Re: That unmentionable sporting event - the madness continue : Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:29 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

I see that 38 Degrees are scaring the Corporate sponsors one-by-one.
First McDonalds, then Coca Cola ... changing thier minds and not offshoring the profits to avoid tax from their monopoly sales at the Olympics.

Amazing what a bit of organisation and publicity can do.

They wasted their time. One of the conditions of being a host country is that official sponsors don't pay tax on any profits directly derived from the Games. So none of it would have been offshored to avoid tax, as none would have been due.

What has happened here is two multinationals agreeing to pay more tax than they have to, in order to get some positive publicity.

Re: That unmentionable sporting event - the madness continue : Wed Jul 25, 2012 6:39 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

What has happened here is two multinationals agreeing to pay more tax than they have to, in order to get some positive publicity.

No, what has happened is two multi-nationals have been co-erced into paying tax on UK earnings in a bid to avoid negative publicity.

There's a very real and tangible difference.

Re: That unmentionable sporting event - the madness continue : Wed Jul 25, 2012 9:38 pm  

Not sure who the official bog-roll sponsor for the Olympics is, but given that someone had been given the job of covering the Kimberly Clark logos on the loo-roll holders in every cubicle at Hampden with white sticky labels, as well as every soap dispenser and hand dryer it's clearly not them!

Daft thing is the white labels were the thing drawing people's attention to the logos they were trying to cover!

Re: That unmentionable sporting event - the madness continue : Thu Jul 26, 2012 4:38 am  

Mintball wrote:

I'd try to answer if I understood the verb you used.

I'd been awake for something like 42 out of the last 48 hours by that point yesterday. I'm not sue I know what I was trying to say either.

'Encouraging' perhaps?

Re: That unmentionable sporting event - the madness continue : Thu Jul 26, 2012 7:31 am  

Glasgow Gal wrote:

Not sure who the official bog-roll sponsor for the Olympics is, but given that someone had been given the job of covering the Kimberly Clark logos on the loo-roll holders in every cubicle at Hampden with white sticky labels, as well as every soap dispenser and hand dryer it's clearly not them!

Daft thing is the white labels were the thing drawing people's attention to the logos they were trying to cover!

It's utterly bonkers. The Ricoh Stadium in Coventry has had to have the name removed – and any street signs with directions to the stadium have had to be changed too.

Re: That unmentionable sporting event - the madness continue : Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:53 am  

Can't get a ticket to see your favoured Olympic event? No problem, just buy a hi-vis jacket, a hard hat and carry a tray of cups of tea Good old G4S

Can't get a ticket to see your favoured Olympic event? No problem, just buy a hi-vis jacket, a hard hat and carry a tray of cups of tea Good old G4S

Re: That unmentionable sporting event - the madness continue : Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:01 am  

Mintball wrote:

It's utterly bonkers. The Ricoh Stadium in Coventry has had to have the name removed – and any street signs with directions to the stadium have had to be changed too.

Imagine how devastated Mike Ashley was...

Re: That unmentionable sporting event - the madness continue : Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:09 pm  

cod'ead wrote: Can't get a ticket to see your favoured Olympic event? No problem, just buy a hi-vis jacket, a hard hat and carry a tray of cups of tea Good old G4S Or, if you fancy hijeacking a plane just walk straight on: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... sport.html

cod'ead wrote: Can't get a ticket to see your favoured Olympic event? No problem, just buy a hi-vis jacket, a hard hat and carry a tray of cups of tea Good old G4S Or, if you fancy hijeacking a plane just walk straight on: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... sport.html

Re: That unmentionable sporting event - the madness continue : Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:14 pm  

I think more people would be shocked if there wasn't a major terror alert over the next few weeks

Re: That unmentionable sporting event - the madness continue : Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:18 pm  

The old Wembley stadium was probably the easiest place to blag your way into the lounges of any sporting venues, certainly easier than Headingley.

All you had to do was wait until the end of the game, climb the stairs at the back of the Royal Box and you'd come to an exit door from the press bar. Knock on the door and you could guaranteee that some boozed-up hack would open it and let you in. Once in there, you had "access all areas" freedom to roam wherever you wanted.