Comments on: A cultural Olympics? http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2008/02/21/a-cultural-olympics/ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:05:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ill man http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2008/02/21/a-cultural-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-360 ill man Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:57:32 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=56#comment-360 I'm now on the radar again. I was being very flippant. It's a bad habit of mine, but one everyone has to live with. Sorry.......... I’m now on the radar again. I was being very flippant. It’s a bad habit of mine, but one everyone has to live with. Sorry……….

]]> By: Cocktails http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2008/02/21/a-cultural-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-356 Cocktails Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:46:39 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=56#comment-356 What are you talking about Ill Man?! 'As long as it's tax payers money being spent...' !! That's precisely the problem. I'm a tax payer and I, along with all of Britan's other tax payers, are forking out for an expensive Olympic ghetto (as so aptly described by Mark). And aren't you, even if you have fallen of the radar!? What are you talking about Ill Man?! ‘As long as it’s tax payers money being spent…’ !! That’s precisely the problem. I’m a tax payer and I, along with all of Britan’s other tax payers, are forking out for an expensive Olympic ghetto (as so aptly described by Mark). And aren’t you, even if you have fallen of the radar!?

]]> By: ill man http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2008/02/21/a-cultural-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-354 ill man Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:23:48 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=56#comment-354 Look, as long as it's tax payers money being spent on useless shite, then I'm happy and all for it. Bring on the pointless sports, that's what I say! Anyway, think yrselves lucky, Glasgow got the 2014 'Shit Olympics'. You won't believe how puffed up our tin-pot despotic council leaders are feeling just now. Look, as long as it’s tax payers money being spent on useless shite, then I’m happy and all for it. Bring on the pointless sports, that’s what I say!

Anyway, think yrselves lucky, Glasgow got the 2014 ‘Shit Olympics’. You won’t believe how puffed up our tin-pot despotic council leaders are feeling just now.

]]> By: Cocktails http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2008/02/21/a-cultural-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Cocktails Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:04:56 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=56#comment-353 Hello Mark, I couldn't agree with you more. I resisted dragging in the ailing London infrastructure and the whether it will all be completed on time, but you are right. I guess it will be completed though (however poorly) simply because it has to be if we're not to lose face! Good point about the Olympic ghetto. I think that this is what has happened in Sydney - what does become of a former Olympic site out in the suburbs when the jamboree has moved on? Hello Mark, I couldn’t agree with you more. I resisted dragging in the ailing London infrastructure and the whether it will all be completed on time, but you are right. I guess it will be completed though (however poorly) simply because it has to be if we’re not to lose face!

Good point about the Olympic ghetto. I think that this is what has happened in Sydney – what does become of a former Olympic site out in the suburbs when the jamboree has moved on?

]]> By: Mark http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2008/02/21/a-cultural-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-351 Mark Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:19:47 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=56#comment-351 As I stand on a underground station on a Saturday evening, having spent 10 minutes standing outside to allow the platform below to clear of people to a safe level, admiring the tiles missing, the exposed metalwork and wires which chart all the attempts to smarten up the Tube it occurs to me that we haven't got a hope of getting the infrastructure up to scratch ahead of the Olympics let alone the cultural side. Where are the large contributions to the city (and the UK) which will last sustainably for years to come and which will attract people to the city ? Building an Olympic ghetto (necessary I guess for security) doesn't seem to add a lot back to the people of London. It all seems that it will end in last minute rush to finish and long term cost to pay it off. But then we are good at that - remember the Dome ? As I stand on a underground station on a Saturday evening, having spent 10 minutes standing outside to allow the platform below to clear of people to a safe level, admiring the tiles missing, the exposed metalwork and wires which chart all the attempts to smarten up the Tube it occurs to me that we haven’t got a hope of getting the infrastructure up to scratch ahead of the Olympics let alone the cultural side.

Where are the large contributions to the city (and the UK) which will last sustainably for years to come and which will attract people to the city ?

Building an Olympic ghetto (necessary I guess for security) doesn’t seem to add a lot back to the people of London. It all seems that it will end in last minute rush to finish and long term cost to pay it off. But then we are good at that – remember the Dome ?

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