Unbeknownst to me, Mrs FEEG had applied for some Olympic tickets. Recently we had the spectacle of Boris Johnson on TV moaning about the fact that he did not get any that he applied for personally (of course I think there is the odd freebie in the pipeline for London Councillors, but, to be fair, I think he did return a lot of these). We feel very lucky.
However, Mrs FEEG has just announced she has got two tickets for a morning session of the athletics at the Olympic Stadium. I think the events are round 1 of the Womens 100M Hurdles (goody, goody, some of the lady sprinters and hurdlers are really fit 🙂 ), the Mens 800M and Discus qualifying, which is good because I used to be school champion at the discus, so I know a bit about it and the Womens 1500M round 1 and Shot Put qualifying as well.
These should be all very entertaining and none of the long drawn out long distance races which, quite frankly bore me to tears (and yes I know it is all tactical, but it is still boring). Roll on next summer!
Boadicea's Chariot 
The ticketing appears to be the ultimate clusterfuck.
But then did anyone really think the general public were actually going to get any good tickets? They were there to pay for the bloody thing and watch it on TV. I expect Blatter, Gadaffi and any Syrian maniac will have the most wonderful clutch of finals tickets!!!
Worse day’s work ever that the UK got that damned circus in favour of Paris.
I wonder by how much Seb Coe has enriched his bank balance?
I am enormously glad I pay very little tax in the UK these days.
Actually I can’t believe anyone thought it would end any differently, haven’t they learned YET?
God, do we need a revolution.
What’s the number fro that McGuirter fella at the Guiness Book of records?
I intend to be the first hibernating mustelid for the duration of the utter farce.
“Unbeknownst to me…..” You mean Mrs FEEG has access to the vinyl without your authority? Good God, man, if so it is a situation that requires prompt resolution, particularly if she didn’t get tickets for the Ladies’ beachball!
OZ
CoB please get it right about paying for the games. Only us poor saps who live in the GLA paid for it, we have had a surcharge on our bloody council tax since the entire debacle was announced. Taking this into account we should get priority over tickets.
However I have no interest and next year is going to be awful with transport and roads closed in London for 3 months (yes MONTHS) just so VIP’s and psychophants can get to the games without mixing with the riff raff.
OZ:
We have always had separate bank and card accounts. Have just one joint account as we have a few dividends addressed jointly to us. Mrs FEEG used to work in a major bank’s head office and is probably better with money that I am. Also, she is half Scottish and therefore reluctant to part with the readies at all! 🙂
rr, What you need is a significant riotous demonstration en route to said clusterfuck to make quite sure if you ain’t going neither are the nobs, in fact a good opportunity for the ‘sans culottes’ to do a bit of decoration of lamposts.
In my old age, nihilism gets more attractive by the minute! It must be the frog ancestry coming to the fore.
3 MONTHS!!!
It would be quite hysterically funny if AlQ managed to annihilate the opening ceremony, after all, no normal people would ever get tickets for it and the whole lot could be disposed of in one fell swoop. What a clear out of parasites, arselickers and psychopaths. Why is it that these bloody terrorists never actually do anything useful?
CoB I should look to my background (Greek) and start a mass riot. Only trouble is the British all sit back with a stiff upper lip and say nowt.
I was in a restaurant a couple of weeks ago and sent the food back because it was cold, then eventually walked out without paying as I never got a meal just the drinks which I refused to pay for. All the people around were horrified that someone had the audacity to make a fuss then leave.
They were lucky I never threw it at them.
Bring on the Guillotine
FEEG – Phew, but having a half-Scottish better half who worked for a bank is usually a deadly combination with which to contend. Good for you !! You might ask Mrs. FEEG casually on my behalf if she happens to have any spare tickets for the womens’ beachball competition about her person. Just wondering, you understand. 🙂
OZ
I’m always doing it, funnily enough had a super row over cold food when out to lunch on Tuesday in Anacortes.
Nobody complains in the USA either, or at least not in the NW, all too repressed, anal and politically correct!
Fortunately Harold sees the funny side of it, actually no husband has ever had the temerity to object to my vociferous complaints. I refuse utterly to pay for, or allow others to pay for, food I wouldn’t give to the bloody dogs!
Doggy bags by buggery! Who wants diarrhoea on the carpets? (Canine not mine!)
Something wrong with the British these days. The more I see the more glad I am that I live offstage left so to speak.
OZ you only want those tickets for the jiggles, cheaper to hire a porn movie!
CO – Good to see you in such feisty(even for you) form this evening. The NSW has taken herself off to Spain until the end of the month and bearing in mind I’ve never paid for it in my life, the problem with jiggles is……?
OZ
Bad wolf!
Its morning here! And am under the whip, must make a huge batch of scones for visitors over the next couple of days!
All coming to see the roses in full flush.
Must go, thanks all for the entertainment!
What’s going on? I have had “Bad wolf” comments from CO, Araminta, Jan, Val, Pseu and Bilby at various times.
Sob!
OZ
I expect they’re just worried your lupine strain will get the better of you at the beachball and you’ll leap out and try to grab the ball!!
Sheona, apart from the ‘Bad wolf’ sentiments, yours is probably the most cutting comment that has ever been written about me.
SOB!!!!
OZ
What’s the matter with you, OZ? I’m trying to suggest that you would have no interest in the pulchritudinous young players and their “jiggles”, but only in a ball bouncing (Hmm) about, as a true canine would.
Sheona,
That is exactly the point. 🙂
Sorry OZ. If she had any of those, I would be purloining them straight away! Actually, I used to play a bit of mixed indoor volleyball, and there was some interesting jiggling in that, too!