Hell is Round the Corner
Jul. 6th, 2005 05:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blahflowersOh shitty fuck-bakes. Excuse me, world? Hello? WE INVADED IRAQ, remember? We're supposed to be fucking pariahs for a while yet. You don't give us presents. You bunch of idiots.
Adding to my 'things to do' list.
23. Shoot Sebastian Coe through both of his knees.
This is a bloody steaming disaster for both London and Britain. Actually, it would have been okay if it had gone to somewhere else in the country, anywhere else, except the place that's probably the place least suited to holding a large sporting event. Some Anglian swampland would make a better Olympic site than London.
So,
Londoners taxes will go up, because we'll be fucked if we want to pay for decent treatment for the sick and infirm but we'll want to build luxury hotels for the super-rich.
The Government will give away even more cash to anyone that runs a transport system in London because the private companies that run them will insist that they can't use their money to improve our service, yet improvements to the system will be negligible.
By the time 2012 rolls around we'll have something that makes the Millenium Experience look the bestest party ever and all the clods who made this pointlessness possible will be far away from here.
Actually, there's no way on earth we can manage this. The Oympics never work. So perhaps the rest of the world knows exactly what it was doing giving it to us.
Adding to my 'things to do' list.
23. Shoot Sebastian Coe through both of his knees.
This is a bloody steaming disaster for both London and Britain. Actually, it would have been okay if it had gone to somewhere else in the country, anywhere else, except the place that's probably the place least suited to holding a large sporting event. Some Anglian swampland would make a better Olympic site than London.
So,
Londoners taxes will go up, because we'll be fucked if we want to pay for decent treatment for the sick and infirm but we'll want to build luxury hotels for the super-rich.
The Government will give away even more cash to anyone that runs a transport system in London because the private companies that run them will insist that they can't use their money to improve our service, yet improvements to the system will be negligible.
By the time 2012 rolls around we'll have something that makes the Millenium Experience look the bestest party ever and all the clods who made this pointlessness possible will be far away from here.
Actually, there's no way on earth we can manage this. The Oympics never work. So perhaps the rest of the world knows exactly what it was doing giving it to us.
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Date: 2005-07-06 11:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-07 12:18 am (UTC)Let's all decamp to Paris and start a commune, who's with me?
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Date: 2005-07-07 02:18 am (UTC)(Mind you, the World's Fair Grounds had the space necessary, but that was a last minute addition to a proposal that probably looked more and more like a Michael Bloomberg vanity project the closer you got to it)
To quote my friend DB, in Rockefeller Center the only people waiting for the announcement of the venue was the committee, and three homeless people. London at least was acting like they wanted it.
I imagine that the IOC took one look at where the West Side stadium was going to be (or just took an unofficial poll) and said, nope, not NYC this time out.
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Date: 2005-07-07 05:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-07 09:00 am (UTC)I'm not a big cricket fan but you have to admit the entertainment value of watching them try to schedule 100+ teams playing five-day tests over a two week period and achieve some sort of meaningful medal outcome.:)
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Date: 2005-07-07 10:03 am (UTC)