It's London!

[Provost Harrison]

Shouldn't be too hard, after all it's never posed any of it's other neighbours a problem

[Kontiki]

Originally posted by Asher

Even Turkey could hold a better olympics.

Wait a sec, I thought the Turks just held the Olympics last summer?

[Bereta_Eder]

canadians...
the land of nothing
(edit: oh except good G8s... )

[Bereta_Eder]

BTW knowing what a charade the modern "Olympics" are I bet France secretely withdrew the bid. It's quite a vindictive act letting London host them. You'll see

[Zoid]

Originally posted by MarkG
congrats, although it wont be as good as ours

You mean like UK´s best and most beloved athletes won´t make asses of themselves and the british athletes association?

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Spiffor
It's unsurprising. While the infrastructure was a big minus for London, the communication campaign was much more dynamic. The fact that your delegation had many youths, instead of the usual politicians/businessmen strongly tipped the things in your favour IMO.

The fact that your PM also left Singapore in advance to go care for more important matters (global warming and African poverty) was also a positive signal that Chirac certainly didn't send.

All in all, you had a great communication, and maybe this will remind some people here that everything is not about grey old politicians

Youth Power

[Provost Harrison]

And now this is predicted to put the prices of property in London up more For the love of God, isn't the place overly expensive enough already? I can't afford to buy anywhere by a long shot. A bleeding joke

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Shouldn't be too hard, after all it's never posed any of it's other neighbours a problem

You sang a different tune when we protected Europe from the Arabs in Poitiers

Ungrateful rosbifs

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
And now this is predicted to put the prices of property in London up more For the love of God, isn't the place overly expensive enough already? I can't afford to buy anywhere by a long shot. A bleeding joke

Come live in Paris

IIRC, It's the second most expansive Metropolitan area in Europe. Or more accurately, it's the most expansive place in Europe, since London belongs to another category

[MikeH]

Spiffor has the most posts in this thread. Bitter?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
Youth Power

Don't get your panties in a bunch though

The Brits used youth as a communication tool, it's not like the 12-18 year-olds were active in this campaign. Kinda like those ads featuring a passive woman, whose massive bosom is a very good commercial argument nonetheless

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by MikeH
Spiffor has the most posts in this thread. Bitter?

Originally posted by Spiffor
I wouldn't have cared one notch if the rival city would have been from any other place than England.

However, this is one more opportunity to have some mutual bashing across the channel, and it is a sport I enjoy immensely

[Shi Huangdi]

Congradulations to London!

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
Congradulations to London!

Congradulations and commiderasions.

[Provost Harrison]

Well we should have no problem surpassing our predecessors