Reply to: London 2012

[oscarose]

If you live somewhere nothing ever happens it's easy to say "get caught up in it" but I have a major sporting event on my doorstep for 2 weeks every year and although I watch some of it and enjoy it I won't pretend that it isn't disruptive. The olympics are going to be at least 10x as big and will pretty much paralyse a transport system which is already bursting at the seams. It will be a lot easier to enjoy them if you don't have to put up with that for 2 hours a day just to get to and from work.

I take your point as those outside London aren't going to have their daily routines affected. But as Zippy said, can’t you work from home?

[Doggy Styles]

Incidentally, 2012 is the third London Olympics.

At the first one in 1908, British police teams won all three medals in the Tug 'o War. I wonder if whoever presented the medals greeted them with "Hello, hello, hello"?

[Doggy Styles]

I always love to watch the Olympic sport on TV and it will be no different this time. But it might as well be in Mongolia for all I care, I ain't going anywhere near it.

And I ain't watching that waste of money they call the opening and closing ceremonies. Not even on TV.

[amcdonald]

Why not travel on the VIP roads, where even the traffic lights will go green for you as you swish past the peasants.

The £5k fine might put you off...

[TimberWolf]

Why not travel on the VIP roads, where even the traffic lights will go green for you as you swish past the peasants.

[norrahe]

If you live somewhere nothing ever happens it's easy to say "get caught up in it" but I have a major sporting event on my doorstep for 2 weeks every year and although I watch some of it and enjoy it I won't pretend that it isn't disruptive. The olympics are going to be at least 10x as big and will pretty much paralyse a transport system which is already bursting at the seams. It will be a lot easier to enjoy them if you don't have to put up with that for 2 hours a day just to get to and from work.

It will certainly be interesting to see how the tubes and trains cope with all the extra people.

I know that they were encouraging firms to get their employees to work from home during the period.

Thankfully I'm not working in the smoke any more.

[doodab]

That's partly why I think you should make the effort to buy into it... a bit like how being stuck in a crowd is annoying, but being at a gig makes it different. Getting caught up in it would, even as a cynical tactic, be a great way to make it seem less annoying

If you live somewhere nothing ever happens it's easy to say "get caught up in it" but I have a major sporting event on my doorstep for 2 weeks every year and although I watch some of it and enjoy it I won't pretend that it isn't disruptive. The olympics are going to be at least 10x as big and will pretty much paralyse a transport system which is already bursting at the seams. It will be a lot easier to enjoy them if you don't have to put up with that for 2 hours a day just to get to and from work.

[TimberWolf]

Hang on though - I enjoy moaning about the Olympics, and I'm sure other naysayers in this thread do too.

So in a way you're the kill joy

Yes, the moaning was quite good until moaners started moaning about it. At the risk of sounding like I'm moaning.

[OwlHoot]

What a bunch of miserable kill-joys. ...

Hang on though - I enjoy moaning about the Olympics, and I'm sure other naysayers in this thread do too.

So in a way you're the kill joy

[oscarose]

I have tickets for the Olympics and Paralympics and am really looking forward to the party.
You are a miserable bunch of sods - use it as an excuse to WFH!

WZS

[oscarose]

What a bunch of miserable kill-joys. Even if you aren't really bothered by sport, the Olympics is a huge spectacle and this is the only time it will be in our native land - might as well buy into it, easier to give in than make yourself angry since it's going to absolutely saturate the entire country for weeks.

WDHGS

[d000hg]

I take your point, but I think saturate is an exaggeration. Personally I'll find it very easy to ignore, as I dont watch broadcast tv.

Not just TV but every newspaper and UK based news source. Radio. Everyone you talk to at work, etc.

Don't get me wrong, I think it will be good to watch, on TV, but central London is a bit overcrowded at the best of times, with the extra load on the transport network and the daily security scares it's going to be hellish.

That's partly why I think you should make the effort to buy into it... a bit like how being stuck in a crowd is annoying, but being at a gig makes it different. Getting caught up in it would, even as a cynical tactic, be a great way to make it seem less annoying

[d000hg]

Really?

1948 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

My old mum went to that one.

Sorry, only time in our lives was what I meant. Unless we emigrate we'll never live where it happens again (unless it comes to Scotland )

[doodab]

Don't get me wrong, I think it will be good to watch, on TV, but central London is a bit overcrowded at the best of times, with the extra load on the transport network and the daily security scares it's going to be hellish.

[Zippy]

I have tickets for the Olympics and Paralympics and am really looking forward to the party.
You are a miserable bunch of sods - use it as an excuse to WFH!