The Olympic Games: Athens 2004 (7 Viewers)

[Lilianna]

++ [ originally posted by mikhail ] ++

Anyone ever seen 2DTV on the Beeb? It's a cartoon of sketches. In one of them, they had Bin Laden and two croneys digging under one of the venues.
OBL "Right, by my calculations, we should be under one of the venues now. Let's plant the bomb, and reduce it to rubble"
Lacky <pokes his head up to have a look>"But it's already rubble."
<Greek builder lifts his head just long enough to make a sandwich, before going back to sleep on his box of booze >

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[mikhail]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++
Judging by what you wrote after that, I'd say you'll fit right in

If my humour is wasted on a Dutchman, I hesitate to say I'll be keeping shut in the Fatherland.

MUCH better!

Not when you're waiting for them it's not. Try explaining to a guy that you sold his ticket into the Brazil match instead of waiting for him because you wanted to be there before kickoff.

 

[Slagathor]

Try giving his ticket to the guy at the cash register and telling him the name and description of the person he can give it to.

Be a bit more flexible already!

 

[mikhail]

++ [ originally posted by Lilianna ] ++
hey!

I only wrote what I saw. Write a sarkey letter to the BBC if it annoys you.

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++
Try giving his ticket to the guy at the cash register and telling him the name and description of the person he can give it to.

Cash register? The tickets sold out online in literally two minutes. They were going for about €200 just before kickoff, though I'm not a ripoff merchant, and sold it at face value. :down: Bloody honesty.

 

[Slagathor]

Hahaha damn that was dumb

 

[gray]

My gosh guys, I can't believe this. It turns out that the Athens organising committe conceded that they won't have their venues ready in time, and according to the rules, the 2004 Olympics will be held in Sydney, since that was the venue for the last Olympic games.

Click here for the full story

 

[kaizer]

graham bae......:frown:

i nearly had a heart-attack :down:







is this another april fool's thing

 

[mikhail]

++ [ originally posted by Graham ] ++
My gosh guys, I can't believe this. It turns out that the Athens organising committe conceded that they won't have their venues ready in time, and according to the rules, the 2004 Olympics will be held in Sydney, since that was the venue for the last Olympic games.

Click here for the full story

If that was meant to crash my computer, remove it now. And grow up.

 

[Lilianna]

++ [ originally posted by mikhail ] ++

I only wrote what I saw. Write a sarkey letter to the BBC if it annoys you.


Cash register? The tickets sold out online in literally two minutes. They were going for about €200 just before kickoff, though I'm not a ripoff merchant, and sold it at face value. :down: Bloody honesty.

it bothers me actually that everyone doubts that greeks will be able to organize the olympic games.

 

[mikhail]

++ [ originally posted by Lilianna ] ++
it bothers me actually that everyone doubts that greeks will be able to organize the olympic games.

If they had some stadia built it might take the bad look off it.

 

[Lilianna]

they are doing well...

greek mentality is that:do everyhting at the last minute!

and i am greek to the bones
so-i believe we'll do great!!!

 

[mikhail]

++ [ originally posted by Lilianna ] ++
they are doing well...

They are? Not according to anything I've ever read.

greek mentality is that:do everyhting at the last minute!

Which is it - are they on schedule, or leaving it all to the "last minute"?

and i am greek to the bones
so-i believe we'll do great!!!

Sure. But if anything collapses because of shoddy, rushed worksmanship, guess whose conscience it'll be on.

 

[Lilianna]

nothing's gonna collapse.

i know we will have great olympic games and nothing is going to go wrong...

you'll see

and even here in greece some ppl are saying that the olympica won't success.

stupid ppl....
some ppl can't even support theirselves(through their country)

 

[mikhail]

++ [ originally posted by Lilianna ] ++
some ppl can't even support theirselves(through their country)

I don't care whether the Greeks blindly support their country or not. I'm far more worried that the girders support the roofs. to be blunt Lili, I don't trust your personal opinion on the safty of anything larger than a doll's house. If the stadia aren't going to be done on time, that's one thing, but if they're rushed, it gets a lot more serious.:frown:

 

[Lilianna]

and how can YOU be so sure??

don't you think that between the 2 of us,it's ME who live here and see things from a different point of view and not you??

 

[mikhail]

++ [ originally posted by Lilianna ] ++
and how can YOU be so sure??

don't you think that between the 2 of us,it's ME who live here and see things from a different point of view and not you??

So sure of what? I read what I read. Why you say things like "greek mentality is that:do everyhting at the last minute!" I can only assume that there's some truth.

I don't care if you're camping out in the building sites, it doesn't mean you have any insight into when anything will be completed. Who died and made you forum structural engineer?

 

[Lilianna]

++ [ originally posted by mikhail ] ++

So sure of what? I read what I read. Why you say things like "greek mentality is that:do everyhting at the last minute!" I can only assume that there's some truth.

I don't care if you're camping out in the building sites, it doesn't mean you have any insight into when anything will be completed. Who died and made you forum structural engineer?

yeah!!

and you do... :LOL::LOL:

don't you think you are acting like myster i know it all about athen's olympic games??

greeks are working on that 4 years now and things are going well.
maybe not THAT well,but well enough.

 

[Lawnchair Bes]

man this olympic games are gonna suck.

u should hear what this guy in charge of the preparations said: "we have built a special stadium for weightlifting because it is in weightlifting that we have our best athletes"
:fero::fero::fero:

 

[Lilianna]

here nearly every day our president is talking about those games.

guys,it's IMPOSSIBLE or you to know more than me!!!

don't you get it??

 

[Lawnchair Bes]

well i guess we have to wait and see.

did u hear about the torch?