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lupestripe ([personal profile] lupestripe) wrote2011-06-02 10:04 am
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Torch Bearers All

So it would appear Wolfie and I are going to the Olympics after Locog debited £216 out of my account on Tuesday. This represents about a third of the tickets we applied for but I am not going to work out which tickets we have actually got. I don't mind which events we see - it's just great to be going and no doubt I will find out on the 24th.

Also the price of ham has reduced from 62p to 56p which was a nice surprise. Plus it's really warm and sunny. Happy :-)

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[identity profile] moth-wingthane.livejournal.com 2011-06-02 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
Lucky! Which events did you apply for?

Congrats on the ticket win.

[identity profile] alexf0x.livejournal.com 2011-06-02 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't apply for any as the chances of getting any are slim (yeah congrats on that as there were 10X the amount of applications as there were tickets available), and the likely hood will be that London will be gripped by traffic chaos for those two weeks next year.

I will be going to the torch parties if any are held in Cambridge or Peterborough however.

[identity profile] fionacat.livejournal.com 2011-06-02 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
No tickets for me :(

[identity profile] giro-batol.livejournal.com 2011-06-02 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
My tesco now sells Ham trim, which is offcuts of ham!

[identity profile] blueberrybadger.livejournal.com 2011-06-05 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I bought about £600 worth and nothing has been taken out of my account. Plus i've had to pay an Olympics tax levied on all Londoners.

What a load of farsical nonsense.

[identity profile] blueberrybadger.livejournal.com 2011-06-07 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
> I think to deny everyone else the chance to get tickets would have been wrong.
No, it would be right and fair.

> Perhaps a set proportion should have gone to Londoners whilst the rest to a free ballot.
They have had 8 _years_ to build a decent system and this is what they came up with. Its embarrassing

> That may have been fairer (although I am sure some of my taxes are also funding this and London will get the vast proportion of the economic benefits anyway so perhaps it IS fair).
Read this then tell me why exactly it is fair http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/yourview/1565971/Should-the-South-East-subsidise-the-rest-of-the-country.html
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