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Fishtigua
3,087 posts
65 months
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58warren said: Chrisw666 said: smartypants said: How many people DON'T have a Visa card though? We have between us 3 credit and 3 debit cards, none of them are visa. Many people may only have a Visa credit card forcing them to use credit over cash from their banks or buy pre paid visa cards which will incur a fee. Easiest thing would be to take some cash out from their bank's ATM prior to entering the Olympic Park and use that for drinks, snacks and souvenirs - although obviously you don't know exactly how much you are going to spend until you're inside Nice to see that they have shut all the non-VISA ATMs around the park, so that's the cash option buggered. A lot of overseas people do not have VISA as it is not that popular outside Europe.
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madbadger
9,186 posts
114 months
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McDonalds don't even serve chips anyway.
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Chrisw666
21,093 posts
69 months
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Nicholas Blair said: Rotten to the core Is that an officially merchandised apple you're complaining about?
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zcacogp
10,106 posts
114 months
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Have to say, I'm not being terribly upset by the various stories about Olympic plans not going to plan. The M4 being closed and this latest bruhaha about security guards not being ready in time are not a surprise at all. It strikes me that the Olympics are going to highlight large amounts of what is wrong in the UK at the moment; crumbling infrastructure, huge security problems from home-grown terrorists, suppliers who can't deliver on time and to contract and massively greedy corporate giants. Throw in some good seleb-worship (the list of people who are given free tickets will never be made public but the press will helpfully point them out), a whole bunch of benefits-scroungers being given freebee stuff and still causing disruption, large-scale petty crime and a general feeling of 'what a shi ty place this is'. I can't wait.  Oli.
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joe_90
Original Poster
3,387 posts
101 months
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58warren said: The daft thing is that they've had to install lots of potable water fountains in the park as you cannot deprive visitors access to drinking water and then force them into buying refreshments.
It would have been much cheaper to give each person a bottle of water once through the turnstiles... I suspect they will break down, or not work correctly...
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Chrisw666
21,093 posts
69 months
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Burger king meal, pepsi in big bottles, mastercards, big george cross flag with no surrender to the IOC written on it, a che guevara T-shirt, a swingball, a couple of massive beach balls, your new expensive camera and a huge picnic hamper should be carried by everyone going to the olympics.
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theboyfold
8,416 posts
96 months
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madbadger said: No Che T shirts.
No Aborigional flags.
No Tibet flags...
It's just like Beijing was. Well done UK. It's not the UK, it's the IOC who insist on all this, we are just 'lucky' enough to be hosting their little party...
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vixen1700
6,588 posts
140 months
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"The food restrictions are likely to boost retail sales on the Olympic Park, where the world's largest McDonalds is waiting to serve its first customer. It has more than 1,500 seats." Christ, that really represents London. 
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thinfourth2
23,953 posts
74 months
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Chrisw666 said: That works for people like me who are comfortable carrying a few hundred pounds in their wallet. Only planning on buying 2 offical burgers and an refreshment then
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fido
9,482 posts
125 months
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vixen1700 said: "The food restrictions are likely to boost retail sales on the Olympic Park, where the world's largest McDonalds is waiting to serve its first customer. It has more than 1,500 seats." Christ, that really represents London. Indeed. I'm surprised Greggs haven't been given an outlet. Somewhere for the single mums to stick a sausage dummy in their whiny offspring.
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Chrisw666
21,093 posts
69 months
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thinfourth2 said: Only planning on buying 2 offical burgers and an refreshment then As I said I'm glad I didn't have tickets for anything, I hate needless rules and beauracracy and can only just get on a plane without being arrested for pointing out how daft their rules are, if I was banned from taking a bottle of pop on a day out because it might be used as a bomb I'd wish it was incendiary.
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Use Psychology
9,932 posts
62 months
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pilchardthecat said: Can't they just put a tiny piece of fish on every plate?
