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Is anyone else already wishing the olympics were over?
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dvo4fun
offlineMemberIt's going to be like 17 Christmas viewing & listening schedules strapped end-to-end. Might be 18.
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'
Bah humbug
Posted 1 year ago # -
waylandsmithy
offlineMemberI only like the curling.
Posted 1 year ago # -
beau-jolly
offlineMemberWell I would ignore it all but I just happen to be a huge fan of women's beach volley ball.
Posted 1 year ago # -
beau-jolly
offlineMemberDoes anyone else feel slightly uncomfortable watching the female gymnastics?
Posted 1 year ago # -
FlashArry
offlineMemberWould 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.
And everyone could have gone home with a big bunch of radishes.Posted 1 year ago # -
thisisall1word
offlineMemberAm 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.
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...
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!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?
Posted 1 year ago # -
Runestone Cowboy
offlineMemberI'm looking forward to laughing my tits off at the traffic chaos. Hopefully it won't affect Cheshire.
Posted 1 year ago # -
beau-jolly
offlineMemberI was concidering a sub along the lines of:
Paedophile watching gymnastics.
Discovers that Russian girl is actually 21.
Desperately tries to cover his tracks or
uses the Pete Townsend "research" excuse.Although recovering, I am not funny yet so can someone else flesh it out?
Posted 1 year ago # -
Zadok the second
offlineMemberWell 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.
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.
Posted 1 year ago # -
beau-jolly
offlineMember"I don't have an athletic bone in my body."
Let's not go there - Fish/barrels.Posted 1 year ago #
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