Thursday, 14 May 2009

Olympic News

I'm sure you were as delighted as I was to learn that, after all the bold talk of property developers wading in with wads of cash, the London 2012 Olympic Village folly is to be paid for entirely by you and me. Rejoice.
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5 comments:

  1. mahlerman14 May 2009 at 11:42

    Was it ever going to be otherwise? This is one pit of ordure I'm going to miss however, as by that time I will have abandoned ship, as I believe we are holed below the water line, all hope gone. I have three working children and, for the first time, they are urging me to do it, as they may beat me to the airport. This seems no longer to be atypical, but an acknowledgment that, perhaps, a limit has been reached by the good folk of Albion, and we will have no more of the shellac souls of the so-called ruling classes. Wasn't it Jim Callaghan who said, back then, that if he were a young man, he would leave?

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  2. David14 May 2009 at 12:10

    My God....I bet you're a bundle of laughs on a night out mahlerman!

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  3. mahlerman14 May 2009 at 13:08

    My idea of a night out David, is to stay in

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  4. Mark14 May 2009 at 17:03

    I wonder if anyone has ever tried to work out which was the most expensive week in British history. I'd imagine Broon must be up for a couple of awards here - selling our gold reserves at the bottom of the market, etc - in among Black Death, Dunkirk and the Crash of 29. But I'd guess Dame Jowell's Olympics might well be up there with the best of them.

    Careful about abroad. So many places are full of boozy expats with dodgy pasts who spend all day watching Sky. If I did it again, which I don't suppose I will, I'd probably rent, and a long way away from where they all go.

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  5. mahlerman14 May 2009 at 17:19

    I was thinking Sausalito Mark, just across the bridge from perhaps the most European of US cities, San Francisco, in Marin. Decent climate, water, Redwoods, and a few hippies. Sounds good to me

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