Or a plastic fish? i was thinking that too 'one portion chips and fish please'
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thinfourth2
23,953 posts
74 months
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vixen1700 said: "The food restrictions are likely to boost retail sales on the Olympic Park, where the world's largest McDonalds is waiting to serve its first customer. It has more than 1,500 seats." Christ, that really represents London. my own personnel hell EFA
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Use Psychology
9,932 posts
62 months
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i suggest that the audience for the 100 M final each buys a mcdonalds happy meal, takes it to the stadium and chucks it on the track, in protest.
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obob
3,027 posts
64 months
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zcacogp said: Have to say, I'm not being terribly upset by the various stories about Olympic plans not going to plan. The M4 being closed and this latest bruhaha about security guards not being ready in time are not a surprise at all. It strikes me that the Olympics are going to highlight large amounts of what is wrong in the UK at the moment; crumbling infrastructure, huge security problems from home-grown terrorists, suppliers who can't deliver on time and to contract and massively greedy corporate giants. Throw in some good seleb-worship (the list of people who are given free tickets will never be made public but the press will helpfully point them out), a whole bunch of benefits-scroungers being given freebee stuff and still causing disruption, large-scale petty crime and a general feeling of 'what a shi ty place this is'. I can't wait. Oli. I bet it all goes smoothly, then you miserable minnies can go cry.
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XCP
10,589 posts
98 months
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Chrisw666 said: As I said I'm glad I didn't have tickets for anything, I hate needless rules and beauracracy and can only just get on a plane without being arrested for pointing out how daft their rules are, if I was banned from taking a bottle of pop on a day out because it might be used as a bomb I'd wish it was incendiary. If you go and watch athletics at the NIA, these rules also apply. In fact most stadia have quite strict rules about what you can and can't bring in.
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58warren
424 posts
49 months
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Fishtigua said: 58warren said: Chrisw666 said: smartypants said: How many people DON'T have a Visa card though? We have between us 3 credit and 3 debit cards, none of them are visa. Many people may only have a Visa credit card forcing them to use credit over cash from their banks or buy pre paid visa cards which will incur a fee. Easiest thing would be to take some cash out from their bank's ATM prior to entering the Olympic Park and use that for drinks, snacks and souvenirs - although obviously you don't know exactly how much you are going to spend until you're inside Nice to see that they have shut all the non-VISA ATMs around the park, so that's the cash option buggered. A lot of overseas people do not have VISA as it is not that popular outside Europe. No, they are only restricting the non Visa cash machines within the Park venues. You can still use machines in Stratford and Westfield shopping centre.
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joe_90
Original Poster
3,387 posts
101 months
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Use Psychology said: i suggest that the audience for the 100 M final each buys a mcdonalds happy meal, takes it to the stadium and chucks it on the track, in protest. Does that include the MP's that have been given the tickets for free (even thought they have vested intrests) Linky number 2The Tory MP told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I don't see any problem, actually, with people who have been sitting on an Olympic delivery inquiry going to the Games and watching how well they are delivered. "I believe that people who have been working on the Games do have a preferential route in to get some tickets to go and see them - that seems reasonably right. I didn't take them up myself but I can't say that I'm massively exercised by my colleagues taking it up, no." ffs.. again
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louiebaby
5,380 posts
61 months
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pilchardthecat said: louiebaby said: North West Tom said: Thank goodness the Daily Mail managed to show us some pictures of steak and chips, and saudage and chips. Like we didn't know what they meant. FFS. Can't they just put a tiny piece of fish on every plate? Or a plastic fish? It would be very amusing if you got a little plastic fish with your chips from every other vendor. They'd become collectable... 
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smartypants
17,788 posts
39 months
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Chrisw666 said: We have between us 3 credit and 3 debit cards, none of them are visa. Many people may only have a Visa credit card forcing them to use credit over cash from their banks or buy pre paid visa cards which will incur a fee. That's quite surprising, I suspect you're a very small minority though. Of course there's always good old fashioned cash?
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