No excuses Olympic rant....
Is it me or is anyone else sick of seeing Sir Paul McCartney show up at every Olympic venue today and whip the crowd up into a rendition of his/and/or a Beatles track?
Also, how has he managed to get tickets for himself and his latest much younger lady friend for all these venues?
Yet again an example of the totally fair ticket management system employed for these games!
Rant complete....
Err, you've never been offered tickets for an event because you know someone involved in the organisation of it? I'm sure if you'd played at the opening ceremony you may have been able to secure a few tickets for various events.
I no fan of PM but he's better than your rather poor self proclaimed 'rant' which would have you relegated to last position 
I was spitting feathers yesterday when he started conducting his 'communal singalong' of 'Hey Jude' in the velodrome.
The moment, the cameras and the audience were all about celebrating the victorious women cyclists one minute and then the next minute he was trying to steal their thunder!
I wish he could have just sat there, like everyone else and cheered and supported them (not publicise his presence, and his song and his fame.
Not sure. I didn't see how it started but I'd be very surprised if it started with macca singing rather than members of the public, inspired by his presence. The conducting was a little unseemly but if a stadium started singing my song I think I might get carried away. Generally, spontaneous communal singing is extremely uplifting and far from detracting from the glory of the successful cyclists, I felt it provided a warm musical backdrop. After all, if everyone had felt like chebby, they simply wouldn't have sung.
I'm guessing you don't go to the football much chebby?
Apparently, he charged only £1 for the opening ceremony (a token amount to make it a binding contract to perform). Performing at the opening ceremony has is privileges though, like free tickets to venues of your choice. His "lady friend" is actually his wife (Nancy Shevell). They got married last year. I agree that seeing him everywhere was mildly irritating.
Well I haven't seen sight of him since the opening ceremony, must be watching the wrong channels.
And I'd rather have Macca starting a singalong, than Cliff.
And I'd rather have Macca starting a singalong, than Cliff.
+ several million.
A few times as a kid with my older brother and his mates.
My memories of that are two hours standing in puddles of beer, chips and fag ends behind thousands of adults and not being able to see a thing.
I preferred it when we went to motor racing events (stock-car, F2 and rally cross at Matchams Park, Thruxton and Goodwood.)
A few times as a kid with my older brother and his mates.
My memories of that are two hours standing in puddles of beer, chips and fag ends behind thousands of adults and not being able to see a thing.
I preferred it when we went to motor racing events (stock-car, F2 and rally cross at Matchams Park, Thruxton and Goodwood.)
Only asking as I was trying to work out my own pleasant associations of communal singing. Obviously at football, when you sing or chant say after a goal, it doesn't detract but is all part of the communal celebration, and while the players don't join in I'm sure they get the same feeling. I reckon it will have been the same for the cyclists, it was a spontaneous expression of joy from the crowd. Football supporters know which songs they sing. At the Olympics, maybe it should be spontaneous national anthem or Jerusalem, but that's unlikely and I suspect macca's presence proved a focal point. It didn't feel artificial like Cliff.
Only asking as I was trying to work out my own pleasant associations of communal singing. Obviously at football, when you sing or chant say after a goal, it doesn't detract but is all part of the communal celebration, and while the players don't join in I'm sure they get the same feeling.The only chanting/singing I remember, from the few matches I got taken to, usually went along the lines of... "your going to get your ######g head kicked in" sung by the Pompey Skinhead Male Voice Choir (this was around 1970).
Quite scary for a kid.
Although I still prefer it to 'Hey Jude' 
Hey dude, why be so sad, take a bad song and make it worse!
And I'd rather have Macca starting a singalong, than Cliff.
+ several million.
..and the rest 
Those wern't puddles of beer Chebby...... 
Err, you've never been offered tickets for an event because you know someone involved in the organisation of it? I'm sure if you'd played at the opening ceremony you may have been able to secure a few tickets for various events.
I no fan of PM but he's better than your rather poor self proclaimed 'rant' which would have you relegated to last position
Granted it is a minor rant, but I did not wish it to be offensive/abusive. It is partially a dislike of PM and my only moan regards the Olympics thus far, which I have largely enjoyed.
Big thumbs up for the Beeb, except Miss Shah, whom I really dont like, too little girl excitable, with added pointless personal statements/drivel
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Yep, I'd rather he stopped, but I'm guessing he's not going to, so we'd better get used to it.
There's another way of looking at it. When team GB stop winning golds, Macca will stop singing. Let's hope he's got an album of songs still to get through.