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Hopefully Danny Boyle will have included the Saturday night chucking out west end bacchanalia vignette in his British panorama - just heard French and German commentators on Nick Ferrari LBC - expresing a certain amount of schadenfreude in Brit transport issues, relief that Paris didn't get the games - methinks it's time to start waving ther flag. A commentor on the Telegraph blog puts the case for quite forcefully ... I believe that there is another rehearsal tonight. It is clear that this will unleash another wave of hysterical diatribes from the curmudgeonly misanthropes who grasp every opportunity to express their contempt and loathing for everything associated with the Olympics. It is also clear that they are expressing far more than contempt and loathing for the Olympics. They hate everybody and everything around them. They hate life - and, above all, they hate themselves. Let us all hope that, for the next few weeks, they do as they say, by completely ignoring the Olympics, but add to that, by staying away from any discussions about the games. For the next few weeks, it would be nice if those of us who - despite having many concerns about the excessive cost, the obscene commercialism, the hubris and all the other negatives, of which there are many - actually take an interest in the Olympics, could be left to enjoy watching the whole world coming together in friendship, in our capital city, and giving us all something to remember for the rest of our lives. While we're enjoying what's on offer, the grumpy gits can amuse themselves with their computer games, self-flagellation (with barbed wire) and photographs of scantily clad schoolgirls. That way, everybody will be happy - alth0ugh I believe our happiness will be much deeper.

For the 27 million pound cost of the opening ceremony we could have had around 500 Irish festivals on Peckham Rye or one Irish Festival 500 times as big - just imagine that it would have been out of this world.

There's a spat between the beeb and Mr Boyle over Huw Edwards helping us with some pionters - can I make a plea for an alternate Graham Norton p*ss take soundtrack for the minority sceptics. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9422502/Danny-Boyle-unhappy-over-plans-for-commentary-over-the-Olympic-opening-ceremony.html

SPOILER ALERT If you can't wait some details here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/2012-london-opening-ceremony-not-secret_n_1695317.html

Great opening ceremony and not a corporate brand in sight - priceless - I like the crisp uniforms and gait of Team GB .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s_K3-FEwQA

Motorways and the Volkswagen Beetle as well - what did Hitler ever do for us..

Roubini says 2013 - enjoy the Olympics and the summer we'll be getting the tab soon.....http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9408062/Nouriel-Roubini-sticks-to-perfect-storm-in-2013-prediction.html

Ok then IC3 male

Thanks for the heads up - will try and get mine before I go.

If only we had done a Denver - they won the Winter Olympics bid for 1976 but once the true costs were revealed they said naa - we'll pass on it - Tessa could have passed them over to France once we done the full reckoning and we could have spent the money saved on essential stuff like hospitals,schools care for the elderly. Having seen the infrastructure unveloping at Greenwich,Wembley,Horse Guards,Straford and Wimbeldon I am staggered by the huge scale of it all - every marquee,tent,toilet,fence,lighting rig , outdoor screen in the country and most probably beyond is there. We'll be paying for this for years and years to come - enjoy it while it lasts. I've got Olympic Park tickets at a tenner for the Tuesday following the opening so will get a chance to marvel at the extravagance up close and personal. http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/millennium/1012stone.shtml

The deal sounds cheap but they are looking for a developer and 50% of the profits for the next 5 years. Suspect they will try for a demo job and a load of flats.

Great outburst of bile here which says it all http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2012/07/16/winning-the-olympic-games-was-a-great-national-disaster-we-have-reduced-ourselves-to-a-state-of-militaristic-paranoia-the-terrorists-have-already-won/

The Dome

Most other agents though will negotiate on fee and lock in period - Foxton's never do.

Same old Foxtons strategy - con greedy owners into thinking their property is worth far more than it is - lock them into a 3 month contract at 2.5% and then as reality dawns on the seller shred the price until it sells. Basically a con on hapless and/or greedy sellers - always amazed anyone falls for it.

Why do the cops bother with them then if they don't mean anything.That said Soho is an eye-watering 5258.

The clue is in the title of the forum - Nunhead's better than ED quips should be reserved for the ever popular Nunhead Forum.

Police Crime Map April 2012 Nunhead - all crime 874 East Dulwich - all crime 446 http://www.police.uk/crime/?q=London,%20Greater%20London%20SE22,%20UK#crimetypes/2012-04 There's a reason why Nunhead is cheaper and that's it - you see a lot of bars and security gates there as well.

Les Dawson in the co-op at Blackpool 1896 looking miserable as sin and giving out intense leave me alone vibes.

Looks like a hoarder with talent. Not very 'Zen'.

Blimey more problems I never knew existed.

Plus the countries most succesfull online community forum - that's another 10% on top.

How do they get their bins emptied?

A mortal sense of loss at not living in ED.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gge9jIXW9ro&feature=plcp