They’re complaining about how the area has a lot of noise, I’m sure their flats are worth a lot lot more now because of the regeneration not to mention the incredible views they get from their balconies. I’d love to live in one of the flats overlooking the Olympic park.
First of all I'm born and lived in Beijing. And this is exactly what happened back in 2008 Beijing olympics. This kind of city "face lift" are always considered and executed to show the world a positive image. It's like fixing your hair,washing your face before a date. It's totally understandable for these civilians to protest against it, and it's very unfortunate.
I completely agree with this. Being British I was thinking it would be quite hard to follow for a foreigner but for the people that understood it, it was fantastic (imo)
This is a really good, and necessary, documentary. The perfect antidote to the endless pro-olympic bilge pumped out of the TV and radio that I spend most of my day trying to avoid.
To be honest, this stuff happens where ever the Olympics is being held. Its happening in Rio now. After the Olympics is over, most of those places become empty. Rarely being used and ends up just being a eye sore to the locals.
London is the only place in history that actually utilized their stadium though. Sochi, Rio, Montreal, Athens, and Beijing were disastrous and I feel so bad for their economies.' Montreal said it took the tax payers 30 years to pay off the stadium and I think it's been abandoned since the 70s
Olympics is one of the greatest ever on earth concerning games and sports. No matter what happens in any of this olympic events or host cities, it's work of uniting, friending and promoting souls on earth. SO LET US ALL GROW IN THE SPIRIT OF THE OLYMPICS
In Britain you are allowed to throw away a certain amount of 'nuclear' waste without having to register it under the hazardous materials act (we're talking mere grams of the stuff here). But the reactor they were talking about was buried many years ago when the controls for this sort of material were very different, the idea being that we weren't going to dig it up and build an Olympic park on top of it..........
In '96 Atlanta was transformed from the ghetto where you go to get robbed or stabbed to a relatively world class city. It really turned the city around, but I'm sure London is completely different animal.
I think Atlanta beat this pattern. I lived there for 18 years after the Olympics and we seemed to be doing fine. Probably because we actually still use most the stadiums we had to build for the Olympics after they ended. I think.
I hate sports. I never watch the Olympics and probably never will. But I hope it never stops. There's so much history in it, I don't think it should ever stop. As was said, it's the only world event that brings the world together... We need more of that. Much more.
If a woman with 2 kids is getting moved to a hotel, the only thing that has changed is where she lives so she still has to work. Your excuse saying the mother cant go to work to look after her kids anymore is lame. What do you think she did before? They want a new house. They want everything given to them
I live North of Chicago. Chicago put in a bid for the olympic games in 2020 i believe. You have to realize when you are hosting an event like this it has a negative effect on the public. Streets are closed so it's harder to get to work. Lots of tourism raises crime because all big cities have areas that are slums. It also costs alot of money to host. Chicago spent a few million dollars just to bid on the olympics and lost to rio de janero and Illinois is broke completely out of money.
The games gave memories that will be cherished in nations across the globe. Kirani james winning grenada's first ever gold medal was a huge occasion for the country, one that will have lifted them, or mo farah, doing the same for the people in somalia, even though he is now british. The olympics may not have helped people in a physical sense, but it will have lifted them, brought some happiness around. If all we spent our money on was research and technology, the world would be a glummer place.
Unfortunately the regulation that appears in Manhattan isn't being applied here. There have been a couple of documentaries in the British media (see dispatches on channel 4) that have interviewed people who's contracts are not being renewed or can only be renewed if you pay anywhere up to £1000 per week because they know they can get this from Olympic visitors. Now I know that a renewed contract doesn't quite fall under rent control but the landlords are throwing people out to make a quick buck.
I'm not british but it seemed to go much better than they had expected and it really brought the country together. Sounds corny, but I genuinely believe it.
I was a 'victim' of the 2010 winter olympics in whistler BC. Lived there happily for awhile and supported myself working amongst other 'ski bums' and lots of euro's and auzzies having a gap year paid for by their parents, no resentment, however, the olympics come and for 3 months I can't drive to work anymore because of checkpoints and our rent triples, hard for someone paying $450 to have to pay $1300. Lived in houses made for 4 packed with 15 people olympics fucked some of us locals right up
HMM... So this man can afford to book a flight to China and go to that Olympics but cannot afford to get a train and book a ticket to the London Olympics. Even if the London Olympics were expensive, they surely weren't THAT expensive.
