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Oh for Christ's sake Alpine, give it a rest will you!? Verbal simply offered his own opinion on the proceedings without feeling the need to ridicule or belittle anybody else's. What exactly is so wrong with that? You really are your own worst enemy on this forum sometimes.

I take it you haven't ventured into town on a saturday night or been to a Spanish holiday resort in recent years then. If you had, you would realise that it was actually very British.

It was all going so well - why on Earth did they have to get Macca on!? They get the new generation of kids to light the flame as a symbol of inspiring the youth, then get a man who has spent the last 40 years living on past glories on stage to get the crowd to do some karaoke with him. Sooo cringeworthy!

Oh Fookin 'ell. Why do they always have to wheel him out for these state-like occasions!?

Apparently is all to with the origin of the IoC in France, which kinda makes sense.

Marina Silva - United Nations Champion of The Earth. Man that's a pretty damn good title to have on your CV isn't it!?

OK, that was some pretty impressive pyrotechnics!

Oh FFS! He isn't going to repeat it all in French now is he!?!?

Why does she always have to look so f***ing miserable in public these days?

In which case, couldn't they have got Pulp on to do Common People instead? Surely much more representative of Britain on the whole, but I guess Jarvis couldn't be trusted to behave himself on such a grand stage.

Still, could have been worse. They might have got Status f***ing Quo on to do that god-awful Winners song of theirs.

Strange choice of song to perform right before the lighting of the flame.

Some friends I know (a fair bit younger than me) started using this a lot recently. Then I was listening to the radio and the girl from Skins (where it originated) was talking about how she and the rest of the cast just made up this bullsh*t word for a laugh just to see how many people would copy them and start using it in everyday conversation. I haven't the heart to tell my mates this.

You think? What about the low-lying towns and cities that will be underwater as a result of rising sea-levels? What about the more frequent storms and flooding that will result from the warmer air over the Atlantic? What about the food shortages and subsequent price increases that will arise from loss of arable land in other parts of the globe?

I regularly hear people quite distinctly using 'of' instead of 'have' as they seemingly have never been taught or told that it's incorrect. It's very common to read 'of' used in posts on here as well. Just poor education I guess.

And on the flip side of that, I always find sentences that begins with "I'm not racist, but....." invariably turn out to be actually quite racist.

The difference being that Blackburn were only ever a small, provincial club to start with, who could never dream of attracting the kind of crowds that a London or Manchester club could.

"At the end of the day....." Why do so many important things happen at midnight FFS!?

That quite literally gets on my tits. (No, it doesn't - because being a bloke I don't have tits, but it sounds good dunnit?)

No more than Senegal deserve really. A nicely placed through-ball but the defending from GB was shocking.

When someone is telling a story and says "So I turned round to him and said..." Either you were having the discussion with your back turned up until this point, in which case you're probably a bit strange, or you didn't 'turn round to him' at all and are talking codsh*t.

MODS!!! Any chance we can get this or something like it embedded at the top of this thread? http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20120810T00&p0=1329&msg=TOAST+TIME

That's not entirely accurate. Many western countries are already working hard towards their CO2 reduction targets, and China are slowly coming round as the environmental devastation caused by their economic boom becomes clear within their borders. The main problem in China is massive increase in consumerist attitudes in places such as Shanghai, as people have become addicted to the lavish, materialistic lifestyles that have become the norm there now, and this will make it very difficult for them to reverse the trends of the last 20-30 years. Any initiatives aimed at reducing emissions and creating sustainable development needs not just technological changes but drastic behavioural shifts as well. This requires involvement from the state, the private sector, civil society and the individual. If the whole world buries its collective head in the sand with the attitude of "Nobody else is bothering to do anything about it so why should I?" then we truly are f***ed. Whereas if everybody made some simple changes at the individual level then it will make the issue very difficult for the authorities to ignore, and the problem of the government failing to implement policy changes because it might affect their support at the polls would be seriously lessened.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/24/greenland-ice-sheet-thaw-nasa?intcmp=122

No, but he was on the Today program on R4 this morning repeating everything we have already heard.