Linda-Mary Sigley
Posts: 193
Joined: 27th Jul 2010
Location: USA | quotePosted at 01:26 on 31st July 2012 On 29th July 2012 16:19, Dennis Bailey wrote:For the next four weeks i'm going to hide under my bed and pretend i'm not in.
Good idea. Snoresville. |
Linda-Mary Sigley
Posts: 193
Joined: 27th Jul 2010
Location: USA | quotePosted at 01:55 on 31st July 2012 On 28th July 2012 23:14, John Lawrence wrote:I thought it was great tongue in the cheek entertainment, it was a pleasure to see something positive in this country for once. Sure there have been problems and there will be more, but what public event doesn't? i used to organise Carnival locally and had awful trouble especially with road closures, personally i think its great and will enjoy what I WANT to see. Have just read the first page of this thread and am quite surprised at the views expressed, if you didn't understand it you are to young and not English. i get really p****d off when everything is made a personal attack on political party lines. Haven't been in for a while and am shocked at the change of tone surely this is a friendly place!
I didn't know one had to be English to comment. John, that is narrow and unfriendly. POE is a family. Persons from other countries should have the right to express their views. Frankly I've never seen an opening ceremony anywhere that was worth much. I've been watching the Olympics since 1972 (the tragedy of Munich. But the triumph of swimmer Mark Spitz and Bruce Jenner's decathlon and Frank Shorter's marathon. Sport triumphed over terrorism). |
Richard Sellers
Posts: 4424
Joined: 16th Jul 2008
Location: USA | quotePosted at 14:26 on 31st July 2012 I must be more an Anglophile than i thought,, I got everything !! and enjoyed the opening of the games very much.. |
Peggy Cannell
Posts: 3799
Joined: 14th Aug 2009
Location: UK | quotePosted at 14:41 on 31st July 2012 aarrhh Richard, bless you for being so patriotic |
Richard Sellers
Posts: 4424
Joined: 16th Jul 2008
Location: USA | quotePosted at 15:17 on 31st July 2012 One of My screen savers is of Compo, Cleggy,and Foggy !! |
Peggy Cannell
Posts: 3799
Joined: 14th Aug 2009
Location: UK | quotePosted at 15:20 on 31st July 2012 Yes definately an anglophile, where do you live now Richard? |
Richard Sellers
Posts: 4424
Joined: 16th Jul 2008
Location: USA | quotePosted at 15:31 on 31st July 2012 I live in Colorado,,in the Rocky Mountians,,( yet , one day i want to get some friends together and retire to a tudor manor house and run it as they did in" Grace and Favour")( i think that would put me ranking very high on the Anglo scale !!) |
Marjorie Pope
Posts: 6610
Joined: 13th Apr 2010
Location: UK | quotePosted at 16:02 on 31st July 2012 On 31st July 2012 14:26, Richard Sellers wrote:I must be more an Anglophile than i thought,, I got everything !! and enjoyed the opening of the games very much..
So good to read something positive here Richard! It's so easy to criticize and be negative about everything. I am proud to be British and to have the Olympics in this country, and I thought most of the ceremony was great. |
Richard Sellers
Posts: 4424
Joined: 16th Jul 2008
Location: USA | quotePosted at 16:35 on 31st July 2012 On 31st July 2012 16:02, Marjorie Pope wrote:On 31st July 2012 14:26, Richard Sellers wrote:I must be more an Anglophile than i thought,, I got everything !! and enjoyed the opening of the games very much..
So good to read something positive here Richard! It's so easy to criticize and be negative about everything. I am proud to be British and to have the Olympics in this country, and I thought most of the ceremony was great.
I lived in Atlanta back when we hosted the 96 Olympics. It was wonderful to be a part of something so special, i know how alot people there share in that feeling .Keep being proud !! |
Peggy Cannell
Posts: 3799
Joined: 14th Aug 2009
Location: UK | quotePosted at 13:39 on 1st August 2012 Ok Richard, so, are all Poer's going to have an invitation to your tudor manor house for the house warming ? |
