indeed -.- why couldnt we have a 3 hour concert of musicians that have defined the music industry. beatles (paul mccartney), rolling stones, pink floyd, dire straits, ozzy osbourne, spandau ballet, elton john, bee gees, phil collins, police, duran duran, simon and garfunkel, oasis, blur, muse, spice girls, coldplay, artic monkeys
ive probably missed a bunch more but i cant be bothered to write more when i should be sleeping =)
i kno right?! it was supposed to represent the internet age or something because the inventor of the internet is british... but the internet was a success because of its collective community. the uk shouldnt claim the internet like that.
Looking forward to some sports. I love it when we have some big sport event during the summer footballbreak. some other sports to watch till the next football season begins
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Looking forward to some sports. I love it when we have some big sport event during the summer footballbreak. some other sports to watch till the next football season begins
unfortunately, football isnt exactly great to look forward too especially as you can pretty much predict the winners from the very beginning of the season.
I personally enjoyed the London Opening. Much more than the Beijing's. This one felt much more "homely". The Beijing one was more of a show. Look at all the shiny and ooh and ahh and the London one was more about the people. Then again, personal taste I guess. I use to enjoy flashy shit, but I guess I'm getting old.
Edit: Not saying Beijing's was bad or anything. I just felt like the London one's focus was different, but in a good way.
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i mean that in football the top teams always stay the same... chelsea manu arsenal liverpool ofc there are always 1 or 2 exceptions but the shit is the same...
i didnt know christiano ronaldo got picked to be in the olympics! i guess they just have to decide if its the 10m or the 20m platform
It's difficult to beat Beijing's opening show, but Mr. Bean made up for a lot.
But my favourite part of the entire Olympics 2012 so far:
I did enjoy Mr Bean, and did notice how the Queen just sat there for the whole time. I'm fairly sure for Olympic football, the teams are allowed 3 overage players, and the rest have to be under 23 or something. I ended up watching the games for about 5 hours last night, and they showed mens 250k road race (I only got half way through), a lot of swimming, a tiny bit of shitty-not-even-a-sport equestrian, and some rowing.
I'm assuming they just do it for the heats / trials, but here in Aus, they had one of the morning show hosts sorta host it, and he kept switching from one sport to the next, instead of letting the road race finish / swimming finish etc. That was pretty annoying, because I have no interest in rowing, or equestrian, but I had to watch it to watch the other two events /rant.
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i liked the opening british power, we lead the industrial revoloution, we at one point owned over half the planet all this showed that and was suited to the event imo
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i liked the opening british power, we lead the industrial revoloution, we at one point owned over half the planet all this showed that and was suited to the event imo
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I just can't wait for it all to be over, not only because most sports don't interest me, but also my BF could be called up, because of the stupid security shit that was going on!!
London 2012 Olympics: hundreds of ticketless fans turned away from archery
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London 2012 suffered another setback this morning when spectators were turned away from Lord’s after arriving to watch the archery competition Billed as the first London-based event of these Olympics, the ranking round is traditionally held on the day of the opening ceremony and is used to seed male and female archers for the knockout rounds, which begin tomorrow. The event was listed as ‘unticketed’, meaning that it was not open to the public.However, by the time the competition began at 9am, dozens of spectators had arrived at the cricket ground in north-west London in the hope of entry. The confusion appears to have sprung from a lack of clarity in pre-event literature, as well as wrong information distributed by a number of websites not affiliated to the Olympics. Read More Here
thats not even the worse of it.... the ticket issue has been absolutly shocking for the olympics...
the system went like this: go online and register for a ticket... you dont decide what the ticket is for or what you see or what day... you just register for a ticket, the price will be higher then the price of a normal atheletics day ticket so that people who win the 100m sprint final will not have to pay 10k just to watch it... but that does mean the money have to be made up by people who get shit game seats...
so... that started and then 2 days later the website crashed dumping all the ticket sales with some processed and some not, money taken from everyone regardless of allocation...
then they tried the same system again but people had already decided the price was too high if they 1. may not even get a ticket... 2. may get a ticket but not processed so they pay for a ticket they dont recieve...
so they then reported a sell out of the games for uk ticket allocation.
they found they miscalculated and had another sale for tickets that had been allocated to events but they sold out fast too...
then the beginning of the year they were caught selling tickets to companies and advertising agencys which is illegal in olympics process so they had to find out where those tickets were and how many of them had been given away.
watch the games and you will see empty seats, yet there are many many many people waiting at the gates for them to open ticket sales for on the day tickets but people are getting declined entry.
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