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  • Nikkster
    Nikkster Posts: 6,391 Forumite
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    You're welcome any time. Self invited or not (I'm not good at extending usable invites) ....

    And those aren't just words. So many pubs that salty sea dogs could be found down here.... and I could help to track one down for you.

    Or, we could go back to the the pub with the Bentley at the door ... if you fancy something a bit more up market :) I think I'll sit in the car, it looks like the sort of place where we'd have to have a whip round for a drink and still only be able to afford one.

    Nah, Bentley Schmentley. Takes more than that to impress me! We could sit in the car park with a bag of chips watching feral children nearly getting themselves run over.

    You're welcome here too. Can't offer you seaside on the doorstep, but if you wanted a local base for going down memory road I hope you know my offer of staying here (with the freedom to come and go as you please) is genuine and always there.

    I should point out that I'm perfectly capable of acting like a nightmare. Can't promise you'd see just about the best of me a second time.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Oh dear..... This is awful.

    It takes a truly special lack of talent to c0ck it up this badly with the budget they had to play with.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    Oh dear..... This is awful.

    It takes a truly special lack of talent to c0ck it up this badly with the budget they had to play with.

    I assumed there was no budget and that was the problem. How
    Much is this costing?!
  • Nikkster
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    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    Oh dear..... This is awful.

    It takes a truly special lack of talent to c0ck it up this badly with the budget they had to play with.

    Which also grates with the charity appeal. Would have been better just to give the cash to charity IMO.
  • michaels
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    Nikkster wrote: »
    ... and I don't see how getting a PhD would change that?.....

    You would be able to say 'Trust me, I'm a doctor' :)
    I think....
  • Nikkster
    Nikkster Posts: 6,391 Forumite
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    michaels wrote: »
    You would be able to say 'Trust me, I'm a doctor' :)

    I can already say 'Trust me, I'm not a doctor!' ;)
  • PasturesNew
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    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    Oh dear..... This is awful.

    It takes a truly special lack of talent to c0ck it up this badly with the budget they had to play with.

    Probably up there as "the most embarrassing, EVER!"

    .... imagine if they ever wanted to run their own country :)
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
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    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    I assumed there was no budget and that was the problem. How
    Much is this costing?!

    £21 million for the two ceremonies alone, out of a total budget of £474m.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • PasturesNew
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    Nikkster wrote: »
    ... charity appeal....
    There's a time and place for a charity plug and I don't think the opening ceremony was it.
  • PasturesNew
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    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    £21 million for the two ceremonies alone, out of a total budget of £474m.

    It was probably used up in expenses, lunches and free booze months ago.
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