2012 Olympics London

[AOK303]

Any events you guys/gals are gearing up for? person you will be watching? Matches you will be gambling on!!!! who knows maybe we can do a Ride and watch for some of the Events at a Sports bar almost time to light that Fire

[Wrider]

I'll be watching the shooting for sure. I know one of the pistol shootists so I'll be rooting for him!

[FZRACE97]

I like the speed walking.

[asp_125]

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[I`m Batman]

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http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/20/article-2176289-14206A60000005DC-365_634x434.jpg

That guy in the back looks creepy.

[Ghosty]

That guy in the back looks creepy.
He's doing exactly what most of would be, watchin' dat azz, lol. Side-note, she could crush your skull with those thighs, I like it.

:eyebrows:

[Wrider]

He's doing exactly what most of would be, watchin' dat azz, lol. Side-note, she could crush your skull with those thighs, I like it.

:eyebrows:

I would die a happy man...

[Dr. Joe Siphek]

maybe watch a little of the track events (usain bolt) and maybe a little mens swimming...oh yeah Beach Volleyball and gymnastics (females only of course).

won't be watching Basket ball or any rowing :lol:

[salsashark]

Women's gymnastics?! You sick bastard... those are 12 year olds! :lol:

[I`m Batman]

Don't forget women hurdles...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdexkdpkIgk

Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi

[Dr. Joe Siphek]

Women's gymnastics?! You sick bastard... those are 12 year olds! :lol:not all of em! :slap:

[sprtbkbabe]

No wonder all of the Brits are leaving for the summer:


5 Creepy Things London Did to Prepare for the Olympics

On July 27, the London Olympic Games begin, and for 17 long days everyone on Earth will pretend to be interested in track. And for some reason, LOCOG (the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games), normally responsible for ensuring that all the events start on time and all poles are properly vaulted, have instead seized their chance to change laws, build urban fortresses, revoke civil rights and swamp the streets with enough high-tech weaponry for an Iron Man sequel. It's all in the name of anti-terrorism and public safety, of course, but the London 2012 Olympics will be the most sinister sporting event ever held outside of Battle Royale, thanks to stuff like ...


#5. Surface-to-Air Missiles ... on Apartment Buildings

At some point during the planning stages of this sporting event, someone in the fetid bowels of LOCOG headquarters stood up and said, "So, we've got the sod laid and ensured that we have enough seating and bathrooms. Now, how many rocket launchers do we think we need?"


New events this year include Government Helicopter Shoot and Molotov Toss.

That's right: To protect the London Olympics, they're installing high-grade surface-to-air missiles ... on top of residential buildings. Because nothing says "this city is safe" like missiles looming over you at all times.

While other Olympics contented themselves with Tasers and stern, disapproving looks, LOCOG security hurtled screaming past the event horizon of sanity and started transforming apartment buildings into launch pads. Ostensibly, the missiles are intended for use against low-flying aircraft, such as suicide-bombing planes or those goddamn pigeons from Mary Poppins. But the residents of the Fred Wigg Tower, and several other soon-to-be-weaponized apartment buildings, probably take little solace in the fact that they'll be hosting Starstreak missiles 10 feet above their living rooms. Because even if the best case scenario plays out and missile flames don't burn their houses down, they'll still have to deal with collateral damage from an intercepted target. The remains of any stricken aircraft will have no place to fall but directly on top of residential London, gently dusting the inhabitants with a fine layer of fucked. That's all assuming, of course, that it actually works. The newest Starstreaks have zero combat efficacy data, rely heavily on operator skill and might be foiled by bad weather.

But what are the odds of bad weather happening in a place like London?



#4. The Biggest Military Buildup in London Since World War II


During WWII, there were warships docked on the river Thames, right in the center of London. It was a sobering sight, having those war machines looming over a major metropolis. But those were dark days, requiring drastic measures: There was also an operating Royal Air Force base in the capital back then, and all air traffic control was taken out of civilian hands and given to the Ministry of Defense. That's exactly the sort of thing we'd expect to happen during the largest, most destructive war in human history. That's not exactly the sort of thing we'd expect from, say, the security team at a Ping-Pong match. Poor British soldiers. Now all the other armies are gonna laugh at them.

But apparently the London 2012 Olympics features some seriously, awesomely dangerous new sports, because all of those things are coming back for the first time since the Blitz. During the games, 13,500 troops will be deployed in London just for the run time of the Olympics -- that's 4,000 more than they had on the ground in Afghanistan in 2011. And these aren't the across-the-pond versions of the National Guard or anything -- Britain's most badass commandos, the Royal Marines, will be checking tickets at the shot put and waving around those little parking attendant glow sticks. Also, fresh from its last deployment in Libya, the HMS Ocean will be docked in the Thames.
"Yes, it does have batteries of missiles. But they almost never fire off for no reason."

