[ SECRET POST #2002 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2002 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

19. http://i.imgur.com/R3ACQ.jpg

[habilelapin]

Now I can't either.

Kind of makes the Olympics more interesting, actually.

[elaminator]

RUN AWAY WHILE YOU STILL CAN

[velvet_mace]

I'm pretty sure the idea isn't to kill off your athletes. So more like Hunger Games if the contestants were all swaddled in protective gear, and given rubber weapons to bash each other with, and then everyone gets a massage after the round.

[diet_poison]

lol...I like that image

[(Anonymous)]

I would watch that.

off-topic question!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really keep up with the Olympics, and I'm not anywhere near London, but I've heard that the people there aren't happy with the Olympic games taking place there.

Why is this?

I have zero context here, but I figure that it's something about it disrupting business, regular day-to-day life, and so on. Am I on the right trail?

Re: off-topic question!

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. Basically when the Olympics come to town it gets priority and the neighborhoods swarm with tourists.

Re: off-topic question!

[(Anonymous)]

Well, the Olympics give the city they are held in prestige (sort of) and an economic boost (if they don't overspend on the preparations, but they always do). But for the people living there it's just kind of a giant headache - an extra infux of tourists, construction, blocking off of certain routes and such - and for a city like London that already has congestion problems, especially during the summer, that increases it tenfold.

Re: off-topic question!

[(Anonymous)]

*influx, dammit, although I kind of like infux.

Re: off-topic question!

[hiyami]

Yeah, when it was announced that London got the Olympics, some of the people who know I live in Paris told me they were sorry for me because Paris was the losing candidate.
I was actually relieved we didn't get the Olympics, because a few years ago we got the Euro (soccer) over here, and I still remember the mess it was for those of us who kept going to work. The Olympic Games would have been a dozen times worst...

[loki]

You should be pretty aware that many of these "volunteers" were more "volunteered" ie borderline slave labour, so interesting example there! ...god I'm not even British and I'm creeped out & disgusted.

Failure to comply with the conditions of this government work programme can jeopardise benefit entitlement. Substituting unpaid labour for paid labour is exploitation. Worse still in this instance was the blatant disregard for the ‘volunteers’ health and wellbeing.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/06/jubilee-jobseekers-modern-britain-worst

http://www.gailcartmail.com/2012/06/jubilee-downpour-was-no-joke-for-some.html

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/unpaid-river-pageant-stewards-end-864294

[(Anonymous)]

wow, wtf british government

i mean, it happens where i live too

but i was sort of hoping that it was just an effect of other shitty circumstances and not a thing that also happen in better of places

[(Anonymous)]

Just to clear this up, that's something completely different.

I'm actually one of the Games Makers for the Olympics this year, and we're all actual volunteers. It's costing me a considerable amount in terms of transport and accommodation, but that's what I agreed to when I signed up. There's nothing "volunteered" about it - at least from my experience, and from people I've talked to at training.

The reason it's being linked to the Olympics is because the jubilee stewards were going to be paid stewards at the games this summer. That's all.

And back on topic - I knew about my Olympics role before I read THG. Now I can't unsee it.

[(Anonymous)]

OP here.

Thank you for what you do, the Games Makes are what makes the Olympics happen. Without you guys, this event would not be going ahead.

[(Anonymous)]

OP here and uh, different event entirely? The Queen's Jubilee has absolutely nothing to do with the Olympics. Try and get your facts straight before telling me about what my organisation does.

Also FYI, the Olympics have very little to do with the government, they're run by a privately funded company called LOCOG.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been absolutely glued to all the Olympic trials and am hyped for the actual games to begin so this is pretty damn cool to know. Thanks Game Makers! :D