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I REMEMBER MRS THATCHER SAYING WHEN THERE WAS 3 MILLION UNEMPLOYED LETS NOT LOOK AT THE BAD PARTS OF THE FIGURES LETS LOOK AT THE GOOD SIDE OF THE FIGURES AND THOSE THAT ARE EMPLOYED
USEING THIS ANNALAGY YOU COULD SAY LETS NOT LOOK AT THE EMPTY SEATS LETS LOOK AT THE FULL SEATS AND REJOICE |
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WHILE WERE ALL REJOICING LETS ALL PICK UP OUR HYMM BOOKS AND SING ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFULL.ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL
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The jury still out on the effects of Thatcherism , Do wah . Judgement on the legacy will be made by decent historians in about 50 years .
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NOMATTER WHAT FAITH OR RELION YOU ARE ,OR WHAT TYPE OF MUSIC YOU LIKE ,I PROMISE YOU ,YOU WILL FEEL BETTER IF YOU SING IT WITH GUSTO
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KELLY THERE WAS A SONG BY DELL SHANNON CALLED KELLY ,I HOPE YOU HAVE LISTENED TO IT ,AND IF YOUVE NOT ALONG WITH ANYBODY ELSE I WOULD RECOMEND IT TO YOU
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Do Wah - do you like the song written after your name? The manfred mann one?
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FIFA run the world cup totally different to how the IOC runs the Olympics
And 2 hours of football matches at a handful per day isn't the same as loads of sports running all day The last world cup had under 150 hours of action This Olympics 2500 televised hours over a shorter time period |
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YES ,HE NAMED IT AFTER ME WHEN HE MET ME ON CREWE STATION ,WE WERE BOTH TRAIN SPOTTING AND HE TOOK A LIKENING TO ME ,WHEN I GAVE HIM ONE OF MY MAMS BUTTIES THAT SHE HADE MADE ME
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IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF STEAM TRAINS ,I REMEMBER CLEARLY US BOTH JUMPING UP AND DOWN ON PLATFORM 3 WHEN THE STEAM TRAIN PRINCESS ELIZABETH CAME PUFFING PAST
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I LOOKED AT HIM AND HE LOOKED AT ME ,AND HE SAID WHEN I GROW UP AND I HAVE A POP GROUP ,IM GOING TO NAME A RECORD AFTER YOU DO WAH DIDDY ,AS YOU HAVE BROUGHT ME LUCK AS IVE NEVER SEEN ONE OF THE PRINCESS CLASS OF LOCOMOTIVES GO BY BEFORE
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HE NEVER TOLD NO ONE AS HE WAS A POP STAR AND DIDNT WANT TO TELL ANYONE INCASE THEY THOUGHT HE WAS AN ANORAK
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there is a travel agent that still has heaps of tickets at inflated prices as they have hotels tagged onto them
maybe it is their tickets that will be resold, minus £150 a night rooms |
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I've got some rather expensive category A Boxing final tickets which according to the seating plan are tucked away in a corner of the arena furthest away from the ring.
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They've released more tickets for Saturday nights' athletics . You can buy up to 4 tickets for £725 a piece.....might take the wife and kids out for the evening and knock out three large
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Really. I've got tickets for Saturday night but didn't get the price grade I wanted. ****ing jokers. ****ing ****ing jokers.
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£725 a ticket , strewth , you would expect to get on the track for that . Beginning to make some of the golf prices where can actually play on the same courses as the stars seem good value . I can play Royal County Down or Portrush for £20 any day ( with a member ) , different values for everyone entertainment wise obviously .
Way over the top , particularly as very few go on their own , so its £1500 a pop essentially . |
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jeremy hunt now on , what a **** him and coe
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hunt is so smug
anyone tell me what sponsors have paid towards olympics and uk tax payer? |
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Tennis seems the most baffliing one. Event apparently sold out but I've heard reports of loads of empty seats. Checked on centre court earlier and sure enough it was half full at best and we are not just talking prime location empties here, there were gaps around the whole of the seating area.
