Incoming from Michael J, drawing my attention to this video of the Mayor of London flagging up the Olympic Games in appropriately manic style, minus a great deal of piss that has been edited out of him, so to speak. The official grand opening is tomorrow.
Right at the end, in the one bit of Not Boris, someone shouts: “I hate Sebastian Coe!” This, if I am not mistaken, was Jeremy Paxman. I did not know he felt that way about Coe. (LATER: He doesn’t. Or not publicly. Not Paxman. See first comment.)
This sort of thing is the twenty first century’s version of pelting those who consider themselves Great and Good with vegetables.
Enjoy.
The “I hate” was Chris Morris from a “The Day Today” skit.
Very Paxmanesque.
Limpiks, what’s that runnin and swimmin sort of stuff for lounge xperts.
More on Boris Johnson here: here and here.
But obviously not here
The Olympics… a “curious combination of the Soviet and the commercial.” Yep: it really is utterly philistine. I would save skiing and maybe gymnastics, but that’s about it. The rest of it is just wank.
Don’t forget the Nazi, and also the Francoist.
And then this morning…
“The bells, the bells! They mke me deaf!”
Frankly everyone involved in “organizing” this farce ought to be coated in treacle and thrown to the honey badgers.
I do like the suggestion that we should wear this T-shirt.
I suffer from Olympic Aversion Syndrome and find that I can instantly detect an impending relevant report by the silly smile on the face of the newscaster. There was one this morng on the Beeb where five people were lined up, each sporting the same silly smile and I swear I had changed the channel in less than a microsecond.
I find it instructive to consider that when something was found that the political elite agreed upon there was no democractic consultation about it.
There are of course a great many such things but with a discrete and large event such as the Olympics it was pretty transparent.
What is the scuttlebutt over there about Mitt Romney being “disconcerted” about how the London Olympics have been run so far?