Whitey Grandad

Nope, can't see a chronic pun anywhere in there.

Are you sure Yement to say that?

Sunday Phil! If you're not careful you could have spent all Saturday at the beach bar and then slept through the match.

I've run out of names, does anybody have Samoa?

Norway would that have happened.

I'm Ghana read another forum.

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Yes, not happy. They told me the Itchen, a couple of blocks in the Chapel and a couple in the Northam. Of course, going on previous behaviour if all these sell out then they may well open up the Kingsland but I doubt that that will happen.

I drove past there this morning and there's no sign of this shop.

I see no reason to change my iPhone 4S.

Oops, perhaps I'm in your seat Look carefully, it doesn't promise you your own seat, just the opportunity to buy one. I went down to the TO last Thursday in order to buy my seat only to find that the whole stand is closed!

All in use for the competitors, I expect They had on-site parking as well so she was as close as she old get.

We're not sure whether it was the 10,000 metres or the long jump. Either that or all the walking that she had to do from the car park.

My sister took my mum to them. She then had a couple of months of severe arthritis, but she was 92 at the time.

You could be right, it would explain a lot Of course it could be the other way round and it's everybody else that gets a false opinion. How else could you explain the alleged popularity of Strictly Come Dancing or Big Brother?

I've just seen this post. I have seen various figures up in the range £9bn to £11bn. Some of this was lottery money but it's difficult to get anyone to admit to the real figure. From my point of view I don't want to pay for one penny of it, but I would like to see better sports facilities at local levels and this I would be prepared to pay for.

Quite so, I would'nt make it up. Let's take my 85-year old neighbour for a start. He doesn't care about the Olympics in the same way that he doesn't care about football or golf or a hundred and one other things. He only really cares anout his cats and his garden and you won't find him in a pub cheering on Mo Farah. Then there are the people who work for me, a secretary in her 40s, my co-director in his 40s and a young apprentice. They all have other priorities and it's the same with my suppliers, they really couldn't give a toss. That's not to mean that I don't know people who enjoyed them or took an interest in them One of my sisters did but she used to do the pentathlon for Enfield Harriers and lives on the fringes of London so it's not surprising. All that I'm saying is that there is a whole group of people out here for whom the Olympics were an irrelevant distraction and who never watched one minute of them. Nothing wrong with that.

Not weird, just normal

I can only speak for the people in my street, the people I work with and have dealings with and others that I come across. None of them was bothered about the Games either way.

'Getting the ball' is not the only criterion, thank goodness

Do I mean Flash?

Interesting question. At what stage Cana player be considered world class? When hey have played in major finals, or only when they have played in at least a quarter final?

My point is that these other events are seen as extremely important by some groups of people whilst others are totally indifferent. In my, admittedly limited, circle of acquaintances most took no interest in the Games whatsoever, yet will agree that they were a success for those who took part. But living down here on the south coast we do tend to have a different perspective to the London-centred media that dominate British economic and political life. I think this article probably sums up my attitudes best, and I never thought I'd say that about The Socialist World. http://www.socialistworld.net/doc/6379

I think you'll find that the vast majority were totally indifferent to the Games, much as they are over the World Cup, The Ashes, the death of Princess Diana...

No. I really wasn't bothered about it and most people I know felt the same way.