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mblade123
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295 posts
61 months
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Well, as the title says, thats it. " The LONDON 2012 Olympics". Thats what it's being promoted as. Nothing what so ever to do with the rest of the UK. Being a resident of these fair Isle from birth I would have thought it might have been the British Olympics but no. As far as the rest of world is concernd LONDONshire is England. Well sod them. England is a bigger place, and in my my view, a better place than London alone. I do apologise for the lack of swear words for a true RANT, but one has standards. 
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thetapeworm
4,706 posts
108 months
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Olympics? Crikey, who knew, they have hardly mentioned it.
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bobbylondonuk
1,762 posts
59 months
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Olympics was always promoted by the name of the city that hosts it.
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mblade123
Original Poster
295 posts
61 months
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bobbylondonuk said: Olympics was always promoted by the name of the city that hosts it. Hmm. So the "Leeds" Olympics would be ok then?
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davepoth
19,903 posts
68 months
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mblade123 said: Hmm. So the "Leeds" Olympics would be ok then? If it was hosted in Leeds, yes.
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mblade123
Original Poster
295 posts
61 months
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davepoth said: If it was hosted in Leeds, yes. Fair point. But what I'm trying to get at is there is more to the UK than bloody London. I know most don't agree but the UK is a great country. Unfortunatly it's let down by a few places. London being one of them. There is more to the UK life than tower blocks and inercity life
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Manicminer
2,558 posts
66 months
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bobbylondonuk said: Olympics was always promoted by the name of the city that hosts it. /thread
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pokethepope
2,395 posts
57 months
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Londoners are the people that will be hugely disrupted for the 4 weeks or however long it is, so only right that 'they' get the recognition for it rather than the whole country.
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Zaxxon
4,057 posts
29 months
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Berlin, Moscow, Athens, Beijing, Munich, Seoul,
Why should London be different? Get over yourselves.
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y2blade
46,273 posts
84 months
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Unlike the Typical PHer  I'm actually Really looking forward to the Olympics  
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MX7
6,548 posts
43 months
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 Odd thread...
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JakesterUK
869 posts
68 months
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y2blade said: Unlike the Typical PHer I'm actually Really looking forward to the Olympics Guessing you don't have to try and work/live around it for the 6 weeks of chaos that its going to bring, I've had to be involved in soooo many disruption planning meetings it's taken over the actual job...
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el stovey
13,468 posts
132 months
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mblade123 said: Well, as the title says, thats it. " The LONDON 2012 Olympics". Thats what it's being promoted as. Nothing what so ever to do with the rest of the UK. Being a resident of these fair Isle from birth I would have thought it might have been the British Olympics but no. As far as the rest of world is concernd LONDONshire is England. Well sod them. England is a bigger place, and in my my view, a better place than London alone. I do apologise for the lack of swear words for a true RANT, but one has standards. You're complaining about there "being more to the UK than London" but then rant, " England is a bigger place than London". How about the rest of the UK. You're complaining it's labeled as a london Olympics. But then being a bit insular going on about England instead of Britain yourself. Your point appears to be there's more to the UK than London. There's more to the UK than England too.
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Hoofy
47,893 posts
151 months
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mblade123 said: Well, as the title says, thats it. " The LONDON 2012 Olympics". Thats what it's being promoted as. Nothing what so ever to do with the rest of the UK. Being a resident of these fair Isle from birth I would have thought it might have been the British Olympics but no. As far as the rest of world is concernd LONDONshire is England. Well sod them. England is a bigger place, and in my my view, a better place than London alone. I do apologise for the lack of swear words for a true RANT, but one has standards. Well, please don't feel left out - you're welcome to it. Bring your friends and family down here and take the bloody thing up north in its entirety. We don't want it.
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Lost soul
5,246 posts
51 months
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Hoofy said: Well, please don't feel left out - you're welcome to it. Bring your friends and family down here and take the bloody thing up north in its entirety. We don't want it.  it is going to be a nightmare , London sruggles to function on a normal working day
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Hoofy
47,893 posts
151 months
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sjg
4,295 posts
134 months
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mblade123 said: Fair point. But what I'm trying to get at is there is more to the UK than bloody London.
I know most don't agree but the UK is a great country. Unfortunatly it's let down by a few places.
London being one of them.
There is more to the UK life than tower blocks and inercity life You don't seem to get it. Olympic Games (Summer, Winter and now Youth versions) are hosted by a CITY. Not a country. The organisers are required to host as many of the events in the host CITY as possible, with the obvious exceptions for things like sailing. It's the LONDON Olympics because, despite many other fine cities in the UK, that's the city that's hosting the 2012 Games. Why the massive chip on the shoulder about London though? I love the UK but I love living in London too. Have you spent any significant time down here, or just nipped down for a weekend, did a couple of touristy things, moaned about crowds on Oxford St, ate at an Angus Steak House and went home again? Yep, all tower blocks down here      But you know, don't come again - you really wouldn't like the desperately grim inner city.
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Lost soul
5,246 posts
51 months
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Hoofy said: The olympics has one purpose and that is to give jobs to the boys and massage the egos of the olympic authority , it is a totaly currupt organisation thats cares nothing for the normal person
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Hoofy
47,893 posts
151 months
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Lost soul said: The olympics has one purpose and that is to give jobs to the boys and massage the egos of the olympic authority , it is a totaly currupt organisation thats cares nothing for the normal person You know how to brighten up my Saturday!
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Lost soul
5,246 posts
51 months
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You are welcome Hoofy
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