http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 26 May 2013 02:48:46 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=3#post-131850 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:07:51 +0000 riesler 131850@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Saw it go past on Friday, just before some oik tried to nick it. Surprised it wasn't melted down before the police grabbed him.</p> <p>At least there was a genuine athlete carrying it when I saw it (even though she competed for Italy). </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=3#post-131847 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:32:44 +0000 Mary Evans 131847@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Indeed, there was I sipping a latte and lightly nibbling a biscotti this morning, when a torchlit procession passed by. We normally preserve those for ethnic minorities or those on benefits around here, but change is as good as a rest. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=3#post-131843 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:16:16 +0000 Golgo13 131843@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It went past the end of my road at about 8:30 this morning, and if my calculations are correct, it would've come close to Stoopy de Gunt about 30 minutes later, then whizzed by Mary Evans some time later in the morning. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=3#post-130820 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:02:51 +0000 beau-jolly 130820@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hahaha. It went past my shop and, to be honest, I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Agree: Its a sponsors' jamboree. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=3#post-130812 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:43:16 +0000 writinginbsl 130812@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>wheres the hovis??</p> <p> i was at my mums house, when the torch went right past it, but i didnt go out to see it.</p> <p>i feel so guilty...</p> <p>just dont like all the sponsorship stuff. i mean, macdonalds and coke???</p> <p>oohh-just remembered-i also ignored it when it went past blandford b and q when i was there. MORE guilt. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=3#post-130802 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:24:28 +0000 beau-jolly 130802@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchrelay/day55#pid=p00syzg3&amp;t=false">Twat in a hat</a></p> <p>9:42 Caught on film for ever. Nice Panama hat. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=3#post-129970 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:59:14 +0000 beau-jolly 129970@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@writing: Hey look all the incident tape and barriers have gone. They fixed the crack in those supporting walls quickly, didn't they<br /> <img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/getty/media/ALeqM5gcY4IzrQpOXBXhgfMtEymKrY7c3A?docId=148191469"> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=3#post-129945 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:59:11 +0000 Gerontius 129945@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for the update beau<br /> Yes, I think that captures the Olympic spirit nicely<br /> Bald man's head should bring back happy memories.<br /> What's the name of your pub?<br /> Have you got rooms? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=3#post-129942 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:37:44 +0000 beau-jolly 129942@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well there it was. Town closed from 4am. Hundreds of police. Some Met police waving at the crowds. Big noisy sponsors' buses. A bloke in a white tracksuit with a flame. Photograph of the back of a bald man's head as he stepped in front of me and then its all over and we are left with hundreds of dim folk wibbling about town like a zombie flick.</p> <p>Good for trade? Is it f*ck! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-129460 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:51:29 +0000 beau-jolly 129460@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nope: Still not going to see it.<br /> Well I'll describe it: 3 women, 2 kids. Huddled in shop doorway under umbrellas. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-129456 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:39:14 +0000 beau-jolly 129456@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@writingetc: I think they plan to jog on the spot outside the Salt Cellar Cafe (wines provided by Shaftesbury Wines) I bet you the barricades (provided by Gillingham and Shaftesbury showground) will have mysteriously gone. Let's hope the ancient walls don't choose that moment to fall down.</p> <p>Counting down to Thursday. Got my car park permit and everything. They are doing a pre-procession with an old Olympian and an old torch. Mind you they did that last Saturday for the Gold Hill Fair. Here's the thronging crowd.<img src="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150919249382097&amp;set=a.10150511925517097.378545.567532096&amp;type=1&amp;relevant_count=1&amp;ref=nf"></p> <p>EDIT: Or not. lost the picture somehow?? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-129448 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:48:43 +0000 grumblechops 129448@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Wow that was exciting. Woman jogs past soaking crowd with giant candle.</p> <p>This is Grumblechops, from atop a wall, egham </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-129439 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:29:10 +0000 grumblechops 129439@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>...apart from rain </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-129436 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:24:53 +0000 grumblechops 129436@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>This is Grumblechops reporting live from the Olympic Torch Relay in Egham. Not much happening yet </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-129363 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:43:28 +0000 Scroat 129363@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4421064/Streaker-interrupts-Olympic-torch-bearer.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4421064/Streaker-interrupts-Olympic-torch-bearer.html</a></p> <p>Posh my arse! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-127516 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:18:42 +0000 writinginbsl 127516@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>b-j</p> <p>are they going down or up gold hill?<br /> it looks really good with the barricades up atm </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-127509 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:13:11 +0000 beau-jolly 127509@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well that's the end of that then. There is no way the torch will get around Leicester and manage to find it's way out again. