Wednesday, May 02, 2012

A Gold Medal for getting us to hate the Olympics...

The Campaign to Make Us All Hate The Olympics moves up a gear this week with the ludicrous, you-couldn’t-make-it-up news that the Army is to install surface-to-air missiles on a block of flats in the East End in, of course, ‘the interests of security’.

Someone needs to have a quiet lie-down here then have themselves fired. This is sport, for heaven’s sake. It is fit people running around and throwing things and hitting each other with sticks and having a swim. It is entertainment. It doesn’t matter. It is not important. It is supposed to be fun. Otherwise there is no point. If, at any time surface-to-air missiles are involved, you know it cannot be fun.

The Olympics really are starting to become surreal, as this brilliant piece explains. The official ‘restaurant’ is McDonald’s (how on earth does McD’s get away with calling itself a restaurant?). The official ‘drink’ is Coca Cola. So a British celebration of health and svelte is represented by American firms offering overpriced grease and sugary, tooth-rotting waist-expanding pop. Full story...

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