metalangel wrote:
Don't forget Cardiff. Used to handling big matches but with the added security and exclusion zones there's a whole new layer of hassle and inconvenience.
Also: Glasgow. Some matches are being held in Hampden which is round the corner from me. I don't drive so I'm not bothered about any parking bullshit they bring in and as long as it doesn't impact train services at all then it should be business as usual.
Pundabaya wrote:
Dressage, I'm looking at you, with your complete lack of action, and arbitrary winners and losers.
Didn't all the equestrian sports sell out ages ago?
Although I totally agree with you. They should replace it with polo.
Squirt wrote:
Looks like women's boxing is the only new event.
Would that be hot? I can't decide if that would be hot.
I am leaning towards nay...
KovacsC wrote:
I am leaning towards nay...
If that's a response to the dressage stuff, then good work.
Bamba wrote:
metalangel wrote:
Don't forget Cardiff. Used to handling big matches but with the added security and exclusion zones there's a whole new layer of hassle and inconvenience.
Also: Glasgow. Some matches are being held in Hampden which is round the corner from me. I don't drive so I'm not bothered about any parking bullshit they bring in and as long as it doesn't impact train services at all then it should be business as usual.
Scotland Today had as a main headline last night the fact that Strathclyde Police will be called upon to provide extra security as a result of the G4S situation. My girlfriend is a cop with Strathclyde Police, she didn't look too chuffed when I repeated the story to her.
I used to live next to Hampden as well, in Kingspark as it happens.
Kern wrote:
Needs an egg and spoon race. Followed by a sack race.
I think the sack race has already started.
Gilly wrote:
My girlfriend is a cop with Strathclyde Police, she didn't look too chuffed when I repeated the story to her.
What is it with Scottish female police officers being little petite things? There's one in my bike club and she's also got a very small frame.
metalangel wrote:
Gilly wrote:
My girlfriend is a cop with Strathclyde Police, she didn't look too chuffed when I repeated the story to her.
What is it with Scottish female police officers being little petite things? There's one in my bike club and she's also got a very small frame.
When my gf finished her training, we went to her passing out parade at the police college. Afterwards, we passed a family who were there for their son who was easily over 6'. As my gf walked past them to get to us, we overheard the father make a comment about her small frame and how it was ridiculous she had been allowed in. I didn't let it bother me though because although small, she is bloody strong and I think that it actually helps calm down some threatening situations when the cop is a fairly small female. In the instances that it doesn't calm down, she is more than capable of holding her own.
They actually do some sort of strength test when they are going through the entrance exams, with a push-pull machine. From what I've heard, a lot of the females and a fair share of the males struggle with it first time. My gf managed first time. I'm not really sure where she hides her muscles?!
Ignore me if this is too personal, but did she have any trouble because she's gay, like they used to (and doubtless still do) in the army?
Gilly wrote:
Scotland Today had as a main headline last night the fact that Strathclyde Police will be called upon to provide extra security as a result of the G4S situation. My girlfriend is a cop with Strathclyde Police, she didn't look too chuffed when I repeated the story to her.
I used to live next to Hampden as well, in Kingspark as it happens.
I used to live next to Hampden as well, in Kingspark as it happens.
I hope they'll at least get wads of over-time for it which might make a bullshit situation more palatable for the poor police that get pulled into it.
And we're on Battlefield Road, up right near the train bridge if that means anything to you.
Gilly wrote:
metalangel wrote:
Gilly wrote:
My girlfriend is a cop with Strathclyde Police, she didn't look too chuffed when I repeated the story to her.
What is it with Scottish female police officers being little petite things? There's one in my bike club and she's also got a very small frame.
When my gf finished her training, we went to her passing out parade at the police college. Afterwards, we passed a family who were there for their son who was easily over 6'. As my gf walked past them to get to us, we overheard the father make a comment about her small frame and how it was ridiculous she had been allowed in. I didn't let it bother me though because although small, she is bloody strong and I think that it actually helps calm down some threatening situations when the cop is a fairly small female. In the instances that it doesn't calm down, she is more than capable of holding her own.
They actually do some sort of strength test when they are going through the entrance exams, with a push-pull machine. From what I've heard, a lot of the females and a fair share of the males struggle with it first time. My gf managed first time. I'm not really sure where she hides her muscles?!
Possibly the same place that hawt paralympic rower does... SEXY MAGIC!
I think you're right about it calming things down a bit, there are some similar petite train guards around here and they get much less shit than the big brawny boyo guards when it all kicks off.
Besides, the world needs more hot blonde Scottish policewomen.
Still say pro-wrestling would be the best Olympic sport. And they should replace 'modern' pentathlon with Military Pentathlon, which is the same idea but brought up to date.
