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Don't forget that most governments are made up of the ruling classes ,by definition, and therefore have very little knowledge of the real world and are accustomed to having someone else foot the bill. The dictatorships don't give a toss if it all goes wrong they just shoot a few protestors and the democracies will just get voted out and walk away with their redundancy and pension.
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How can the London Olympics be too London centric?
The Olympics is hosted by a city, if it wasn't centred on that city then it would be a bit of a failure!
Was it paid for by London or British taxpayers as a whole?
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Im thinking the same, perhaps it's an age thing
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Although I will not be watching any of the Olympics I was curious to see that break dancing is now a sport. As far as I am concerned the original Olympics were basically running, jumping and throwing (practiced by naked men, women weren’t even allowed to spectate) but now synchronised diving and swimming, skateboarding, golf and soon cricket are now part of it.
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I did watch it all as even though im not sporty its quite an important event, the fat guy all painted blue with his nads hanging out and a few flowers was a bit weird and the guy in the orange suit all on his tod "dancing" for ages, what was that about? shame about the rain as well
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In Calais, you see dog footprints in human turds...
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There was an earthquake near Marseille a few years ago, it caused 12 million Euro's of improvements...
It seems to be some kind of French thing...
(from bastille day celebrations a few years ago)
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Following on from the thread title ... the Siene was recently rated as too polluted to swim in safely 
www.euronews.com
In other news, Paris had major power cuts today ..
Lots of photos from the opening ceremony but they are not suitable for a family forum so I'll not share them. Suggest you don't look for them yourself
I've seen no mention about the actual events yet but I guess there will be competitions at some point since this is the Olympics. I live in hope !
Could sewage pollution put a stop to Olympic events in the Seine?
Only one out of 14 water samples show the river to be safe for swimming, according to analysis by Surfrider Foundation.
www.euronews.com
In other news, Paris had major power cuts today ..
Lots of photos from the opening ceremony but they are not suitable for a family forum so I'll not share them. Suggest you don't look for them yourself
I've seen no mention about the actual events yet but I guess there will be competitions at some point since this is the Olympics. I live in hope !
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Every single person I’ve heard mention the opening ceremony has absolutely nothing good to say about it. I watched a short clip somewhere, of some wierd ‘thing’ dressed up in some outlandish garb, and if the rest of it was anything like then I’d say it’s an open insult to the whole concept of the Olympic games.Following on from the thread title ... the Siene was recently rated as too polluted to swim in safely
Could sewage pollution put a stop to Olympic events in the Seine?
Only one out of 14 water samples show the river to be safe for swimming, according to analysis by Surfrider Foundation.
In other news, Paris had major power cuts today ..
Lots of photos from the opening ceremony but they are not suitable for a family forum so I'll not share them. Suggest you don't look for them yourself
I've seen no mention about the actual events yet but I guess there will be competitions at some point since this is the Olympics. I live in hope !
So the core transport network was attacked in a co-ordinated attack, the main tgv lines linking various centres and main routes, and foiled on one.
Basel airport was hit with a bomb threat which co-incidentally was near the tgv line that the attack failed on, so suspicious minds would think they resorted to that having failed. I have my strong suspicions on who is responsible, and they may have staged a ballet show in previous years.
But SNCF have announced already that service is 90% and by tomorrow it will be 100% repaired. Thats pretty damn quick work considering the main fibre network was taken out at multiple key points and the specialist service vehicles they used were torched too.
For the opening ceremony, I didnt watch it, but Mrs jmp said to me later that it was typically French. To put things in context we went to a reasonably sized village fete once, and they had booked the Follie Bergere dance troup (can can girls) to dance, who proceeded to dance until they were bollock naked in the usual way to a audience of all ages. Its not the same shocking thing culturally here and nakedness isnt as shocking, you have to view things in that lens, not your own one. She liked the balloon and Celine Dion who is French Canadian. Not sure about snoop dog to carry the flame in St Denis, but he managed to escape with his life. I think that was to segue into LA having the next games.
Friday night there was some free fireworks displays in Chateauroux where the Olympic shooting events are taking place and they were good, and there's a heavy armoured military presence, customs and gendarmes / regular police testing for alcohol etc, with my lad being passed by a Arkus armed personelle carrier with chaps in fatigues with automatics etc slung.
Not at all shocked at the Seine failing the water tests for some of the events, cleaner but no cigar and its been really hot which breeds nasties. Hildago's PR stunt is even more stupid than it was before in that light.
As events go, its doing alright. I guess some people just like to see life through a glass half full.
Basel airport was hit with a bomb threat which co-incidentally was near the tgv line that the attack failed on, so suspicious minds would think they resorted to that having failed. I have my strong suspicions on who is responsible, and they may have staged a ballet show in previous years.
But SNCF have announced already that service is 90% and by tomorrow it will be 100% repaired. Thats pretty damn quick work considering the main fibre network was taken out at multiple key points and the specialist service vehicles they used were torched too.
For the opening ceremony, I didnt watch it, but Mrs jmp said to me later that it was typically French. To put things in context we went to a reasonably sized village fete once, and they had booked the Follie Bergere dance troup (can can girls) to dance, who proceeded to dance until they were bollock naked in the usual way to a audience of all ages. Its not the same shocking thing culturally here and nakedness isnt as shocking, you have to view things in that lens, not your own one. She liked the balloon and Celine Dion who is French Canadian. Not sure about snoop dog to carry the flame in St Denis, but he managed to escape with his life. I think that was to segue into LA having the next games.
Friday night there was some free fireworks displays in Chateauroux where the Olympic shooting events are taking place and they were good, and there's a heavy armoured military presence, customs and gendarmes / regular police testing for alcohol etc, with my lad being passed by a Arkus armed personelle carrier with chaps in fatigues with automatics etc slung.
Not at all shocked at the Seine failing the water tests for some of the events, cleaner but no cigar and its been really hot which breeds nasties. Hildago's PR stunt is even more stupid than it was before in that light.
As events go, its doing alright. I guess some people just like to see life through a glass half full.
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Yeah, just imagine how exciting it would be if they’d stuck to the original format, eh?
