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aye, but no you though John, as im wearing my sexual abuse Stanley Hat :)
Takes a lot to offend me, mainly cos I’m too much of a – what was the term? – pedantic twat (if you write that normally it says fish) to care :lol:
You’re gonna have to enlighten me a bit on the Stanley Hat though!
haha …of similar ilk to above.
have ya seen the one they make Isaac Hayes (chef) a Paedophile ! he left the series in real life to join a damm weird sect,in the name of religeon !
/blames Canada.
So long as China is not democratic, so long as it keeps terrorising it’s people, so long as it keeps oppressing the countries within it’s communist system, so long as it tortures it’s prisoners and so long as it uses slave labour, then I believe it should, because thats what America does under the democratic flag.
oh dear Sword,,yer gonna hate me ( chuckle) .
But I agree !
Haven’t read the thread, don’t like you anyway… no biggy.
The last thing we expected a month or two ago was serious civil unrest in China.
I think we are already into a risk zone re the Olympics.If the Chinese government is contemplating crushing Tibet protests in a Tienanmen fashion, they’re prefectly capable of cancelling the Olympics. I reckon that’s what will happen – as soon as any widespread boycott of the Olympics appears on the radar, China will make the first move and cancel the games.
They can’t cancel the Games b55, they can only refuse to host them. Authority lies with the International Olympic Commitee and they would simply hold them somewhere else, even at late notice.
But that’s not gonna happen anyway.
@forumhostpb wrote:
We should forget all about the UK Olympics in 2012 …. and let China have a second go it it.
We’d save the country in general (and Londoners in particular) a load of money.
Couldn’t agree more.
I live and work in London and the Olympics has crippled London.
I saw an article in the paper about how the London Olympic Committee is disappointed in the lack of local business trying to get contracts for work. Maybe it’s because all the local businesses have been closed and about 3000 have lost their jobs to make way for it. Or how local companies have been offered millions by developers for their land to build luxury flats for the Olympics. Not to mention the £35 per week its costing the London tax payer. Oh you also have to pay £3000 to get on the list and allow Ken to see your company accounts for the past 5 years just to get considered.They can’t cancel the Games b55, they can only refuse to host them. Authority lies with the International Olympic Commitee and they would simply hold them somewhere else, even at late notice.
The only organisation with any authority in China is its government. They can stop the games being held anywhere in China and it will soon be too late to organise an alternative venue. Saving face is very important to Chinese culture and if they think there’ll be a large scale boycott of the Olympics they’ll cancel them first, possibly on the grounds of national security.
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