Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
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From Saturday, 24 extra tv channels will be available via the "Red Button" plus two others, Freeview Ch 301 and 302. Madness!
And since when has Ch 301 been showing TorchCam? It's not well advertised.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Overkill - yes totally agree in every sense of it as applies to the Olympics.
Guest 731- Registered: 8 Nov 2011
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Well I am loving evey minute. Its bringing a great atmosphere to a depressed country. So stop being so miserable and ENJOY. It maybe the only time in some of our lives we will see it. I'm going Sunday and cant wait
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Being at the games is not only the safest place to be but also you will only see what you wish to see. And get a lot less of the breezy commentary.
Spare a thought for the rest of us David, please.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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very brave of david to post the olympic rings.
saw a launderette in folkestone yesterday that had them up and also a newsagents in the folkestone road.
Guest 731- Registered: 8 Nov 2011
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Thats where its gone mad. All because of the corporate sponsors. How putting up the Olympic rings affects anyone I dont know. Let them shine out I say
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I hope you sport fans enjoy your sporting orgy but for me it is a total bore, I do wish the UK contestants luck though and hope they do well. I might watch the opening ceremony, or some of it but that is that. I have plenty of books on my Kindle, plenty of DVDs and model aircraft to build while waiting for the closing ceremony which will be the best bit and may watch. Maybe I will drink a Pepsi and eat at a Burger King as a reaction to the bullying of the sponsors as well!!!!
Guest 730- Registered: 5 Nov 2011
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Regarding sponsors, there was an interesting letter in the Telegraph last week pointing out that as most of the money for the Olympics is goverment money, surely we the taxpayers are the biggest sponsors. So why shouldn't we be able to display the Olympic rings etc if we want to.
I'm not a big sports fan but I shall watch bits of the Olympics maybe, and I hope we do well. What was originally supposed to be a friendly sporting event though seems to have grown completely out of control. It seems that each one has to be bigger and better than the one before, and these sponsorship rules are just ridiculous.
Guest 717- Registered: 16 Jun 2011
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Could not disagree more. These athletes push their bodies to the limit and being sporty myself I admire anyone who could do that as a full Time job. Sponsorships pay their wages and help fund the Olympics. The rules may not be ideal but if it helps make the games outstanding then so be it. So what if there are more channels, you don't have to watch them. With so many sports going on at once i'm glad there are so I don't miss out.
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Guest 731- Registered: 8 Nov 2011
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Well said Helen. I'm not sporty but blimey its not everyday this country gets to shine.
Guest 730- Registered: 5 Nov 2011
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Taxpayers fund the Olympics more than sponsors. Do we have to have sponsors? The original idea of the Olympics was a competition between amateurs, sponsorship or professional athletes weren't allowed.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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most sports in the olympics don't interest me so i will just keep a lookout for when we have medal hopefuls and turn on then.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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Here are some of the corporate sponsors for the security, just so they don't miss out:
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Luvit Ed, securing your world with Total Fcuk Ups
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Funny how our society talks about the evils of elitism and yet relish the massive celebration of elitism which is the olympics. Elite people profiting from the circus, elite athletes competing where the best generally reach the top by way of increased funding and elite zil lanes positively celebrated by olympic supporters.
I had the misfortune to accidentally tune into the nursing home show, sorry the one show on the mogodan channel last night where Chris Evans and every studio technician hissed and booed a sensible woman who found herself in the position of exposing the hypocricy of this circus.
It reminded me of BBC radio valium, sorry BBC radio Kent's coverage of the torch relay. Hyped up broadcasters doing their best to sound exited by the spectacle of someone carrying a cornetto aloft down various high streets. Awful, awful, awful.
Also interesting to note Julia George's phone-in show the other day where the usual nursing home regulars were encouraged to phone in to support the hype and were patronised and patted on the back for agreeing with the general consensus at the station whereas detractors were made to sound quite odd.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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That's Julia George for you. She was quite human and normal when she was Jules Bottfield! I quite liked her on national breakfast tv when she was a small fish in a big pond. Sadly the big fish in the small pond isn't quite right somehow.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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The world and his brother will be praying for rain, it's 29 degrees at the moment and very sticky.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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Not well publicised is the fact that the "sponsors" for the Olympics are offered tax breaks for the privilege. A campaign is under way to "request" that they do not take-up this break.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151950203320788&set=a.457255765787.382103.200006375787&type=1&theaterPolitics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
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I agree with the comments of Helen T and David B, well said !
It won't happen again here for a very long time ! We have to make the most of it.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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philip
there is a vast difference between an elite like bradley wiggins(our most recent example) who push themselves to the very limit and become the very best at what they do and the elite that reg often refers to who sit in boardrooms overseeing falls in profits and static share prices then award themselves huge pay packages.