That's the largest ship in the Royal Navy. Not to mention all the fighter aircraft, helicopter gunships and pilotless drones clouding the skies. On land, sea and air, it will be what the British government calls "maximum" military presence.

For the Olympics.

It's often said that the Olympic Games are a platform for a country to show what it's proudest of off to the world. If that's true, then apparently London is that creepy kid from middle school who invites you over to his house to look at his knife collection.
"... and these are my Royal Marines. They're here to shoot anyone who cheats at the 100-meter breaststroke."


#3. Empty Roads for the Rich

It's an unfortunate happening, no doubt chock-full of enough wacky shenanigans to staff a Rob Schneider movie, but sometimes athletes have missed their events at past Olympics. But not this year: London has designated special lanes in the city not just for athletes, but for Olympics officials, people working for sponsoring companies and, hey, what the hell, anyone else rich enough to buy their way in.
"How can we take an institution beloved for dissolving barriers between people and make it the exact opposite of that?"

Not allowed behind London's velvet off-ramps, however, are ambulances carrying such trivial things as blood for donations and elderly people in need of dialysis. True, ambulances carrying people in need of emergency medical care will be able to turn on their sirens and use the special lanes if they absolutely have to, but unless you're firmly heading toward the light, you'll just have to sit in the unmanageable Olympics traffic with the rest of London.

Do try not to cough on any of the McDonald's or Coca-Cola employees as they zip past you, laughing and sipping champagne while bombing around their 39 miles of VIP roadways.

London's sanitation department will have to work overtime to clean up all the littered chalices and solid gold napkins.



#2. Big Brother Is Watching You (You, Specifically)

In Great Britain, everyone is a film star. That's because, while Brits are only around 1 percent of the global population, they're being watched by 20 percent of the global CCTV cameras. That's more camera surveillance than even communist China. But it's not enough to just have one camera for every 14 people at the London Olympics. So LOCOG is not just installing more surveillance equipment, they're also making it smarter.

There'd better be the disembodied brain of a wounded cop controlling that thing.

The city of London is being wired up with a new range of scanners, biometric ID cards, number-plate and facial-recognition CCTV systems, disease tracking capabilities, new police control centers and checkpoints. All of which will now be under a central control, and yes, that is exactly as sinister as it sounds. This means the cameras are capable of tracking beyond one location -- no more frantically checking every screen, trying to pick up somebody who's walked out of frame. Because the computer does that for you. It can now track individual human beings from camera to camera and plot their progress, location and habits on a live, constantly updating map of Your Business.

"That's expired salsa. Twenty quid says she poops within the next half hour."

And don't think you can get away in a lucky fog or sudden drizzle. CCTV isn't nearly as effective on days when it rains (which you'll remember from our hilarious accidental missile explosion joke earlier is every single day in London), so new thermal imaging technology is being introduced to the CCTV cameras. And not just to watch for suspicious terrorist behavior, like excessive hand wringing and sinister mustache twirling -- they'll also be used to prosecute people selling counterfeit Olympics goods.

That's right: They're arming Big Brother with Predator vision just to stop people from hawking unauthorized Wenlock shirts.


"Hi kids, I'm Wenlock! YOUR WORLD WILL END IN FIRE."

Because there's such an insane demand for merchandise of that adorable angry amorphous robot with the all-seeing eye. Kids just can't get enough of him; he's like Dora the Explorer ... if she were furious, a robot and always watching you.


#1. Berlin Wall 2: Wall Harder

The organizers of the London 2012 Olympics have surrounded the stadium with a wall, which is, yeah, probably not entirely in the spirit of nations crossing borders to come together as one world community. But it's just a stupid wall, right?

Right.

Except that it's 11 miles long.

Oh, also it's electrified; touch it and you will get a 5,000-volt shock.

And it's a uniform six meters in height across its entire length, more than two meters taller than that puny one in Berlin. Some sections have the equivalent of a slutty see-through shirt, something the Russians were always too cheap to buy.

And it's going to be patrolled by those 7,500 Royal Marines, unmanned drones, 55 dog teams, 900 day/night surveillance cameras and 1,000 armed U.S. diplomatic and FBI agents on special assignment.

Which probably doesn't seem like that big of a deal to you, until you remember that these Olympics are not being held in an empty field 200 miles from society. They're right smack in the middle of one of the largest, most populated cities on Earth. Which means that the giant, imposing, electrified and locked down Barrier of Death that comprises one of the most militarized borders in history, rivaling even the DMZ and the infamous Berlin Wall ...


