London Olympics 2012

[Sunderer]

LONDON GETS IT!!! Time to buy property in Hackney. They said its value with rise 15%:D

[TE-Hellfire]

Hoorah.

[SprayCan]

So now we have to be subjected to 7 years of construction work in London, probably increasing traffic congestion and the like.

</moan>

[LozB]

stick that in on your plate and eat it france... that will teach president sherak to bitch about english grub....

[RocketKnight]

I didn't really care either way in terms of sport, there's no rugby league in the olympics. However, we beat the French and that's what really counts. :p:

[EXTREME NOSE]

LONDON!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO

[Cabe]

Hooraaay for compulsory perchases and overcrowded tube trains.

[Sunderer]

Lets remember this IS 2012....thats 7 years away....
Looooooooong time. Half of us probably wont be anywhere near London then:D

[Hg]

This is a great day for us proud british!

[Semajal]

Originally posted by LozB
stick that in on your plate and eat it france... that will teach president sherak to bitch about english grub....

Chirac

Spelling Skills!!

[LozB]

rather apt that its the 200 year anniversary of kicking the french at the battle of waterloo too!!!!! a double wammee.... ;)

[Pingman]

am i the only one that wasn't overlly bothered about this lol

[SprayCan]

Originally posted by Pingman
am i the only one that wasn't overlly bothered about this lol

It would appear so.

[LozB]

Originally posted by Semajal
Chirac

Spelling Skills!!

how would i know.... im not bl**dy french......:rolleyes:

[Baroness]

I think it's brilliant :)

[andyf]

Originally posted by Sunderer
LONDON GETS IT!!! Time to buy property in Hackney. They said its value with rise 15%:D

oh joy, MORE inflated house prices? fantastic. Just what everyone wants.

[Knight ArmagoN]

Originally posted by Baroness
I think it's brilliant :)


You will be crushed !!! lol Tube death

[Devvy]

This is the whole point; the Olympics will push investment in the East End of London. I completely agree, that as it stands, the tube network in London will in no way meet the demands for the Olympics, but this should spur upgrades.

[Red Plague]

The funny thing is a couple of the olymipic commitee members are from Finland.

Chirac shot himself in the foot bigtime.

[[TRS]Scotteh]

good news for the british :D this country never gets anything these days and its about time we did, just makes the victory more sweet knowing we beat the french, as sed....celebration of 200yrs of trafalgar (not waterloo that was in 1815 :p: ) and now this, great stuff :D

[jaffy]

Originally posted by Devvy
This is the whole point; the Olympics will push investment in the East End of London. I completely agree, that as it stands, the tube network in London will in no way meet the demands for the Olympics, but this should spur upgrades.

which will be a world of fun while they do the upgrades.. :/

im very anti olympics in london - it WON'T be the hassle free fun that everyone thinks it is, things will go wrong if they upgrade transport etc
it will be miserable for londoners

and a lot of tax payers money is gonna be thrown into this, which basically comes down to regenrating the ****e end of london - so the whole country has to fund that? hm.

i think they need to start spending money on more pressing things than showing off to the world.. the amount of money spent on promoting the bid is already too high

[Minidisk]

w1nn0rs :D

[Ryvita]

In two minds on this:

Yes, it's great that we won. Great that London will receive investment and regeneration. Particularly great that we beat the old enemy.

But...

Very, very scared about what this could do to the London transport situation, living expenses and property market.

One word of advice: if you are anything to do with the construction or transport industry, now would be the time to start looking at jobs in london because you will be paid a shed load of cash to help with all that will be needed in preparation.

/me sits pretty in his Hammersmith office of a large construction company...

Ryv

[Aardvark]

Yeah, get me a job Ryv :D

[Elbonio]

just what we need, more money poured into London


I am glad we got it though :)

[s7n_heaven]

It's gonna be right on my doorstep, which means I wont be able to buy any property now.

[Devvy]

Originally posted by jaff
and a lot of tax payers money is gonna be thrown into this, which basically comes down to regenrating the ****e end of london - so the whole country has to fund that? hm.

This is the point of society isn't it? The country taking money from the rich and giving to the poor. Taking money from the rest of the country to help improve some of the worst areas in this country.

[10acious]

What gets me is your the same people moaning about the state of public transport and its desperate need for renevation. Now you get it your complaining that it'll be inconvienient.

Try moving anywhere else in the country and sampling the delights of their public transport.

[bvark]

You're all missing the key point, more important and transport and regeneration, more important than staging an international event, more important, even, than the Olympics itself.

We beat the French.

In the immortal words of Kim Jung-Il, star of Team America, "Ah hahahahahahahahaha **** you Jacques Chirac"

[no friends]

Originally posted by Pingman
am i the only one that wasn't overlly bothered about this lol

nope. :p:

I don't watch it on tv when its in front of me, so i aint gonna travel 4 hours and pay to see it :p:

[Qdos]

As a Londoner, I must say I'm not happy about it.

We're going to have to put up with a guaranteed increase in Council Tax (as Ken has already said that's how the £2 BILLION will be raised) - our transport system being ****ed up even more than it is already as they close sections of it to get the extensions built out there.

Then once it's on, look forward to even higher prices in London for accomodation, food and drink, probably travel as well. Plus the transport systems that can't even handle the daily traffic London generates will die once it fills up with people travelling to and from the "Olympic Village". And of course the police will be so tied up with guarding against terrorist threats that they will have to take resources away from everywhere else in London.

Then once it's finished, we'll have a stadium that no-one needs (seeing as we already have Wembly) a rail system that no-one wants to use (who wants to live in Stratford?) and have spunked a huge amount of money that we could have used to improve roads, hospitals, public services, etc. It's like the Millenium Dome all over again, except 4 times as costly. That is, if it stays on budget - and considering that no major public building project in Britain has stayed on budget in recent times, that's somewhat unlikely. And that's all if we actually get everything finished on time, again, considering our record, that's chancey.

For about the same money it's going to cost us, the government could have sent us all on cheap day tickets to France to see the Olympics there.

[/|/|umm-R@]

I cant believe france and their race are still on the planet to be honest - they are quite crap

[oxy]

so glad i moved out of london in working area .. and my company sponsor the games... cheap stuff and i dont get messed about in the building :D

[Minidisk]

w00t im looking to get a job sparking down in london when they start looking for them :D

[jaffy]

Originally posted by Devvy
This is the point of society isn't it? The country taking money from the rich and giving to the poor. Taking money from the rest of the country to help improve some of the worst areas in this country.

but this isnt right, in my opinion

there are enough opportunitys to help east london - just the mere fact that its part of the capital will help it, as it grows by just being somewhere to expand to

it doesnt need the olympics to help it - there are worse places and things that could do with sorting imo

[Ryvita]

Hmmm.

"Multiple Members of .BFC. move to London" - headline, Daily Telegraph, June 29 2005

"London declared home of games" headline - Daily Telegraph, July 6 2005

Coincidence? I think not...

:p

Ryv