Yet there are no tennis tickets for sale for any remaining day and you can be sure the pictures for the next few days will show large areas of empty green in the seating. They simply cannot have sold anywhere near enough tickets to fill Wimbledon's capacity. |
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you'll be able to jog round the track in 6 months time, for a few quid, doubtless the muggers will be back so dont go with a full wallet
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the football 1/4 final at st james park is reported to have sold out, 52,000
 but we doubt it has ??? |
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That's because people WITH tickets can't get in!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-19013655 |
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Piss up. Brewery.
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38 year old canadian bought tennis tickets legit, sold 2 for face value £ 50 each, was arrested and spent 2 nights in custody.
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you've all read too many papers.
make out like London is the only Olympics to have some empty seats, do a search on any of the last few olympics and there are always stories about so many empty seats at a few things. Yeah there's things that could be done better but i've seen a lot of full stadium's at plenty of different events so far. |
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Change the Olympic five circles to two fingers, because that is what the organisation do.
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its a shambles
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The events have just about sold out of tickets available to the public. The empty blocks for Olympic people are a contractual requirement of the IOC. There will always be gaps in stands for some events. I missed the first 5 mins of the first hockey match yesterday because there was a 30 minute snaking queue for McDonalds! Your ticket is often for multiple matches so quite a few Argentinians and South Africans only turned up for the second match meaning some empty seats at the first.
At the tennis, tickets are for centre court all day from 12 til matches complete. Most people will not sit and watch every point all day for eight hours. Final point, the criticism of empty seats at previous Olympics has been more about a lack of interest in many sports/sessions. I recall near empty stadia for morning athletics at previous games where as they will be near sell outs at London. The ticketing process wasn't perfect but much of the criticism is over the top. |
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its a shambles
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THEY SHOULD MAKE SOME DUMMIES AND PUT THEM IN THE SEATS UNTILL THINGS PUT UP ,PUT SOMW WITH DIFFERENT COLOURED JUMPERS ON
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AT LEAST YOU DONT HAVE TO DISTURB ANY ONE IF YOU WANT TO GO TO THE TOILET IF YOU SIT ON AN EMPTY ROW
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berto77 30 Jul 12 17:03
The events have just about sold out of tickets available to the public. The empty blocks for Olympic people are a contractual requirement of the IOC. There will always be gaps in stands for some events. I missed the first 5 mins of the first hockey match yesterday because there was a 30 minute snaking queue for McDonalds! Your ticket is often for multiple matches so quite a few Argentinians and South Africans only turned up for the second match meaning some empty seats at the first. At the tennis, tickets are for centre court all day from 12 til matches complete. Most people will not sit and watch every point all day for eight hours. Final point, the criticism of empty seats at previous Olympics has been more about a lack of interest in many sports/sessions. I recall near empty stadia for morning athletics at previous games where as they will be near sell outs at London. The ticketing process wasn't perfect but much of the criticism is over the top. Maybe they should sell tickets per game. Or if people leave early or turn up late they can be shot dead as part of the shooting event.  |
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IF I WAS IN CHARGE I WOULD HAVE FILLED ALL THE STADIUMS WITH DUMMIES AND WE WOULDNT HAVE LOOKED LIKE THE FOOLS WE ARE
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TAKE ALL THE PRISONERS ON A LONG CHAIN AND LET THEM SEE THE VOLLEY BAL ,THEY MIGHT NOT WANT TO COMMIT ANOTHER CRIME IF THEY THINK THEVE GOT TO WATCH THAT
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THIS DIDNT HAPPEN IN CHINA THE SECRET POLICE MADE THE POPULATION WATCH THE OLYMPICES,THEY MADE THEM GET OUT OF BED
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I WOULD HAVE FILLED ALL THE STADIUMS WITH DUMMIES
You and your family could go  |
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Just got back from the handball, and yes right by the half way line there are empty seats, (just the same as at Wembley)..
The rest of the arena was rammed.. Hoping to get some more tickets, but looking at how many people were in the Park, i very much doubt it.. |
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THEY SHOULD MAKE SOME DUMMIES AND PUT THEM IN THE SEATS UNTILL THINGS PUT UP ,PUT SOMW WITH DIFFERENT COLOURED JUMPERS ON
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