Barclays Boris bikes cannot be rode into the Olympics park..

[Edinburger]

dandarez said:

Oakey said:

... I find it hilarious that McDonalds is the 'official restaurant' of the Olympics!

You can bet there will be a massive arena for Coca Cola too, another of London Olympics Worldwide Partners with McDonalds.

Olympics - McDonalds - Coca Cola

All in the same breath. You couldn't make it up.

Shocking. What a message to kids of the world.

[pilchardthecat]

I went to the official Olympics shop in Stratford the other week to buy some keep-sakes for the kids.

Got to the till but had to leave everything there as they only accept Visa (who are sponsors) - mastercard/amex/etc not accepted.

[Chrisw666]

pilchardthecat said:

I went to the official Olympics shop in Stratford the other week to buy some keep-sakes for the kids.

Got to the till but had to leave everything there as they only accept Visa (who are sponsors) - mastercard/amex/etc not accepted.

What about cash? Or is that not allowed either?

[rohrl]

pilchardthecat said:

I went to the official Olympics shop in Stratford the other week to buy some keep-sakes for the kids.

Got to the till but had to leave everything there as they only accept Visa (who are sponsors) - mastercard/amex/etc not accepted.

Now that really is just moronic, not to mention perverse if they want to raise some of that £9 billion back.

[Deva Link]

joe_90 said:

Due to the fact Lloyds are the official sponsors.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18686415

bbc said:

It is 2012 bonanza time for Barclays, their logos emblazoned across free-wheeling advertising space during the London Olympics.

The bikes cannot be ridden to the Olympic Park itself because another bank, Lloyds, is an official IOC sponsor who have paid serious money for the privilege.

This is the stupid all over.

I wonder if the same thing will apply to any non-BMW cars?

[pilchardthecat]

Chrisw666 said:

What about cash? Or is that not allowed either?

I didn't have any, but i presume they are legally obliged to take cash

[Use Psychology]

you're only allowed to wear marks and spencer underwear too, they are official underwear suppliers for the olympics.

wonder what the official toilet paper is.

[Chrisw666]

Have they allowed PH to be an official Olympic Moaning site?

[oyster]

rohrl said:

pilchardthecat said:

I went to the official Olympics shop in Stratford the other week to buy some keep-sakes for the kids.

Got to the till but had to leave everything there as they only accept Visa (who are sponsors) - mastercard/amex/etc not accepted.

Now that really is just moronic, not to mention perverse if they want to raise some of that £9 billion back.

Except this was pretty common knowledge a year or so back.

I suspect the lost sales by the 0.00001% of people who don't have a Visa card will be well offset by the £100m sponsorship that Visa is throwing their way.

[Rude-boy]

Chrisw666 said:

Have they allowed PH to be an official Olympic Moaning site?

I heard that Stuart only authorised Garlick to offer 50p and a pitch on their LM campsite next year for that. Facebook have won however with their offer of eleventy billion farmville credits.

[pilchardthecat]

oyster said:

Except this was pretty common knowledge a year or so back.

Really? I've mentioned it to perhaps a dozen people and nobody had heard it before.

[martin84]

At this rate everyone will have to pledge allegiance to the sponsors as they enter the stadium.

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London424 said:

And no-one has been sacked or disciplined for gross misconduct.

If I'd budgeted one of my projects and been that far off I'd be in a whole world of trouble. (And I'm talking of projects in the 10s - 100s of thousands not Billions!)

How about if you carefully ran all the numbers, got them signed off, then casually announced

"oops I forgot the VAT, sorry everyone, silly me "

Guardian 7th November 2006 said:

Fresh controversy erupted over the spiralling budget for the London 2012 Olympics yesterday after it was revealed that the games could face a VAT bill of more than £250m.

Tessa Jowell, the culture secretary, admitted in the Commons that London's initial budget to stage the games did not include the 17.5% cost of VAT on the construction of the venues and infrastructure.

Someone told her it wouldn't apply in a corridor apparently ffs...

[Chrisw666]

martin84 said:

At this rate everyone will have to pledge allegiance to the sponsors as they enter the stadium.

I'm afraid I've just sponsored allegiance pledging and as a result there will be a £7.50 fee payable only in viatnemse dong
(that can be obtained comission free from my store in llanberis open between 7am and 7.53am every tuesday) to the officially branded programme seller that will be positioned under the giant McDonalds sign at the entrance to the velodrome.

[anonymous-user]

I must admit the official cereal bars of the Olympic Games are quite nice tho!!

http://www.naturevalley.co.uk/

just wish they came with a free Jessica Ennis!

Edited by djstevec on Wednesday 4th July 20:33

[audidoody]

New build.
Shirley there's no VAT?

[speedchick]

oyster said:

rohrl said:

pilchardthecat said:

I went to the official Olympics shop in Stratford the other week to buy some keep-sakes for the kids.

Got to the till but had to leave everything there as they only accept Visa (who are sponsors) - mastercard/amex/etc not accepted.

Now that really is just moronic, not to mention perverse if they want to raise some of that £9 billion back.

Except this was pretty common knowledge a year or so back.

I suspect the lost sales by the 0.00001% of people who don't have a Visa card will be well offset by the £100m sponsorship that Visa is throwing their way.

I was under the impression that the Visa only thing was for trying to purchase tickets for the events?

[Essel]

djstevec said:

I must admit the official cereal bars of the Olympic Games are quite nice tho!!

http://www.naturevalley.co.uk/

My preferred munchy bar of choice at lunchtime. Unfortunately, they've not been on offer since the olympic stuff started, so I've switched my allegiances.