Tell you what though, if this Chinese singer sort in the yellow's top comes down like it is threatening to then that would be a closing ceremony to remember!
The bloke could wear the finest clobber available to man, and he'd still look like a scarecrow. He could have at least fastened the buttons on his jacket. :o)
Him walking up the steps two at a time was pretty amusing. 'Last one up the stairs is a scouse poof!'.
Im my opinion the man was and is a complete baffoon. Embarassment to this country and to the Olympics (why couldn't he keep his hands out of his pockets?).
The boy's a bit of an enigma for me, funny, different, engaging and a complete cock all at once, a truly unique gift
But watch his acceptance speech thing on the BBC website tonight, everyone (Coe chief posh twat) Brown (Scottish idiot who runs our great land) and Moynihan (odious dwarf with a face like a smacked arse) all laughing their tits off, not because they had to, but because whatever way you look at it, Boris is funny and the boy's box office, good luck to him I say.
[cite]Posted By: fatkit[/cite][p]The boy's a bit of an enigma for me, funny, different, engaging and a complete cock all at once, a truly unique gift[/p][p]But watch his acceptance speech thing on the BBC website tonight, everyone (Coe chief posh twat) Brown (Scottish idiot who runs our great land) and Moynihan (odious dwarf with a face like a smacked arse) all laughing their tits off, not because they had to, but because whatever way you look at it, Boris is funny and the boy's box office, good luck to him I say.[/p][p]Bring on 2012[/p]
Moynihan claimed to be a Charlton fan once upon a time.
Lucky to get away with that imho - not a million miles away from dear old Prince Philip's slitty eyes comment all those years ago.
He made me cringe - rather at odds with the carefree, modern image London is trying hard to live up to. But Londoners voted for him, so you've got what you deserve ;-)
How is the ping pong comment anything like Phil the Greek`s comment ?
Boris barmy as a box of frogs and yes Londoners did vote him for THANK GOD or we would still have Red Ken the Bombers Friend and his Socialist mafia kronies all on £120,000 a year each still.
[cite]Posted By: Weegie Addick[/cite]Lucky to get away with that imho - not a million miles away from dear old Prince Philip's slitty eyes comment all those years ago. He made me cringe - rather at odds with the carefree, modern image London is trying hard to live up to. But Londoners voted for him, so you've got what you deserve ;-)
Sorry Weegie, but that's complete rubbish. A light-hearted comment about the origins of the sport of table tennis is not even in the same ball park as calling people "slitty eyed". Did you actually see the whole speech - and therefore realise the context of his "ping pongs coming home" comment or are you just going by a clip on the news and your own pre-conceived ideas?
Yes Londoners did vote for him. Could have been worse, we could've had that sweaty **** Galloway to go with all of the other sweaty ****s we have to put up with down here. Made you cringe - made me laugh. But then I guess I'm a carefree modern Londoner who is comfortable with the history, culture and and outlook for my city.
To paraphrase Harold Shand, "Bit more than a deep fried Mars bar ... you know what I mean?"
Boris barmy as a box of frogs and yes Londoners did vote him for THANK GOD or we would still have Red Ken the Bombers Friend and his Socialist mafia kronies all on £120,000 a year each still.
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Curious that you are quiet about the problems afflicting Boris Johnson...
He's had the job around three months and already three advisers have left - his immigration adviser for making racist comments, one for "financial misconduct - he was found to have "borrowed" £45k off pensioners when he was a priest and the last resigned last week because he wasn't up to the job of looking after transport, which is one of Boris's main responsibilities.
Doesn't say much for his ability to select people does it?
Yes lets do look at Red Ken The bombers Frieds 8 years in charge and Barmy Boris`s 3 months.FFS 3 months.
Notice BFR you kept very quiet when the 10s of millions of pounds went walk about under red ken. Ken pipes up "i have broken no rules" emmmmmm thats because after 8 year YES THATS EIGHT YEARS he hadnt put 1 auditable safe guard in place,so tax payers money went walk about. He had at least 10 of his Socialist Action kronies in place at £120,000 a year each-- doing what ? As for the last guy who resigned under Boris he was doing the job for nothing ! he was an advisor unpaid-- yet Kens "advisors" cost us £120,000 each.
Even the Labour Party are advising that Red Ken is not selected to run in 4 1/2 years time.
Never said or would say at the moment Barmy Boris is doing a good job. Most people voted for him because he WASNT RED KEN, not because they thought he was a good choice. The Torys never believed that they could beat Red Ken or they would have put a better candidate up. It is a measure of how many wanted Red Ken out rather than geting a Tory in . Which is a huge negative re politics in general.
Im sure there will be a few toe curling moments to come with Boris , and a lot of laughs (some intended), one thing im 100% sure is it will be intresting.
