OK this is probably the first of many threads on the 2012 Olympics.
So lets list what new sports us Brits will add :)
Fun
Queueing
Moaning
Count the sunny days
Serious
Cricket (20/20)
London 2012
OK this is probably the first of many threads on the 2012 Olympics.
So lets list what new sports us Brits will add :)
Fun
Queueing
Moaning
Count the sunny days
Serious
Cricket (20/20)
ShadesWolf
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Im a Wolves fan, get me out of here......
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Haggis throwing, you've got to catch your own.
As I'm only 1 hour away from London I might see if I can go some of the Olympics. I don't think that Chirac done himself any favours with his racist comments about Brits.
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Hopefully they'll add rugby too, preferably 15s, but 7s would do at a pinch.
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Snooker and Darts, because we'd be unstoppable.
Rugby and Cricket, I'd fancy us to get at least a medal.
Also, we should definately be able to field a Great Britain football team. Its a complete joke that the very inventors of the game are not allowed to field an Olympic football team because of a technicality.
Cowardice is to run from the fear;
Bravery is not to never feel the fear.
Bravery is to be terrified as hell;
But to hold the line anyway.
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Congratulations I just saw it on the news a few minutes ago....... America will still win
Formerly ceasar010
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That's bloody optimistic in view of the Lions lamentable performance...still, cricket looks more hopeful.Rugby and Cricket, I'd fancy us to get at least a medal
I'd add dominoes to the list of sports, bar billiards would be obvious, and as the world nettle eating championships are held in England each year nettle eating should be at least a demonstration sport.
I suppose this means I will have to move out of London fairly soon to stop my council tax doubling when Ken completely cocks up the construction projects by insisting on employing only lesbian crane drivers etc?
"The only thing I've gotten out of this thread is that Navaros is claiming that Satan gave Man meat. Awesome." Gorebag
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Cricket 20/20 would deffo be good.
And EA - we will not have any Red Ken bashing here!
GARCIN: I "dreamt," you say. It was no dream. When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he wills himself to be.
INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.
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From one soon-to-be Olympic host to another:
Congrats!!!
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- TSM
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yard of ale
1000 metre pub crawl
street-fighting
Assaulting grannies
They will be 4 new sports on the list
Edit: and speaking of Ken : have either EA of JAG been flushing the toilet after a mere piddle down the bowl?
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I just posted this in the frontroom but....
WE BEAT THE FROGSagain WE BEAT THE FROGS again...maybe they'll finally clean up the ol' capital
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb...
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There was a thread in the frontroom a while back where we voted our support for the host nation of the 2012 olympics...
Who do you want to host thw 2012 Olympics?
It is interesting to see who predicted it correctly.
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Darts would be fantastic, but I wouldn't rule out the Dutch - Barneveld, Stompe, Van Der Voort, Schoelton - reckon we'd have a challenge on our hands there!Darts, because we'd be unstoppable
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Strange thing was that it was never a race between London and Paris, but London and Madrid for most of it.
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So true, it is lucky we held them off to get into the final vote so they could give us their votes for the win!Originally Posted by Idaho
GARCIN: I "dreamt," you say. It was no dream. When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he wills himself to be.
INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.
Jean Paul Sartre - No Exit 1944
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Congrats to the Brits.
I'm sure Blair is rubbing it in to the French at the G8 summit.
Our genes maybe in the basement but it does not stop us chosing our point of view from the top.
Pape for global overlord!!
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Not if he wants to get his G8 agenda through - of which he has put a huuuuuuge amount of political capital at home and abroad on.Congrats to the Brits.
I'm sure Blair is rubbing it in to the French at the G8 summit.
GARCIN: I "dreamt," you say. It was no dream. When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he wills himself to be.
INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.
Jean Paul Sartre - No Exit 1944
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Congrats to the Brits for landing the 2012 Summer Games
We hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics, Mrs ichi and I got to attend a few events. Definitely a good time. I hope that you'all pull it off, avoid any 'security' problems, and get something lasting out of it.
ichi
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CoH
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Congrats brits, you just earned yourselves 10 more years of debts for yourselves. I don't get what people are chearing for, YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR ALL THAT!!!
This will take away from investment in roads and hospitals! Great! *Hooray for us!*
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Not at all, the money is being put up separately from general taxation and the fools tax - the national lottery - so none of those problems. The things you can do with a fast growing economy and growing taxes, eh?
And the development of the areas where the games will be held will have a huge impact in helping an area of east london which has been run down for years upon years. Fully worth it and it is great to get the games.
GARCIN: I "dreamt," you say. It was no dream. When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he wills himself to be.
INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.
Jean Paul Sartre - No Exit 1944
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I'd love to see 20/20 cricket at the Olympics, even though the Brits are dominating it...
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the first game I watched. Electric.
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Congrats to the Brits! Better you than us! (Nobody in their right mind wanted the O's in NYC -- what a nightmare.)
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Fabulous! Another opportunity for this crap government to tax the rest of Britain to the hilt just so that Stratford can be "regenerated". Why not just do that anyway? Oh no, Mr Blair has to have his prestige............
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Yet we still won the election? And the hundred odd seats the Tories won due to a split of the Labour vote will be back in Labour Hands. Grow up.Fabulous! Another opportunity for this crap government to tax the rest of Britain to the hilt just so that Stratford can be "regenerated". Why not just do that anyway? Oh no, Mr Blair has to have his prestige............
Blair is chatergorically a much better PM than all the Tories in the last 20 years. He has overseen the largest sustained period of growth since the Industrial revolution and has improved living and working conditions for the worst off in this society.
You don't like it then my simple comment is to grow up and live with it. The Tories will not win the next election and its entirely likely they will be overtaken by the Lib Dems as the second major party. Live with it.
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He's Thatcherism with a sugary coating of socialism.
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"We were not born into this world to be happy, but to do our duty." Bismarck
"You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing. One or the other. Not both." The Right Hon. Bertram Wilberforce Wooster
"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication" - Lord Byron
"Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison." - C. S. Lewis
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But at least he isn't Thatcher, which is what wins elections.
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Haven't they won the same number of elections?
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"We were not born into this world to be happy, but to do our duty." Bismarck
"You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing. One or the other. Not both." The Right Hon. Bertram Wilberforce Wooster
"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication" - Lord Byron
"Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison." - C. S. Lewis
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Thatcher won 2 didn't she? Then she got uppity and like typical tories they jumped her from behind.
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Sorry for my English
"London 2012" - Ask the 60 dead londoners who died because of the rain , ups , sorry , the wind , ups , sorry again , the heat , no , no , the snow , my mistake again , hhhmmm , ah , yes !!! the "terrorism" , yes , that's it !!!
who's fu**n "terrorism" is it ? is it terror from the Martians ? maybe from the Atlantians , or from the "National front of the uglies"....
Hail George W. Bush - the first western leader to face the truth ! (if you don't know the truth , just read my previous post's in the previous threads , or just ask Bush...)
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@caesar44:
You got a PM
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OK , "London 2012" - good luck !@caesar44:
You got a PM
"Terrorism" - "To the crime's of cowardice and treason . one must add exaggerated self confidence , who bring's annulment and neglect ; it also counted with the most serious crime's of war day's" (churchill)
I apologize if anyone (not including the terrorists) took my words as an offence
"The essence of philosophy is to ask the eternal question that has no answer" (Aristotel) . "Yes !!!" (me) .
"Its time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds." (Tupac Amaru Shakur)
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