Quote: McLaren_Field "Its a gold stick with a flame on the end of it in case you missed it and wanted to know, you haven't missed much.
Its a marvellous example of how good media bullting can create an event out of a non-event, its got bugger-all to do with the Olympics at all, the idea of parading a symbolic flame around the country for several weeks is a wonderful PR concoction that is supposed to gell the population into forgetting that nearly ten billion quid has been spent on two and a half weeks of sporting events, some of which you actually wouldn't go to the end of your street to watch or would switch the TV off if they were shown individually - how many have actually sat through an archery competition on TV, no, not many, and do you know which league your local badminton club play in ?
Great PR to get so many people out onto the streets - non event though, and they'd better not delay my journey to work in the morning either.'"
I'm with you......came within 1 mile of where we live and couldn't have been less inspired to see it.
It was bad enough when I actually thought it was [ione [/itorch making its journey from its start in Greece and flown over on a chartered airliner. Bluddy disgraceful waste of public money when so many are having to suffer pay cuts and job losses.
At least one legacy from Hitler lives on
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