Boris may make a few gaffs and cock-up now and then, but Conservative central office won't let him have too much personal control - they need his mayoralship to work. "Boris's London" is how they're going to try to sell "Cameron's Britain" at the next election.
An interesting thing about Ken's advisors that was missed by many, was that their contracts of employment were changed a couple of months before the election. If Ken had sacked them (pre-contract change) they'd have got nothing. Were Boris to win the election and then sack them he'd have to pay-up their contracts and be accused of wasting pubic money. It was basically a booby-trap.
I reckon Boris was voted in because of wider disillusionment with the government as a whole, not as a London thing. There is no doubt at all that Boris is funny, would be a laugh to have a drink with (once you get over to Henly), and that he is a chancer politician rather than a prince of darkness politician. However Boris is also a useless wanaker in my opinion. When it comes to the tedious business of getting the detail right, running things, and having a strategic vision for our city...I wonder if he can cut it? I know Ken had loads of faults, but we got Oyster cards and the congestion charge out of him, plus other bits and pieces. London is dominated by two major issues, housing and transport. Crime and the environment follow hard on the heels of those two....if Boris can do anything that has a positive impact on my life as a Londoner, and resident of Lee, then I will thank him....but he has a lot to do....personally I think he will be in the thrall of his most effective advisers, and make lots of things up as he goes along. As for Ken, well he is at least a Londoner, with a history of working for London...and I gained respect for him at the time Labour wanted to disown him. Finally what I remember from the Thatcher years in particular, apart from the fact they knew the price of everything, but the value of nothing (to quote Wilde) is the famous quote from Maggie 'There's no such thing as society, only individual men and women, and families.' I have included the second half of the quote deliberately. If the Tories really embrace the idea of community they have yet to demonstrate it to me.
The BBC throughout their coverage referred to the Table Tennis as Ping Pong as this is what they say the Chinese refer to it as and is one of their biggest sports. As Boris made this speech in China it could be argued that he was being very PC.
[quote][cite]Posted By: Charlie Block[/cite][quote][cite]Posted By: seth plum[/cite][p]but we got Oyster cards[/p][/quote][p]A system that is totally incompatible with ITSO cards - what everywhere else in England uses (e.g. the English National Concession bus passes). The smartcard readers in use on Sheffield buses accept them but not those on London buses.[/p][/quote]
Maybe the rest of the country should change to Oyster? After all, all that is good is in London.
Actually, Oyster cards were in the offing long before Ken got elected - the system was commissioned by either the dying breaths of the old Tory government or one of the first things Blair's lot did. (It was Ken that made the big push to get people to use them, hiking up cash Tube/bus fares and all that.) Unfortunately, whoever did it, it was a PFI-type deal which Transport for London has wheedled out of at the first opportunity, and the trademark "Oyster" is owned by the PFI consortium... so that could be a costly fight ahead. Boris will try to claim credit when Oysters finally get accepted on the mainline trains next year, but that plan was well under way when Ken was in charge.
I went to see Boris do a mayoral question time at City Hall a few weeks back - weirdly, ended up sitting behind Ken and then next to Lee Jasper and his not-very-nice wife (and then once they'd buggered off, Boris's deputy who's just quit, Tim Parker, plonked himself down...) It was clear that Boris is a very, very smart bloke - and one who can play on that slightly bumbling persona - but he really isn't that interested in London and would rather leave most of the dirty work to other people. Whereas Ken's a bit more instinctively street-smart, and has been in London politics most of his life, and knows where the bodies are buried. To call Boris a buffoon (or racist, for that matter) is as idiotic as to call Ken "the bomber's friend".
Trouble is in London, what's good for the inner city isn't always good for the suburbs, and vice versa. The pendulum swung to the suburbs this time - it might swing back in 2012 if Boris doesn't get his arse into gear.
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Tell you what though, if this Chinese singer sort in the yellow's top comes down like it is threatening to then that would be a closing ceremony to remember!
Him walking up the steps two at a time was pretty amusing. 'Last one up the stairs is a scouse poof!'.
But watch his acceptance speech thing on the BBC website tonight, everyone (Coe chief posh twat) Brown (Scottish idiot who runs our great land) and Moynihan (odious dwarf with a face like a smacked arse) all laughing their tits off, not because they had to, but because whatever way you look at it, Boris is funny and the boy's box office, good luck to him I say.
Bring on 2012
Moynihan claimed to be a Charlton fan once upon a time.
Lucky to get away with that imho - not a million miles away from dear old Prince Philip's slitty eyes comment all those years ago.