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... runs right through your quaint little jogging path.



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[Sean]

Can't wait for the Triathlon competition! I know, I'm dorky. But I'm pretty sure Alistair Brownlee (GBR) is going to sweep the men's (probably with his brother in 2nd), but the woman's is up in the air. Hopefully Emma Moffatt (AUS) has a good race!

[Jmetz]

not all of em! :slap:

Yeah! Some of em are 15!

[Ghost]

F the Olympics. Unless there's a new motorcycle or auto competition that I missed hearing about, I could not care less...

[Dr. Joe Siphek]

I forgot about Ping-Pong...errr...i mean Table Tennis! YEEEEHAAA

[CaptGoodvibes]

My list of stuff I want to see: football, swimming, mountain biking, beach volleyball, jumping (equestrian), and athletics.

[Ghosty]

No wonder all of the Brits are leaving for the summer:
Wow, #3 both cracked my shit up, and is disturbing to say the least. I hope whatever "rich VIP people" get to use those lanes are paying huge donations to the Olympics themselves, not just the city of London.

[CaptGoodvibes]

This music medley is a nice showcase of the music that came from that island over the years!

[salsashark]

This music medley is a nice showcase of the music that came from that island over the years!

Happy to hear a bit of ska... Do they have the stones for some Iron Maiden?!

[CaptGoodvibes]

Happy to hear a bit of ska... Do they have the stones for some Iron Maiden?!

Of everything they played, I think it's funny the Brits think The Jam was a real 'export'. I like the music but it's like thousands of conversations between meeting another soul that has heard of them. It seems.....

[AOK303]

what did you guys think of the Queen and Bond JAMES BOND

I will be watching soccer, judo, basketball track some swimming some gymnastics(oi itty bitty lil things... gross) beach volleyball Woman's wrestling and taekwando

maybe some table tennis and weightlifting

[salsashark]

Of everything they played, I think it's funny the Brits think The Jam was a real 'export'. I like the music but it's like thousands of conversations between meeting another soul that has heard of them. It seems.....

All in all, a fairly decent cross-section of the British music influence.

Although, like I mentioned, they kind of missed the ENTIRE metal movement and glossed over the punk artists from the UK.

But they showed clips of Ewin McGregor crawling into a toilet going after a bag of heroin that he stuffed up his butt?! :wft: :lol:

Anyways, I found the playlist for the opening ceremonies... I missed several of these artists, but then again, I wasn't playing that close of attention.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9341231/London-2012-Olympics-the-full-musical-playlist-for-the-Olympic-opening-ceremony.html

interesting (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27/olympic-opening-ceremony-playlist_n_1710503.html):

Noticeably absent, however, are tracks from The Police, The Smiths and The Cure. British icons Elton John and Tom Jones, who both performed at the Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee concert, are also curiously missing from the playlist. Perhaps Boyle didn't want this playlist to feel like a repeat performance.

[CaptGoodvibes]

Considering how many great metal bands the Brits have had, yes, they dropped the ball. As you made clear, it's not like they had to protect the sensibilities of the queen or anything. :/

I'm trying to figure out what piece of music was being played by the orchestra during the raising of the Olympic flag.

I don't strictly consider The Police the be a British band. The American formed the band.

[Sean]

Interesting finish to the men's cycling race. Our Colorado boy almost had a nice finish. He was crushed. And then Phelps almost didn't make the main tonight in the 800 IM.

[maktastik_jr.]

i was in London at the end of may and got to see everything they have built for the oylimpics. they literally built THE LARGEST shopping center in the world just for the olympics. it was insane. wish i could have been there during the olympics. that would have been sweet:eyebrows:

[CaneZach]

Yeah! Some of em are 15!

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[maktastik_jr.]

http://www.mt-gaming.com/index.php?attachments/pedo-bear-too-old-jpg.12369/
:pointlaugh:lmao hilarious

[Squisha]

Kim Rhode is a machine. I missed the first round in which she missed one target, but sat down and watched her blow everybody away with a perfect second round.

She's got another event today or tomorrow, IDK, but she could kill clays for a really long time. She's already become the first American to medal in 5 straight Olympics and she's saying she's far from done.

[Sean]

China's beating us in medals, especially gold's! :guns:

[Squisha]

China's beating us in medals, especially gold's! :guns:

We'll overtake 'em when we get to the track and field lol.:wait:

Our table tennis phenom gave the Chinese juggernaut a heck of a scare in the prelims. She was good but finally fell to the #2 seed.

Table Tennis Juggernaut is a bit of an oxymoron, eh?

[salsashark]

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