Olympic Torches WTF

[chunky]

Why are these morons paying in well excess of £100,000 for one. There will be about 8000 in circulation at the star of the Olympics.

[bobjuice]

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Heard that on the radio but thought i'd heard ££ wrong. Twats

[bobjuice]

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Facebook shares look a better investment ha

[unkle]

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The people who pay that price for Olympic Torches,
are millionaires or are stupid or both.
there is not too much science.

[chunky]

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Another one went yesterday for £103,000

[Illuminate]

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Wait.

People are buying these for 100,000 quid?

[chunky]

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Wait.

People are buying these for 100,000 quid?

Yes

[Illuminate]

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Little do they know there's another one in four years?

Fuck me. Is it me or is everyone a millionaire these days?

[chunky]

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The Olympic Torch bearers purchase the Torches for £200 and they get an Official Olympic Torch bearer's track suit to go with it.

[bobjuice]

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Adolf Hitler hadn't wanted to host the Olympics. They were "an invention of Jews and Freemasons," he'd said, a celebration of the internationalism and multiculturalism he loathed. But he loved propaganda, the lavish shows of German power and prestige, and by 1934 Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels had convinced him of the Olympics' value in the greater Nazi mission. "German sport has only one task: to strengthen the character of the German people, imbuing it with the fighting spirit and steadfast camaraderie necessary in the struggle for its existence," Goebbels said in April 1933.

The 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics were to be, according to Arnd Krüger and William J. Murray's history of "The Nazi Games," a means of furthering Hitler's ethnic and nationalist messages, a tool of Nazi soft power. Few aspects of the bizarre and highly political '36 games exemplified Hitler's propaganda mission better than the Olympic torch relay and ceremony. Though propagandists portrayed the torch relay as ancient tradition stretching back to the original Greek competitions, the event was in fact a Nazi invention, one typical of the Reich's love of flashy ceremonies and historical allusions to the old empires. And it's a tradition we still continue today, with this morning's lighting of the flame in Olympia, the birthplace of the original games circa 776 B.C., from which it will be carried by a series of relay runners to the site of the games, in this case London.


So, mr Cameron's govt are looking to Nazi Germany for inspiration when it comes to nationalist flag waving propaganda and diversion? Can't say i'm surprised at that

[Illuminate]

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Well said.

[tiddles]

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nice hustle.