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pshepherd
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Posted - 2005.07.06 11:51:00 -
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London just won the Olympics, yay
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hired goon
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Posted - 2005.07.06 11:54:00 -
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HAHA! FRANCE GOT PWNT! PWNT!
Chirac shouldn't have insulted the food of the IOC's primary country, I reckon.
Cool, the Olympics within walking distance! ------------
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dimensionZ
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Posted - 2005.07.06 11:56:00 -
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jason hill
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Posted - 2005.07.06 12:00:00 -
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this is not good for us
"THE HUMAN SHIELD" |
C Duggan
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Posted - 2005.07.06 12:05:00 -
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im a chef, so im happy.
i just hope we done screw it up, which we prolly will
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jason hill
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Posted - 2005.07.06 12:09:00 -
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my council tax will go through the bloody roof to pay for all the bloody infrastructure ...oooh my poor bloody wallet
"THE HUMAN SHIELD" |
Monty Burns
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Posted - 2005.07.06 12:16:00 -
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Yay! More Johnny Foreigner running around our already very cosmo town Bring on the contruction of the new Olympic Village ... I should need a new contract about then Darwin 4tw
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Rodj Blake
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Posted - 2005.07.06 13:34:00 -
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Here's the maths of the vote.
London won by four votes.
In the event of a tie, the French IOC president would have had the deciding vote.
There were two Finnish delegates who were undecided before the meeting.
Jacques Chirac insulted Finnish cuisine a couple of days back.
So it's just possible that Paris lost the vote purely because of Chirac's ill-timed comments to Gerard Scroeder and Vladimir Putin.
Dolce et decorum est pro imperator mori |
Remmington Daniels
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Posted - 2005.07.06 13:48:00 -
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The french also said, that we (the english) didnt have an appropriate stadium for the games.
what was in the brief is that we WILL have
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Gunstar Zero
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Posted - 2005.07.06 13:53:00 -
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almost glad I moved from London now.
Can you imagine the place with *more* tourists? <shudder>
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hired goon
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Posted - 2005.07.06 15:52:00 -
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Tell you what, I don't leave the house to have to worry. All I know is, my house will go up in value. 4tw tbh. ------------
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Baldour Ngarr
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Posted - 2005.07.06 16:11:00 -
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Originally by: Remmington Daniels The french also said, that we (the english) didnt have an appropriate stadium for the games.
what was in the brief is that we WILL have
When we won the bid for the 2005 World Athletics Championships, it was in the brief that we would have a brand new stadium ready for them.
Any sign of it?
I'm glad we won. I'm yet to be convinced that we'll actually host them.
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slothe
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Posted - 2005.07.06 17:36:00 -
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id have loved to have seen jacque chiracs face after he heard
eheheheh
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TheAwakening
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Posted - 2005.07.06 17:47:00 -
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imo, wierd that we're needing to raise the profile of Africa and the debt they're in, but we can win a vote to spend ú3.6bn
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Galk
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Posted - 2005.07.06 18:08:00 -
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Umm kinda shocked here...
Still cynical old me, ill say well it will be a good way of deflecting real issues for the next few years.
Still, british and im proud.. ohh and we beat the french...
As if national pride wasn't enough ehh --------
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Jon Hawkes
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Posted - 2005.07.06 18:16:00 -
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So London won the Olympics...
Now can anyone tell me what positive effect this will have on any city in the UK that isn't London? I don't see there being many benefits for the likes of Edinburgh, Cardiff, Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham, Leeds, to name but a few. At the end of the day, this is local news and of little interest to the rest of the country.
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hired goon
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Posted - 2005.07.06 19:06:00 -
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Originally by: Jon Hawkes So London won the Olympics...
Now can anyone tell me what positive effect this will have on any city in the UK that isn't London? I don't see there being many benefits for the likes of Edinburgh, Cardiff, Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham, Leeds, to name but a few. At the end of the day, this is local news and of little interest to the rest of the country.
Haha! Nobody lives in those places anyway. ------------
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Monty Burns
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Posted - 2005.07.06 22:15:00 -
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Originally by: Jon Hawkes So London won the Olympics...
Now can anyone tell me what positive effect this will have on any city in the UK that isn't London? I don't see there being many benefits for the likes of Edinburgh, Cardiff, Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham, Leeds, to name but a few. At the end of the day, this is local news and of little interest to the rest of the country.