He made me cringe - rather at odds with the carefree, modern image London is trying hard to live up to. But Londoners voted for him, so you've got what you deserve ;-)
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Which curiously coincided with the time he was a local MP, funnily enough he was never seen again after he was voted out.
Boris barmy as a box of frogs and yes Londoners did vote him for THANK GOD or we would still have Red Ken the Bombers Friend and his Socialist mafia kronies all on £120,000 a year each still.
Sorry Weegie, but that's complete rubbish. A light-hearted comment about the origins of the sport of table tennis is not even in the same ball park as calling people "slitty eyed". Did you actually see the whole speech - and therefore realise the context of his "ping pongs coming home" comment or are you just going by a clip on the news and your own pre-conceived ideas?
Yes Londoners did vote for him. Could have been worse, we could've had that sweaty **** Galloway to go with all of the other sweaty ****s we have to put up with down here. Made you cringe - made me laugh. But then I guess I'm a carefree modern Londoner who is comfortable with the history, culture and and outlook for my city.
To paraphrase Harold Shand, "Bit more than a deep fried Mars bar ... you know what I mean?"
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Curious that you are quiet about the problems afflicting Boris Johnson...
He's had the job around three months and already three advisers have left - his immigration adviser for making racist comments, one for "financial misconduct - he was found to have "borrowed" £45k off pensioners when he was a priest and the last resigned last week because he wasn't up to the job of looking after transport, which is one of Boris's main responsibilities.
Doesn't say much for his ability to select people does it?
Notice BFR you kept very quiet when the 10s of millions of pounds went walk about under red ken. Ken pipes up "i have broken no rules" emmmmmm thats because after 8 year YES THATS EIGHT YEARS he hadnt put 1 auditable safe guard in place,so tax payers money went walk about. He had at least 10 of his Socialist Action kronies in place at £120,000 a year each-- doing what ?
As for the last guy who resigned under Boris he was doing the job for nothing ! he was an advisor unpaid-- yet Kens "advisors" cost us £120,000 each.
Even the Labour Party are advising that Red Ken is not selected to run in 4 1/2 years time.
Never said or would say at the moment Barmy Boris is doing a good job. Most people voted for him because he WASNT RED KEN, not because they thought he was a good choice. The Torys never believed that they could beat Red Ken or they would have put a better candidate up. It is a measure of how many wanted Red Ken out rather than geting a Tory in . Which is a huge negative re politics in general.
Im sure there will be a few toe curling moments to come with Boris , and a lot of laughs (some intended), one thing im 100% sure is it will be intresting.
An interesting thing about Ken's advisors that was missed by many, was that their contracts of employment were changed a couple of months before the election. If Ken had sacked them (pre-contract change) they'd have got nothing. Were Boris to win the election and then sack them he'd have to pay-up their contracts and be accused of wasting pubic money. It was basically a booby-trap.
However Boris is also a useless wanaker in my opinion. When it comes to the tedious business of getting the detail right, running things, and having a strategic vision for our city...I wonder if he can cut it?
I know Ken had loads of faults, but we got Oyster cards and the congestion charge out of him, plus other bits and pieces.
London is dominated by two major issues, housing and transport. Crime and the environment follow hard on the heels of those two....if Boris can do anything that has a positive impact on my life as a Londoner, and resident of Lee, then I will thank him....but he has a lot to do....personally I think he will be in the thrall of his most effective advisers, and make lots of things up as he goes along.
As for Ken, well he is at least a Londoner, with a history of working for London...and I gained respect for him at the time Labour wanted to disown him.
Finally what I remember from the Thatcher years in particular, apart from the fact they knew the price of everything, but the value of nothing (to quote Wilde) is the famous quote from Maggie 'There's no such thing as society, only individual men and women, and families.' I have included the second half of the quote deliberately. If the Tories really embrace the idea of community they have yet to demonstrate it to me.
Seth
Indeed!
Maybe the rest of the country should change to Oyster?
After all, all that is good is in London.
I went to see Boris do a mayoral question time at City Hall a few weeks back - weirdly, ended up sitting behind Ken and then next to Lee Jasper and his not-very-nice wife (and then once they'd buggered off, Boris's deputy who's just quit, Tim Parker, plonked himself down...) It was clear that Boris is a very, very smart bloke - and one who can play on that slightly bumbling persona - but he really isn't that interested in London and would rather leave most of the dirty work to other people. Whereas Ken's a bit more instinctively street-smart, and has been in London politics most of his life, and knows where the bodies are buried. To call Boris a buffoon (or racist, for that matter) is as idiotic as to call Ken "the bomber's friend".
Trouble is in London, what's good for the inner city isn't always good for the suburbs, and vice versa. The pendulum swung to the suburbs this time - it might swing back in 2012 if Boris doesn't get his arse into gear.