London 2012
 

We are in the process of buying tickets. They will be sold over the next month.

Would anybody be interested in coming to London for this fine event? I can order extra tickets to pretty much any event (I think.)

How does ticket pricing work out?

The same as any event. Better events, better seats > higher prices. But in general the face value of these tickets is much lower than I expect them to be in a year. So I'm going to buy a lot more than I need.

Okay, but I still don't know how much tickets cost.

They cost between 10 and 1400 pounds.

If you want to come you will have a free place to stay and we will be able to find afordable tickets. You can go to the Mens Basketball final, for example, for 95 pounds. A normal Basketball game will be more like 20.

Free place to stay for the Olympics? Hmm... color me interested. I want to see Usain Bolt.

As much as you might hate this, I would def. be interested in maybe a week of events. Now getting it approved through the GF is another story.

I'm down.

What events are you purchasing tix for?

Lots.

I trust tennis is included?

Yes - although I'd imagine the Olympics won't be as good as Wimbledon and if you want to do that we can do that any summer.

Hate?

You're more than welcome.

The Olympics is something that is on the bucketlist. I didn't figure I would have an oppurtunity to do it in another country, but that would be enjoyable. Of course, most of the week would be spent watching basketball. Is there a schedule of events and locations anywhere on the internet yet?


Edit: I forgot about boxing being a summer event. Man that would be one hell of a vacation.

Interested, but don't give a shit about the olympics.

It's out there. Google, my friend.

As for being in another country, London hardly counts. We sort-of speak English and the flight from NYC is barely 6 hours. Sounds like LA to me.

Who does?

This could be one hell of a Nubblies gathering, however. Especially if we put 10 people into my flat!

Oh, fooey. I can't make it.

I just got wood thinking of all you fine folk here. How about some fucking GRECO ROMAN WRESTLING to wet the palate? Or some MICHAEL PHELPS SWIMMING? OR SOME SOCCER? And it's the olympics so we get to make fun of eatern europeans.

HELL YEAH

Also it's my birthday and i'm drunk. Don;t tell my boss

I'm interested. The biggest expense would probably be the flight.

I'm coming.

With anybody else I'd assume you mean traveling to London.

You, however, I just don't know what you mean.

Olympic boxing is plain hard to watch as a boxing fan.

I would be interested though; weightlifting, judo, wrestling should all be cheap.

AP is in +1.

Add BDH to the list. I get an extra week of vaca and can book a flight on airmiles! Totally down for tennis, basketball, usain bolt, and beer

Why?

The way it's judged. After Roy Jones got clearly, and I mean clearly, robbed in the gold medal fight in Korea, they went to a system more or less like fencing, where the judges hit a button to register a punch, and a certain % of them have to register it in a certain period of time for it to count.

At the end of the fight the total # of punches landed determines the winner, which significantly changes the way the fight is fought compared to pro fights.

In a way it promotes solid fundamental techniques like distancing and clean jabbing, but it usually fails to reward body punches and makes no room in the scoring for things like power. Even knockdowns aren't awarded in any meaningful way, other than 3 in a round ends a fight.

I haven't watched Olympic boxing for awhile, but I have heard the same complaints that Beebs is bringing to the table. I hate soccer with a passion, but I think going to a soccer match at a world venue could change my perspective.

I didn't like watching soccer until I moved out here, if you actually get into it, it can be a lot of fun.

Sweeeeet.

Although I'm putting the "I'm in." to actually showing up ratio at somewhere around 10:1.

Yeah, I'm not about to commit. There are alot of obsticles in my way.

FTFY

Pretty sure I spelled in correct.

You're the deepest troll of them all.

You have me confused with someone else, and it's pretty obvious.

The soccer should be pretty entertaining if Brazil are able to get all their under 21s to show up.

Neymar, Ganso, and Lucas (not the one at Liverpool) for Brazil
Iturbe for Argentina would have been great to see but they didn't qualify.

Especially Neymar and Iturbe; both are going to be superstars.

AP can actually pull this off. However, will almost certainly not crash at DJFC's flat.

Few people can pull 3rd person off, you do it well.

Thank you sir, AP appreciates the kind words.

Crash or no crash AP better be sipping cold European lager beers with FC.

I thought it was against the law to drink beer cold in Ingland.

When cold beer is outlawed, only outlaws will drink cold beer.

When cold beer is pirated, only pirates and regular folk will drink cold beer.

Good Sir,

The English frequent ale shops and public houses where hand pumped cask ales may be served at room temperatures. It is a fine and noble institution.

There is a more pedestrian option, however. Commoners may prefer an artificially refrigerated, carbonated, and pressurized golden European style lager beer. A typical example being "Stella Artois," which the working class colourfully refers to as "The Wife Beater."

Good day.

I'll knock back some euro lagers. I really do like some good British ale as well. I used to drink the theakston old peculiar and the youngs SLA export all the time. can't find it any longer. There's plenty of nice brew in your part of the world.

Yes.

We import it from Europe, Ireland, and the US.

Do they still have Miller Lite over there?

No, but you can find Coors Light.

Ewwww Gross.

I've been thinking; what's the anticipated terrorist threat level for the 2012 games?