Do we want this Olympics ?

**Northumbrian** · 30-07-2012, 05:56 PM

I think Britain did better than expected at the Beijing Olympics, so to think it will be better than that just because of home advantage is a bit unrealistic.

**Jim S** · 30-07-2012, 08:26 PM

Success at the Olympics depends mainly on how much a country wants to spend.

**SDP** · 30-07-2012, 09:16 PM

Monday 30th July 2012 The main news is the rows and rows of empty seats.

During Monday Britain got another bronze medal. Our total is now 3. One silver and two bronze.

We have lost the keys to Wembly Stadium worth £40,000 pounds. The same has happened to the Wimbledon tennis courts their keys have also gone missing.

Team GB is now in 19th place. Doesn't the Olympics make you proud to be British.

**Patman Post** · 30-07-2012, 09:31 PM

Originally Posted by CB100

The opening ceremony was a shocker. I watched it hoping it would be a spectacle which would promote the country like the Queens Jubilee. Sadly not.

I'm not interested in watching the games except the tennis. Roger Federer is always marvellous.

Tessa Jowell has said, "If some curmudgeons want to be curmudgeonly, that's their right and they can ignore the Olympics or go off somewhere else"

Personally I don't see it as curmudgeonly at all. I am frankly baffled at why some people are excited by the Olympics. As with the people that came out to watch the olympic torch. What was the big deal about people running around the UK with a torch?

I can't help thinking there are a lot of people with so little going on in their lives that this is all they have to get excited about.

You are entitled to your view, of course. But by decrying the majority view and mocking sports enthusiasts, you reveal your own dismal failure to understand this country, most of its people, London, or even the century in which you are supposedly living.

The UK was committed to the Olympics. It could not pull out without damage to its reputation. It now has a chance to build on the investment. The opening ceremony was an outstanding start. The Games proper should magnify the achievement. Millions of right-minded people will be soaking up the whole atmosphere. Shame you're unable to join in...

**Road_Hog** · 30-07-2012, 09:36 PM

Originally Posted by Patman Post

You are entitled to your view, of course. But by decrying the majority view and mocking sports enthusiasts, you reveal your own dismal failure to understand this country, most of its people, London, or even the century in which you are supposedly living.

The UK was committed to the Olympics. It could not pull out without damage to its reputation. It now has a chance to build on the investment. The opening ceremony was an outstanding start. The Games proper should magnify the achievement. Millions of right-minded people will be soaking up the whole atmosphere. Shame you're unable to join in...

I'd just like to give an erudite reply to your thoughts, b0ll0cks.

**Patman Post** · 30-07-2012, 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by Road_Hog

I'd just like to give an erudite reply to your thoughts, b0ll0cks.

I doubt you could even give an erudite reply if asked how you liked your coffee...

**Road_Hog** · 30-07-2012, 09:50 PM

Originally Posted by Patman Post

I doubt you could even give an erudite reply if asked how you liked your coffee...

Since I don't drink coffee, then yes, it would be difficult.

**CB100** · 31-07-2012, 10:01 AM

Originally Posted by Patman Post

You are entitled to your view, of course.

If the majority of people are enjoying the Olympics I am delighted for them.

But by decrying the majority and mocking sports enthusiasts

I am not mocking sports enthusiasts. I am a keen sports enthusiast myself. I love cricket, tennis and football and keep very fit through playing sports as well as running and gym excercise.

PS I was at Centre Court at Wimbledon twice this year. Wimbledon is a wonderful tennis event and shows Britain at its best.

you reveal your own dismal failure to understand this country, most of its people, London, or even the century

If I don't understand people getting excited by a rather limp opening ceremony and who get excited by folk walking down the road with a piece of metal in their hands, I can live with that.

you are supposedly living.

Last time I checked I was alive, but maybe these words are an apparition...

The UK was committed to the Olympics. It could not pull out without damage to its reputation.

I completely agree with you.

It now has a chance to build on the investment.

It would have had a much better chance if they had put business people in charge instead of lefty lovies who seem to prefer talking to themselves rather than focus on projecting to an international audience.

The opening ceremony was an outstanding start. The Games proper should magnify the achievement. Millions of right-minded people will be soaking up the whole atmosphere.

If that genuinely is the case, there will be no-one more delighted than me. I want our country to excel and if people from overseas were enthused by the opening ceremony that's brilliant news. It doesn't really matter if the product is rubbish provided the customers like it.

Shame you're unable to join in...

I agree. I started watching the ceremony hoping it would have been as uplifting as the Queens jubilee celebrations. Unfortunately I found it to be excrutiatingly embarrasing instead.