Sport (fuck) The Olympics

[Lamp]

The G4S fiasco. What a fuck up. The Government pays £280,000,000 to G4S and tells them "Hire loads of security folk for the Olympics". G4S says "OK" and pockets the money. Guess what? 2 weeks till the start of the Olympics and G4S are 10,000 ppl short. So the government are having to use 3,500 soldiers from the army to fill in. Great Britain. Pff. Great Cock Up.

And G4S are paying each security guard £8 an hour. For what? 6 weeks work? They charge the government £30,000 per guard. You do the maths. First rule of G4S: pay the director bonuses first, then the grunts.

We should have given the Olympics to a retarded muppet. Oh wait....

 

[caLLous]

Last i heard the other day it actually came in under budget... But i don't know if that was under the "revised" budget our not

If I recall correctly, the original budget (y'know, when they actually won the bid and did... a budget) was £2.something billion*. This budget was then revised gradually all the way up to £9bn* and then the final cost was £7.something bn*. So they're all patting themselves on the back saying they came in under budget but it's actually more like "no hang on chaps, you've actually spent 3* times as much as you originally said you would".

*all ballpark figures because I cba to find the actual ones.

 

[Embattle]

Wasn't that the planned budget a few years back and aren't they now approaching double that ( give or take an odd billion hidden away in someone elses budget)?

£2.4bn -> £9.3bn

 

[Litmus]

Lol how do people keep there jobs when they so fuck an estimate up like that amazes me... Even more scary most of them run the country.


i know if i made a mistake like that in my job, i would lose it.

 

[Deebs]

Started to notice that my journey to the City of London is taking on a new face, in the morning it is not so bad, I get to Waterloo around 6.54am, jump on The Drain (Waterloo and City Line) to Bank, then one stop to Liverpool St Station. At work by 7.10am. On the way home is another matter, the tube is now getting fucking packed and the trains home are getting busier, also the trains into Waterloo are full of people coming from the Farnborough Air Show. I cannot fucking wait for September to arrive.

 

[sayward]

My son has tickets to the hockey. On a Sunday morning at 8.30. How the devil is he supposed to get there? No trains from here that time at the weekend.

 

[Deebs]

My son has tickets to the hockey. On a Sunday morning at 8.30. How the devil is he supposed to get there? No trains from here that time at the weekend.

Walk? Actually knowing our Summer, by canoe?

 

[sayward]

Bit far to walk! South coast to the Olympic stadium?

 

[Lamp]

Train up the night before, stay in a travelodge

 

[cHodAX]

Train up the night before, stay in a travelodge

Or under a bridge like most of the security staff and wardens!

 

[Deebs]

Or under a bridge like most of the security staff and wardens!

Or Lamp

 

[cHodAX]

The tourists will fuck off back home if they run into Lamp under a bridge!

 

[Lamp]

There will be more troops at the Olympics games than currently in Afghanistan.

 

[Raven]

It's turning into the farce that was expected.

Can't wait for the starting ceremony to descend into chaos with all the sheep and chickens running about in a blind panic, shitting all over the place.

 

[Lamp]

Oh it'll get better

- Tube train overcrowding resulting in stations closing
- Roads clogged due to road works, banned turns, road closures, and the zil lanes
- It will rain everyday until September. By which time its Autumn, which means rain until December.
- Flooding on the Central Line. Thames Water have failed to repair leaking pipes. They've only had 7 years to prepare for it
- Athletes Village will become flooded with sewage. Several competitors receive strange bites in the night...
- The opening ceremony will be a farce. Will look like the Marx Brothers taking over the asylum.
- A large group of Italian tourists, who were accidentally let into the kitchens by incompetent security staff, fell into the sausage mincer and were served to ticket-holders.
- The missiles on apartment roofs in East London were actually large Chinese fireworks.
- Bits of the stadium were found to be incomplete, but no one had the guts to report it
- Immigration, now sponsored by Paddy Power, fail to let Usain Bolt into the country.
- Someone forgot to fill the swimming pool with water. The high diving is a catastrophe.

 

[Ormorof]

Retard. The transport infrastructure is alright for what it needs to do: carry the residents and expected number of visitors every day. Why would we ever build a transport system that can scale up to an event that happens less than every 30-40 years? Total waste of money. It's a few weeks, man the fuck up and be happy that all these tourists that arrive will be in hotels, renting cars, buying food, buying tat from shops, buying tickets and generally pissing their money up our wall.

have you ever been on a commuter train? there was an article in the metro a few years back that stated that if it was cattle rather than people it would be illegal under EU law to pack them that close

Im just glad i no longer work in london

 

[Raven]

I used to travel through London every weekend 10-15 years ago, it was hell then and from recent experience it has got worse. Hellish experience.

