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Arnie
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Hi Everyone,

Is it just me or are any of you fed up with all things Olympic, there is no escape from it, it's everywhere :x :x
I got the remote for the TV last night :lol: flicking through the channels and I found that there are an extra 24 channels just for the olympics :shock: I going to live in my shed at the allotment :lol: :lol: :roll:

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It's all too too wonderful isn't it ? ? ? ? ? :twisted:

Enthusiasm ooozing out of every celebrities pores, I'll be glad when it's all over.

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Oh. cheer up!

A German competitor was lost, and wanted directions to the Olympic village in Stratford, London. He was standing outside East Ham tube station when he saw two lads walking by so he stops them and asks, 'Entschuldigung, koennen Sie Deutsch sprechen?'

The two lads look at each other blankly and stare back at the German.

'Excusez-moi, parlez vous français?' He tries.

The two continue to stare.

'Parlate italiano?' Still absolutely no response from the two lads.

'Hablan ustedes espanol?' The London lads remain totally silent.

The German Olympian walks off extremely disappointed and downhearted that he had not been understood. One of the boys turns to the second and says, 'You know, maybe we should learn a foreign language!'

'Why?' says the youth, 'That German guy knew four languages, and it didn't do him any good!'
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Definitely fed up about the Olympics. The Highways Agency, in their wisdom (and to enable a fast route to the sailing events in Weymouth) have spent £8 million pounds of taxpayers money in revamping our local roundabout and changing into a "hamburger roundabout". With 77 sets of traffic lights!! An absolute nightmare to negotiate.

Google "Canford Bottom Roundabout" and you will see the horrendous monstrocity.

Not happy at all :(
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Oh you should try living round here. We're not very far away from one of the Olympic venues and the No Parking signs have gone up everywhere. A lot of residents have even had to apply for parking permits to park outside their own houses. And the waste of money spent poncing up some of the local roads to be used would make you weep.

The best thing about the Olympics has been the 2012 Comedy programme taking the mikey out of the planning of them. The last one is on tonight on BBC 2 andi f you've missed them they are really worth catching up with on I-Player.
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Primrose, I soooo agree. I'm sure that 'Twenty Twelve' will be by far the best of all of the Olympics TV programmes.

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Hi Diane - Know what you mean! Went down to Weymouth a couple of weeks ago and well confusing without the extra 'games traffic' Did have a nice meal at the crab shack to compenste though! :)

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I really believe in the principle of the Olympic Games (I well remember living behind the iron curtain and being so so envious of those athletes who could go to London to compete in 1948!), but, unfortunately, the entire concept of able international amateurs competing appears to have been overtaken by commercialism, not least the ridiculous major sponsorships.

As for the prohibition on the use of Olympic symbols, like the five rings - who "owns" these symbols and how can the public be stopped from using them? I am seriously tempted to produce the five rings in appropriately coloured flowers and hang them on our gable house wall towards the road. I wonder what would happen.
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Monika wrote:As for the prohibition on the use of Olympic symbols, like the five rings - who "owns" these symbols and how can the public be stopped from using them? I am seriously tempted to produce the five rings in appropriately coloured flowers and hang them on our gable house wall towards the road. I wonder what would happen.

You could, and no-one would mind as you would not be appropriating it for commercial gain.

I am very tired of hearing about the torch procession, Olympics and all the rest of it as being billed as a "once in a lifetime experience". My parents are old enough to have lived through two British Olympics, and my neighbour, at 83, has seen the torch procession in 1948 and this year, and could have cared not a fig.
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I find that keeping the TV off and only reading the local paper (Thursdays) cuts out most of the Olympibabble.
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Primrose wrote:Oh you should try living round here. We're not very far away from one of the Olympic venues and the No Parking signs have gone up everywhere. A lot of residents have even had to apply for parking permits to park outside their own houses. And the waste of money spent poncing up some of the local roads to be used would make you weep.

The best thing about the Olympics has been the 2012 Comedy programme taking the mikey out of the planning of them. The last one is on tonight on BBC 2 andi f you've missed them they are really worth catching up with on I-Player.


I am so glad we live up North and, therefore, are completely unimportant as far as the Olympic authorities are concerned :D

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The real one starts tomorrow :wink:

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