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| Hugh Mosby-Joaquin | May 31 2012, 01:09 PM Post #1 |
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If any mugs or sports enthusiasts are thinking of going to the bluddy olympic corporate people-swindling games, be aware that: London Olympics organisers have defended the price of food and drink at the 2012 Games after it emerged that spectators will be charged more than £7 for a pint of beer. A 330ml bottle of Heineken, the only lager that can be served at the Games under the Dutch brewer's exclusive sponsorship deal, will cost £4.20 – the equivalent of £7.23 a pint, according to sample menus for ticketholders. This costs more than double the national average for a pint of £3.17, according to the British Beer and Pub Association. = £7 a pint.So get well tanked up before you go! |
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| caissier | May 31 2012, 01:14 PM Post #2 |
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Telly for me ....... Won't have to see http://www.thetruthbehindthescenes.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/statue-olympics-2012-dna-structur.jpg
Edited by caissier, May 31 2012, 01:16 PM.
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| rumbaba | May 31 2012, 01:33 PM Post #3 |
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If I can just play advocate for a minute. The national average for a pint of beer is irrelevant: this is London, so London prices are the appropriate comparison. Also, buying beer in bottles can't be compared to buying, presumably draught, beer by the pint. I still think it's scandalous but we shouldn't over -egg the omlette.
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| Hugh Mosby-Joaquin | May 31 2012, 02:09 PM Post #4 |
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Fair comment, Rumbaba, but I would better compare the price thus: Olympic 330ml bottle of Heineken = £4.20 Tesco 330ml bottle of Heineken (checked just now) £2.05 (currently reduced to £1.50!) Question: What's the difference between a Tesco local and a 'shop' at the olympic villiage? Answers: One makes money for a Cohen* and the other makes money for a Coe; and you can deduce which is the money-grabbing miser... ........also, you can chose whether to shop in Tescos, but once coe has you by the short & curlies in the olympic gulag, you are at his mercy. * Not any more, admittedly; but I could not resist the pun.... Edited by Hugh Mosby-Joaquin, May 31 2012, 03:10 PM.
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| rumbaba | May 31 2012, 03:19 PM Post #5 |
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I don't like Heineken and I would be miffed at paying £4.20 for bottle. I've heard you can bring in empty bottles and fill them from free fountains inside. |
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| Hugh Mosby-Joaquin | May 31 2012, 03:42 PM Post #6 |
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I could not resist...... Non-olympic shop olympic shop |
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| Norm Deplume | Jun 2 2012, 11:14 AM Post #7 |
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I'm fed-up with the bloody Olympics already. Not only that but I think it will go down in history as one of GB's biggest farces ever. I can only hope that I am proved wrong. |
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| caissier | Jun 2 2012, 11:23 AM Post #8 |
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It feels to me at the moment. as though it will be an anti-climax. All this about the Olympic Torch seems very cranked up and silly 50s-style Pathe-voice gushy nonsense. Ok and a bit of fun for those involved, but pretty pointless. The most interesting thing for me was how they kept the flame alight in a pressurised airliner - in two (two flames?) - in Davies Lamps. What happens if it/they go out? A quiet "Anybody got a lighter?" .......
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| Mobson | Jun 2 2012, 12:18 PM Post #9 |
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So do I! I love the Olympic games ever since I went to the Athens games in 2004, and attended the para-olympics....where I had an even better time - watching the athletes run around the track with their various grades of disability was incredible...the blind Italian long jumper who missed the board and the sand pit and went down with such a resounding thud that made all the stadium groaned in unison - his coach ran up, dusted him down and led him back to the start - moving both his hands up and down the athletes face, he seemed to be creating a directional wind tunnel which did the trick - he made the jump and the whole auditorium applauded and cheered. Wheelchair basketball (we won a bronze I think) was very exciting and robust, but the star event was the Velodrome which we went to on a Sunday; it was packed full of greeks with their children watching riders, with varying disablement make times, that in some cases equally matched those of able bodied riders. ~ A great day of Sport! ~ One thing that I did hear last week that I was not pleased about was the private traffic lanes for the use of executives like McDonald's - I wrote to Seb Coe after we got the games to tell him about Mc's fickle sponsorship in Athens - they had two large franchises at the 'proper' games but come the para-olympics they had taken up their burgers and banners and departed leaving ugly boarded spaces - Shame on them! Edited by Mobson, Jun 2 2012, 01:23 PM.
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| Hugh Mosby-Joaquin | Jun 2 2012, 01:07 PM Post #10 |
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I could not concur more. What was once a laudable festival of international sporting prowess is little more than a festival of money-making greed for all involved. Note that at least one enterprising runner has taken a leaf out of coe's "Must make money out of this event" mantra, and is selling his coe-olympic torch on eBay and has a bid of £5,000 on it. (there's a mug born every minute..) They who carried them, note, had to buy them for £250 if they wished to hang them on thier living-room wall. This chap is wisely flogging his to a mug. So converting a sporting competition where the prize used to be a sort-of coin around the neck, into a "Coe wants to be a millionaire?" festival is at best disgusting, and at worse impossible to fund. But we taxpayers will be paying for it for 25 years, so that's all right then, ain't it, Mr coe and Mr cameron? Edited by Hugh Mosby-Joaquin, Jun 2 2012, 05:12 PM.
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| waiting4atickle | Jun 3 2012, 10:29 PM Post #11 |
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Free beer fountains? Maybe I'll go afterall. I don't quite see how the sale of beer at obscenely inflated prices will make money for a Coe - or is he a major shareholder in Heineken? |
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| rumbaba | Jun 3 2012, 11:11 PM Post #12 |
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Sadly, no Tick, just water fountains
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| madfor4 | Jun 4 2012, 06:54 AM Post #13 |
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I've always said (and I assume I'm not alone) that there should be ONE olympic venue and that in Greece. Major nations can then undertake to build/update various stadia and sponsors can make their money as they always will. Such a set-up will stop nations 'bankrupting' themselves every 4 years trying to outdo the last mug. It would also reduce the gravy train and corruption of the Olympic committee. Still it'll never happen "Turkeys don't vote for Christmas".... |
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= £7 a pint.



advocate for a minute. The national average for a pint of beer is irrelevant: this is London, so London prices are the appropriate comparison. Also, buying beer in bottles can't be compared to buying, presumably draught, beer by the pint.
Non-olympic shop
olympic shop
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4:47 PM Jul 13