Don’t listen to the whingers. Soak up the dramas and super-human performances of the Olympic athletes – it will be worth a few delays on the Tube.
Another puff piece praising the corrupt, glorified sports day that expensive junket that we are paying for even though we didn’t ask for it. Delays on the tube are the least of our complaints – £2bn down the swanny is mine for starters. How dare the politicians use our money for their vanity projects, how dare they? And to make matters worse, they are abusing the law to protect corporate interests – and don’t even get me started on the obscene Zil lanes…
This insidious event will take over the capital and the airwaves bombarding us with a tedious overblown school sports day that I don’t want to watch and certainly don’t want to pay for. So, delays on the tube – pfft! I won’t be anywhere near London over the next couple of weeks and I won’t be watching it on the box, either. I have a stack of DVDs and pre-recorded programmes to see me through. The sooner this dreadful garbage is done, the better. Unfortunately, we will be picking up the bill for decades to come.
I’ve no idea how the tube system will cope. It’s bad enough out of the rush hour. Even then you’re packed in like sardines. I won’t be watching it either.
My Pa-in law, having retired to a seaside town, likes nothing better than strolling along the High Street to buy his cigars at the end of the day while watching the tetchy, hot, tired day-trippers crawl their way through bumper-to-bumper traffic jams.
He says it more than makes up for the disruption they cause at the beach with their radios, inconsiderate parking and noisy children.
Perhaps we could adapt this idea and have the BBC broadcast footage of all the queues, traffic chaos and ultimate gridlock for the delectation of the cynical and disaffected.
DVD’s, kindle, gardening, spotify… no adverts, no references to the five ringed circus over the two weeks. I’m glad I am not the only person attempting to ignore this nonsense.
The nazi torch relay came past us yesterday euw.
A christioan swine from SPUCK tried to hand me a leaflet – my response of “christians & fascists – how appropriate, I think I’ll puke!” startled him (good)
Later, in the pub, some morons with flags came in (UJ on one side “LBoWtF welcomes the torch” on the other.
My comments about “That’s a lie, and the wrong flag – should be red field, white circle, black swastika” discomfited them.
Yeah
London 2012
In your face
On your lap
At our expense
My neighbour mentioned the other day that he hadn’t seen me “greeting” the torch relay when it passed nearby. He seemed taken aback when I said if I had been there I would have been shouting abuse at them! When I added that I was NOT pleased about the expense, the ZIL lanes, fleets of BMW’s, overbearing security etc, he tried to justify it by saying that lots of money is wasted on other things, and this was only a small amount…
As a former “civil servant” now living on a comfortable pension I wonder if that might have something to do with his views?
You reckon? 😉
Off to the wilds of Norway for a fortnight at the end of this week so should miss most of it.
Still, at least there was a rather good Bob the Builder special on stadium building for young Saddam to watch. I got to introduce him to Scouse stereotypes. “Werk! Fuch that Bob, it’s giro day Larrr!”