On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 07:42:32PM +0100, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:03:21 +0100, David Cantrell
wrote:
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 06:11:02PM +0100, Paul Corfield wrote:
I am afraid I do not understand the raging contempt people have for an
event ...
How about the fact that, just like the Olympics, it's a pain in the
arse, and that the powers that be can't be arsed with actually talking
to the people affected, they just impose these events on their home
towns.
OK you don't like big sporting events or the Tour de France. Message
received and understood.

Received and misunderstood.

I have nothing against big sporting events. I'm looking forward to the
rugby world cup, for example. What I'm against is events that massively
inconvenience large numbers of people who aren't interested in them and
can't reasonably avoid them. If, hypothetically, the rugby world cup
were to be held in temporary stadiums erected on the spaces normally
occupied by roads, I'd be against it. But it isn't, because it's not run
by selfish gits.

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