Olympics

[usav]

There really are some miserable buggers on this thread isn't there.

How dare you!

It's by no means confined to this thread.  Get your facts right.

[UK Redsox]

There really are some miserable buggers on this thread isn't there.

My default position is miserable bugger, I'm actually quite cheery on here.

[E I Adio]

I'm a miserable bugger yes. Not because its difficult to get tickets but because I think the Olympics is shit.

Now its going to be on the news for weeks about some silly bloody torch. Starting off with some bunch of cornish wankers carrying it before it gets passed onto assorted worzels and goes all round the country. The media will trot the statistic out all the while `The torch will pass within 10 miles of 95% of the UK population`. Oh wow ! Does that mean they organised a really great route? No! It means that the UK is a primarily urban based population ! They probably plan it so it goes past the One Show studio on a Friday at 7pm, at which point Seb bloody Coe, David bloody Beckham, and Boris bloody Johnson will all turn up in the studio and that ginger tosser Chris bloody Evans will be there so they can all have their big bloody celebrity Olympic torchy lovefest. Then of course we will have it coming through the Midlands at some stage. Nick Owen will be on, making rubbish jokes and pretending how great it all is. They will send that hamster faced woman reporter out to show flag waving yam yam schoolkids as the torch passes through somewhere like Dudlayyy, or a bunch of morris dancers in some rural worcestershire outpost that gets its one minute of flame fame as another sad wanker does a mile trying not to burn their hand.

Me miserable? We have the Jubilee soon as well. I haven't even started yet !         

Best pre-Olympic rant yet.

I concur wholeheartedly in the spirit of absolutely depressing miserableness. This torch crap really is unmitigated tosh.

[Louzie0]

There really are some miserable buggers on this thread isn't there. There are so many people moaning "I couldn't get any tickets, I tried and tried and tried" but then I say to them "did you try again on Sunday" and they're like ....

...'yes.' 

Wailing and ranting and complaining is allowed, even on this thread.

I haven't noticed anybody holding back on the moaning in any of the Heroes Discussions threads!  Wall- to-wall weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth every weekend this past season - and some would say, with increasing justification since Christmas!   It's what some of us Villa fans do when we're not being insanely optimistic about the next manager.  Happy and gloomy simultaneously - that's the magic of H&V!

Have fun and congratulations on your success with booking the tickets - all three times.  I work with someone who's enjoyed similar success with the Olympic booking system, so I know that there are all you lucky people out there for whom it has worked.

I may kidnap Boris and hold him for ransom in the shed!  Otherwise, the tunnel idea is favourite.
UTV!

 

[Pete3206]

There really are some miserable buggers on this thread isn't there. I bet your kids are so proud of you aren't they.

In the first round of ticket applications me and the missus managed to get tickets to the athletics on Thursday 9th August evening session athletics (mens 200m final mens triple jump final) and last weekend I managed to get tickets for the men's hockey semi final for the adlfternoon of the same day.

There are so many people moaning "I couldn't get any tickets, I tried and tried and tried" but then I say to them "did you try again on Sunday" and they're like "no why what was Sunday" and when I explain it was when mote tickets were released for those who didn't get any originally they go all quiet.

Me I pulled up 10:50 on Sunday in my van, flicked on the iPad, logged on and get presto, more tickets.

I'm a miserable bugger yes. Not because its difficult to get tickets but because I think the Olympics is shit.

Now its going to be on the news for weeks about some silly bloody torch. Starting off with some bunch of cornish wankers carrying it before it gets passed onto assorted worzels and goes all round the country. The media will trot the statistic out all the while `The torch will pass within 10 miles of 95% of the UK population`. Oh wow ! Does that mean they organised a really great route? No! It means that the UK is a primarily urban based population ! They probably plan it so it goes past the One Show studio on a Friday at 7pm, at which point Seb bloody Coe, David bloody Beckham, and Boris bloody Johnson will all turn up in the studio and that ginger tosser Chris bloody Evans will be there so they can all have their big bloody celebrity Olympic torchy lovefest. Then of course we will have it coming through the Midlands at some stage. Nick Owen will be on, making rubbish jokes and pretending how great it all is. They will send that hamster faced woman reporter out to show flag waving yam yam schoolkids as the torch passes through somewhere like Dudlayyy, or a bunch of morris dancers in some rural worcestershire outpost that gets its one minute of flame fame as another sad wanker does a mile trying not to burn their hand.

Me miserable? We have the Jubilee soon as well. I haven't even started yet !         

[Chris Jameson]

Can't say i'm arsed about the Olympics but as a surprise for my son i've got tickets for the quarter final of the football at St James Park which will hopefully involve Brazil. No doubt it will be New Zealand against Egypt or some such nonsense but i'm sure he'll enjoy it.

[Ian.]

We all went to Shaldon to see the Torch this afternoon. I must admit I couldn't really be bothered with but me and the mrs thought it would be good for the kids to see it.
We actually had a fantastic afternoon, the atmosphere in Shladon was great, lots of happy people, bands in the pubs BBQ stalls everywhere. A cracking day.

[usav]

Thank God the Mancs didn't win the bid........they couldn't even put the right number of hurdles out today.

[Louzie0]

Jessica was not best pleased.

[D.boy]

Ok, own up, who sang run rabbit run rabbit?

[Pat McMahon]

D.boy - with your new user name I assume you are not logging on here from the work PC..?!!!

[D.boy]

Shhhhhhh  (no chance, I'm on nights starting tonight)

[Nev]

Thank God the Mancs didn't win the bid........they couldn't even put the right number of hurdles out today.

Whoever is responsible will be the for the high jump.

[Pat McMahon]

Shhhhhhh  (no chance, I'm on nights starting tonight)

On time and a half I hope?

[D.boy]

No, just normal hourly rate. Time and a half is only for overtime and the 1st half hour is always unpaid (it's for the queen apparently).