 

[cHodAX]

Oh it'll get better

- Tube train overcrowding resulting in stations closing
- Roads clogged due to road works, banned turns, road closures, and the zil lanes
- It will rain everyday until September. By which time its Autumn, which means rain until December.
- Flooding on the Central Line. Thames Water have failed to repair leaking pipes. They've only had 7 years to prepare for it
- Athletes Village will become flooded with sewage. Several competitors receive strange bites in the night...
- The opening ceremony will be a farce. Will look like the Marx Brothers taking over the asylum.
- A large group of Italian tourists, who were accidentally let into the kitchens by incompetent security staff, fell into the sausage mincer and were served to ticket-holders.
- The missiles on apartment roofs in East London were actually large Chinese fireworks.
- Bits of the stadium were found to be incomplete, but no one had the guts to report it
- Immigration, now sponsored by Paddy Power, fail to let Usain Bolt into the country.
- Someone forgot to fill the swimming pool with water. The high diving is a catastrophe.

Lets just hope the missiles go wrong and all hit Upton Park!

 

[cHodAX]

Don't know how you people living down there 'do' London. As much as I adore all the great places to go, the great bars and incredible places to eat I just cannot handle how busy or impersonal the place is. Getting around can be such an arse and for the next month or so it is going to be brutal for millions. Really feel for those of you with families who are going to have time with the wife/kids just stolen away from you.

 

[CorNokZ]

If it is not the winter olympics, then why give a fuck? The regular olympics suck arse! The only thing I usually watch is the men's 100m sprint. I'll probably also watch some Phelp's Domination, but besides that I am not gonna bother wasting my time watching prune women prance around on horseback, a very slender man run 42km, a chinese girl toss a ball up in the air and catching it again or some brute Ukranian bastards throw a really heavy ball 10metres down a grassy field

 

[Aada]

Don't know how you people living down there 'do' London. As much as I adore all the great places to go, the great bars and incredible places to eat I just cannot handle how busy or impersonal the place is. Getting around can be such an arse and for the next month or so it is going to be brutal for millions. Really feel for those of you with families who are going to have time with the wife/kids just stolen away from you.

This, we went to London on our honeymoon last August and we couldn't wait to get back on the train home 3 days later, too many foreign people and it just feels over crowded.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Being a Londoner is a bit of a special feeling though. We're a top breed.

 

[Raven]

London is chock full of ignorant cunts but then so are most cities. Give me the rural north any day.

 

[Aada]

Give me a house in the middle of nowhere with decent broadband and i'll be fine.

 

[eksdee]

This, we went to London on our honeymoon last August and we couldn't wait to get back on the train home 3 days later, too many foreign people and it just feels over crowded.

LOL.

 

[Aada]

LOL.

 

[Chilly]

He wasnt laughing with you.

Also, London is fine. You dont HAVE to live in places served by the worst tube lines. I live near three tube lines and can get into central london in 20m and always get a seat. Benefits = 99% downsides = 1%.

 

[Aada]

He wasnt laughing with you.

Also, London is fine. You dont HAVE to live in places served by the worst tube lines. I live near three tube lines and can get into central london in 20m and always get a seat. Benefits = 99% downsides = 1%.

Nah London isn't fine, if it was i wouldn't have said what i said would i?

It was dirty, too many foreign people, ignorant people oh and the people riding bikes was just fucking dangerous sometimes, a few times we crossed the road on a green man and a cunt on a bike comes wizzing through shouting for us to get out of the road, my response? a very loud FUCK OFF.

 

[rynnor]

Being a North Londoner is a bit of a special feeling though. We're a top breed.

Fixed that for you

 

[DaGaffer]

Lol how do people keep there jobs when they so fuck an estimate up like that amazes me... Even more scary most of them run the country.


i know if i made a mistake like that in my job, i would lose it.

3x cost overrun is par for the course in the public sector; the Dome, the M25 widening plan, the disastrous NHS patient database, pretty much every military procurement in the last 50 years, you name it. Its all a game. Every company feeding at the public sector trough knows they have to make the lowest bid, hides the true costs because they know that, a. whichever public department is doing the procurement will keep changing their minds about the spec, which is always a good way to stuff in more costs, b. they don't even have to finish a project to get paid, because any company that puts in penalty clauses will offset that against the bid price, so they will never be "cheapest", so won't get the bid, and c. a new government will probably change everything again anyway. This isn't just a UK thing; the only democratic country that seems to manage public sector projects even slightly well is France, usually by being very undemocratic about it...