Olympic torch coming near you - will you go and see it?

[Riley Blue]

So the Olympic torch route has been announced. According to Lord Coe it will pass within an hour's journey of 95% of the population. Will you go and see it? Do you care?

I won't and I don't.

[Rude-boy]

Don't really care but if it is nearby and i am free i might have a gander for the hell of it.

Bit like the Dome in 2000 was for me. If it's on a plate I'll take it but if not I really am not that bothered. (and no I didn't make it )

[thinfourth2]

If it goes past the office window i might look but only if i was standing next to the window at the time and didn't have something more important to do like pick my nose

[Laurel Green]

Riley Blue said:

I won't and I don't.

Same here. Does not interest me and, can I please have my walnut-whip back please.

[fatboy b]

When's the Olympics?

[plasticpig]

It did make me wonder when hearing this on the radio this morning what the consequences would be if you ran up to the torch bearer with a fire extinguisher and extinguished the flame

[F i F]

I won't and I don't.

Also by way of reminiscences, who else remembers the opening ceremony of the World Student Games in Sheffield 1991. Helen Sharman was picked to light the beacon, she was the first Briton to go into space in case the younger end have no clue who she is.

On live international television, watched by ooh maybe a dozen or so, she picked up the torch, started to run through the stadium, tripped, the burning embers dropped out of the torch, set fire to the carpet, and then she went on to light the beacon with a smashed empty unlit torch.

Comedy gold.

[MadMullah]

if it goes nearby in 15 mins travel i might go if i have a day off. i wont be going out of my way of an hour's travel to go see it

[CoolC]

BBC Headline said:

2012 Olympic torch relay details unveiled

BBC Article said:

Details of the route will be announced next year

So the route hasn't been announced yet then!

[Laurel Green]

I guess they will relay the details as and when they get it.

[Matt..]

I will go and see it!

[macar]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[AndrewW-G]

Riley Blue said:

So the Olympic torch route has been announced. According to Lord Coe it will pass within an hour's journey of 95% of the population.

If only somebody had thought of doing that with the actual games, then, just maybe, more of us would give two hoots about it.

[hornetrider]

How are they proposing to carry this torch around? The interactive map states 24 hours between Swansea and Aberystwyth which is a journey of 70 miles over the Brecon Beacons!

[Ken Sington]

Went to have a look when it went through London in 2004. Loads of crowds, ooh look here it comes, ooh look it's gone, time to go home. Massively underwhelming.

[10 Pence Short]

Will Jamie be carrying it?

And is it 'magic'?

[hornetrider]

Ken Sington said:

Went to have a look when it went through London in 2004. Loads of crowds, ooh look here it comes, ooh look it's gone, time to go home. Massively underwhelming.

Were you under the impression anything else would be happening?!

[Tiggsy]

wouldnt turn my head if it was behind me.

[Einion Yrth]

F i F said:

I won't and I don't.

Also by way of reminiscences, who else remembers the opening ceremony of the World Student Games in Sheffield 1991. Helen Sharman was picked to light the beacon, she was the first Briton to go into space in case the younger end have no clue who she is.

On live international television, watched by ooh maybe a dozen or so, she picked up the torch, started to run through the stadium, tripped, the burning embers dropped out of the torch, set fire to the carpet, and then she went on to light the beacon with a smashed empty unlit torch.

Comedy gold.

I was the follow spot operator who illuminated the daft bint for the procedure, thought I'd never stop laughing.

[Puggit]

plasticpig said:

It did make me wonder when hearing this on the radio this morning what the consequences would be if you ran up to the torch bearer with a fire extinguisher and extinguished the flame

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