country now it looks.
Britain is about to win the gold medal in self inflicted paranoia
 
deanolfc said:
CIA and FBI establish threat center in London...LOL @ foreign agents at our GAMES.

We aren't good enough to look after our country now it looks.
Britain is about to win the gold medal in self inflicted paranoia
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To be honest 90% of the reason we now have a threat posed to our national security, and 90% of our foreign enmity comes from our involvement with US Foreign policy... so it's only fair they should take a share in the terror-threat prevention :p
 
MOOGLEYS said:
The Olympics can go take a running jump for all I care. The country has better things to spend money on.

Who really cares if one person can run slightly faster than the next or throw some object a bit further.

It's nothing more than a moneymaking exercise for the sponsors and bigwigs involved whilst costing the public billions.


That's my opinion anyway.....
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Yeah let's just ban all sport.
 
PapaLazaru said:
Yeah let's just ban all sport.
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It's the ranting thread get ranting man.... :)

It's like all sports more about the money than the sport. Sponsorship makes it a multi billion pound expendature it need not be. The games was about being the best by simply being the best and not paid, endorsed and trained in another country than your own to be better.

It's simply unfortunately like most things these days another way for someone to make a lot of money at the expense of someone else.
 
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Olympics can get the **** outta here, same as that retarded queens jubilee!. Does not appeal to me, doesn't give me anything in return. Oh look a Coke lorry with advertising and selling cans at £1 lets all wave and cheer like british muppets

Now a huge gaming convention with all the developers or the latest game show yes please! :D :D :D
 
Ok... So now.... seriously... First question... Why are you using the roads?

I mean seriously, how many people who live in London still drive around it...

Get on the tube....

So far I've had no major issues with trains, and I've been commuting through Stratford daily.

Tomorrow evening, I'm planning on leaving London during the middle of the Olympics..

Also, O2, security... Ironically, if you'd actually listened to some of the stuff that they've got Boris to record you'd already know about it....

kd
 
Originally Posted by MOOGLEYS
The Olympics can go take a running jump for all I care. The country has better things to spend money on.

Who really cares if one person can run slightly faster than the next or throw some object a bit further.

It's nothing more than a moneymaking exercise for the sponsors and bigwigs involved whilst costing the public billions.


That's my opinion anyway.....
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+10000000000000

Agreed - like everything else sports are just the front of an efficient money-machine.

And the Olympics take the throne for that one. Hang in there guys will be over soon.
 
I'm loving Gary Lineker trying to feign interest in minority sports he's never watched before.

Other day he tried to ask his guest, former Olympic Gold swimmer Ian Thorpe, about the equestrian events and Thorpe just looked at him with a blank expression and just replied "Yeah, it must be hard".

Still don't get why BBC News felt the need to move their studio to the Olympic Park though, do we really need a backdrop of that ugly red tower thing that looks like it's been made out of a disused roller coaster track whilst George Alagiah gives us the latest from the FTSE 100 index?

...oh and we're doing crap medal wise :D
 
estebanrey said:
... oh and we're doing crap medal wise :D
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You mean like Helen Glover, Heather Stanning, Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome and Michael Jamieson :rolleyes:

I have to say, I am delighted that eight female badminton players from China, South Korea and Indonesia have been disqualified for deliberately trying to lose, even after being warned - they should be made to refund the ticket price for people who paid to watch them compete.

I am disappointed that there continue to be empty seats at various events whilst paying punters are still unable to buy tickets - that is shameful :(
 
estebanrey said:
Their wins are only worth 1 each you know that? We're still doing crap overall as I stated.
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If only there was a medal for whinging and you were there to help them out.

When you are old enough to buy a drink, I have no doubt that you will whine incessantly and bitterly that the barman should be able to squeeze more shandy into your half pint glass :p
 
sorry if its been pointed out but its all over the news that traffic is down, their is less people in london and less business, has it recently got busier without the media getting involved
 
My journey took me an extra hour and a half yesterday, I actually had to queue to get onto a station platform, and the charming thing was that they had signs at different points in the queue telling you how many people were queuing.

"There are 500 people in this queue"

It took me nearly 30 minutes of queuing to get onto a platform so that I could catch a train to Charing Cross to escape the cluster**** that was London Bridge. Because, the mighty train gods decreed that a signal failure at Cannon st would royally screw up anything that was heading to the south east.

On the plus side, everything was running better tonight, but I didn't come into a rant thread to pile praise onto the transport systems :p
 
you guys should be used to it, i was in london a few months back and it took us 45min to go 2 mile.. on one of the roads, cant remember which one, north london somewhere
 
estebanrey said:
Their wins are only worth 1 each you know that? We're still doing crap overall as I stated.
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Really? :confused:

You do realise that we are currently 11th of 49?

For a small country to get talent from, in comparison to the countries above us, I would say we are doing quite well.
 
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