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timark_uk
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm Posts: 12144 Location: Belfast
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... es-twitterIn short, I don't think we needed or wanted the Olympics and what's came with it 
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timark_uk
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm Posts: 12144 Location: Belfast
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Oi, Belfast boy. *laugh* Mark
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Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:21 pm |
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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I'm as British as the weather 
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Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:25 pm |
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm Posts: 5664 Location: Scotland
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going by mass size yes  *quickly grabbing coat* 
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Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:35 am |
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm Posts: 7173
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I can't wait until the Olympics leave Cardiff for good. It's gone mad here, and not in a good way. Police everywhere, security checkpoints, metal detectors, airport-style baggage scanners outside all of the hotels, military helicopters patrolling the airspace over the city. Utter madness. 
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Wed Jul 25, 2012 11:57 am |
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bobbdobbs
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:10 pm Posts: 5490 Location: just behind you!
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Remember it was only going to cost 3.5 billion.
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Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:39 pm |
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belchingmatt
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri May 15, 2009 3:16 am Posts: 6146 Location: Middle Earth
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And only London taxpayers are contributing for London 2012. Nothing to worry about in Cardiff what so ever.
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Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:44 pm |
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm Posts: 17040
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I did laugh when they claimed it had come in 'under budget' when in fact that turned out to mean 'actually came in four times over what we initially budgeted and even then we spent more than our final budget estimate but we didn't spend all our contingency fund'.
And of course even that didn't include paying all the extra police and armed forces personnel they've suddenly found they need...
Jon
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Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:46 pm |
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MrStevenRogers
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:44 pm Posts: 4860
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+++1 in spades and then the cost after the 'games' ...
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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You're wet and miserable? 
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Wed Jul 25, 2012 7:41 pm |
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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What I do in my own time... 
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Wed Jul 25, 2012 9:27 pm |
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oceanicitl
Official forum cat lady
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:04 am Posts: 11039 Location: London
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