I live in Bby and work at a drug and alcohol facility in downtown. I can assure you that the police did not round up the homeless and send them into the suburbs. They handed out tickets, and arrested some who did not pay so as to keep them in jail during the Olympics. If they did move them into the nearby cities, they would have just gotten on the skytrain and moved back into downtown. Don't make such broad assumptions
Only see a part 1, get's ready to bitch and rage, but reads the description like you should, goes to website, watches the rest of the parts, happy panda.
For a short time, remember after the olympics are done you have to pay a couple million dollars a year for upkeep for that giant stadium collecting dust.
just take a gallon of dishsoap water mix and water the select trees that they just planted that you say.. dont like and they will be gone very soon) just a hint make your space!
Living a little under 60 miles from London, it is a city that inspires me - I find it fascinating, beguiling, frustrating, frightening and charming at a turn. There are areas and corners of it that I know initmately and others that remain almost foreign. The 'London Olympics' remain an anathema to me however simply because of their very nature....In an age of such supposed 'eqaulity' why should we be impressed by one persons ability to run/jump/swim faster than another?
Did you miss the bit about the gentrification? The guy at 10:10 starts talking about it. Poor families in London have been getting evicted from their homes and forced to live in hotels in places like Birmingham and Manchester, this isn't just something that happened during the Olympics, it's still happening in London right now and it will continue because of the new benefit caps being introduced. That's pretty serious and I wouldn't call it "whinging".
Hurp: Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and gymnophiona) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians, and the tuataras). Batrachology is a further subdiscipline of herpetology concerned with the study of amphibians alone.
attendance even at the most popular events is so far down they are giving away tickets to all those in the military. Before that on TV it looked as if the events were just practice as some had less than half the seats filled. This will be the final blow to the UK economy. And perhaps all of the EU.
How is there radioactive waste just randomly in the middle of a populated city? That stuff should be either locked away in a secret location or in space.
They’re complaining about how the area has a lot of noise, I’m sure their flats are worth a lot lot more now because of the regeneration not to mention the incredible views they get from their balconies. I’d love to live in one of the flats overlooking the Olympic park.
@@TreeMovies Many do, especially in East. Thatcher enabled many of the families to purchase their properties.
First of all I'm born and lived in Beijing. And this is exactly what happened back in 2008 Beijing olympics. This kind of city "face lift" are always considered and executed to show the world a positive image. It's like fixing your hair,washing your face before a date. It's totally understandable for these civilians to protest against it, and it's very unfortunate.
been waiting for this all week :D
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I completely agree with this. Being British I was thinking it would be quite hard to follow for a foreigner but for the people that understood it, it was fantastic (imo)
wee, been waiting for these :)
Both are awesome. That's what Vice is all about!
The TH-cam advertisement on my end prior to this video was for the Olympics itself. Brilliant.
This is a really good, and necessary, documentary. The perfect antidote to the endless pro-olympic bilge pumped out of the TV and radio that I spend most of my day trying to avoid.
Lol, I love you how can tell he's proud of that comment. Sitting back in his chair grinning, thinking "owned".
Thanks for dropping knowledge
I WANT PART 2 RIGHT NOW !!!!!
To be honest, this stuff happens where ever the Olympics is being held. Its happening in Rio now. After the Olympics is over, most of those places become empty. Rarely being used and ends up just being a eye sore to the locals.
London is the only place in history that actually utilized their stadium though. Sochi, Rio, Montreal, Athens, and Beijing were disastrous and I feel so bad for their economies.' Montreal said it took the tax payers 30 years to pay off the stadium and I think it's been abandoned since the 70s
The lady who said I'm really excited in the beginning teached me to swim lol yolo
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I love Freakonomics! Great podcast.
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Luke Milton so sad
Olympics is one of the greatest ever on earth concerning games and sports. No matter what happens in any of this olympic events or host cities, it's work of uniting, friending and promoting souls on earth. SO LET US ALL GROW IN THE SPIRIT OF THE OLYMPICS
11:02 We're doing up East London, oh it's been a very PORN borough! hahaha
It seems everyone is asking about part 2... The video said part 2-4 will be here on Monday.
