anyone else a bit pissed of that the frogs put the flame out and we didn't.on the protest stakes franch 1 - Engalnd nil!
i was actully giving serious thought to going to this but had other commintets which i couldn't get out of. I have a tibetan client and he's been filling me in on the subject which is turelly shit.
It's true the French know how to protest properly. When they go on strike there's barricades and stuff on fire and stuff and they actually win stuff every now and again.
Over here four old blokes stand around a brazier for a couple of hours and then piss off home.
What I hadn't realised is that this was the first year that this international relay bollocks has gone on. Usually the torch is taken straight from the last games venue to the new one.
What fucking bright spark thought "Oh China that's an uncontroversial choice of host, I'm sure we could take an element of the opening ceremony for this games to a variety of locations around the world without it provoking too much trouble".
Dicks!