What an utter farce these Locog G4S games are:
Vanessa Bellamy, the venue manager at Lord’s, said: “This has always been a non-ticketed event but it seems some people believed they could come down on the day. This was never the case but we believe some illegal websites may have suggested this was the case.”
A number of websites – still extant – had listed the ranking round as a free event, including the online version of the Daily Mail and a student money-saving website called ‘Save The Student’.
Look you idiot, you’ve only gone in your explanation and sowed misconceptions again. You say it’s always been non-ticketed. Fine – meaning free, as in the road race. That’s how any literate speaker of English would interpret it, whether English or American.
Non-ticketed, in English, means no need for a ticket, i.e. free. Therefore people turned up to watch.
You say it’s “always” been. What, since 1948, you mean? How many people are going to remember back to the last games?
Why is it that anything such people touch always turn to ashes? Who appointed you, Vanessa and on what basis? Certainly not brainpower. Could we please have some proper managers running these games, before it’s too late?
It’s already too late James…they couldn’t organise an erection in a brothel.
There’s that peculiar erection outside the stadium. That’s Lord Coe’s, isn’t it?
Shouldn’t it be blue?
OK, let me get my head around this…
Non-ticketed means they’re not issuing tickets but they don’t say why they’re not issuing tickets.
It could have been like the bicycle road race which would plainly be impractical to charge people to watch along a route which may even pass outside their homes. In this case however it means they’re not selling tickets because it is a non-public event.
How are you supposed to know if they don’t tell you? All the Olympic site said was non-ticketed.
Unless you know the archery event is always a closed event, how would you discern?
My head hurts!
Why didn’t they just say, non-public? No confusion. Simples!
DaveE.
XX Unless you know the archery event is always a closed event, XX
So that a dissarmed and helpless to defend themselves British public don’t go getting no funny ideas regarding long bits of wood and string, you mean?
I break the law every Sunday!
I don’t attend archery practice.
Actually, it’s just the seeding that’s closed. You can get tickets to the actual event.
DaveE.
I don’t really see the point in seeding sporting events. It seems to be a device to ensure favoured teams are advantaged. But I understand the process; organisers may not want say Federer exhausting himself against say Nadal, Murray and other good tennis players only to bomb out against a fresh no-one who has sailed into round 4.
But what on earth is the point in seeding archery? It’s not like they are shooting at each other.
I looked for a pic of our Vanessa but drew a blank – I just wanted to look into the eyes and see if I could see anything behind them.
If you looked into her left ear, I suspect you’d see daylight through the other…
Dad, what does ‘Schadenfreude’ mean?