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Why? Please elaborate.

by vecinu 14y ago

excuse-me 14y ago
Start with laws rewriting copyright to make it a CRIMINAL offence to use: the name of the country's capital city together with either the numeric value of this year, or the name of the season between spring and autumn. Spending $Bn of taxpayers money on 'infrastructure' that is going to be used for 2weeks and then given away for next to nothing to friends/supporters afterwards. And at the same time cutting funding to schools and community sports. Using the army as cheap labour when the company given the contract for security decided it was going to be profitable enough and walked away All this so a bizarrely coiffured lunatic and his oily friends in Westminster can appear on global TV
- DanWaterworth 14y ago
  You missed the truly abysmal logos and mascots.
  - excuse-me 14y ago
    If children wish to draw "one-eyed trouser snakes" or Lisa Simpson performing an intimate act, on their school books that's fine. I just don't think that consenting adults should be exposed to this sort of thing - especially not splashed over every wall
    - b0 14y ago
      I've never heard the one-eyed trouser snake one before - I nearly spat my (non-Olympic-overlord approved) water in my ThinkPad :-) They are by far the worst mascots ever.
  - ceejayoz 14y ago
    Which are worse even than they look on first glance. Colourize them right and they look like Simpsons characters. http://media.nowpublic.net/images//00/f/00f893c2ac7430de95e1e60e3d71b97c.jpg http://media.nowpublic.net/images//00/f/00f893c2ac7430de95e1...
b0 14y ago
I'll give you some ideas why it's an absolute fucking disgrace: * Rapier missile launchers installed on residential flats. * Dispersal Zone around Olympics which has kerfew, 42,000 strong mostly private police force and all legal rights suspended for residents and visitors. * Armed drones patrolling the air around the site. * Armed troops on site and the surrounding area. * They built on Leyton Marshes which is common land. * Warships have been stationed on the Thames. * Transport disruption due to Olympic traffic lanes added and service alterations over the entire transport network (resulting in a 3 mile walk to take my disabled daughter to her physiotherapist - fun eh?) * The fact that we have bankrupt hospital trusts which could have been bailed out several times over for that amount of money. * The fact that NHS maternity and surgical services are turning people away and warning of serious disruption during the event. * The fact that the Olympic village was promised for social housing. Out of 11,000 residences, 675 are going to it. * There are branding police and official products which must be purchsed on site. You can't even take a flask of water with you incase they can't make money out of you. * The fact that the political elite asked for the event despite polls taken at the time suggesting that the general opinion is that we didn't want it. * The fact that "we're going to benefit from it", but there are no tangible benefits which are provable and every Olympic city has gone down the pan after the Olympics. Ultimately, everything we expect and pay huge amounts for in tax is suspended for our political and corporate overlords. It's a militarisation exercise. Pretty picture: http://www.terratag.com/Files/52189/Img/06/APOCOLYMPICS_DETAIL-2.jpg http://www.terratag.com/Files/52189/Img/06/APOCOLYMPICS_DETA... (product link for it: http://www.terratag.com/PBSCProduct.asp?ItmID=8759948 http://www.terratag.com/PBSCProduct.asp?ItmID=8759948)
- cjrp 14y ago
  My favourite is the promise that people in the surrounding areas will benefit from all of the funding, new developments, etc. BS. The "area" will benefit (gentrification leading to more expensive rent/housing), effectively pricing out the existing residents.
  - b0 14y ago
    As the parent commenter and a previous resident (of Leyton), you've nailed it there. Our landlord upped our rent from 1000GBP a month to 1400GPB a month the moment it was announced.

Why? Please elaborate.

by vecinu 14y ago

Why? Please elaborate.

Start with laws rewriting copyright to make it a CRIMINAL offence to use: the name of the country's capital city together with either the numeric value of this year, or the name of the season between spring and autumn. Spending $Bn of taxpayers money on 'infrastructure' that is going to be used for 2weeks and then given away for next to nothing to friends/supporters afterwards. And at the same time cutting funding to schools and community sports. Using the army as cheap labour when the company given the contract for security decided it was going to be profitable enough and walked away All this so a bizarrely coiffured lunatic and his oily friends in Westminster can appear on global TV

DanWaterworth 14y ago
You missed the truly abysmal logos and mascots.
- excuse-me 14y ago
  If children wish to draw "one-eyed trouser snakes" or Lisa Simpson performing an intimate act, on their school books that's fine. I just don't think that consenting adults should be exposed to this sort of thing - especially not splashed over every wall
  - b0 14y ago
    I've never heard the one-eyed trouser snake one before - I nearly spat my (non-Olympic-overlord approved) water in my ThinkPad :-) They are by far the worst mascots ever.
- ceejayoz 14y ago
  Which are worse even than they look on first glance. Colourize them right and they look like Simpsons characters. http://media.nowpublic.net/images//00/f/00f893c2ac7430de95e1e60e3d71b97c.jpg http://media.nowpublic.net/images//00/f/00f893c2ac7430de95e1...

b0 14y ago

I'll give you some ideas why it's an absolute fucking disgrace: * Rapier missile launchers installed on residential flats. * Dispersal Zone around Olympics which has kerfew, 42,000 strong mostly private police force and all legal rights suspended for residents and visitors. * Armed drones patrolling the air around the site. * Armed troops on site and the surrounding area. * They built on Leyton Marshes which is common land. * Warships have been stationed on the Thames. * Transport disruption due to Olympic traffic lanes added and service alterations over the entire transport network (resulting in a 3 mile walk to take my disabled daughter to her physiotherapist - fun eh?) * The fact that we have bankrupt hospital trusts which could have been bailed out several times over for that amount of money. * The fact that NHS maternity and surgical services are turning people away and warning of serious disruption during the event. * The fact that the Olympic village was promised for social housing. Out of 11,000 residences, 675 are going to it. * There are branding police and official products which must be purchsed on site. You can't even take a flask of water with you incase they can't make money out of you. * The fact that the political elite asked for the event despite polls taken at the time suggesting that the general opinion is that we didn't want it. * The fact that "we're going to benefit from it", but there are no tangible benefits which are provable and every Olympic city has gone down the pan after the Olympics. Ultimately, everything we expect and pay huge amounts for in tax is suspended for our political and corporate overlords. It's a militarisation exercise. Pretty picture: http://www.terratag.com/Files/52189/Img/06/APOCOLYMPICS_DETAIL-2.jpg http://www.terratag.com/Files/52189/Img/06/APOCOLYMPICS_DETA... (product link for it: http://www.terratag.com/PBSCProduct.asp?ItmID=8759948 http://www.terratag.com/PBSCProduct.asp?ItmID=8759948)

cjrp 14y ago
My favourite is the promise that people in the surrounding areas will benefit from all of the funding, new developments, etc. BS. The "area" will benefit (gentrification leading to more expensive rent/housing), effectively pricing out the existing residents.
- b0 14y ago
  As the parent commenter and a previous resident (of Leyton), you've nailed it there. Our landlord upped our rent from 1000GBP a month to 1400GPB a month the moment it was announced.