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blimey its only once in every blue moon girlies….wheres your patriotic spirit?….its very exciting :lol: :lol:
It is exciting, but when you really think about it, its quite obscene too. Yes, I’m rolling out the ‘cost’ argument again. I feel uncomfortable knowing that the government are funding the Olympics at huge expense and at the same time refusing some women Herceptin which could prolong their lives, give them more time with their kids and now this new liver cancer drug has been refused by NICE too. I know the Olympics is a much better thing to fund than wars and the ‘Dome’, but when homeless charities, drug rehab centres, hospices, battered women homes etc are crying out for funding and not getting it, then I have to say I find the Olympic spirit (complete with skull face) to be distasteful to say the least.
Beep beep :roll:
Is that a ‘Road Runner’ reference?
:lol: :lol:
@shihogiri wrote:
It is exciting, but when you really think about it, its quite obscene too. Yes, I’m rolling out the ‘cost’ argument again. I feel uncomfortable knowing that the government are funding the Olympics at huge expense and at the same time refusing some women Herceptin which could prolong their lives, give them more time with their kids and now this new liver cancer drug has been refused by NICE too. I know the Olympics is a much better thing to fund than wars and the ‘Dome’, but when homeless charities, drug rehab centres, hospices, battered women homes etc are crying out for funding and not getting it, then I have to say I find the Olympic spirit (complete with skull face) to be distasteful to say the least.
if we had not won the bid for the olympics the government would still not have allocated that amount of funding on the things you have just mentioned
@kent f OBE wrote:
@shihogiri wrote:
It is exciting, but when you really think about it, its quite obscene too. Yes, I’m rolling out the ‘cost’ argument again. I feel uncomfortable knowing that the government are funding the Olympics at huge expense and at the same time refusing some women Herceptin which could prolong their lives, give them more time with their kids and now this new liver cancer drug has been refused by NICE too. I know the Olympics is a much better thing to fund than wars and the ‘Dome’, but when homeless charities, drug rehab centres, hospices, battered women homes etc are crying out for funding and not getting it, then I have to say I find the Olympic spirit (complete with skull face) to be distasteful to say the least.
if we had not won the bid for the olympics the government would still not have allocated that amount of funding on the things you have just mentioned
Agrees with kenty.
We don’t know that for sure. Virtually everyone I know is either indifferent to, against the Olympics. If they had protested and said, “Look, we the people, don’t want this. Stop the bid and put the money into better schools, hospitals etc or we vote UKIP” then maybe it wouldn’t have-maybe.
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