I reckon they should have Street Fighter 2.
No, really.
No, really.
Pundabaya wrote:
They should bin all the sports that aren't spectator friendly.
That would mean getting rid of the shooting events, so I'll have to disagree with you on that just out of principle
Craster wrote:
Squirt wrote:
Looks like women's boxing is the only new event.
Would that be hot? I can't decide if that would be hot.
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Grim...'s Mum wrote:
Yes
Interesting...
The tickets do sell out - you only have to look at Manchester 2002 to see that. But then the tickets were priced to fill venues, as the Council that built all these venues did so because it was a long term investment and there was no need to try and recoup the costs all in one go. IIRC, I paid £5 for diving, £10 for table tennis (which is fucking brilliant to watch and we tried to get Olympic tickets for) £10 for rugby sevens and Mrs P got a day of gymnastics for £15. I think Closing Ceremony tickets were £60.
And the Games made a profit. Which is why the bloke who organised them is doing quite a bit with LOCOG, but is clearly shoved aside for Seb Coes vanity project.
God, that was a brilliant two weeks to be in Manchester. Favourite moment was the entire Commonwealth Stadium going bananas when Niue scored in the rugby sevens. It was full of the Home Nations, plus plenty of Aussies and Kiwis giving it some banter. When this tiny island scored a try the stadium went ballistic. The players themselves stood around for a second just looking at the crowd, which was about 20 times the entire population of their island. At the Closing Ceremony, the players walked around with a homemade banner saying "Thank you people of Manchester".
And the Games made a profit. Which is why the bloke who organised them is doing quite a bit with LOCOG, but is clearly shoved aside for Seb Coes vanity project.
God, that was a brilliant two weeks to be in Manchester. Favourite moment was the entire Commonwealth Stadium going bananas when Niue scored in the rugby sevens. It was full of the Home Nations, plus plenty of Aussies and Kiwis giving it some banter. When this tiny island scored a try the stadium went ballistic. The players themselves stood around for a second just looking at the crowd, which was about 20 times the entire population of their island. At the Closing Ceremony, the players walked around with a homemade banner saying "Thank you people of Manchester".
Grim... wrote:
Ignore me if this is too personal, but did she have any trouble because she's gay, like they used to (and doubtless still do) in the army?
Nope, all about diversity these days. She hasn't had a single problem since she joined. In fact, one of the interview questions asks about how you would handle a domestic between a homesexual couple to try and weed out homophobic applicants.
Bamba wrote:
I hope they'll at least get wads of over-time for it which might make a bullshit situation more palatable for the poor police that get pulled into it.
And we're on Battlefield Road, up right near the train bridge if that means anything to you.
And we're on Battlefield Road, up right near the train bridge if that means anything to you.
Yeah, a bit of overtime for her sounds good to me! I know roughly where you are, aye. I stayed just off Aikenhead Road for about six months.
metalangel wrote:
Possibly the same place that hawt paralympic rower does... SEXY MAGIC!
I think you're right about it calming things down a bit, there are some similar petite train guards around here and they get much less shit than the big brawny boyo guards when it all kicks off.
Besides, the world needs more hot blonde Scottish policewomen.
I think you're right about it calming things down a bit, there are some similar petite train guards around here and they get much less shit than the big brawny boyo guards when it all kicks off.
Besides, the world needs more hot blonde Scottish policewomen.
She certainly does have more than her fair share of sexy magic. I couldn't possibly comment on any other hot blonde Scottish policewomen though
Plissken wrote:
At the Closing Ceremony, the players walked around with a homemade banner saying "Thank you people of Manchester".
Brilliant!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18899474
I've also heard that they can only run three car trains on the line to Weymouth as the ancient third rail electrification can't supply enough power for a longer train.
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Strikes by drivers at East Midlands Trains have been planned for three days during the London 2012 Olympics in a row over pensions.
I've also heard that they can only run three car trains on the line to Weymouth as the ancient third rail electrification can't supply enough power for a longer train.
The last sentence of this just tickled me.
Watching this thing about Bradley Wiggins on ITV4 at the moment, and I'm starting to get really excited about this.
I wish I'd booked the whole 2 weeks off work, just to watch as much as I can.
REALLY EXCITED!
COME ON TEAM GB!
WOOHOO
Malc
I wish I'd booked the whole 2 weeks off work, just to watch as much as I can.
REALLY EXCITED!
COME ON TEAM GB!
WOOHOO
Malc
I keep reading the title of this thread as "Ooooooooooh... The Olympics!", like a radio jingle.
Me too. Like "Ooh Gary Davies", to be precise.
