Apologise you bladdy agents

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Six years ago those of us who put our heads on a block and said that South Africa was more than capable of organising the soccer World Cup were lambasted by naysayers, afro-pessimists and serial whingers.

So, in the words made immortal by the head of our political kindergarten... “apologise you bladdy agents”.
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http://www.news24.com/Columnists/ChrisMoerdyk/Apologise-you-bladdy-agents-20100712

at least some of the people in the comments are coming clean :D
 
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I had my fears and doubts... but I do believe that all of those were based on reasonable worries given the current political climate and previous experiences.

Nevertheless I had no doubt we could pull it off on the whole.

What I completely underestimated was the spirit and camaraderie that accompanied it. That was astounding to see.

So, no need to apologise... I would raise the same concerns again if we had to do it over again.

But I do congratulate South Africa on what they have achieved despite our previous shortcomings and hang-ups! :p
 
Garyvdh said:
I had my fears and doubts... but I do believe that all of those were based on reasonable worries given the current political climate and previous experiences.

Nevertheless I had no doubt we could pull it off on the whole.

What I completely underestimated was the spirit and camaraderie that accompanied it. That was astounding to see.

So, no need to apologise... I would raise the same concerns again if we had to do it over again.

But I do congratulate South Africa on what they have achieved despite our previous shortcomings and hang-ups! :p
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I'm there with you.
 
Don't you worry.... they'll all be back next time we host another big event, or next time a political leader gets killed, or a new president gets inaugerated, or..... ;)
 
Well, in 2006 my daughter went to high school for the first time after we moved to a small town the previous year. During that year they had to prepare a speech for a debate and she asked for my help. You guessed it, the subject was "Would the stadiums and SA be ready for 2010?". My daughter told me 2 days later that she was the only one during the debate that said yes, SA would be ready. The teacher made a comment to the affect that he was really surprised that she took that view. Still not sure what he meant by that, but it seemed that it was positive as my daughter was very chaffed.

What I told her at that time was that when it comes to these type of events, is that it is possibly an once off and that South Africa will do everything possible to present the World Cup. Come the day, they might put the grass in or plant trees outside or do some paint jobs or some thing might no get completed a couple of hours before the event opens. This have happened in other countries, but the event will happen, South Africa will make it happen. A month or 2 after the world cup we might here some stories about rush jobs or stuff that did not work, but the World Cup went off and every game was played and was attended and we can claim success as a nation.

I must say I had serious doubts when the electricity crisis struck us, but I did not know then that generators would be used at the stadiums. I was pretty sure that the world cup would fail due to the electricity problem. It did not and well done to the powers that were involved with World Cup.

I'm not sure if I will get the wording right in English, but I believe that we as humans can do almost anything. As long there is a will and most probably money.
At this stage we do not have the means to travel very far into space with humans on board, but I believe if we were told that some great disaster will struck Earth and we have 15 - 25 years before Dooms Day, we as humans will be able to defeat it somehow. Either by leaving Earth or deflecting the problem.
This can be done if there is a will, prepared to work together towards a solution and lots of money thrown at the problem.

I honestly believe that those 3 steps can solve many problems and sometime money is not needed, but definitely the first 2.

Well done SA and yes I must admit that at times with the power issue, strikes, taxis and Rapid transport problems and other issues that at times I had serious doubts.

We must also remember that we had thousands of overseas professionals that came to SA to help us build the stadiums and other infrastructure.
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...But, there are still a lot of bladdy agents out there who will doggedly insist with increasing desperation, that the World Cup was the worst thing that has ever happened to this country.

They will rant on about the cock-up at Durban airport, the ticketing fiasco and the traffic jams in Joburg in an attempt to prove that the World Cup wasn't a success at all.

They will use these excuses to try and cover up the fact that they are all feeling very sheepish about having been utterly and completely wrong....
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I can name a few forumites on MyBB who did exactly that. ;)
 
LancelotSA said:
Don't you worry.... they'll all be back next time we host another big event, or next time a political leader gets killed, or a new president gets inaugerated, or..... ;)
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It's called commenting on the news... AKA... Freedom of Expression.

Google it.
 
the traffic jams in Joburg
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Wait a minute? ... What traffic jams in Joburg? I don't recall any traffic jams during the month of the world cup??? :confused:

Can anyone enlighten me... or is the author just using a bit of "poetic license"?
 
RoMark said:
Well, in 2006 my daughter went to high school for the first time after we moved to a small town the previous year. During that year they had to prepare a speech for a debate and she asked for my help. You guessed it, the subject was "Would the stadiums and SA be ready for 2010?". My daughter told me 2 days later that she was the only one during the debate that said yes, SA would be ready. The teacher made a comment to the affect that he was really surprised that she took that view. Still not sure what he meant by that, but it seemed that it was positive as my daughter was very chaffed.
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...and unfortunately those poor kids get their views on life in SA from their parents and society in general. We (well actually not we as I do not share the view but am outnumbered by the idiots) are unfortunately bringing our children up to be pessimists. It has got to the point where it is perfectly acceptable (in fact encouraged if you want to fit in) to be pessimistic about everything.... rather sad that our children's dreams and ambitions are being stifled by negativity.
 
RoMark said:
I'm not sure if I will get the wording right in English, but I believe that we as humans can do almost anything. As long there is a will and most probably money.
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Sure. A will stronger than that of a spineless jellyfish and money to waste. What happens when the SA fiscus has been totally looted? Another loser African country? Zim 2.0?
 
LancelotSA said:
Did I label it anything else?
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Just sounded like more of your typical usual complaining about people who are just freely expressing themselves. :rolleyes:

Was waiting for you to brand them as racists and trolls based upon your previous conduct.
 
Garyvdh said:
Just sounded like more of your typical usual complaining about people who are just freely expressing themselves. :rolleyes:

Was waiting for you to brand them as racists and trolls based upon your previous conduct.
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Ah, I see, so what you are saying is that you don't actually read the words of someone's post but rather just comment based on your previous run-ins with them on here? Fair enough :rolleyes:
 
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