TBF they do charge upwards of £2k for a watch that's unlikely to cost anywhere near that to make.Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonyvop
TBF they do charge upwards of £2k for a watch that's unlikely to cost anywhere near that to make.Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonyvop
That's the free market though, most name-brand clothing costs peanuts to make and sells for a hefty mark-up. If people exercise free-will to buy an overpriced tacky watch that's their lookout.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrJan
I have lost much appreciation for the Olympic games ever since professional athletes have been permitted to compete :s
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Originally Posted by MrJan
Completely agree with that. The pinnacle of a cyclists career would be winning the Tour de France, not the Olympics. A tennis player wants to win at Wimbledon, not the Olympics. Football they don't even field the proper teams, it's U21.
There's plenty of other sports without duplicating like this.
True, but there are many amateur athletes whose career highlight would be winning an Olympic medal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
Tacky? TACKY?!! Rolex make tacky watches, Omega make beautiful watches :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dave B
But they don't get a chance to because the sports are open to professionals.Quote:
Originally Posted by schmenke
Back in the early 80's I was an innocent child and lived in a bubble where I thought all athletes won gold medals because they ate porridge and trained hard. I wanted to be a world's best runner. Boy was I shocked when I heard our national hero got caught of using anabolic steroids. A couple of years later, Ben Johnson, who was supposed to be pure and won Carl Lewis got caught..... suddenly the bubble started to crumble. Novadays I'm only interested of sports where the use of doping is minimal and the success depends on the level of skill for instance..... hmm.... let's say rallying ;) That could in both, summer and winter Olympics.
Anyway, how com they just won't allow the use of doping since everyone is doing them. The winner is usually the one who won't get caught :mark:
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As if to illustrate my point about the corporate bloat surrounding the event, here's a comment from the Telegraph website:
Source: London 2012 Olympics: third of latest Games tickets remain unsold - TelegraphQuote:
My tickets arrived this morning. Sent by Special Delivery at a charge of £6, a rip off in itself.
Each ticket came accompanied by a 9 zone Travelcard for the day, despite the fact that I live in the same zone (4) as the venue and can get one bus all the way there.
Along with the tickets came a glossy advert for Lloyds Bank.
There was also a large leaflet advising:
No water allowed in venue
No food allowed in the venue (its an all day event so we will either have to starve to death and dehydrate or buy wildly over-priced "food" (McDonalds et al) and bottled water). Apparently the public drinking fountains in Greenwich Park will be turned off "for health and safety reasons".
No smoking in the park under any circumstances.
Once inside the park, we are stuck there all day as there is no re-entry to the park once you leave (so none of the established food outlets around the park will make any money).
This is certainly going to be a day to remember - but, I suspect, not for the right reasons.
Greenwich Park itself is a public space but has been basically turned into private land. There was also a leaflet advising us of its environmental sensitivity so we "should be careful where we walk" - despite the fact that the park has more or less been bulldozed to accommodate viewing stands and the cross country course.
And all for the self-aggrandisement of that Slug Coe and his cronies.
Farce doesn't begin to cover it.
or rather... dislike it :dozey: