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Blackjack · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:03 pm Post subject: Olympic torches

I'm bored waiting for the football tonight so decided to look through ebay. Sorry if this has been mentioned before but do you know you can buy an official olympic torch used on the relay from anything from £2500 up to £12000!!! If I had got one I wouldn't want to sell it yet, surely be worth more in a few years!!! What made me laugh though was someone in Scotland selling a replica relay torch which is an A4 piece of paper rolled into a cone shape with holes punched in the top, its up to £10.50 !!! More money than sense some people Shocked

Tynie Topics · Joined: 26 Nov 2009 Posts: 3572

Blackjack wrote:

What made me laugh though was someone in Scotland selling a replica relay torch which is an A4 piece of paper rolled into a cone shape with holes punched in the top, its up to £10.50 !!!

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grantham · Joined: 20 Mar 2009 Posts: 1091

A lad I worked with is running a leg in Peterborough next month, he was chosen by Thomas Cook as one of the staff members to carry the torch and as part of the 'honour' they are getting the torch for free (TC are paying for it)

DannyRoberts · Joined: 29 Apr 2012 Posts: 504 Location: South London

That replica torch is a thing to behold

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Repl.....3cc74bbef6

Very Happy

Tynie Topics · Joined: 26 Nov 2009 Posts: 3572

I want one Ayatollah

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slightfold · Joined: 13 Oct 2009 Posts: 610

Tis surely a thing of infinite beauty and wondrous to behold, fashioned with unsurpassed craftsmanship in an age of machine made goods. Its value can surely only appreciate as the years go by and would make a sound investment for a discerning purchaserthose with sufficient capital. blah blah Seriously it is for charity, and they do say it's made from paper from W.H.Smiths.

Tynie Topics · Joined: 26 Nov 2009 Posts: 3572

How do you post it without it being folded? postal tube?
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slightfold · Joined: 13 Oct 2009 Posts: 610

Just one (big) cornetto.

Senior82 · Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 982 Location: Near Sheffield

I'm bored of hearing about the torch relay, it's coming through Sheffield next week and a couple of people have asked if I want to come and watch it. Watch what? A man jogging past with a giant matchstick in his hand? Maybe it's just me but I really don't get what's supposed to be remotely interesting about it all.

Tynie Topics · Joined: 26 Nov 2009 Posts: 3572

Senior82 wrote:

I'm bored of hearing about the torch relay, it's coming through Sheffield next week and a couple of people have asked if I want to come and watch it. Watch what? A man jogging past with a giant matchstick in his hand? Maybe it's just me but I really don't get what's supposed to be remotely interesting about it all.

The whole thing is a farce.

Started by the Nazi's in 1936, it's now almost turned into an event in itself. Man with large matchstick runs down a road, wow.

London won the right to host the Olympics, so run round the M25 or down the North Circular with your matchstick.

It has hee haw to do with Shetland or Glasgow or Belfast, the only impact the Olympics has on those places is the reduced funding available from the Lottery for sports projects.

Bah humbug.
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Auchinleckian · Forum Moderator Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 4352

Tynie Topics wrote:

Senior82 wrote:

I'm bored of hearing about the torch relay, it's coming through Sheffield next week and a couple of people have asked if I want to come and watch it. Watch what? A man jogging past with a giant matchstick in his hand? Maybe it's just me but I really don't get what's supposed to be remotely interesting about it all.

The whole thing is a farce.

Started by the Nazi's in 1936, it's now almost turned into an event in itself. Man with large matchstick runs down a road, wow.

London won the right to host the Olympics, so run round the M25 or down the North Circular with your matchstick.

It has hee haw to do with Shetland or Glasgow or Belfast, the only impact the Olympics has on those places is the reduced funding available from the Lottery for sports projects.

Bah humbug.

It's not often I find myself in total agreement with Mr. Tynie, but 100% behind him on this. It's a media driven event that means nothing outside of England certainly. I saw on the BBC News last week, ironically whilst on holiday in Yorkshire, that the BBC had sent News presenter Sophie Raiworth up to Edinburgh to report on it. She said they'd turned out in their thousands in Edinburgh to see it. No they hadn't, they'd been watching bands performing live, most of them couldn't give a monkey's cuss about it. Why, also, did they waste licence payer's money to send her up there (I doubt she stayed in one of Edinburgh's 2 star B&B's) when we have have many able BBC employees up here already?
The whole thing is a total waste of money (it will have cost well over £1,000,000 by the time it's done it's journey around the UK with all the police in attendance, helicopters etc) and somebody should piss on it and extinguish it for good.
Furthermore, sorry Ray if I'm on my own particular hobby horse and penning an article of your length, what about the opening ****ing ceremony? Cricket, country lanes, golden farmlands, all that is quintessentially English.Where's the true representation of the UK? Why are our neds in their white trackies, baseball caps on back to front, and bottles of Buckfast not represented? They're real culture and they should be found a niche, same as Irn Bru, square sausage, haggis, scotch pies, etc. Culture? You've not lived.......................

gfcpaul · Joined: 24 Nov 2008 Posts: 597 Location: Wainscott,Kent

Buckfast, what about Eldorado Laughing

Auchinleckian · Forum Moderator Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 4352

We don't do trashy BBC soap operas up here Laughing

sharrowblade · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 10:24 am Post subject:

Well, for all you miserable gits.....I think it's great
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gfcpaul · Joined: 24 Nov 2008 Posts: 597 Location: Wainscott,Kent

Worked for J.Deans of Glasgow in the early 80's, London office, as well as good old Buckfast they sold a drink called Eldorado which according to their sales director was a good seller to those with a drink problem as he put it.
Even found one of the old adverts for it online.

pompey gaz · Joined: 31 May 2009 Posts: 206 Location: york

well its going into YORK tonight ,the wife said she quite fancied a drive over (only half an hour) but when i said off you go then i`m watching england she looked at me all confused and said "are they playing tonight" game over

MINSTERMAN · Joined: 01 Jul 2011 Posts: 362

I'm with Sharrowblade, I think the torch relay is a really good thing.

I attended the torch procession through the metroplis of Thirsk this morning and there was a really good turnout. Of course, big business muscled in, Lloyds Bank and Coca Cola had a procession of vehicles..... and there was a bloke selling flags, hats and whistles.

I was a bit shocked though that despite all the cars, buses and police outriders, none of them offered a lift to this old bloke who was carrying the torch.

Blackjack · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:51 pm Post subject:

I'm with Sarrowblade and Minsterman, but how the hell did people like Will I Am get to carry it, he's not British and what the hell has he done for us. Thought it was just for Brits and for people who have done things for their community, famous or not!!!! Rant over, oh by the way this is my 100th post Clap