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Paint it gold for Lizzie

westlower
westlower Posts: 25
in Other Football and Sports
Royal Mail is refusing to paint the postbox in West Kingsdown gold for addick Lizzie Yarnold. Here's a petition trying to get them to change their mind: http://www.change.org/petitions/royal-mail-paint-it-gold-for-lizzy?
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  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,882
    that's silly, why not celebrate and embrace these things
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,563
    AFKABartram said:

    that's silly, why not celebrate and embrace these things

    Because she didn't win it at a home Olympics?

  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,373
    Did this happen before 2012? I'm assuming not so can see why it isn't being done.
  • westlower
    westlower Posts: 25
    Most people - admittedly not Charlton players - find winning away from home harder, so arguably it's a greater achievement.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,882
    regardless of whether it was done before 2012 or it was 'linked with a home Olympics', it turned out to be a bloody good idea.

    We always in this country seem so quick to criticise, play down things, and never comfortable enough in celebrating achievements. The gold boxes are tremendous ways of recognising achievements, and hopefully a continuing inpsiration to others to strive to achieve imo.

    To me there is always something special about the Olympic movement, particularly that the majority of sports are less commercialised than those that dominate this country. This is a good way of supporting that.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,085
    Signed. Seems like a no brainer to me, a good opportunity to celebrate the success of some hard working people.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,072
    Signed, would be great to retain this tradition for all our Olympuc champions regardless of where the games are held - do you get a silver postbox for a silver medal ?
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Seeing as some of the locals were allegedly invovlved in the Brinks Matt robbery, they could just make a solid gold postbox instead.
  • danhughes99
    danhughes99 Posts: 490
    Signed, would love to see this be a continuing ritual for all Olympic medalists, until all the countries boxes are coloured.

    Think you'll find the objection has something to do with who pays for the painting (as sad as that sounds) Royal Mail, Local Council, Olympic Association.
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    It was done for the home Olympics. People have nothing better to do than piss and whine. It will get to the point where nobody can do anything because there'll be an outcry if it's not extended to everyone else. Nothing can be special. Just spray paint the whole country gold out of a crop duster and be done with it.

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,085
    edited February 2014
    The idea of "spray painting the whole country gold" is completely an utterly ridiculous. There are over 100,000 post boxes in the UK. In the 118 years since the modern Olympics started, Great Britain has won a total of 245 gold medals. At that rate it would take something like 48,000 years before every post box is aureated (not counting for the fact that there would surely be some duplications before getting to that point).

    Even if, for some reason, the dazzle of the myriad's of glittering phone boxes proved too much to take, why not go for a sensible compromise where, say, a post box stays gold for a minimum of four years but is returned to traditional red at its first scheduled re-paint after that time. Not too difficult is it?
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    What about team sports? Does each team member get a gold box?
    One athletete conplained in 2012 that her post box was in Harlow, but she had never lived there.
  • Spanish
    Spanish Posts: 856
    I played cricket with her uncle #justsaying
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,752
    Why don't we start a petition for all Post Boxes in SE7 to be spray painted in Charlton colours !
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,771
    Maybe we should just paint it for them!
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,734
    MuttleyCAFC said:

    Maybe we should just paint it for them!

    Here you go... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Olympics_gold_post_boxes_in_the_United_Kingdom#Unofficial_painted_post_boxes
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,238
    Never mind a petition, just pop out during the night with a tin of paint. Job Done.

    Disclaimer. Dear Mr Plod. It wasn't me. I am colour bind and do not frequent West Kingsdown. I think it may have been a Mr Muttley. He's a known menace. Ahem.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,446
    edited February 2014
    Addickted said:

    Seeing as some of the locals were allegedly invovlved in the Brinks Matt robbery, they could just make a solid gold postbox instead.

    KENNNNYYYYY
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM1acN96pP8">youtube.com/watch?v=VM1acN96pP8
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,281
    Sillybilly said:

    Never mind a petition, just pop out during the night with a tin of paint. Job Done.

    Disclaimer. Dear Mr Plod. It wasn't me. I am colour bind and do not frequent West Kingsdown. I think it may have been a Mr Muttley. He's a known menace. Ahem.

    Too late

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-19223242
  • kimbo
    kimbo Posts: 2,997
    We win so few gold medals we should celebrate wherever they are won. Hardly going to need more than 5 tins of gold paint a year

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  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,176
    kimbo said:

    We win so few gold medals we should celebrate wherever they are won. Hardly going to need more than 5 tins of gold paint a year

    We have come fourth and third in the medals table at the last couple of summer Olympics kimbo - not too shabby.
  • Dansk_Red
    Dansk_Red Posts: 5,730
    edited February 2014
    Just remember the Royal Mail was owned by the Goverment (Us) at the time of the 2012 Olympics, but now they have are a private company with shareholders and profits to worry about.
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,209
    Sillybilly said:

    Never mind a petition, just pop out during the night with a tin of paint. Job Done.

    Disclaimer. Dear Mr Plod. It wasn't me. I am colour bind and do not frequent West Kingsdown. I think it may have been a Mr Muttley. He's a known menace. Ahem.

    My father in law is a colour blind painter and decorator and also has a medical condition which means he shouldn't climb ladders.... true story.

  • JohnnyH2
    JohnnyH2 Posts: 5,347
    Maybe it was not thought of by Royal Mail and now its has been brought to their attention this will become the norm for all Gold Medal winners going forward
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,238
    Exiled_Addick said:

    Sillybilly said:

    Never mind a petition, just pop out during the night with a tin of paint. Job Done.

    Disclaimer. Dear Mr Plod. It wasn't me. I am colour bind and do not frequent West Kingsdown. I think it may have been a Mr Muttley. He's a known menace. Ahem.

    My father in law is a colour blind painter and decorator and also has a medical condition which means he shouldn't climb ladders.... true story.

    My father was colour blind too and was an electrician for forty years!
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    edited February 2014
    Not signed and won't be signing in the future. It was a special Olympics in 2012, very special. I say keep it special.
    I want people in 200 years time asking, why are those Postboxes gold rather than why are those Postboxes red?
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,830
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-26276127
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,819
    Christ, I agree with Chirpy. London 2012 was something very very special, and something we'll probably never experience in our lifetimes, so I want the memories of that summer. Sorry Lizzy
  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455
    This is a stupid idea. The 2012 olympics were a special once in a lifetime experience and RM did a one-off thing to celebrate.
    RM already have a tried and tested method for recogonising other UK acheivements. If this were a petition for the 2014 olympics to have a celebratory stamp then I'd be all for it, but leave the postboxes alone.
  • sadiejane1981
    sadiejane1981 Posts: 9,012
    It appears that someone spray painted it gold themselves over night lol

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