In Britain you are allowed to throw away a certain amount of 'nuclear' waste without having to register it under the hazardous materials act (we're talking mere grams of the stuff here). But the reactor they were talking about was buried many years ago when the controls for this sort of material were very different, the idea being that we weren't going to dig it up and build an Olympic park on top of it..........
Even if all of our teeth were fucked, it wouldn't affect the reliability of the dental records lmao
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In '96 Atlanta was transformed from the ghetto where you go to get robbed or stabbed to a relatively world class city. It really turned the city around, but I'm sure London is completely different animal.
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The opening ceremony was pretty special
I've been waiting for both all week to be frank.
I think Atlanta beat this pattern. I lived there for 18 years after the Olympics and we seemed to be doing fine. Probably because we actually still use most the stadiums we had to build for the Olympics after they ended. I think.
My thumb went so far up, it just took out a falcon.
I hate sports. I never watch the Olympics and probably never will.
But I hope it never stops. There's so much history in it, I don't think it should ever stop.
As was said, it's the only world event that brings the world together... We need more of that. Much more.
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Where is part two? It would be nice to see the rest of these before the Olympics go on any further ya?!
at 1:49, Where's Waldo? right there!!
If a woman with 2 kids is getting moved to a hotel, the only thing that has changed is where she lives so she still has to work. Your excuse saying the mother cant go to work to look after her kids anymore is lame. What do you think she did before?
They want a new house. They want everything given to them
Thanks for clearing that up yo.
all i'll say is most people in scotland never watched that Olympic pish lol
1:09 HOLY FUCK THAT IS A SCHNOODLE XD
Check the link in the description. You can watch the rest there.
Can't watch the rest on my phone. Greeeeat made me turn on my pc for this
ur annotation for part is is a subscription annotation and doesnt really go to part 2....
"...A really really shit opening ceremony, thats my prediction"
Just wanted to say, your comment restored a little bit of my faith in humanity, "cheers" :P
thank you
To be continued is a big pita, especially when it's interesting enough to watch rest...
Decaying Industrial Grunge is a band i used to listen too......
I live North of Chicago. Chicago put in a bid for the olympic games in 2020 i believe. You have to realize when you are hosting an event like this it has a negative effect on the public. Streets are closed so it's harder to get to work. Lots of tourism raises crime because all big cities have areas that are slums. It also costs alot of money to host. Chicago spent a few million dollars just to bid on the olympics and lost to rio de janero and Illinois is broke completely out of money.
Sad to see what has happened to east London. That place has a lot of history and culture.
The games gave memories that will be cherished in nations across the globe. Kirani james winning grenada's first ever gold medal was a huge occasion for the country, one that will have lifted them, or mo farah, doing the same for the people in somalia, even though he is now british. The olympics may not have helped people in a physical sense, but it will have lifted them, brought some happiness around. If all we spent our money on was research and technology, the world would be a glummer place.
hey. vancouver did that same thing when the olympics were held there. (got rid of the people aroudn the area)
I dont even watch the Olympics...but this was very interesting
I was wondering about that too...
Central Line is hell now .... I live in Leytonstone, so I have to go via Stratford everyday. I feel like tuna in a tin.
The whole thing is on vice.com just like it says in the description..
Unfortunately the regulation that appears in Manhattan isn't being applied here. There have been a couple of documentaries in the British media (see dispatches on channel 4) that have interviewed people who's contracts are not being renewed or can only be renewed if you pay anywhere up to £1000 per week because they know they can get this from Olympic visitors. Now I know that a renewed contract doesn't quite fall under rent control but the landlords are throwing people out to make a quick buck.
same thing happened to the vancouver 2010 winter olympics... >_>
I'm not british but it seemed to go much better than they had expected and it really brought the country together. Sounds corny, but I genuinely believe it.
+Dorookie no we have not, overall it was a great success.
The old guy with the beanie is awesome.
Disasters have happened at the last Winter Olympics, Beijing, and Atlanta. I wouldn't be surprised if something did happen.
