That crash couldn't have come at a more perfect time!!
London 2012 Olympics
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Team GB got tactics totally wrong. Tried to be smart thinking they had race under control but let to many break away.
Sky sports breaking news - mark cavendish fails to win a medal.
I didn't realise Geoff Shreeves wrote that stuff! What a shower of fuckers
I didn't realise Geoff Shreeves wrote that stuff! What a shower of fuckers
I could be completely wrong but i think the fact that none of the other countries teams were helping to set the pace which meant the brits had to do it all on their own. But again a could be completely wrong
After the Kazakh crossed the winning line, a BBC lady stuck a microphone under his nose and asked him for comments on the performance of Team GB!
As if that would be occupying his mind at the time! Not to mention the fact that they were behind him so he wouldn't have seen much of them! 😀
As if that would be occupying his mind at the time! Not to mention the fact that they were behind him so he wouldn't have seen much of them! 😀
Cavendish just said on the TV that he thought some people had an agenda to prevent GB from winning. Not sure what to make of that as I don't really follow it - If true though that sucks.
I find the tactics involved in cycling pretty difficult to work out.
However, I would have thought Cavendish could have solved that problem by cycling faster.
What are you on about you tart? So you're saying a country who pioneered free health care should in no way be proud of it?
You're completely right. It seems most teams tactics were to prevent GB from winning which is understandable with GB having the best sprinter. GB gave it everything they had, just wasn't enough. Just a shame the winner was an ex-banned cyclist.
The NHS is evil socialist tatties.
Or its brilliant but poorly run.
Personally I cannot fathom how lucky we are to have it. Yes there are problems with it, but ultimately its something we should be exceptionally proud of
Ha ha - You are entirely right of course.
It's not free and I'm not saying people should be either proud or ashamed of it. But if they don't realise that that display last night wasn't shameless left-wing propoganda then they need their head testing. Danny Boyle shouldn't have brought his personal politics into it - it's got no fucking business there whatsoever.
I agree - the fact that no other European country would be crazy enough to try to set up a similar monolithic money-pit is evidence that the NHS is as much a problem as it is an achievement. Boyle can only have included it to make a cheeky political point. We also saw the musicians formed up in a CND logo, which has lost its significance nowadays, but during the Cold War represented an appeasement movement that many of us found contemptible.
However, it's done now and it was a good show for which Danny Boyle deserves credit for the risks he took, It could have been a disaster but it wasn't.
they missed out the bit where we ensalved africa.
The claim that celebrating the NHS is propaganda, is as tacit an admission that the Tories are trying to dismantle it as you're going to get.
For what it's worth, I was pleasantly surprised - sure, there were some cringey bits here and there, but overall it actually wasn't too bad.
The fact that it seems to have annoyed all the idiotic right wing commentators/Nazi-moonlighting Tory MPs is just a bonus
'Colonised'. We gave them smart uniforms and stuff when they were serving us cocktails.
Rather then providing another rant, can you explain what you would have done differently?
This may require some creativity....,
The point about other teams not wanting GB to win is entirely true. Not once in the whole race did Germany or Australia take a turn at the front. Our riders did everythi they could to close it, but 4 riders just can't do it.
So in fact out tactics were sound, but the others were flawed. Essentially they stopped themselves having a chance by stopping GB. Next year's Tour should be fun of that's how its going to be
So in fact out tactics were sound, but the others were flawed. Essentially they stopped themselves having a chance by stopping GB. Next year's Tour should be fun of that's how its going to be
Lol. No I won't you daft twat. Fuck off.
No it's not, but it is an admission that it's a sacred cause of the left in the way it never has been for the right, and was therefore a proxy for a left wing message far beyond mere support for the NHS. The basic plot was: the NHS is good and well-loved; the NHS is under attack from a right wing government; vote left wing to save it.
That wasn't the message you bloody paranoid eejit. That sequence was a celebration of the NHS, of Great Ormond Street, and British fiction for kids. If you think Voldemort was meant to represent right wing government you're a fucking loony tune.
Paranoid like Polly Toynbee, Richard Murphy, Alastair Campbell and others?
http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/the-most-leftie-opening-ceremony-ever.html
So by this reckoning, Mary Poppins is the Labour party (or left wing). Come to think of it, she encouraged the kids to spend their tuppence to 'feed the birds' (a clear metaphor for social support) instead of investing in the bank (evils of capitalism).
I retract what I was saying, Peter clearly isn't a drooling deranged neo-con reading too much into things after all.
I retract what I was saying, Peter clearly isn't a drooling deranged neo-con reading too much into things after all.
They're politicians. People who see *everything* politically. Everything is measured on a sliding scale between socialism and right wing politics. It demonstrates how staggeringly unsubtle they are at interpreting complex cultural articulations that operate in dimensions beyond a narrow political spectrum.
They're not politicians, though, are they.
Maybe you should read the article. And then maybe you *should* retract what you were saying. And I'm not a neo-con mate.
They are political commentators, people involved in politics, and that is a political blog. It *is* an unsubtle reading by all involved. Viewed through the prism of party politics, the whole thing becomes skewed. A normal viewing public who see Voldemort and Mary Poppins rather then right wing government and left wing defenders of public health care, are the people who are *actually* better able to read this than people locked into a political reading.
It seems to me you don't know whether there was an intentional political message any more than I do. You think there wasn't, I think there was. The fact that most people wouldn't begin to see it would apply equally either way: people in general are not political, and the best propoganda is insidious. But that doesn't mean it can't still have a subliminal effect - on the contrary.
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