London™ 2012™ Olympics®

im excited for the new chembros track

I'm surprised we're this far into the thread and there are only two pics of volleyball girls.

  On 7/17/2012 at 8:39 PM, kakapo said:

Where are you moving to?

Not sure yet pal. Looking for a decent spare room somewhere that's close to New Cross (where my partner will be living come Sept) and a reasonable commute to Southwark. Thinking about Greenwich cause I know the area quite well and have friends there. Or just New X, if I can stand the student vibe.

The London Olympics are a corporate lockdown that is entirely about making money and nothing to do with sport.

I have sympathy for althletes who want to do their thing but this has got entirely out of hand. They should drop all the sponsorship and opening ceremony bullshit and just make it a small festival of (slightly boring) track and field events with cheap tickets for whoever can be bothered to show up.

Will Self puts it best:

http://www.epigram.org.uk/2012/01/will-self-interview-the-olympics-suck/

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I hear that you are unenthusiastic about the prospect of the Olympics this summer. In your eyes, what is the greatest folly of this whole affair?

Rather unenthusiastic is putting it waaaaay mildly: I think the Olympics suck dogshit through a straw. People believe they encourage da yoof to take up running, jumping and fainting in coils – but this is nonsense. They’re a boondoggle for politicians and financiers, a further corruption of an already corrupt self-appointed international coterie of Olympian cunts, an excuse for ‘elite’ athletes to fuck each other, snarf steroids and pick up sponsorship deals, and a senseless hitching of infrastructural investment – if there’s any reality to this anyway – to a useless loss-trailing expenditure on starchitectural bollix. The stadia themselves are a folly. The new Westfield is a temple to moribund consumerism – in ten years time they’ll all be cracked and spalled; a Hitlerian mass of post-pomo nonsense.

 

Assuming we will always have the Olympics, could you suggest a better way of doing them?

Why assume that? If you want to run and jump, go do it in a field for free. If you want to run and jump with a Kenyan or a Croatian, go out and find one – there are plenty around my way – and go and run and jump together in a field. Costs nothing. You may even make a few bob by charging people to watch you.

  On 7/17/2012 at 10:56 PM, zazen said:

They should drop all the sponsorship and opening ceremony bullshit and just make it a small festival of (slightly boring) track and field events with cheap tickets for whoever can be bothered to show up.

 

agrees.

The Olympics have indeed become an overwrought commercial and adspace for multi-billion corporations with sporting events as a sideshow. It's basically a couple of week long commercial on the tax payers dime.

Everyone in Congress is pissed off about the Ralph Lauren opening ceremony US uniforms being made (partially!) outside of the U.S.

http://www.philly.co.../162786506.html

I guess nobody cares that they have conspicuous, gigantic Ralph Lauren Polo logos on them.

Fuck this shit.

Opening ceremony cut down by 30 mins to allow people to get home before public transport shuts down. Still imagine a lot of stranded people will be left.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/18/london-2012-opening-ceremony-shortened

  On 7/18/2012 at 7:38 PM, baph said:

Everyone in Congress is pissed off about the Ralph Lauren opening ceremony US uniforms being made (partially!) outside of the U.S.

 

http://www.philly.co.../162786506.html

 

I guess nobody cares that they have conspicuous, gigantic Ralph Lauren Polo logos on them.

 

 

Fuck this shit.

yeah, these are awful... what's with the fucking berets?

Xtra gayness?

personally I think it's a big waste of time/space/money, I even heard they've moved some of it into greenwich park. fucing sacrilige.

It's quite funny seeing sweaty ugly english girls getting their asses whipped in the running disciplines by elegant nubians.

Maybe they should have a black race/white race in this discipline for more fairness?

lol wow. Well, things could always be worse right?

*cough*Belize

and as for what the British will be wearing.....

is this like an affirmative action thing ? i mean, there just have to be a guy in any given time and place that will turn everything into some idiotic police state fantasy with links to 1.5 hour youtube videos that explain "the truth behind whatever" ?

  On 7/18/2012 at 9:30 PM, eugene said:

is this like an affirmative action thing ? i mean, there just have to be a guy in any given time and place that will turn everything into some idiotic police state fantasy with links to 1.5 hour youtube videos that explain "the truth behind whatever" ?

  On 7/18/2012 at 7:38 PM, baph said:

Everyone in Congress is pissed off about the Ralph Lauren opening ceremony US uniforms being made (partially!) outside of the U.S.

 

http://www.philly.co.../162786506.html

 

I guess nobody cares that they have conspicuous, gigantic Ralph Lauren Polo logos on them.

 

 

Fuck this shit.

lol. Ralph Lauren is having a field day I bet. Another marketing ploy by corporate America.

  On 7/18/2012 at 9:30 PM, eugene said:

is this like an affirmative action thing ? i mean, there just have to be a guy in any given time and place that will turn everything into some idiotic police state fantasy with links to 1.5 hour youtube videos that explain "the truth behind whatever" ?

Because there are people like you with their heads so far up their asses that someone else needs to do the thinking.

  On 7/18/2012 at 9:30 PM, eugene said:

fantasy

http://www.presstv.i...ail/239924.html

http://www.telegraph...r-Olympics.html

http://www.independe...um-6267107.html

There's your fantasy, moron.

holy shit, the police are using new technology to do their jobs !!1

*stores non-Monsanto seeds*

beret is for extra militaryness.

Oh and the logo thing is beyond the pale. I take it that every sporting endeavour now somehow involves an equestrian element, heh. All the sprinters versus a guy on an horse with a long mallet, perhaps. Won't do so well in the swimming events methinks.

It's like he thinks that he's doing the team a huge favour running up these duds. Pathetic.

  On 7/18/2012 at 1:56 AM, logakght said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwZOid42f2g

lol thats crap. Its on par with how crap the muse song turned out. I am now pretty damn sure that someone on a committee somewhere has told them to tone things down.

You expected a muse song to turn out ok ?

hah hah haah. !

The closer it gets the more it seems like a monumental BLOC..... just with more explosions.