06-07-2005 19:23									#61
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Shouldn't be too hard, after all it's never posed any of it's other neighbours a problem

	06-07-2005 19:23									#62
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quote: Originally posted by Asher Even Turkey could hold a better olympics.

Wait a sec, I thought the Turks just held the Olympics last summer?

	06-07-2005 19:24									#63
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canadians...
the land of nothing
(edit: oh except good G8s... )

	06-07-2005 19:27									#64
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BTW knowing what a charade the modern "Olympics" are I bet France secretely withdrew the bid. It's quite a vindictive act letting London host them. You'll see

	06-07-2005 19:29									#65
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quote: Originally posted by MarkG congrats, although it wont be as good as ours

You mean like UK´s best and most beloved athletes won´t make asses of themselves and the british athletes association?

	06-07-2005 19:31									#66
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quote: Originally posted by Spiffor It's unsurprising. While the infrastructure was a big minus for London, the communication campaign was much more dynamic. The fact that your delegation had many youths, instead of the usual politicians/businessmen strongly tipped the things in your favour IMO. The fact that your PM also left Singapore in advance to go care for more important matters (global warming and African poverty) was also a positive signal that Chirac certainly didn't send. All in all, you had a great communication, and maybe this will remind some people here that everything is not about grey old politicians

Youth Power

	06-07-2005 19:32									#67
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And now this is predicted to put the prices of property in London up more For the love of God, isn't the place overly expensive enough already? I can't afford to buy anywhere by a long shot. A bleeding joke

	06-07-2005 19:32									#68
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison Shouldn't be too hard, after all it's never posed any of it's other neighbours a problem

You sang a different tune when we protected Europe from the Arabs in Poitiers

Ungrateful rosbifs

	06-07-2005 19:34									#69
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison And now this is predicted to put the prices of property in London up more For the love of God, isn't the place overly expensive enough already? I can't afford to buy anywhere by a long shot. A bleeding joke

Come live in Paris

IIRC, It's the second most expansive Metropolitan area in Europe. Or more accurately, it's the most expansive place in Europe, since London belongs to another category

	06-07-2005 19:35									#70
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Spiffor has the most posts in this thread. Bitter?

	06-07-2005 19:36									#71
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quote: Originally posted by OzzyKP Youth Power

Don't get your panties in a bunch though

The Brits used youth as a communication tool, it's not like the 12-18 year-olds were active in this campaign. Kinda like those ads featuring a passive woman, whose massive bosom is a very good commercial argument nonetheless

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quote: Originally posted by MikeH Spiffor has the most posts in this thread. Bitter?

quote: Originally posted by Spiffor I wouldn't have cared one notch if the rival city would have been from any other place than England. However, this is one more opportunity to have some mutual bashing across the channel, and it is a sport I enjoy immensely

	06-07-2005 19:45									#73
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Congradulations to London!

	06-07-2005 19:49									#74
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quote: Originally posted by Shi Huangdi Congradulations to London!

Congradulations and commiderasions.

	06-07-2005 19:54									#75
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Well we should have no problem surpassing our predecessors

	06-07-2005 19:55									#76
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Do you really think you'll sort out your transportation hell in the coming 7 years?

	06-07-2005 19:57									#77
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Not a snowball in hell's chance

	06-07-2005 19:57									#78
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I tell you what the major problem is too, too many fat cats and layers of bureaucracy involved in running and maintaining public transport in this country. Subcontraction after subcontraction means spiralling cost and no responsibility. No wonder the f**king place is falling apart

	06-07-2005 19:59									#79
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quote: Originally posted by Spiffor Don't get your panties in a bunch though The Brits used youth as a communication tool, it's not like the 12-18 year-olds were active in this campaign. Kinda like those ads featuring a passive woman, whose massive bosom is a very good commercial argument nonetheless

Ah, good point.

Exploitation of youth

	06-07-2005 19:59									#80
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see neither MikeH or PH are living in London. That's why they can afford to be all happy and everything. If they were they would stop being so after a while

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I thought it was also about a very inadequate infrastructure. I heard there would be 11 billion € put in transportation infrastructure alone. All bureacuratic sleaze aside, what changes should this money bring?

	06-07-2005 20:06									#82
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison Well we should have no problem surpassing our predecessors

a propos, the chinese were asked to "slow things down" because they had started building stuff so fast they'd have everything ready in a year or so and by the time the dope corrupted international money grabbing elite sorry the "olympics" came to town the infustruction would already be old.
nothing like the ingineous greeks who waited for the last minute in order for the terrorists not to know where to plant the bombs. but not everyone can be that intelligent, it's true

	06-07-2005 20:15									#83
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quote: Originally posted by paiktis22 see neither MikeH or PH are living in London. That's why they can afford to be all happy and everything. If they were they would stop being so after a while

Actually I live in London nowadays. In fact in one of the host boroughs (Greenwich).

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quote: Originally posted by paiktis22 a propos, the chinese were asked to "slow things down" because they had started building stuff so fast they'd have everything ready in a year or so and by the time the dope corrupted international money grabbing elite sorry the "olympics" came to town the infustruction would already be old. nothing like the ingineous greeks who waited for the last minute in order for the terrorists not to know where to plant the bombs. but not everyone can be that intelligent, it's true

	06-07-2005 20:17									#85
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison Actually I live in London nowadays. In fact in one of the host boroughs (Greenwich).

Moved to the "big town" eh? good for you

	06-07-2005 20:17									#86
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That's old news...you ought to keep up

	06-07-2005 20:22									#87
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PH, I thought your transportation problem was also about a very inadequate infrastructure. I heard there would be 11 billion € put in transportation infrastructure alone. All bureacuratic sleaze aside, what changes should this money bring?

	06-07-2005 20:24									#88
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London actually has a very extensive public transport system but it is it's age and condition (and thus it's reliability) that is the problem - it's lack of maintenance that is the problem (Thatcher managed to completely neglect it as well).

What changes should be made? There are a lot of track upgrades that need to be made so that the trains can run faster with less problems. Signalling and control upgrades to allow a higher throughput of trains. Some of the stations are in tatters too. And some kind of thought for SE London which has nothing apart from the train service which is pretty irregular compared to the tube. It doesn't sound too big, but probably requires billions of pounds...

	06-07-2005 20:33									#89
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	06-07-2005 20:34									#90
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Let's face it, New York made an utter dogs dinner of their application with that business over approval for the stadium...