An extract from my daily foreign currency newsletter from Moneycorp. Some days there are some cracking (sarcastic) introductions but this one on TV coverage should just about manage to annoy a few horse racing enthusiasts. "Good morning. With next year's Olympic Games opening on 27 July next year it would be fair to think there were still 366 days to go before blanket coverage of 20-metre small-bore rifle, individual foil and under-58kg taekwondo would fill our flat screens. Not so. On 19 May 2012, the BBC begins a broadcast that will make the marathon look like a sprint. Starting at Land's End, the Olympic torch will cover 8,000 miles in the hands of 8,000 people, taking 70 days. And according to the Daily Mail, the BBC is going to televise it every inch of the way. There will also be a two-hour broadcast of the day's highlights every evening, for those unable to follow every moment of the riveting event."
Ron to think they cut 606 so that they could fund this sort of nonsense. Will they be asking the torch bearers to sing/dance/juggle to make it a kind of "Torch Bearers Got Talent" type event?
Not sure if I imagined it, but wasn't there an issue about racing & the Olympics? Something to do with the IOC wanting there to be no other sports "competitions" at the same time as the event. That would screw up Goodwood & York to say nothing of the other day to day racing!
Imagine what coverage the Olympics are going to get when the terrorists blow something up. I am pleased that the whole thing is in London as I am two hundred miles away so I can just ignore it. I did not favour it coming here in the first place as it will be the taxpayers that will be footing the bill for years after the event just like every other games in the last forty years, although they will have a massive new McDonalds in Stratford. Did somebody from the IOC have words with UEFA to make sure that the European Championships 2012 in Poland and the Ukraine are happening in June with the Final on 1st July?
It's quite evident that media coverage, profit generation and image polishing far outweigh any remaining crumb of "olympic spirit". What a horrible world we live in where everything is ruled by profit and greed. The media has become so caught up in it all and have effectively lost the ability to report objectively. Look at Greece - all we hear in our media is how the Govt must push through the austerity package blah blah blah but no mention of the fact that people are going to have to start eating grass or some such because they have no money. Or the earthquake and tsunami in Japan - how long did it take for some tit to tell us how much it cost the Japanese economy? Makes you blood boil.
OddDog, this is not a political or economic forum and your comments about Greece illustrate why. Nobody should have any sympathy with Greece, a country where paying taxes has been optional for a long period of time. Since the Eurozone started, the rich northern members have been subsidising the socialist Mediterranean nations but now that times are hard the gravy train has come off the rails. Hitler was not able to conquer Europe with tanks but Deutschland has conquered it financially and is now learning the folly of integration. Greece faces a sustained period of austerity as no country can live on a maxed-out credit card, something that the USA is about to find out. Everybody seems quite happy to blame the banks for everything, but it was not the banks that borrowed money that they could not repay. Those of us that live within our means are aggrieved that we are having to bail out the irresponsible masses.
Fully agree QM, my sympathies lie with the hard working normal people who always end up having to foot the bill for government (or in the case of 2009 bank) folly. On the one hand it's the UK taxpayer paying for another white elephant of an olympic stadium, on the other it's hard working Greeks who are having to tighten their belts because their country has been massively mis-managed. I wouldn't quite blame the banks for everything, but they are a bunch of greedy, unscrupulous people who will stop at nothing to make a buck. Same as the multinational food conglomerates whi I am convinced will one day kill us all with their meddling in the food chain to increase profit. But you're right, this is a horse racing forum
Oddy, for all the tinkering in our food, we've never lived to a longer age. Medicine helps of course, but we can get most of what we need from all this packaged crap. Strange tgat....we live longer, but we're overweight.
Cyc medicine and also life is not as hard for us as it was 150 years ago - much less manual labour and not nearly so much war. Frightens me to death though what they do with the food these days - saw a programme recently (albeit based in the USA) about what they do to chickens - absolutely disgusting. Some towns these days the men have bigger tits than the women
I've noticed a lot of that tit stuff on blokes myself Oddy. I saw a tv show that said one of the reasons was beer. Seems heavy drinkers of suds had a big chance of getting tits. But I think that it's also the weight that a lot of blokes put on. Maybe the hormones are aiding it, who knows.
Erm, Cyclonic, don't think it's beer alone. It's probably basic overweight and the hormone crap that is contained in our modern food? Difficult to say. Remember reading a book by Leslie Thomas "The Virgin Soldiers" (National Service late '40s/'50s served in the then Malaya) where one character had bigger budwangers than a normal female. OddDog: Saw a bit on TV just yesterday on a bunch of psychopaths working in an abattoir in Essex ill-treating pigs (who were doomed anyway) just for fun. Absolutely sickening!
Breasts it seems are mostly fat, so a fatty diet will also pad out men's tits. This is off the wall, but beer contains a natural estrogen found in plants, including hops. It's called 8-Prenylnaringenin. So maybe heaving drinking added to a bad diet will result in men having bigger tits then their women.
To be fair with the amount of steroids she's taking it won't be long before Rebecca Adlington grows one.
