What possible problems/challenges do you see/guess during London Olympics?
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With the arrival of half a million people from diverse nations will definitely cause some problems/challenges although for the time being. please add to the list if you think so, 1  
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Re: What possible problems/challenges do you see/guess during London Olympics?
posted at 29/6/2012 6:30 PM BST
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There could well be a shortage of Tea, most notably Earl Grey, with a hint of Honey! this could lead to absolute Chaos. Taking Tea away from the English is akin to removing BBQ from the Americans or Australians! Absolute Anarchy! DuaneF |
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Re: What possible problems/challenges do you see/guess during London Olympics?
posted at 29/6/2012 9:37 PM BST
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Sorry to disappoint you, Duane. UK consumption of tea, per person per year 1.89kgs UK consumption of coffee, per person per year 2.8kgs OK, we are seventh in the world for tea, after the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Ireland (Ireland!), Mauritania, Turkey and the Sychelles, and only 44th in the world for coffee. At the time of the Boston Tea Party, the offence that the Bostonians took was as much fiscal as political, in that more tea was drunk that coffee in America, and the taxes made it expensive. There was no point in taxing coffee, because it wsn't that popular and it was imported, from South America. There's an awful lot of Coffee in Brazil! Cha-cha, cha-cha-cha-cha. JOhn |
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Re: What possible problems/challenges do you see/guess during London Olympics?
posted at 17/7/2012 5:34 PM BST
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What is your beverage John? coffee or Tea? just curious, since alot of Doctors I know Like coffee, and alot of Cops like coffee, etc. I think emergency workers in gerneral like coffee, for staying awake. DuaneF In Response to Re: What possible problems/challenges do you see/guess during London Olympics?: Sorry to disappoint you, Duane. UK consumption of tea, per person per year 1.89kgs UK consumption of coffee, per person per year 2.8kgs OK, we are seventh in the world for tea, after the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Ireland (Ireland!), Mauritania, Turkey and the Sychelles, and only 44th in the world for coffee. At the time of the Boston Tea Party, the offence that the Bostonians took was as much fiscal as political, in that more tea was drunk that coffee in America, and the taxes made it expensive. There was no point in taxing coffee, because it wsn't that popular and it was imported, from South America. There's an awful lot of Coffee in Brazil! Cha-cha, cha-cha-cha-cha. JOhn Posted by John D |
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Re: What possible problems/challenges do you see/guess during London Olympics?
posted at 17/7/2012 5:56 PM BST
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I'm a coffee proletarian and a tea-snob, Duane! I drink coffee all day, when I can get it, but it's instant. When I get home, first thing is a cuppa tea, Earl Grey or Lapsang Soochong for preference. Weekends - real coffee fresh ground and filtered for breakfast. But a properly made cuppa tea has as much or more caffeine as coffee. See here, Table 1: http://www.academicjournals.org/ajfs/pdf/pdf2010/Jun/Wanyika%20et%20al.pdf Our hospital canteen used to sell Jolt! cola, supposed to contain "twice the caffeine"! But the company went bust and we don't have it any more. John |
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Re: What possible problems/challenges do you see/guess during London Olympics?
posted at 17/7/2012 6:00 PM BST
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In Response to Re: What possible problems/challenges do you see/guess during London Olympics?: Our hospital canteen used to sell Jolt! cola, supposed to contain "twice the caffeine"! But the company went bust and we don't have it any more. John Posted by John D We used to get that back in Cambridge - no wonder I can't find it any more, if they've gone bust. I had some "MIke Tyson's Black Energy" the other day.....
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Re: What possible problems/challenges do you see/guess during London Olympics?
posted at 17/7/2012 6:28 PM BST
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Dragging the thread back on course, who saw the current debacle in the Games? For anyone out of the BBC loop, the security company G4S, who were awarded the exclusive contract to provide security guards for the Olympics, has admitted to LOCOG and the Gov that they haven't been able to train as many as promised. 3,500 from the military will be seconded to provide the missing numbers. This admission was compounded at the pre-Olympics trials for the cycle road racing at Box Hill in Surrey. Out of the 300 G4S security people scheduled to attend, 30 turned up. Local police have been seconded to take their places. While I didn't expect this, it gave substance to my observations at the Olympic Park two weeknends ago. Security at the entrance to the Park, searches and the airport-style x-ray (?) machines for your bags were in charge of service people. Smart in clean, pressed fatigues, alert and confident, they were a credit to their forces, and a contrast with the security people I saw inside the Park. Dressed in overalls that were unpressed and not clean, they were lounging about, sneaking the occasional crafty fag, looking more lke Fred Karno's Army than the Army. John PS FK's Army - WW1 joke about new recruits, this song was sung to the tune of "The Church's One Foundation". http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/h/833 For some reason this is a tune that has acquired many, ahem, re-written lyrics. "We are Fred Karno's army, Fred Karno's infantry; We cannot fight, we cannot shoot, So what damn good are we? But when we get to Berlin The Kaiser he will say Hoch, hoch, mein Gott Vot a bloody fine lot Fred Karno's infantry." |
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Re: What possible problems/challenges do you see/guess during London Olympics?
posted at 20/7/2012 10:03 PM BST
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Hoax BOMB calls, Mukhtar. Department of NoSurpriseAtAll, I'm afraid. In Northern Ireland there have beenover 26,000 hoax bomb calls in the last three years.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18497157 I can't find a number for UK calls, but it's so common it wastes a lot of money. John |
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Re: What possible problems/challenges do you see/guess during London Olympics?
posted at 20/7/2012 11:25 PM BST
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You may have heard that certain roads in London have had a lane closed, to be used exclusively by Olympic vehicles? And that Londoners who drive like taxi drivers, are APOPLECTIC as a result? How would they like to be in San Francisco, where apparently the whole town is closed so that this person can drive like a maniac through their fair city? He's not even a very fast driver, not around corners anyway. 'Drifting' wastes speed as well as tyres and reverse-flick cornering only gets you through a bend quicker on loose gravelly surfaces as on rally stages. Plonker. JOhn |
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