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      CommentAuthorblueshead
    • CommentTimeMar 16th 2008
     
    Boycott the Beijing Olympics..

    Because It's the right thing to do.....
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      CommentAuthorflak
    • CommentTimeMar 16th 2008
     
    Boycott? But this is the perfect time to open China's eyes.

    Imagine how much security they're going to need to keep all of those people from hearing about things like Tiananmen Square.
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      CommentAuthormick
    • CommentTimeMar 16th 2008
     
    "Because It's the right thing to do....." and because

    1) i'm not going and....

    2) no tv

    :) will that do?

    what excuse will do to boycott the Vancouver Olympics? i've a list, if anyone cares/needs one.

    x
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      CommentAuthorblueshead
    • CommentTimeMar 16th 2008
     
    mick said..."Because It's the right thing to do....." and because

    1) i'm not going and....

    2) no tv

    :) will that do?

    what excuse will do to boycott the Vancouver Olympics? i've a list, if anyone cares/needs one.

    x


    Mick.. This is China, Not Canada.. I think a big difference..
    • CommentAuthormondo
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2008
     
    Montreal is probably still trying to recover after 1976; you don't want Vancouver going the same way..!
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      CommentAuthorchicken
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2008
     
    The oppression of Tibet = B.A.D.

    Waterboarding, Taser-Deaths & connecting Saddam to 9/11= G.O.O.D

    ok :)
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      CommentAuthorchris
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2008
     
    everyone sucks, the olympics are a sham. i pity the athletes. well, only the ones that aren't taking performance enhancing drugs.
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      CommentAuthormick
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2008
     
    Blues'.. old pal.. ;) i know they're both "C" words.

    seriously.. what are you going to do?

    myself, i'll encourage the 2 aquaintances i know on the Canadian Olympic Team not to go. sadly, as they're a skier and a snowboarder, they weren't going anyway.

    the next time the Dalai Lama visits his pals on the farm (posh zen buddhist retreat) up the road from here, we'll all give him a bunch of money for TIbet again. that's something anyway, i guess.


    and yeah.. the Olympics is big biz, and aside from some fine athletes it is a sham. i don't expect much good to come from the Vancouver hosting; there's some jobs right now, but the city's going to take a long time to recover. they budgeted a certain amount for infrastructure improvements, etc. that's already something like 800% over what was set and allocated, and there's no backing out now. London's turn to eat it soon, too.
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    Not looking forward to the London Olympics. Apart from the fact that the sign for it crap, it's going to turn out to be a big England patriot thing. And I detest that. I know I was raised and live in Scotland, but I still consider myself British to a certain extent. And I don;t bash on about Scotland being great that much. It is by the way.
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      CommentAuthorchicken
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2008 edited
     
    chris said...everyone sucks, ...

    exactly :) so let's not go and point our fingers at others while booing and hissing when the sunshine don't shine out of our local politicians arse :D
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      CommentAuthorzippie
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2008
     
    Idiosyncratic said...it's going to turn out to be a big England patriot thing
    that's so not happening or going to happen. it's about london dammit! ;)

    but in reality it'll be about britain because the team will be british not english...
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    That's like saying Murray is British.
    He's not by the way, he's Scottish, and proud of it. Hence the cap.
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      CommentAuthorchris
    • CommentTimeMar 25th 2008
     


    did somebody just throw a truncheon into my head, repeatedly?
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    Read about the protests in France at the lighting of the torch. Really powerful flag of the olympic symbol in handcuffs. See if I can find a picture.



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      CommentAuthormick
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     
    there've been a few small protests in this area, but as far as any real impact, it still comes down to petitioning your MP/congressman/national political representative. my government and the neighbouring US govt are making all the right noises but not actually leaning on China.

    there was a fundraiser, but don't ask me where the money's going. riot helmets for Shaolin monks?
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      CommentAuthorzippie
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     
    Idiosyncratic said...Read about the protests in France at the lighting of the torch. Really powerful flag of the olympic symbol in handcuffs. See if I can find a picture.





    Me thinks you mean Greece? :)

    I really doubt any politician will in the end use the olympics as any sort of bargaining tool with the Chinese now. China is needed for economic reasons, so its kind of it'd be nice if they behaved but we can ignore it if need be syndrome.
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      CommentAuthorsunk
    • CommentTimeMar 27th 2008
     
    dsddsd
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      CommentAuthorzippie
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2008
     
    the olympic torch e event n london is a farce!
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      CommentAuthorbaseisdead
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2008 edited
     
    the olympic torch event in london is a farce!
    the olympic torch event in london is a farce!
    the olympic[s] torch event in london is a farce!
    the olympic torch event n london is a farce!
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      CommentAuthorchris
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2008 edited
     
    does this link work? that was quite funny in a bad way - all we need now is rioting, looting, zombies and a great soundtrack to the apocalypse! :D
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      CommentAuthormick
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2008 edited
     
    i had to "launch the stand-alone player".. QT.

    only 2000, eh? that's not many for London.

    500 police, tho'. no shortage, there.

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      CommentAuthorchris
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2008
     
    mick said...only 2000, eh? that's not many for London.


    most people were breaking into houses, stealing from shops and mugging old people for their pension money ;)

    mick said...500 police, tho'. no shortage, there.
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      CommentAuthoram
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2008
     
    lol :)
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      CommentAuthorflak
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2008
     
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      CommentAuthorflak
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2008
     

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