The Official Olympic 2012 F**k-Up Thread featuring TITS

[Slartibartfast]

It is. Too Anglo centric to be Olympic, but it might get it next time the sports change.

[Kanbei]

More legal protection is a must. About 100 cyclists die on the road each year thanks to poor driving from vehicles... If you choose to drive a ton of steel around badly and kill someone, you shouldn't just be ticked off and banned from driving.

Because all accidents involving cars and bikes are the fault of the car driver.

[Dual]

Dodgeball

[Slartibartfast]

More legal protection is a must. About 100 cyclists die on the road each year thanks to poor driving from vehicles... If you choose to drive a ton of steel around badly and kill someone, you shouldn't just be ticked off and banned from driving.

Because all accidents involving cars and bikes are the fault of the car driver.

Yeah? Doubt that, but they certainly should have the onus placed on them since they control by far the more dangerous and easier to abuse (either by aggressive or poor driving or by not concentrating) vehicle.

[Fishfingers]

More legal protection is a must. About 100 cyclists die on the road each year thanks to poor driving from vehicles... If you choose to drive a ton of steel around badly and kill someone, you shouldn't just be ticked off and banned from driving.

Because all accidents involving cars and bikes are the fault of the car driver.

Yeah? Doubt that, but they certainly should have the onus placed on them since they control by far the more dangerous and easier to abuse (either by aggressive or poor driving or by not concentrating) vehicle.

I'm sick of cyclists playing the victim. Sure there are likely to be accidents that are the fault of car drivers, but in the cycling cities I've visited (London, Cambridge, MK etc) I can definitely say that it is cyclists who generally don't have a clue. I've seen so many riding around with no lights, no helmets and simply expecting cars to avoid them no matter what they do.

They have to understand that they are riding so much slower than the other vehicles on the road, and can't simply expect all other vehicles to dodge around them at all times.

How many hours of training did the cyclists have to do to get their licence?

[Slartibartfast]

Cyclists average speed is better than traffic in London, for a start. Secondly, I see awful driving every day, so regardless of the tests for drivers they still drive terribly all the time. Thirdly, I'm not saying every accident should be blamed automatically on cars, but currently the starting assumption is accident rather than putting the onus on cars to show their actions (in an obviously more dangerous vehicle) did all they could to avoid injury. For example, a bus driver who deliberately ran down a cyclist gets done for dangerous driving rather than attempted murder, which is strawberry floating bullshit. Cars are just hurrying to the next traffic light, forgetting it's our sodding lives they're chancing over.

I am a cyclist, driver and motorcyclist, I should say.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-17066798 Serving half of 17 months for what should be attempted murder. Ergh.

[Turboman]

I don't get why Squash isn't there? It's far better than Table Tennis!

Didn't it used to be?

I wish it was, would be an interesting watch I reckon

[Slartibartfast]

As mindbogglingly fun as squash is to play, it's not very interesting to watch. There are plenty of YouTube videos that proves that unfortunately.

Tennis is expansive and slow enough to enjoy, Badminton is reaction quick... but also the shuttlecock slows rapidly (and is less popular anyway) and Table Tennis is on a small enough scale that the speed doesn't affect things too much. Squash is just relentlessly quick and therefore difficult to follow for spectators. Shame, as it's soooooo good to play.

[Moggy]

Dodgeball

Would be about as useful as a cock flavoured lollipop.

[Harry Bizzle]

This gimp is a WiFi copper.

Sponsors pay tens of millions of pounds to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for exclusive rights to spruik their wares around London and beyond, and the IOC will stop at nothing to protect those revenue streams.

BT is the "official communications services provider" for the Olympics and has 1500 Wi-Fi hotspots at Olympic sites, with prices starting from £5.99 for 90 minutes. It's the largest single Wi-Fi venue installation in Britain, according to BT.

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To protect this lucrative deal - and presumably minimise any potential technical interference - LOCOG, the London Olympics organising committee, has banned "personal/private wireless access points and 3G hubs" from Olympic venues.

Want to create a wireless hotspot on your smartphone so you can get online on your laptop or tablet in between matches? That's prohibited, as are portable Wi-Fi hotspot devices.

Sadao Turner Esq, director of new media for TV personality Ryan Seacrest's production company, tweeted a photo of the "Olympics Wi-Fi police" that are charged with seeking out unauthorised Wi-Fi hotspots with big red detectors.

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/tec ... 23jdc.html




I'd wager just giving your SSID the same name as a BT one is probably enough to get them off your back.

[bigcheez2k3]

That's pathetic.

Easy way round would be to plug your phone in through USB instead.

[jambot]

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[Eighthours]

More legal protection is a must. About 100 cyclists die on the road each year thanks to poor driving from vehicles... If you choose to drive a ton of steel around badly and kill someone, you shouldn't just be ticked off and banned from driving.

There's already legal protection - drivers have been jailed for killing cyclists when show to be negligent.

What there most certainly needs to be is some sense of responsibility and actual legal obligations amongst cyclists - they are currently the only road users who have passed no test of competency, have no licence, no vehicle testing, taxing or identification, and no insurance.

There are so many clueless cyclists out there. But there are also many drivers who are awful at considering the needs of cyclists on the roads. I definitely think that helmets and working lights should be legal requirements for cyclists. The number of them I see cycling at night, wearing black with no helmet and no lights... shudder. It's like they WANT to die.

[Harry Bizzle]

When I passed my driving test, I found that the only sensible conclusion is that all cyclists want to die.

[Tomous]

As mindbogglingly fun as squash is to play, it's not very interesting to watch. There are plenty of YouTube videos that proves that unfortunately.

They seem aware of that. Talk of the bid to get it into 2020 seems to be around them changing the rules to make it more spectator friendly.

[Harry Bizzle]

What a load of rubbish. Squash is bloody fantastic to watch.

More so than a myriad of current, dull, olympic sports.


"Dressage," indeed.

[Slartibartfast]

More legal protection is a must. About 100 cyclists die on the road each year thanks to poor driving from vehicles... If you choose to drive a ton of steel around badly and kill someone, you shouldn't just be ticked off and banned from driving.

There's already legal protection - drivers have been jailed for killing cyclists when show to be negligent.

What there most certainly needs to be is some sense of responsibility and actual legal obligations amongst cyclists - they are currently the only road users who have passed no test of competency, have no licence, no vehicle testing, taxing or identification, and no insurance.

Charged with dangerous driving most of the time, which is a joke.

Licence : proves nothing, every car driver has one and they still drive shockingly bad
Vehicle testing : it's a bike, there's not much to test. There's a legal requirement for lights at night and I urge the police to do something about those who don't
Taxing : don't be an idiot, roads are paid for from council tax and vehicle excise duty is based on carbon emissions, under which cyclists would pay nought
Identification : yeah... For all those times cyclists run from the police at 100mph and set off speed cameras :-\
Insurance : why should they? Car drivers only have it due to statutory requirements, not out of the goodness of their hearts. There's a duty of care placed on all road users but not all have to insure as well. Pedestrians, for example, don't have insurance either.

Ultimately, cars are the far more dangerous machine which is why they have higher expectations placed upon them. Cyclists physically can't cause a fraction of the damage a car driver could to others' life or limb.

[Frank]

Pedestrians, for example, don't have insurance either.

Wat. Pedestrians don't have to wander down the road in amongst the other vehicles

[Slartibartfast]

My point was that insurance isn't an automatic requirement for using the road. Horse riders also don't.

[Slartibartfast]

And when a pedestrian causes an accident why isn't there a complaint that they don't have insurance? Because all car drivers walk and I think they'd benefit if they also cycled occasionally, to see things from a different perspective.