Is this a new olympic record?

[sooey]

There's still nearly a fortnight to go and we've f-**ed it all up on the security side already.
Never mind the first of the olympic lanes opened today on the M4, everything'll be alright as long as Seb and all his hangers on can get around and about and feel important while all the rest of us sit in the traffic jams.
Personally I hope our splendid British summer carries on as it's been doing so far and washes the f-**in lot down the swannee. 'Orrible aren't I?

 

[conny]

That makes two us then.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks its a waste of OUR money and people like us, who work all week to pay for this shambles, won't even be able to get there and watch even if we wanted to!
No doubt our kids, and probably theirs too, will still be paying for this in years to come.
So much for austerity measures.

 

[joe-90]

We borrow this amount (£9 billion) month in and month out to pay for benefits. Yes MONTH AFTER MONTH we borrow the equivalent cost of the Olympics - and you say this country isn't bust?

 

[conny]

I'm not saying this country isn't bust at all Joe.
I'm saying these games are a waste of OUR money. i.e. Those of us who work for a living and pay taxes on everything!

 

[sooey]

If that's the case at least it's putting food in peoples mouths. What's this money doing, apart from massaging the egos of the politicians who've got us into the mess in the first place?

 

[joe-90]

The UK gets the advertising value of the games.

9 billion for benefits EVERY month adds nothing.

 

[ellal]

Exploitation Games..

 

[sooey]

Advertising WHAT??? What do we make these days? Which can't be made for half the price and twice as quick in China or India.

 

[Bodgeitandleggit]

There's still nearly a fortnight to go and we've f-**ed it all up on the security side already.
Never mind the first of the olympic lanes opened today on the M4, everything'll be alright as long as Seb and all his hangers on can get around and about and feel important while all the rest of us sit in the traffic jams.
Personally I hope our splendid British summer carries on as it's been doing so far and washes the f-**in lot down the swannee. 'Orrible aren't I?

Totally agree ...I could not give a flying fluke about it

 

[sooey]

It took Montreal 30 years to pay off the debts incurred by staging the olympics there in 76

The Olympics were a financial disaster for Montreal, as the city faced debts for 30 years after the Games had finished. The Quebec provincial government took over construction when it became evident in 1975 that work had fallen far behind schedule; work was still under way just weeks before the opening date, and the tower was not built. Mayor Jean Drapeau had confidently predicted in 1970 that "the Olympics can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby", but the debt racked up to a billion dollars that the Quebec government mandated the city pay in full. This would prompt cartoonist Aislin to draw a pregnant Drapeau on the telephone saying, "Allo, Morgentaler?" in reference to a Montreal abortion provider.

The Olympic Stadium was designed by French architect Roger Taillibert. It is often nicknamed The Big O as a reference to both its name and to the doughnut-shape of the permanent component of the stadium's roof, though The Big Owe has been used to reference the astronomical cost of the stadium and the 1976 Olympics as a whole. It has never had an effective retractable roof, and the tower was completed only after the Olympics. In December 2006 the stadium's costs were finally paid in full.[9] The total expenditure (including repairs, renovations, construction, interest, and inflation) amounted to C$1.61 billion. Today, despite its huge cost, the stadium is devoid of a major tenant, after the Montreal Expos moved in 2005.

 

[joinerjohn]

Personally, I'm glad our Forces lads are being drafted in to help with security. I'd rather they do the security, than a bunch of shysters employing reject nightclub bouncers and building site security guards.

 

[sooey]

The armed forces lads should all be deployed to the northern tip of Scotland. From where they can begin a country wide sweep southwards, Checking all premises for illegal immigrants, dole scroungers, drug dealers and workshy tw**s.
When they get to Dover they can then tip them all into the sea.

 

[LastMagicBean]

It had shambles written all over it from day one.

 

[sooey]

It'd have been better if we'd just had a big game of "It's a knockout".
More interesting too.

 

[sooey]

Let the fun and games begin.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ol...le-queue-as-first-Games-lane-opens-on-M4.html