You should of done this for the FIFA world cup in south Africa.. it made put my country into such dept
why only put up part 1 and not the rest?????
I was a 'victim' of the 2010 winter olympics in whistler BC. Lived there happily for awhile and supported myself working amongst other 'ski bums' and lots of euro's and auzzies having a gap year paid for by their parents, no resentment, however, the olympics come and for 3 months I can't drive to work anymore because of checkpoints and our rent triples, hard for someone paying $450 to have to pay $1300. Lived in houses made for 4 packed with 15 people olympics fucked some of us locals right up
As someone who lives in newham I can safely say nothing has changed every
wtf? A Westfield mall?????? Wow I live in L.A and we have one of those? Damn commercialization sure can travel... didn't know it was Aussie either
Glad we're on your mind :)
HMM... So this man can afford to book a flight to China and go to that Olympics but cannot afford to get a train and book a ticket to the London Olympics. Even if the London Olympics were expensive, they surely weren't THAT expensive.
I live in Bby and work at a drug and alcohol facility in downtown. I can assure you that the police did not round up the homeless and send them into the suburbs. They handed out tickets, and arrested some who did not pay so as to keep them in jail during the Olympics. If they did move them into the nearby cities, they would have just gotten on the skytrain and moved back into downtown. Don't make such broad assumptions
Sorry, I got the number wrong. It was 29 million for the ceremony alone, but that is still a huge amount of money.
1:46 I found Waldo!
2014 world cup in brazil :O that shit gana be cray.
Only see a part 1, get's ready to bitch and rage, but reads the description like you should, goes to website, watches the rest of the parts, happy panda.
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@tejas...well said.
Wow 07:37 looking good X)) Has anyone else noticed?
If I had an olympic ticket I'd give it to that old man.
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is it ironic that the advert for this video was the olympic soundtrack?
For a short time, remember after the olympics are done you have to pay a couple million dollars a year for upkeep for that giant stadium collecting dust.
Don't rely on the council for you home and they can't tell you to move!
Love the way that upper class nitwit laughs and says "I think everything is going to collapse" at 6.53 like it will ever affect her in any way.....
just take a gallon of dishsoap water mix and water the select trees that they just planted that you say.. dont like and they will be gone very soon) just a hint make your space!
Living a little under 60 miles from London, it is a city that inspires me - I find it fascinating, beguiling, frustrating, frightening and charming at a turn. There are areas and corners of it that I know initmately and others that remain almost foreign. The 'London Olympics' remain an anathema to me however simply because of their very nature....In an age of such supposed 'eqaulity' why should we be impressed by one persons ability to run/jump/swim faster than another?
I like the old guys hat. I want one.
when i saw this in my sub box i was like; FUCK YES!
My uni at 0:32 - 0:45 !!!! Wuup wuup!
oh my bad, thanks!
What song is playing at end?? its beautiful.
Did you miss the bit about the gentrification? The guy at 10:10 starts talking about it. Poor families in London have been getting evicted from their homes and forced to live in hotels in places like Birmingham and Manchester, this isn't just something that happened during the Olympics, it's still happening in London right now and it will continue because of the new benefit caps being introduced. That's pretty serious and I wouldn't call it "whinging".
1:46 I've just found waldo at the Rome Olympics.
Hurp: Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and gymnophiona) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians, and the tuataras). Batrachology is a further subdiscipline of herpetology concerned with the study of amphibians alone.
That old man has a SWAGGED out beanie!
That's like saying the 1976 Olympics weren't a failure because they still happened, even thought the roof still was incomplete.
attendance even at the most popular events is so far down they are giving away tickets to all those in the military. Before that on TV it looked as if the events were just practice as some had less than half the seats filled. This will be the final blow to the UK economy. And perhaps all of the EU.
oh uh... huh nvm. YOU SAW NOTHING
Greenway eh? It's weird how you hear some random thing during the day, and then you hear it again in a completely unrelated way.
Unfourtnetly yes, and way more than they sould be.
How is there radioactive waste just randomly in the middle of a populated city? That stuff should be either locked away in a secret location or in space.
How's the english classes in Finland?
There was nothing wrong with the opening of the London Olympics, it was inventive and original.