http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:41:05 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060&page=2#post-108210 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:35:17 +0000 godly1966 108210@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The more I look at the logo the more it looks like Lisa Simpson doing something she shouldn’t </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-108161 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:39:24 +0000 ColS 108161@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'd like to see the look on visiting athletes' faces when they try to make head or tail of the logo, or "brick through a window" to use its technical name. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-108096 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:04:00 +0000 beau-jolly 108096@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><em>"I don't have an athletic bone in my body."</em><br /> Let's not go there - Fish/barrels. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-108061 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:04:52 +0000 Son of Barnabas 108061@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I don't have an athletic bone in my body.</p> <p>(Though I do have an athlete's foot.) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-108048 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:43:32 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 108048@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The only way to make the games entertaining is to insist that the competitors are naked, as in ancient Greece, and to release hungry lions onto the track at the beginning of each race - see how the records will tumble! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-108036 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:17:21 +0000 Zadok the second 108036@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well I for one think it is a jolly good idea, and I think we should encourage the whole country to take part, even the fat wheezy ones.</p> <p>And after lunch, there'll be the egg and spoon, the three-legged and the sack race, and of course that perennial favourite when all the athlete's dads have a race. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107813 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:01:26 +0000 beau-jolly 107813@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I was concidering a sub along the lines of:<br /> Paedophile watching gymnastics.<br /> Discovers that Russian girl is actually 21.<br /> Desperately tries to cover his tracks or<br /> uses the Pete Townsend "research" excuse.</p> <p>Although recovering, I am not funny yet so can someone else flesh it out? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107803 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:26:12 +0000 Son of Barnabas 107803@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>...not far from Little-Minge-in-the-Marsh? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107786 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:44:57 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 107786@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Isn’t Dripping Gusset a small village in Wiltshire? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107784 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:34:36 +0000 Son of Barnabas 107784@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>What did China do? Knowing their human rights record, I should imagine they frog-marched all the displaced citizens to Outer Mongolia and left them to take their chances in the Gobi desert. I'll pass the suggestion on to Boris. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107708 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:30:54 +0000 Runestone Cowboy 107708@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm looking forward to laughing my tits off at the traffic chaos. Hopefully it won't affect Cheshire. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107706 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:12:21 +0000 borednow 107706@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>chances are the only dripping gussets you'll get at this years womens beach volleyball will be cos they're drenched with rain not sweat. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107697 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:13:07 +0000 thisisall1word 107697@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Am not realy looking forward to the Olympics as I don't really like the Olympics at the best of times... and living in London will make travelling to work a bit more of an effort... although the suggestion from the travel co-ordinators that maybe we should go for a few pints after work before trying to get home and walking around in central london rather than trying to get on tubes and buses is ok with me.</p> <p>What I'm sort of dreading is the unknown over rent... already know of two people who live in Stratford who have been given their notice already to move out by June. Not sure how many tenants in London will end up being kicked out, but there's the double hit of having to move and then even if you were to move from one flat to another of the same size you will find your rent will have shot up again...<br /> I had the letting agents round measuring and getting a valuation recently... pretty sure they'd give me more than the requisite months notice (not sure what the minimum is) and maybe I'd be able to shift my stuff into stotrage for a month or so then maybe move back... not yet sure!</p> <p>Also I'm a bit unsure about where the people who lose their flats/houses actually move to while the places are let out to olympic visitors... what did China do with them four years back? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107696 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:11:02 +0000 Gerontius 107696@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I trust you'll be getting behind Team GB too<br /> <a href="http://s727.photobucket.com/albums/ww275/peteralexanderwhite/?action=view&amp;current=sisman-kadinlar-plajda-spor-yapiyorlar.jpg"><img src="http://i727.photobucket.com/albums/ww275/peteralexanderwhite/sisman-kadinlar-plajda-spor-yapiyorlar.jpg" alt="Photobucket" /></a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107675 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:12:42 +0000 Son of Barnabas 107675@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>b-j I can't imagine what attraction the womens beach volleyball holds.</p> <p><img src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSWSCgDBM-XZN2sYM5HgopEsTfBbQLnfUayvD-o8gduv3-B5AfO"> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107659 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:13:15 +0000 cinquecento 107659@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@b-j "Does anyone else feel slightly uncomfortable watching the female gymnastics? "</p> <p>yes, though I find wearing baggy trousers and having a cushion on my lap helps </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107633 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:07:55 +0000 FlashArry 107633@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Would have been great if they could have worked the allotments in though : javelins for bean poles, hurdles converted into make-shift cloches, archers drafted in to control the pigeon population.<br /> And everyone could have gone home with a big bunch of radishes. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107629 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:53:52 +0000 Scroat 107629@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>God yes. And I hope the Manor Garden Allotments are reinstated afterwards. That really did piss me off. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107617 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:37:20 +0000 Immunis 107617@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>AS I work for LloydsTSB I've been wishing they were over for several years now. I've been force fed the 'Olympics are great' mantra for so long my 2012 branded debit card will be out of date before the games even begin. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107612 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:27:15 +0000 dvo4fun 107612@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@b-j "Does anyone else feel slightly uncomfortable watching the female gymnastics? "</p> <p>yep - any ideas why? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107611 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:24:57 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 107611@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Why? What does Dave do that’s so interesting? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107600 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:27:47 +0000 Gerontius 107600@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Absolutely not.<br /> I'm looking forward to it.<br /> Not all the bullshit that surrounds it - but the actual athletes performing.<br /> If you're not inspired by that, then...stick to watching Dave </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107571 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:16:50 +0000 Golgo13 107571@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I remember an old Seinfeld stand-up routine where he speculated about the "wrongness" of watching the women's gymnastics...</p> <p>and he later (when in his late thirties) dated a 17-year-old high school student... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107570 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:14:16 +0000 Major Clanger 107570@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>What Olympics? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107564 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:30:42 +0000 beau-jolly 107564@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Does anyone else feel slightly uncomfortable watching the female gymnastics? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107560 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:11:26 +0000 beau-jolly 107560@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well I would ignore it all but I just happen to be a huge fan of women's beach volley ball. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107559 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:10:54 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 107559@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Jesus, I might be cool - that's a first. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107555 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:04:48 +0000 Golgo13 107555@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It's definitely cooler to adopt a don't-care, I've-got-more-important-things-to-worry-about attitude, that's for sure. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107546 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:41:44 +0000 waylandsmithy 107546@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I only like the curling. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38060#post-107545 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:40:00 +0000 dvo4fun 107545@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It's going to be like 17 Christmas viewing &amp; listening schedules strapped end-to-end. Might be 18.</p> <p>As with the last Footer World Cup I've set myself the target of not watching any of it. I then plan to treat every hour not doing so as a sort of 'bonus hour'</p> <p>Bah humbug </p>