Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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This ticket business is a complete mess, is there no one competent enough at Ticketmaster to oversee this operation effectively, what is happening to the British workforce
Also why on earth should there be a problem with excited Brits making floral window displays in their flower shops or little old ladies knitting the olympic logo, has the world gone mad!
Like that idea of turning our front page Olympic PaulB, liking the update of the stage, once the rings go up then it's over to you
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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I am still waiting as well,makes the £2 charge for post and packing look a bit stupid,but I know we are looking into the event at Scruity so I will bring that up.Collecting mine on the day.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
got a message from brian whose computer is down at the moment telling us to keep a look out for gold b.m.w's going around.
aparently they offer the chance to win tickets for the torch event.
philip is excluded from this apparently.
Guest 695- Registered: 30 Mar 2010
- Posts: 426
The £2 charge is an order processing fee. Ticketmaster state they aim to dispatch tickets as soon as possible but are unable to be specific with exact dates. If your tickets have not arrived five days before the show contact them
http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/h/customer_serve.html. I imagine you should have your booking reference to hand.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
just been announced on sky news that conservative minister in charge of plympics said its ok to make mistakes such as that made by g4s
what planet is he on?
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Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 1,214
I'm still waiting for my tenner's worth of free tickets too. The website still says 'processing'. Not very happy.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Doesn't this ticket fiasco give you all an inkling of what is in store on this "very special day" - the torch relay. Not to rain on anyone's parade or anything but the idea of cheering people, albeit goodly citizens who have excelled in their field or in the face of extreme adversity, is well, rather an anti-climax isn't it?
I expect most people in the UK, if they were honest, would consider the Olympics, especially these ones with their zil lanes, fascistic restrictions on advertising and the clothes worn by even those attending to spectate, the hypocrisy of accepting sponsorship from companies whose products lead to obesity and alcoholism, ordinary people who wanting to celebrate by knitting olympic mementoes, special laws which allow police to break down the doors of premises of those "offenders", the abject elitism and corporate cronyism, restrictions on the amount of food and drink brought into the games by spectators, the supposed "green" credentials of the games etc. etc. etc. I could go on but I think you catch my drift.
What's not to like eh?
DT1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 15 Apr 2008
- Posts: 1,116
On a positive note Phillip, the torch is burning fossil based fuel.
Surely you are happy about this?
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Yes DT1 the more carbon burnt the better. Personally I belch CO2 and I'd recommend everybody does the same. Worried about your grandchildren not seeing polar bears? Well I'm not feeling sorry for myself for not being able to see dinosaurs - I feel alot safer too.
The front page of the Indy tells us of what are referred to as "Brand police" whose sole purpose is to travel up and down the land (for the sake of the children think of their carbon footprint) in order to check that people, businesses and other criminals are not breaching the strict laws concerning the olympics 2012 (remember those the ones you and me paid for) and branding. Any breaches will be dealt with with massive fines or in some cases no doubt imprisonment.
And remember that £2 you paid for the ticket to see someone carrying a glorified sherbet fountain? It only encourages them. Don't do it, just don't.
I fully expect the four o clock knock for my opinions but hey it's a free country- right?
Right?
Oh well it was fun believing we lived in a free country.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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What's your favourite event, Philip?
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
The closing ceremony.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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brilliant philip the games have certainly brought the best out of you.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Guest 730- Registered: 5 Nov 2011
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Yes this sponsorship has gone too far. Remember if you're going to the event in Dover and you want to take something to drink, you'll only be allowed in with water or Coca Cola. I suppose that's why we have to have Rizzle Sticks as well, because that's been decided by the sponsors.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Funny thing about the olympics and the torch relay. The labour party profess to be the party of equality. The tories the party of meritocracy and the liberals, well they don't stand for anything except more wind farms and free tofu for the masses. But these olympics and the torch relay are 186,000 miles away from any semblance of these noble aims. They are a celebration of elitism and crony corporatism. They revel in a swamp of ideas and aspirations which embrace the uglier side of human nature - greed and extreme nationalism. Strict restrictions on the freedoms of citizens everywhere, laws passed which far from being based on some moral or protective basis for the population are there to protect the rich, the untouchables from the very population who naively are eager to be spectators to this monstrosity.
A state sponsored fanfare which represents the seedier aspects to a supposed civilization but which is encouraged by politicians, big media outlets (the worst being the state broadcaster the BBC) and others with vested interests which pollutes the minds of our young by encouraging them to accept this insanity wholeheartedly.
Let it rain.
Then let it rain even more.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
300 "brand police" start work today going around making sure that no business illegally associates themselves with the games.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Brand Police is only one step away from Thought Police..or cripes..ponders in alarm, do we have those already !? Yes that info Howard must have been on the news I missed earlier...just caught the tail end of it. Philip mentions this development in his post above too...I thought for a while there I had imagined it.
But 300 Brand Police...who would have thought it...
My plans to jog up and down the seafront at the height of the melee with
"doverforum.com sponsors the Olympics"
on my shell suit is hereby ruled out.
!!
Ah well I couldnt jog anyway..
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Just to add...all parking appears to be suspended along the seafront now..yellow cones everywhere both sides of the road. The entrance to the seafront from the eastern docks end appears to be blocked off. Restrictions are clearly beginning, a bit earlier than expected. Seafront awash with rotten weather again..putting a dampener on the rising jollity..
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Ferry passengers being advised to allow plenty of time for their journey on Wednesday
http://t.co/KVObqRITAudere est facere.
