Traffic lights will turn green for Olympic chiefs as ordinary drivers are forced into bus lanes
82,000 members of the 'Olympic family' will travel in special lanes
Experts warn of chaos for ordinary road users in London

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Gawd, the whinging. I write as someone who works in London who will probably be quite seriously inconvenienced by this but really, it's only for two weeks. You'd think from the moans that this was close to the end of the world for some of them.

The Mail has a point though.

The Olympics is supposed to be about sport, not freebies for the rich and famous.

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That's more in keeping with the days of Liddel and Abrahams.

This is a real bee in my bonnet. One of several, I know...

I believe that the Olympics should follow much more closely the pattern of the Hellenic Games - running, jumping, throwing, hitting each other and a race for naked young ladies carrying gladioli. And possibly chariots. Not beach shotputting, skateboard polo or underwater archery. All of these modern sports already have their rather silly World Championships, let that be the criterion of excellence.


/buzz

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This could be interesting -
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/ ... lympics.do

Matters have moved on since this report, because this project has been officially adopted for the Olympics and the organisers are now contacting bellringing societies. It might have been a good idea if they'd checked before they adopted the idea, as bellringers are universally not interested. The project envisages all church bells in the country being rung as loudly and quickly as possible for a period of 3 minutes at 8 a.m. on a Friday morning at the start of the Olympics. The trouble is that there aren't enough bellringers in the entire country to do that, let alone bellringers who can take the necessary time off work; you can't try to ring church bells as loudly as possible because there is no volume control; and as English bells are set on wheels, you can't ring them quickly.

It is likely to blow Mailite minds because one reaction is going to be how dreadfully unpatriotic those bellringers are, Britain no longer a Christian country, etc etc; but that will conflict with the general hatred of the Olympics, beardy lefty artists, officialdom, etc etc. Difficult to call which way the Mail will go.

He won a £500,000 prize for that?

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Bit ambivalent about these. Desperately not wanting to join the Mailtards in their "Ooh, the 1948 poster is just luvly and all modern art is Marxist rubbish" but with one or two exceptions (Rachel Whitereads' in particular) those pieces are spectacularly shite.

Never did like the logo either.

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a mixed bag, but i like the idea (personal fav: howard hodgkin), there's going to be a couple of posters everyone likes (well, nearly everyone, not counting the impossible to please here).

actually kind of surprised by how poor the '48 poster is, there is some utterly brilliant graphic design from that era, but that's just a bit of a mess.

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The Mona Lisa is just a picture of a woman?

Picasso? The things he painted didn't even look like the things he was trying to paint!

I must confess to being a bit of a philistine about art, but isn't the Mona Lisa just a picture of a woman?

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Latest blog post - 2011 - a review (updated 07/10)

I honestly couldn't tell you why the Monal Lisa is so well loved.... but one thing I do know is that all of the limited edition prints of all the posters have sold out. In a day. One of the posters was £950 each... and all 250 have been sold.


LOGOC have already made millions of pounds from the posters in a few days. S

Around the UK in 70 days: Olympic flame's 8,000-mile trip up and down the British Isles

A moan free article, apart from the comments underneath.