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-127503 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:08:45 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 127503@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I've just had an email with a map handily detailing which parts of Leicester to avoid on the 2nd and 3rd of July.</p> <p>The safest rule is to avoid all of it at all times, regardless of whether the torch is around or not. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-127096 Sun, 24 Jun 2012 05:49:41 +0000 Gerontius 127096@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Apparently they are going to flood parts of south London so they can hold the sailing events nearer the stadium.<br /> I'm pretty sure that was the Kingston area<br /> Surely you got a letter or an email about it? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-127088 Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:14:19 +0000 FlashArry 127088@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I like the idea of a 100km road race being run on the velodrome - the chaos and carnage would be spectacularly photogenic</p> <p>I wonder if they will revive the Portland Weekly War to coincide with the sailing finals ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-127082 Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:46:29 +0000 Iscariot 127082@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Eagerly awaiting 24th and 27th July when Kingston (I work there) gets shut down for the passage of the giant golden spliff and again on 28th &amp; 29th for a bike race and yet again on 31st and 1st August for bike time trials (test only on 31st with "rolling road blocks/closures" but on 1st, all bridges closed from 5:30am). I thought this jamboree was supposed to be somewhere dahn the East End, not leafy Surrey. </p> <p>Didn't they spend squillions of quid on a velodrome for velocipede stuff? And didn't it win some sort of award? Why don't they bloody use it instead of incommoding Sarf West London and Surrey. </p> <p>Oh, and we get the Olympic tennis just up the road at Wimbledon, too. Now, we're used to Wimbledon fortnight, but they don't shut off most of the surrounding roads and stick fuck-off rocket batteries on Wimbledon Common, despite the routine attendance of international tennis glitterati and a Scotsman who starts the fortnight being British.</p> <p>I swear, one day I'll have a rant about it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-126941 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:03:44 +0000 shitsu_tonka 126941@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>What have muffins got to do with the Olympics? And more importantly when the torch came through my neck of the woods (South Devon) why was there no free cake on offer? I'd have pretended to care in exchange for toothsome snacks. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-126897 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:33:23 +0000 Duff 126897@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Where seldom is heard a discouraging word... ;-)</p> <p><a href="http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44211" rel="nofollow">http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44211</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-126895 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:25:18 +0000 Nails UK 126895@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Coming to Salford Quays/UK Media City on Sunday morning at the god-awful hour of 6am. Handy leaflet from local council says "Please note that public transport will not be available at that time". No s**t, Sherlock. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-126885 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:41:44 +0000 dvo4fun 126885@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Don't beat about the bush bj, tell us what you realy think. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-126865 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:54:48 +0000 beau-jolly 126865@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Just as I had started to forget all about the jogging torch I get a leaflet from the town council. The torch is going to jog around Shaftesbury on 12th July for 1 hr and 5 minutes starting at 9:31am.<br /> To celebrate this the good officers of the town are going to close the whole place to traffic from 4am until midday. Oh FFS!<br /> As a local trader I can apply for a permit to use the free car park!<br /> They are so chuffed that they are anticipating 5000 people (who can't park within 2 miles) to line the streets, completely blocking access to any shops who may want to do some f*cking business. On the plus side we are invited to bake some muffins so all the visitors can have a free coffee or tea (donated by Clipper)and muffins instead of patronising one of the 9 independant cafes in town.<br /> Do I come in early and be barracaded in my shop for 5 hours or do I stay in bed and wait for the whole pointless sharade to move on and close down Bournemouth?<br /> &lt;edit&gt;<br /> Oh apparently we have spent a shit load of the town's money buying around 1000 gold muffin tins for all budding amatuer muffin makers. No recipe - no H&amp;S. I think I'll get me some of them gold muffin tins and make some marmite and anchove muffins. Hey! I could make them with dope, ooh... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-124937 Sun, 03 Jun 2012 13:33:00 +0000 The All New Jeni B 124937@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Is that your torch song stunts? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-124931 Sun, 03 Jun 2012 10:10:10 +0000 allmyownstunts 124931@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.calterdonbmw.co.uk/aboutus/events.html?events_id=2022" rel="nofollow">http://www.calterdonbmw.co.uk/aboutus/events.html?events_id=2022</a></p> <p>I note the Olympic Torch is cashing in on its fifteen minutes of fame by whoring itself round BMW garages in its spare time. If you can get up to Calterdon in Inverness by 1.00 today you can get to stroke it, by the looks of things. I think you have to buy a BMW at the same time.</p> <p>Bad torch. Slut-torch. Jedward torch. Jordan torch. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-124851 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 09:21:42 +0000 Sinnick 124851@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It's been through Manchester and even Liverpool without being nicked. Perhaps there's hope when it reaches Glasgow ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43208&page=2#post-124844 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 09:01:54 +0000 Thor 124844@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Scronny,<br /> yes, I guess so. I’ve been trying to work up a post around the idea of the flame bearer being shot dead by security services as a perceived arsonist/terrorist, (or a rioter with a poor sense of timing, perhaps) but can’t get it right. </p>