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The only 'experience' I've been to at the o2 was the Bodyworlds exhibition of plasticised corpses and cadavers - but that's only because my old flat used to be a doctors' surgery, and amongst the occasional post for them was a pile of flyers and a pair of free tickets...
martin | 22.02.11 - 8:11 a.m. | #
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It's possibly one of the most depressing places in London to visit during daylight hours. Go on a wet Monday for the full joy of it. It's not all that on a Saturday night, either - and sees more alcohol-fuelled crime than anywhere else in the borough of Greenwich (more than Woolwich town centre).
The area around it is becoming less desolate - but is no less full of big brand clone outlets.
darryl | Homepage | 22.02.11 - 8:56 a.m. | #
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Is the dinosaur exhibition the one that was set up on a building site in Oxford Street last year?
Martin | 22.02.11 - 10:34 a.m. | #
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Titanic - disasters always attract crowds, sad but true.
Leuconoe | 22.02.11 - 10:48 a.m. | #
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And still not one pint of Real ale to be had in the whole complex? Ah well, time for that trek to the Pilot Inn again...
Kim | 22.02.11 - 11:25 a.m. | #
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My great grandfather's cousin, James Clinch Smith, was lost on the Titanic so I'd like to see the exhibition. Perhaps after this week (half term) things will get less hectic.
But I'm intrigued by those blue balls in the photos. What's that about?
HoosierSands | Homepage | 22.02.11 - 12:16 p.m. | #
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Things I've missed or ignored and felt none the worse for it; Jubilees (silver and gold), Weddings (Royal, several), the millennium dome, Stadium MK (I live in MK and it's the home of the Dons). Soon to be added.....the whole Olympic scherrrrrwizzle.
Mistakes I've made; New Wembley, vile and soulless cash grab.
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"Cost to subscribe to Sky World 3D HD for a month: £62.25"
Now I understand why people say benefit levels are too low...
Do people really pay that sort of money to watch TV? Why?
Blue Witch | Homepage | 22.02.11 - 1:27 p.m. | #
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Because they would rather watch TV than make smug, condescending, insulting remarks on internet message boards.
davebabs | 22.02.11 - 2:45 p.m. | #
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That wasn't what I meant 'davebabs'...
I was talking to someone I met on a course who turned out to be the head of the local CAB benefits advice team the other day.
She was telling me that they had either commissioned or carried out a piece of research showing that the thing that people whose circumstances had changed such that they were going to be reliant on benefits least wanted to give up was their Sky TV subscription.
We were both saying that, in that situation, contract tie-ins aside, paid-for TV was the first 'luxury' that would go, and that, if we were tied in, we would ring and try to negotiate a lower package fee.
But, I don't think either of us was aware just how expensive premium Sky TV packages are...
Blue Witch | Homepage | 22.02.11 - 3:51 p.m. | #
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I went there for the first time last summer, and thought it was shut! Didn't realise it was supposed to be like that! Went specifically for the British Music Experience, which even my teens ended up enjoying, particularly the recording studio.
CornishCockney | 22.02.11 - 3:54 p.m. | #
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Well, at least it's not sitting empty.
Jonathan Thomas | Homepage | 22.02.11 - 5:03 p.m. | #
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It's all very well being sniffy about corporate sponsors, but without the likes of O2, Sky and Nissan, we'd probably still have a big empty white elephant of a tent on a windswept and deserted peninsula.
Steve | 23.02.11 - 6:34 a.m. | #
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The Titanic exhibition is quite good - I saw it when It was in Melbourne last year. Seeing it at the Dome would be like doing two touristy things for the price of one...a bargain!
Rose | Homepage | 23.02.11 - 12:50 p.m. | #
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Last Sunday me and my two kids walked the Thames Path from Greenwich to Woolwich. It's a wonderful walk I'm pretty sure you've done - London seemed like an alien planet for quite a bit of it, especially so when walking past the Dome semi hidden behind huge mounds of aggregate. I do like the structure from the outside, but I've no desire to see its innards!
Colin | Homepage | 23.02.11 - 3:16 p.m. | #
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Lovely
Chris p | 27.02.11 - 11:11 p.m. | #
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I went to the O2 with my parents once just because we'd never been there before. It was sometime last summer. We walked around, found out there was barely anything of interest apart from the cinema (which didn't interest us), so I raced my parents home. I took the tube into central London and the tube/bus (which I ended up just missing and the next one was in an hour, damn you Hertfordshire!) back out again and they took the car...
I obviously won by about 20 minutes still though :D
...where was I? Oh yes, O2, snore. etc.
Causton | 07.03.11 - 11:57 p.m. | #
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