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« Reply #15 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 12:40:19 » |
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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 |
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« Reply #16 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 12:42:07 » |
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« Reply #17 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 12:47:11 » |
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Yes, at the cost of £215!
A small price to pay if you can sell for £150,000
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 ? |
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« Reply #18 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 16:23:38 » |
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« Reply #19 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 16:27:12 » |
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Maybe we have offered him the 2 year contract he is after. |
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we've been to Aberdeen, we hate the Hibs, they make us spew up, so make some noise,
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« Reply #20 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 16:32:35 » |
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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 ?
Just a thought, but maybe they don't cost £500 each to make? (Wherever you plucked that figure from) |
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« Reply #21 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 16:44:54 » |
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Maybe Di Canio should pop down to wharf green for an informal chat on Wednesday. Got to be worth a punt.
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« Reply #22 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 16:51:40 » |
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Just a thought, but maybe they don't cost £500 each to make? (Wherever you plucked that figure from)
It was in the article on the beeb. |
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« Reply #23 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 16:52:48 » |
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Olympic organisers Locog defended the cost at the time, saying a torch costs £495 to make and it was subsidising the price.
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« Reply #24 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 17:57:29 » |
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Why the fuck are drogba and will i am doing it?
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« Reply #25 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 18:03:02 » |
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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.
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« Reply #26 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 18:45:18 » |
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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.
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! |
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« Reply #27 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 19:34:18 » |
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Maybe Di Canio should pop down to wharf green for an informal chat on Wednesday. Got to be worth a punt.
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. |
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« Reply #28 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 19:38:09 » |
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 He'll be at the olympic stadium lighting the flame and then taking on Usain Bolt before you know it.
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« Reply #29 on: Monday, May 21, 2012, 19:47:18 » |
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Just a thought, but maybe they don't cost £500 each to make? (Wherever you plucked that figure from)
On the BBC website so must be true |
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