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Fuck that shit.

This whole Olympic torch thing is pissing me off.

One of my school mates is going to be a torch bearer

So the torch is the best thing ever, fact.

Just the Olympic torch thing? the whole thing is pissing me off, everywhere you go its Olympics this Olympics that, fuck off

must be a hoax - would anyone bid £100,000 and then go for the 33 day economy delivery option

Anyone fancy butting in a £5,000,000 bid?

In case your wondering, it's nothing to do with me

Perhaps they haven't done their little run yet

That's mental - our gym manager is carrying the torch on Wed - he's actually very proud & excited to be nominated - you have to pay £200 to keep your torch though!!

It's the whole Olympic thing. Yes it's good for the country but everywhere I turn it's Olympic this olympic that.

I'm awaiting for someone to complain that they find all the union jack flags racially offensive.

You'd better tell him it's worth spending the £200.

If he doesn't want it...

I'm surprised nobody has said it's a health & safety issue carrying a flame through the streets yet.

Is this the women who was on the BBC this morning.

To be fair to her she got the gig because of her charity work, and the proceeds of selling her torch are going to the charity she had set up.

If someone is stupid enough to pay over £150k for a torch, then fair enough.

I'm looking forward to the Olympics, I don't religiously watch it, but I will watch a fair bit of this one.

Miserable bunch of bastards.

Also, if someone is willing to pay £100-£150K for a torch then fair play to the seller I say.

So does every torch bearer get their own torch

Yes, at the cost of £215!

A small price to pay if you can sell for £150,000

http://newsthump.com/2012/05/21/shock-as-public-discovers-that-olympic-torch-bearers-quite-like-money/

so 8,000 torches at £500 a go - thats £4m.

Why don't they just have one which they pass around and spend a little bit more on the opening ceremony rather than having Steve Redgrave and Paula Radcliffe dressed as clowns holding sparklers ?

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/9718089.Chelsea_star_Didier_Drogba_to_carry_torch_through_town/

Good to see a local hero doing the honours.

Maybe we have offered him the 2 year contract he is after.

Just a thought, but maybe they don't cost £500 each to make? (Wherever you plucked that figure from)

Maybe Di Canio should pop down to wharf green for an informal chat on Wednesday. Got to be worth a punt.

It was in the article on the beeb.

Olympic organisers Locog defended the cost at the time, saying a torch costs £495 to make and it was subsidising the price.

Why the fuck are drogba and will i am doing it?

Sponsors of the torch relay can nominate people to do it, and as Samsung are one of the sponsors I guess they nominated Drogba, whilst will i am was nominated by Coke.

Your wait is over my son!

I reckon those flags were stiched using the best stichers going in India.  Wheres our recognition Lord Coe and the rest of the glory hogging cunts!

Don't suggest that. Given his past record he'll start off jogging alongside Drogba and end up doing a Forest Gump all over the UK. 

 :D

He'll be at the olympic stadium lighting the flame and then taking on Usain Bolt before you know it.

On the BBC website so must be true  :D

Oh dear:

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Gotta love the heavies with the shades and beer guts

Wasnt going to take the kids out of school for half a day just to look at some local 3 legged gymnast run past me with something akin to a torch used in a witch hunt in medieval times, now its Drogba, i might even treat them to a Greggs

That's the Metropolitan Police heavies with beer guts !!

When did he stop doing the Premier Inn adverts?

How does the whole Olympic torch relay work? I've seen there are just normal members of the public carrying it but where does someone like Drogba get involved? Do they all take it for a bit then hand it over?

The bloke isn't even British!!

Neither of them are, Seb Coe checked and the only Brit they had available was Lionel Blair

I'm really starting to hate all this olympic bollocks.

To be fair it is the people constantly moaning about it that are just as annoying.I imagine the people getting bored of it now know how non footy fans feel when the euros or world cup is on.

It's a once in a lifetime event! Embrace it, or ignore it. Don't belittle it

We saw it in Plymouth friday.

Had "Twist And Pulse" and Labrinth.


Twist and pulse awkwardly talked to the crowd then took a photo on a samsung phone.

Labrinth was shit.

3 songs then fucked off! Much better when I saw him at oceana a few weeks ago, though I was more drunk then...

Then the torch was a good 20 mins late. Bloke hosting was obviously filling and it got annoying so we just took the piss constantly. :)

I have a torch for sale! I am open to hefty offers (batteries will be included).

The torch is being carried through Calne tomorrow - luckily I will be at work.

I am half expecting the ducking stool to be set up in Doctors Pond  :)

I'm not anti Olympics.
I'm anti rip off ticket prices.
I'm anti a diving cheating african footballer who plays(or did) for a London club and with nothing to do with our town carrying the torch here.
I'm anti a stupid yank prick musician who dresses like a black Buck Rogers running through a somerset town with it.
It's turned into a fucking joke and not what i think it should be about.

 :D

Other 'celebrities' rumoured to be torch carrying tomorrow, probably that arse Jonathan Wilkes. Anyone know where Drogba will be running/falling over?

THIS!

I see Josh McEachran is carrying the torch in Calne.  I hadn't realised that Wiltshire was such a Chelsea hotbed.

In Cheltenham we get Zara Philips and her horse, but at least she lives here  ::)

Drogba will live in Swindon soon

Only in Swindon can someone try and 'nick' the torch.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I went to watch my friend who is the gym manager at work do his bit with the torch in Wottoon Bassett on Wednesday and I really enjoyed it - it was kind of emotional

Since then Everytime I've been into work there's been a queue of People lining up to have their picture taken with him!

The lloyds bus was photographing everyone on the route, you can view and tag yourself via facebook, in theory  www.facebook.com/lloydstsblondon2012 . Can't get it to work here.