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tamba

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one of my shots shows the torch on the bus unlit, with some one below giving it the vees. Wasn't the whole torch thing started by Hitler for the 30s Berlin Olympics anyway?

Haha I can see the one you mean.

Not sure about the politics of it !!

I bet they make a blockbuster film of this farce :D

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It's wrong that I found the man with the fire extinguisher hilarious, isn't it?

NO :D

I heard on the news just now that the torch had to be put out on 2 occasions.

I thought it that was not allowed ?

If so, why light it in the first place ? we would not have all this cuffle as all they seem to want to do is put the flame out anyway.

Sorted !!!! :)

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I heard on the news just now that the torch had to be put out on 2 occasions.

I thought it that was not allowed ?

If so, why light it in the first place ? we would not have all this cuffle as all they seem to want to do is put the flame out anyway.

Sorted !!!! :)

The flame has to be kept alight, not the torch. So it can be transferred to a lantern (they do this on flights and at night-time) or anything else. The chances are there's another flame going that they can just re-light the torch with.

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Well they were very good pics Mr Sinister. I agree with Jono.

God. What a disaster that Olympic Torch business was. Understandable and necessary though.

As for Tebbit - yeah, keep him under lock and key.

'To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity'.

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The most emotional demonstations I have ever attended were in Madrid. Against the war in Iraq when I saw Pedro Almodovar speaking - amazing man (he's an Oscar winning Spanish director btw Jono;)) and also one against ETA, who'd killed one of my neighbours a few days previously.

The Spanish love to protest, and this is a very good thing. You should never lose the passion!

'To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity'.

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I agree with you KTWWH. Trouble is in Britain, if you look at the laws already available to the state & police forces, they could if they wished more or less run the country as a police state with what's there already. Our civil liberties are being eroded faster than the East Yorks coastline, and hardly anyone will object as long as we're all kept terrified by the state and press.

I don't suppose many here will be old enough to remember the miners strike of the 80s, but I was living in s yorks at the time and places like Barnsley & Doncaster were like a police state. They brought in thousands of coppers from London and Squaddies in police clothing who went out of their way to make life as miserable as possible, not just for the striking miners, but the entire populace of the towns and pit villages. I can't drink alcohol any more, but I'll force a drink down when thatcher shuffles off her blood stained coil.

'The light at the end of the tunnel was the light of an oncoming train'

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As bad as the outbursts in London were, it pales to what they may experience elsewhere.

The Paris protests made a lot more trouble for the torch carriers and there were even more police (roller skating coppers are funny). They're quite lucky that they're leaving Europe for now.

Surely they'll have trouble elsewhere, looking at the Olympic route it seems more protests could be possible for most of the journey.

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That's the best picture i've seen during this whole Olympic controversy.

I'm pro-Beijing 08. I don't think that the torture is right, i just think that if it wasn't for the games, nobody would care about Tibet.

Besides, the whole Tibet incident happened after Beijing was awarded the Olympics.

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