Is blanket Olympics coverage turning you off the whole thing?

[beorhthelm]

The olympics will probably lose Britain and London money from tourism for the whole summer.

and lost productivity. construction work in central London will be shut down for 3 months (run up, and Paraolympics), all sorts of works are being cancelled through the period, hundreds of thousands of workers will be disrupted from getting to work, areas cut off to daytime traffic, businesses having to pay more to have enforced nighttime deliveries (only to find local bylaws prohibit this, dont know how thats going to be squared), people will be "working from home" or simply taking time off. its could potentially put the country into recession.

yeah olympics.

 

[SK1NT]

I haven't paid any attention to the olympics yet..

The cycle road race passes the bottom on my road. The torch london torch carry section Ealing - Kingston passes the top of my road.

And yet im finding it hard to get into it... I have had over £100 taken out of my account and i still do not even know when and where these events are.

Im sure i will get a little more excited when the count down is down to 1 day.

 

[Butch Willykins]

and lost productivity. construction work in central London will be shut down for 3 months (run up, and Paraolympics), all sorts of works are being cancelled through the period, hundreds of thousands of workers will be disrupted from getting to work, areas cut off to daytime traffic, businesses having to pay more to have enforced nighttime deliveries (only to find local bylaws prohibit this, dont know how thats going to be squared), people will be "working from home" or simply taking time off. its could potentially put the country into recession.

yeah olympics.

I don't think the economic consequences will be as dire as many bearish people are predicting. I worked for several European companies within the manufacturing sector. They all have summer shutdowns of up to a month, and not just the production lines, commercial staff too. I don't think a few weeks of reduced output is going to put the UK on the brink of meltdown.

 

[vegster]

Genuinely interested in what the good people on NSC think on this.

Probably best to declare my own stance. I am not someone who was 'not interested' to start with. Like many on here, a big sports fan, not only football. I have been lucky enough to get a couple of tickets, albeit for non high profile events, and I think as an event it will be great.

But I am getting sick of the three pages of previews in every paper from about seven months out. Is ANYONE actually reading all of this stuff, when there is other sport actually taking place NOW?

Throw in the endless non-stories like 100 days to go, and the fact that Coe has every media organisation in his pocket and there are virtually no negative stories, I'm getting sick of it. For me, there isn't now much left to say until people start winning and losing.

I'm with you, no "mini milestone" is missed without some countdown clock being unveiled or another tree planted or Mr Olympic Coe being trundled out to make yet another over positive but vacuous statementAs I have said in similar posts, it will end up looking like the British round of Jeux Sans Frontieres, overpriced yet embarrassingly threadbare.

 

[Common as Mook]

Yep. Get the beers in. Settle down on the sofa. Marvellous scenes.

Great, except it's two weeks of the year that I will struggle to bring in maximum revenue towards my end of year target.

 

[Common as Mook]

On the day, it turned out to be a fantastic event that we still look back on as one of the highlights of the nineties.

To put it bluntly: that is absolute NUTSACKS.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Ignoring the build up, pretty much, but can say it bothers me. I'm sure I'll enjoy the games and watch once they're on, but I'll be fuming when they f*ck up my commute.

The opening ceremony will be cringeworthy to be sure.

 

[beorhthelm]

I don't think the economic consequences will be as dire as many bearish people are predicting. I worked for several European companies within the manufacturing sector. They all have summer shutdowns of up to a month, and not just the production lines, commercial staff too. I don't think a few weeks of reduced output is going to put the UK on the brink of meltdown.

yeah, but they do that every year, if they had a month of no productivity last year and a month of no productivity this year, the net change will be 0. if you suddenly reduce the productivity one year, the net effect compared to the previous will be substantial. economists measure everything relative to last month, last quater, last year, yeah that makes it false sometimes (it would be a "technical recession"), but those are way the numbers are compiled. Unless they do some deliberate offsetting/exclusions/fudging to the Q3 numbers this year, growth is bound to be negative.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I don't think the economic consequences will be as dire as many bearish people are predicting. I worked for several European companies within the manufacturing sector. They all have summer shutdowns of up to a month, and not just the production lines, commercial staff too. I don't think a few weeks of reduced output is going to put the UK on the brink of meltdown.

I disagree. I work in the IT Outsourcing sector and we're already having issues getting new network circuits from BT, Virgin and co due to restrictions on working within London. These restrictions started in March and will continue until October. The daft thing is that one of our biggest customers is various Government departments and they want to issue financial penalties for late delivery despite the fact it was the government that insisted on these restrictions !

 

[pasty]

I'll watch about as much of the Olympics as I would if they were anywhere else in the World, which is basically some of the athletics and the rowing. That's about it. And as part of my daily commute involves the Stratford -> Standstead Airport railway line, I can see it being a right pain in the proverbial.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

I'm one of the 53,201,123 UK residents who couldn't give a rat's arse about the Jubilympics or Sir Christopher Hoy advertising Gillette razors and that BMX fillie advertising hotel rooms for that matter. The rest of you enjoy your sporting feast.

 

[Notters]

The opening ceremony will be cringeworthy to be sure.

Yup, I'm expecting something like this:

 

[Badger]

I'm fed up of the whole "official partner of the London 2012 Olympics" on every product, as if I'm going to suddenly change my brand of shampoo because they are associated with the Olympics.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Just to reiterate, this originated as a specific thread about the wall-to-wall coverage (already, and for months) rather than the event itself. But I fear one may damage the perception of the other.

A lot of people hate the hype over a World Cup, and this is leaving it trailing miles behind.

But it was intended to find out what others think. Big respect to you if you have read every feature over the past few months, it's overload for me.

 

[brakespear]

Wasn't that interested in the first place as not the biggest Olympics fan (although a couple of the disciplines are fairly interesting) - can't say that the media coverage has made me feel any harsher towards them though.

 

[Normal Rob]

to those of you actively damning the games. Just **** off out of the country you boring, miserable, whining little ****tards. The country's better of without you.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

I'm looking forward to the 24 HD channels that will be dedicated to the Olympics on SKY!!!

AFAIK Sky are only paying for the uplink and transponder charges on the Astra satellite as part of the deal with the BBC who insisted it would have to be free to air so it will be on Freesat as well.

 

[Timbo]

I'm sure I'll watch it when it comes round but the over exaggeration of how exciting some of the events will be be is tedious. 'Sports' such as Synchronised swimming are shithouse, and being told that having the Olympics here will be a real boost to the 'sport' is frankly laughable.

 

[Timbo]

to those of you actively damning the games. Just **** off out of the country you boring, miserable, whining little ****tards. The country's better of without you.

Wow, thanks. Can you let me know of anything else I mustn't have an opinion on.

 

[vegster]

to those of you actively damning the games. Just **** off out of the country you boring, miserable, whining little ****tards. The country's better of without you.

So how did you get on with that PR job you applied for ....the one working for North Korea ?