2012 London Olympics

Indeed. Most of us don't give a rat's ass about it. Especially the scandals surrounding it. It's been a highly commercialised venture. And it has been since the 80s. Not at all part of the Olympics's spirit.

Also, it's in London. The armed presence is because of the locals, not because of terrorists. (Because everyone knows all British gun crime happens in London East)

edited 18th Jul '12 4:44:31 AM by Inhopelessguy

If, however, you ask an Englishman about the Olympics in conversation, he will probably not say he hates it. He will instead express his dislike in an understated manner, and will endeavor to agree with you to an extent if you claim to enjoy them. He may then try to move the conversation onto more neutral ground, i.e.^note Yes, I do mean that rather than e.g. the weather.

edited 18th Jul '12 4:54:57 AM by Telcontar

Yes, I have done that, actually. Did one know that it's only peaking at sixteen degrees today? Barely a patch of blue in the sky! I tell you, this is not even sixteen-degree weather! They say summer's been pushed back to September! The shame.

Well, I find that we're having absolutely lovely weather. For March!

We're having November early this year.

Indeed. Indeed.

You know, I once saw this giant orange orb in the sky. It was really scary. Not sure what it does. It was there for a minute, and it was really warm and bright, but heck, I had no clue what it was doing there! Frightening!

Might have been a flare.

And yet, still no one moved by birthday any closer.

edited 18th Jul '12 5:14:23 AM by TheBatPencil

Or we're just nuking you. OR IT WAS JUST NOTHING. DISREGARD.

The clouds are stupid around here.

They're really bright, but it's cloudy, and there is no "sun."

True. Perhaps the Tories have actually decided to implement their 'evaporate Birmingham' policy.

@ Jones. It's because we're full of Labour voters and nonconformists.

@ Bat. Happy proto-birthday!

edited 18th Jul '12 5:20:18 AM by Inhopelessguy

Well, it does require a large number of souls vaporised to bring Thatcher back to her full dark powers...

Anyway, Olympics. Yes. They are a thing.

They are indeed.

I am a little excited, since one of my classmates is in the women's diving team.

When she kicks the bucket, everyone that lives north of the Cardiff-London M4 will have a street party.

That's awesome! :0

edited 20th Jul '12 5:16:40 AM by Inhopelessguy

So last night I saw an advert for special edition Olympic shampoo bottles. Who is that for?

"For the sportsman in you."

Right? Right?

I find the sponsor's Olympic-themed advertisements cringe-worthy. They desperately shoe-horn references to the Olympics in.

I remember Lloyds TSB (THE OFFICIAL BANKING PARTNER OF THE 2012 LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES) running adverts like the following;

"I want a bank that gives me great interest rates."

"That's Lloyds TSB."

That's fair enough.

"I want a bank that sponsors the Olympic Games!"

"That's Lloyds TSB."

...

If whether a bank is sponsoring a sporting event lasts a few weeks is a deciding factor for your mortgage, I don't think you should be allowed to have money full stop.

If I hear she's dead, then I'm sharpening my stake to make sure she doesn't rise again. I lived in Durham during the miners' strike, for one thing.

The whole thing is really, really trashy, isn't it? Kinda ruins the whole occasion.

Still...

The wooden stake to kill a vampire with attendant spontaneous disintegration a la the Wheedonverse is wrong. A far more modern interpretation of the vampire myth than most folks who were terrified of them at the height of the vampire craze would recognise. The stake was only to pin the beggar down in the coffin once you actually noticed that the corpse didn't look very corpse-like, if you follow? And you didn't even need a stake. A good old fashioned sword, spear, knife or other stabbing/impaling weapon would do. It wasn't even a requirement to impale the heart either. In those days, most folks didn't even know exactly where the heart was anyway.

Once the vamp was pinned down, you cut the head off, burned both parts separately until they were ash and bone fragments, dowsed the ashes in water and scattered the ashes in a fast-flowing stream or river. This was to prevent reconstitution of the vamp from bits of ash.

All of which is what I would like to do to Maggie.

@ Bat. Indeed. Also, Pampers (A SUBSIDIARY OF P&G, THE OFFICIAL SPONSOR OF THE 2012 LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES)...

What are those adverts?

Really we should just nuke the corpse from orbit just to make sure. It's the safest way.

That is the safest way.

British politics is really, just a game of "Elect, Re-elect, or Kill?".

The terminally gullible?

So you're saying you wouldn't want a Team GB lego set?

Or a special edition £8 Coca-Cola bottle made of aluminium?

Or maybe a special edition commemorative teddy bear from John Lewis at just £79.95?

GET YOUR VISA CARD (official Credit Card company of the Olympic Games ©) OUT AND GET INTO THE DAMN SPIRIT OF THE OLYMPICS © BY SPENDING ALL YOUR MONEY!