MaliA wrote:
Almost worth making a ton of Twatter accounts just to drag it down.
DavPaz wrote:
I keep reading the title of this thread as "Ooooooooooh... The Olympics!", like a radio jingle.
Me too
Although it is obviously a triumph of ingenuity to get the olympic rings in the title, the person who did that was a genius.
Trooper wrote:
DavPaz wrote:
I keep reading the title of this thread as "Ooooooooooh... The Olympics!", like a radio jingle.
Me too
Although it is obviously a triumph of ingenuity to get the olympic rings in the title, the person who did that was a genius.
You know it doesn't work in the default branding, right?
[edit]STYLE!
Grim... wrote:
Trooper wrote:
DavPaz wrote:
I keep reading the title of this thread as "Ooooooooooh... The Olympics!", like a radio jingle.
Me too
Although it is obviously a triumph of ingenuity to get the olympic rings in the title, the person who did that was a genius.
You know it doesn't work in the default branding, right?
[edit]STYLE!
It also doesn't work every time someone replies to the thread.
Doesn't stop the genius though,
Wait, i'm on subsilver2, isn't that the default? It works on that?
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Yeah, that's what I meant about it being broken every time someone responds
It works if none of you fuckers use the thread.
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It doesn't work at all - the rings should be interlinked.
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Ohhhh, you guys are on shitty windows boxes with crappy fonts and browsers aren't you?
Sucks to be you guys.
Sucks to be you guys.
Typical Mac user. I'm fine, fuck you all.
I would point out the obvious difference in quality of the font rendering, but you Windows guys won't be able to notice it, with your crappy display rendering, pidgy little eyes and incredibly low IQs.
ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
Yeah, it works great on a Mac. 
Zardoz wrote:
Yeah, it works great on a Mac.
"It also doesn't work every time someone replies to the thread."
Trooper wrote:
Ohhhh, you guys are on shitty windows boxes with crappy fonts and browsers aren't you?
Clearly only a Mac user could have pulled off that piece of design
Ooh! That reminds me about a question I had!
These retina display Macs - can you turn the resolution down on them? If not, don't they make designing things for a normal computer screen rather difficult?
Trooper wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
Yeah, it works great on a Mac.
"It also doesn't work every time someone replies to the thread."
The
is aimed at the person who didn't take that into account to start with, right? Try it now fuckers!
Grim... wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
Yeah, it works great on a Mac.
"It also doesn't work every time someone replies to the thread."
The
is aimed at the person who didn't take that into account to start with, right?I did, I spent ages on it, and had to make a choice between the aesthetic of the new post versus the read thread, took me hours to decide.
ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
Grim... wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Ohhhh, you guys are on shitty windows boxes with crappy fonts and browsers aren't you?
Clearly only a Mac user could have pulled off that piece of design
Ooh! That reminds me about a question I had!
These retina display Macs - can you turn the resolution down on them? If not, don't they make designing things for a normal computer screen rather difficult?
They usually run in a fake resolution, 4 pixels for one pixel, so they are still technically 1440*900 (or whatever)
Trooper wrote:
They usually run in a fake resolution, 4 pixels for one pixel, so they are still technically 1440*900 (or whatever)
I... don't see the point.
DavPaz wrote:
Trooper wrote:
They usually run in a fake resolution, 4 pixels for one pixel, so they are still technically 1440*900 (or whatever)
I... don't see the point.
Because you can't see the pixels anymore, and aliasing is no longer an issue.
Just look at one and you will understand.
Trooper wrote:
DavPaz wrote:
Trooper wrote:
They usually run in a fake resolution, 4 pixels for one pixel, so they are still technically 1440*900 (or whatever)
I... don't see the point.
Because you can't see the pixels anymore, and aliasing is no longer an issue.
Just look at one and you will understand.
No point with these Windows user's eyes, surely?
Edit: And if you can see the pixels, you're sitting too close.
OLYMPICS!
DavPaz wrote:
Trooper wrote:
DavPaz wrote:
Trooper wrote:
They usually run in a fake resolution, 4 pixels for one pixel, so they are still technically 1440*900 (or whatever)
I... don't see the point.
Because you can't see the pixels anymore, and aliasing is no longer an issue.
Just look at one and you will understand.
No point with these Windows user's eyes, surely?
AE could. With his super eyesight and hyper acute hearing, I'm beginning to think he was bitten by a radioactive owl.
The amount of time I spend worrying about font aliasing et al when using a computer for day to day stuff : 0 seconds.
Amount of money I would be willing to spend to sort this problem: £0.
Great marketing, but I really don't see the point in usage terms.
Amount of money I would be willing to spend to sort this problem: £0.
Great marketing, but I really don't see the point in usage terms.