Hiccups 😡

Great shots! 🙂 I really love that Qatar 777!

Nice photos! 🙂 I really love the Emirates 340! 😀

Great photos! 😀

Paralympics next is that a waste of money too?????

No it isn’t, the entire ethos of the Olympics is Equality and the paralympians of Team GB have done very well for years, take Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson for example, across the Olympiads of Barcelona 92, Atlanta 96, Sydney 00 and Athens 04 – she got eleven gold medals! Where she won all four of these distances in Barcelona and Sydney – 100m 200m 400m and 800m

Also, some paralympians (as someone myself and family know) are representing our nation after serving us in War in Iraq or Afghanistan and have lost use of their legs etc due to explosions – the sport offering them a chance to find something to use their disability and change that to an ability.

Edit:

As I mentioned about the Paralympics, the medal tally of team GB from Beijing is remarkable compared to the Olympics … the total was 102 with 42 Gold! … Paralympics a waste of money? No.

Kev35,

I of course agree in terms that we’re lucky for having such a service, but I just think (as you said) that things need to be carefully taken into consideration for such as the shortage of nurses.

There are some areas where the NHS are helpful but others where they’re useless.

For example, in 2002 my sister wasn’t feeling well, she had a flu and it had been about 5 weeks that she didn’t feel well, could hardly breathe, felt weak. All the NHS said everytime she went to a GP’s or Hospital was “you’re just fat”. She went again in January 2003 (after feeling weaker across December 2002) a week later or so, she went into work and had a heart attack due to the flu virus enlarging the left side of her heart and now she has dilated cardiomyopathy.

I’ve had stomach pains which they called “stomach migraines” alongside a normal migraine, this happened for many years (and still do) and they said “we can’t really find a reason, perhaps it’s a typical child making it up situation” – when I was 17 I had a grand-mal seizure and eventually diagnosed with temporal-lobe epilepsy.

This morning my dad – who’s knee really hurts and can hardly walk – got turned away from the hospital because the nurse said “that’s all I can do” whereas the drunks and drug addicts in Newcastle get treated whenever and wherever they damn like.

NHS – make you feel like a cattle herd.

In response to VeeOne’s last post, I see where you’re coming from and I was a little hesitant about posting this, questioning the whole “Do I? Don’t I?” thing.

But I do see where you’re coming from and yes – each to their own opinion of course, but I have a genuine question to ask and without meaning to sound pedantic about it.

Do you genuinely still feel like a “hater” to the fact that Olympic Games can inspire a person? Or is that something you think is good?