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inactionman
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Arson on the French train network

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/artic ... g-ceremony

For 'vandals' should I read 'Russians'?
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Hmm cyber attack seems more the Russian style. Given their track record an arson attempt would have ended in self-immolation
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Paddington Bear wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 10:18 am Hmm cyber attack seems more the Russian style. Given their track record an arson attempt would have ended in self-immolation
I should really have said 'funded by Russians and executed by local freelancers' - they've definitely a history of that.
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A day after a suspected Russian agent was arrested
French train network hit by 'malicious' arson attacks hours before Olympics ceremony, rail firm says

A series of fires has hit French high-speed rail lines, hours before the Paris Olympics opening ceremony

Rail company SNCF says it's a "massive attack aimed at paralysing the network"; France's transport minister condemns the "co-ordinated malicious acts"
Russian chef arrested in Paris over alleged ‘large scale’ Olympic Games plot
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/artic ... paris-2024
A Russian chef who has lived in France for 14 years has been arrested on suspicion of plotting with a foreign power to stage “large scale” acts of “destabilisation” during the Olympic Games in Paris.

The 40-year-old man was arrested during a raid of his apartment in central Paris on Sunday where a document linked to an elite Russian special forces unit operating under the command of the FSB, an heir to the KGB, was reportedly found.
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We really need to start properly fucking that shitehole country if they are linked to this. No independent Russian athlete should be anywhere near any sporting event anywhere in the world. Bollocks to all the "it's not their fault" nonsense.
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tabascoboy wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 10:28 am
Massive Attack aimed at paralysing the network
Always suspected they were dodgy!
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If Putin doesn't want western weapons in Ukrainian hands pounding Russian territory, he's got a funny way of showing it.
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Just to say what a load of wank the Beeb is. Nowhere can I locate the recordings of the 1/4s on iplayer.
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Blackmac
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Well so far the opening ceremony is deeply underwhelming. Doesn't help that there appears to be no one on the far bank apart from a few pink clad performers.
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Blackmac wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 6:02 pm Well so far the opening ceremony is deeply underwhelming. Doesn't help that there appears to be no one on the far bank apart from a few pink clad performers.
Jesus. The Can can performers look as if most of them have never danced before.
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Lady Gaga is RAF
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Can we not just get rid of this opening ceremony nonsense. It’s as if everyone has given up since Danny Boyle set the bar so high in 2012 !
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Turns out that French directors aren't just shite at rugby.

Enjoying all the cultural references though.
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I looked for a suitable word for this shite - ostentatious.

Anyone got a better, grandiose, one word description?
I drink and I forget things.
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I am actually enjoying it, in a WTF way.
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Blackmac
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If this is that bad to watch on the TV, imagine how shit it is to be there.
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Enzedder wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 6:31 pm I looked for a suitable word for this shite - ostentatious.

Anyone got a better, grandiose, one word description?
Grandiloquent
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Stranger wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 6:59 pm I am actually enjoying it, in a WTF way.
That's right brother. No sense of humour...,
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bogbunny wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 6:21 pm Lady Gaga is RAF
My friend messaged me to say she was so bad he is no longer gay
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Slick wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:10 pm
bogbunny wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 6:21 pm Lady Gaga is RAF
My friend messaged me to say she was so bad he is no longer gay
Holy shit :lol:
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Slick wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:10 pm
bogbunny wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 6:21 pm Lady Gaga is RAF
My friend messaged me to say she was so bad he is no longer gay
Back on Grindr then, Slick?
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Guy Smiley wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:13 pm
Slick wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:10 pm
bogbunny wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 6:21 pm Lady Gaga is RAF
My friend messaged me to say she was so bad he is no longer gay
Back on Grindr then, Slick?
Contemplating it until the horse came on, quite like that
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salanya
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There were some good ideas earlier, but it's dragging on and getting pretty boring.

Saving grace that the wide shots look nice in the dark.

Hope they got an exciting finish (and soon!)
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I think they're making a statement by saying,"we are the most up our own arses pretentious cvnts in the world so fuck you."

It's an unusual move.
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Hate to say it but looks like the flag got a bit wet....
“It was a pet, not an animal. It had a name, you don't eat things with names, this is horrific!”
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salanya
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Anyone ever heard of this Olympic Anthem?!

Hope none of the athletes end up with colds etc. Everyone looking quite bedraggled...
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Stranger
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Only a french man could think anyone wants to hear his 10 minute speech
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Blackmac
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Slick wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:15 pm
Guy Smiley wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:13 pm
Slick wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:10 pm

My friend messaged me to say she was so bad he is no longer gay
Back on Grindr then, Slick?
Contemplating it until the horse came on, quite like that
For the first 30 seconds. 10 minutes later you were over it.
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Blackmac wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:50 pm
Slick wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:15 pm
Guy Smiley wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:13 pm

Back on Grindr then, Slick?
Contemplating it until the horse came on, quite like that
For the first 30 seconds. 10 minutes later you were over it.
On the menu in the athletes village tomorrow (the real one not the metal one)..
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There is a huge flight exclusion zone over most of France for the opening ceremony.
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Deaf guy dancing in huge, very wet suit. Odd.
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salanya
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They're desperately looking for something to burn.
Beware Notre Dame!
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Blackmac
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Carl Lewis struggling with his sea legs. Who is the other female on the boat.
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Blackmac wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:12 pm Carl Lewis struggling with his sea legs. Who is the other female on the boat.
Comaneci
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Soapy
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I always enjoy watching talented people doing talented things. But this has been a complete shambles. Horse down the river could have looked great but was so badly done. Can't they do a couple of speeches, sing a song or two, light the fire and then just get on with the sport? Rather than splurging millions on an incoherent mess?
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Blackmac
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Celine Dione was pretty impressive to be fair
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Blackmac wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:29 pm Celine Dione was pretty impressive to be fair
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Blackmac
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Rebecca Adlington turns up in her Xmas onesie.
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Hugo
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Kiwis, how strong of a rowing culture does NZ have? I get the impression that it is second only to rugby in terms of its tradition in NZ sporting circles.

I was actually going to pose this question a while back but given it's the Olympics I suppose it's as good a time as any.

Tx.
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Voilà

:smug:

the great thing is that it has the fascist frothing at the mouth
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