Olympic Wimp Fest

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  1. ClaraLou

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    I do hope it snows or hailstones the day this guy, who has decided to train in Germany because London is 'too cold', competes in the Olympics. For heavens sake! It's been a bit gloomy and wet here but it hasn't been freezing. At least we don't have a semi-permanent fog of pollution here, as they do in Beijing. I don't remember any of our athletes at the Chinese Olympics whinging about the possibility of chesty coughs and asthma.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18867521

    Then there was the American athlete who took exception to his bus driver getting lost on the way from Heathrow to the Olympic village. Unfortunate, I grant you, but his tweet said 'not a good first impression, London'. So, one confused bus driver and the whole of London is damned? We bleed for you, dahhhling. How terrible to have been inconvenienced in this way. Try the London underground in the rush hour next time, for the full experience of what Londoners cope with every day, twice a day.

    When did international athletes become such pansies?
     
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      I think a lot of 'foreigners' have a preconceived idea of what the country is like. Not always a correct one.
      A lot of French people still think London is always engulfed in thick fog.
      Why, because a lot of old films portraying London were traditionally shown like that. So they thought it was true.:huh:
       
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        I have to agree that many of them simply do not have a clue what it is actually like here - they are stepping off a plane expecting to see big red buses, black cabs, everyone drinking tea whilst wearing suits and bowler hats, and all speaking as though we have a bag of marbles in our mouths.

        I also agree that they are a bunch of pansies, that really need to get a grip on reality - they never will however, and reactions like the one from the American athlete only serves to prove my gut feeling about the Olympics - it is little more than a 'bit of a do' for the elite, and just because they can run or jump they are expecting to be treated like royalty.
         
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          Hang on a minute. I'm confused. Are we saying that London isn't the super efficient city where there are only two kinds of people, extremely polite professionals in suits and bowler hats who bow at everyone they pass, and brightly coloured mini-skirt wearing young woman who always seem to be disco dancing and smile at everyone?

          As for the coach driver, when he got lost, why didn't he stop and ask the nearest very polite and knowledgeable beat bobby who would have only been too happy to jump on the bus to give directions, while hanging out of the open side door so he could say hello to everyone they passed.
           
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            I have the most horrible feeling that these Olympics will become a 'take a pop at London and its inhabitants' kind of an occasion. Deja vu all over again for me, since I once taught a class of foreign students who, despite being treated really rather well IMHO, spent all their time telling me how much they hated England and wanted to go home. By the end of the term it was all I could do to stop myself saying 'well, treetreetreetree go home, then.'
             
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              Tis the custom.

              Has the M25 been dug up to make it into a moat yet?
               
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                I think they should thank their lucky stars that they get to perform in "cool" weather. If the summer Olympics were being held in the States right now, for example, they'd all be passing out from heat exhaustion.
                 
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                No need. The gridlock is utterly impenetrable.
                 
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                  I kind of think its us, the natives that should be having a pop at them.
                  Afterall, this shindig is causing the everyday person one hell of a lot of trouble.

                  Was talking to the saw doctor who comes round once a week, he said it took him 4 hours to travel a distance across London which normally takes an hour and a half.
                  Its due to the extra lane they say they have created for the visitors.

                  The truth is they have not created an extra lane, they have taken one away,... from the buisness people.

                  Businesses are going to suffer, and that means "us" in the long term.
                   
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                    :lunapic 130165696578242 5:
                     
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                    And seeing as its an olympics related thread....

                     
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                      Ooooh, one of my favourite songs! I love the Saws!
                       
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                        They will get a shock then when 90% of the people are coloured, and 80% do not speak English


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                            Tut Tut :nonofinger:

                            Not that kind of Saw Doctor. Treat yourself to a couple of their earlier albums (All The Way From Tuam, and If This Is Rock And Roll I Want My Old Job Back), and you will be enlightened.

                            I went to see them in the Powerhouse in Ayr years ago (easily 15 years or more), and they were simply brilliant. Very friendly, down to earth guys, with oooodles of talent.
                             
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