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Originally Posted by Schroeder
If we can find enough guys to pay off the officials there is hope....isn't that how the game is played these days?  |
This is true, very true.
To be honest we all felt the same thing about our Olympics, I mean, the very next day after it was announced that London had won the 2012 Olympics, 52 people were killed and 700 injured in four suicide bombings in the same city, and then a week after that another attempt was made to carry out terror attacks. If that wasn't a sign of foreboding I don't know what was.
The UK is not exactly known for its recent public works projects, I mean the Millennium Dome was a white elephant that has only just found a use for itself, and Wembley Stadium spent most of its time being rebuild after parts of it had fallen over, and true to form as the months got nearer to the Opening Ceremony more and more news reports came out that things were running behind and over budget, and dire predictions were made that the public transport network in London would seize up, the roads would gridlock and terrorists would rain fire from the skies. London would be the laughing stock of the whole world and the financial effort to create this mess would finally send us off the edge and into oblivion.
None of that happened. The Opening Ceremony was an epic mix of humour and culture, none of the stadiums collapsed, traffic and the public transport was busy but not broken, and for businesses across Britain 2012 turned into one of the best financial years we'd experienced since the recession began.
So who knows, having the Olympics could be the best thing that's happened to Berlin since 1989.
