I like what the head of the IOC was suggesting at the changeover from China to UK
"... if you want to do an Olympics well you really need a harsh and ruthless totalitarian military regime prepared to commit horrendous human rights abuses in order to put on a good fireworks display.
Short of regime change in London, I don't see the next shindig cutting the mustard."
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Wed 3 Sep 2008, 13:23,
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Short of regime change in London, I don't see the next shindig cutting the mustard."
GET BUYING SCRATCH CARDS YOU SELFISH OAFS
our budgeting was sorely lax
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Wed 3 Sep 2008, 13:21,
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Just Slightly
Where the hell did they get the figure 2.4bn from originally? With the way the gov pays contractors they would be lucky to get a swimming pool for 2.4bn!
Even 9.3bn will make our games look shoddy next to what China gave us.
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Wed 3 Sep 2008, 13:26,
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Even 9.3bn will make our games look shoddy next to what China gave us.
He even managed to look like a prat in about fifteen seconds at the Olympics.
First his mime of 'oh, I have to take the flag, do I take the flag now? No, I don't take the flag. Oh, I do, how do I hold it?', then he got tangled in it.
Please Londoners, put your post-modernist voting impulses aside and don't vote in him again next time.
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Wed 3 Sep 2008, 13:17,
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Please Londoners, put your post-modernist voting impulses aside and don't vote in him again next time.