Nothing to do with BBC bias…you’ve just got to love it….
Trick and field: Imposters wearing PLASTIC medals and claiming to be gold-winning fencers blag their way onto the Team GB victory parade bus and get interviewed on live TV
Upside-down fiver put on eBay by a prankster is now going for more than £60,000
Some Outragers tried to get this going as a bad thing on twitter.
Didn’t take.
Because they think idiocy is a virtue. If you’re stupid enough to buy an upside-down bank note then you deserve to be ridiculed. Likewise, if the fake medallists were able to so effortlessly fool people like this then it’s not only a great condition by them but serves to highlight how bad the screening and security was for the event, and how idiotic the BBC press were for not realising considering how much they covered the Olympics.
The leftist moral outrage is to be expected as they have no sense of humour or perspective, and they prioritise false victimhood over achievement and intent.
Not surprising really about the BBC interviewing the faux the fencers.
Bet they talked more sense than some of the BBC s regulers such as Cleggy, Millibland, Diane “Jabbot the Hut” and Anne sour face. Not only that, the BBC introduces this lot to us as serious politicians with relevant points to make.
Talk Radio earlier today, reporter at the event interviewing a 12 year old athlete in the crowd – reporter: “…… so you must be a big Mo Farah fan” ! ? – lad – “….No” ! Straight back to the studio ….. Fantastic !
An Environmental activist with a Mickey mouse degree in the Arts, can easily fool any BBC manager into thinking that they are, one of Britain’s best scientific experts.
But as far as I can see, a recent International Climate Science Conference in London, with the worlds best scientific experts in Atmospheric Physics and Solar Astronomy, attracted zero interest from the BBC. And as far as I know, Just, Astronomers, Weatheraction and Mensa members showed any interest in the conference.
I’m not a believer in victory parades ,more taxpayer money down the drain. These people SHOULD be winning medals the amount of our money that’s spent on them .
Sounds a bit cynical, but a point that needs making from time to time.
When spending went up, the medal count went up (John Major and lottery money, I think). Current cost is around £4m per medal. That’s a lot.
Similarly, when Australia cut spending, its medal count went down. No mystery then.
I certainly think that the adoration of our medal winners has become excessive. I’d like to see more attention given to true achievers in science and engineering (proper science, that is). The BBC wouldn’t like it, of course, because they’d all be white or asian (but not “asian” in the BBC way).
Pity we don’t have the same correlation within education – but then the obvious difference is that sport is generally a meritocracy whereas our education system is blighted by social engineering.
Victory parades for our armed forces at appropriate times – certainly, but pampered athletes – not quite the same, is it?
Bread and circuses.
Perhaps they are fencers, but not in the sporting sense.
They look very shifty to me.
The ebay fiver made me chuckle. I recall reading a book once about a man who attempted to sell all kinds of stuff like that on Ebay. My favourite was ‘Ship in a bottle: ship missing’. He also sold a scribbled note which said ‘remember to call Gary’. Apparently someone asked if he had a similar one for someone called Barry instead!
Par for the course on the BBC. What’s new?
Welcoming and celebrating the efforts of phoneys, managing to get into places that they should not be entitled to enter.