Directly? None. Indirectly ..... more than you can imagine.
London is one of three financial capitals in the world. On top of that billions are spent by tourists in this city, a lot of which is taxed. Now, imagine an extra million or two tourists coming in over a 2 or 3 month period and all the taxes and the advertising and the airlines being even more rampant with business and the "out of london" suppliers for food outlets inside and the extra electricity .... and the ... and the .... and the ...
get the picture?
So much happens that we do not see that generates income. Yeah, we will spend a couple of billion setting it up. We will earn SOOOO much more.
If the host didnt make any money, why would it be such a tough fought competition
Like it or not, and YES this is a very arrogant thing to say, but the South East of England (mostly London/city) finances a lot more than its fair share of poorer regions. This is NOT a complaint, more a statement of fact
Food for thought Darwin 4tw
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The Enslaver
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Posted - 2005.07.06 22:21:00 -
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2012 Olympics Fallout
This made me happy. --------
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Slaxl
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Posted - 2005.07.07 06:09:00 -
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Originally by: TheAwakening imo, wierd that we're needing to raise the profile of Africa and the debt they're in, but we can win a vote to spend ú3.6bn
I'll pretend you didn't say that, you're just unhappy coz your new york failed to win, then you were unhappy paris lost. Events in other parts of the world are irrelevant, I shan't debate this with you any further, you wanted paris to win, yet you're english, and it makes me sad, really does :(
and lol at the picture above, poor frenchies.
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TheJay
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Posted - 2005.07.07 07:49:00 -
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Originally by: The Enslaver 2012 Olympics Fallout
This made me happy.
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Dray
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Posted - 2005.07.07 08:46:00 -
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Originally by: hired goon Tell you what, I don't leave the house to have to worry. All I know is, my house will go up in value. 4tw tbh.
Last time I checked, having coach loads of junkies turning up on your doorstep has an adverse effect on property values..
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hired goon
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Posted - 2005.07.07 09:35:00 -
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The chavs that live on my road will chase them away. ------------
We come in peace. And tanks. |
Dray
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Posted - 2005.07.07 11:10:00 -
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but if the chavs chase away the junkies who's going to compete in the games?
I picked up this ace book today everyone rates it as a must buy for the budding military genius, tho ive decided to rename it as "Sun Tzu's art of the bloody obvious" |
Baldour Ngarr
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Posted - 2005.07.07 11:12:00 -
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Originally by: Dray but if the chavs chase away the junkies who's going to compete in the games?
I don't think Throwing the Half-Brick is an Olympic sport yet. Nor the 2-mile Joyriding Time Trial.
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2005.07.07 11:40:00 -
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No country to host the Olympics has ever made a profit from the Games.
LEEEEERRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! |
Baldour Ngarr
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Posted - 2005.07.07 11:59:00 -
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Originally by: Joshua Calvert No country to host the Olympics has ever made a profit from the Games.
Didn't Los Angeles pull it off? With all the insane amounts of sponsorship ... I remember that after '76 and '80, it was beginning to look as though no country would ever WANT to host the games again, it cost too damn much. LA 1984 was the even which reversed that trend; now everybody wants them again.
Having said which, I never saw actual figures.
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2005.07.07 12:21:00 -
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Linkage
LEEEEERRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! |
Hella May
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Posted - 2005.07.07 12:23:00 -
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Originally by: Joshua Calvert No country to host the Olympics has ever made a profit from the Games.
No direct profit, but billions in indirect profit.
Let's get this straight, if a girl has to be "rescued" 10 times a week from a brothel shes not a damsel but a prostitute.
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Baldour Ngarr
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Posted - 2005.07.07 12:27:00 -
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Thanks for that; at least they beat out Montreal, who hosted the Games eight years earlier and won't finish paying for another twenty-five.
But where did all the money raised from that insane amount of sponsorhip, actually go? I *know* it was raised ... it looks as though it wasn't used to pay off the costs of hosting the thing.
As with many other major events, most of the alleged benefits are invisible ones; it's hard to pinpoint a specific wodge of money coming into London and say "that wouldn't have happened if we hadn't hosted the Olympics three years ago." So the claim may well be true, on raw numbers, and yet false in reality. (In theory, that is; I'm not intending to dispute the post, since I have no actual figures.)
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