The olympics...

ezinra · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:56 pm

As if the sport wasn't bad/expensive enough, there's the Cultural Olympiad — "an orgy of politically correct nonsense" — to complain about too:

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The 'arts' are trivial and a complete waste of money. Just ask pretty much anyone "will you pay £x towards a pink inflatable hippo floating down the Thames?" This only happens via taxpayers money. No person is insane enough to give their own monbey voluntarily. A total waste of hard earned money.

- Dr Evil, Huntingdon, England, 25/7/2011 10:15 Rating 62

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It was obvious from the beginning that the London olympics would be nothing more than a showcase for every lunatic liberal ideology going, the same ideology that most reasonably smart people stand rooted in astonishment at, I personally think it is going to be the biggest internationally illuminated humiliation since terminal 5, an exposition of just how soft and pathetic this country has became, that is of course it isnt a failure because of the incompetence of some fat pencil pushing moron.

- Daz, Newcastle, 25/7/2011 12:59 Rating 6

I really like terminal 5. But then I'm a sucker for lunatic liberal ideology as well.

ACG · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:14 pm

kind of hard to take the papers opinion on the arts at all seriously when it heads up the article with this visual atrosity

the art of editorial illustration should be to sum up an articles content into a single, simple, impactful image. not to cram as many of the things the writer mentions into an overcrowed clusterfuck of a picture.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:21 pm

Nor when they misspell their quotes from Shakespeare.

AOB · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:33 pm

If you were to argue with a Mailite that the Royal Family is a waste of money the chances are you'd be met with the old argument that they bring in a lot of money through visitors. So where's this argument disappeared to for the Olympic Games? And you could point out that at least this is a one off. They've been taking taxpayer money for centuries and will continue to bleed the coffers until kingdom come.

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4307

'Politically Correct' just seems to mean anything that they don't like.

ezinra · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:43 pm

It's also not that difficult to make art sound shit by selectively quoting the marketing bumph. If art could be reduced to just a few lines of prose puffery, well, we wouldn't need art.

ACG · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:00 pm

AOB wrote:

If you were to argue with a Mailite that the Royal Family is a waste of money the chances are you'd be met with the old argument that they bring in a lot of money through visitors. So where's this argument disappeared to for the Olympic Games? And you could point out that at least this is a one off. They've been taking taxpayer money for centuries and will continue to bleed the coffers until kingdom come.

the writer whines about both the cost and apparent unoriginality, but surely the reason behind that is that organisers are largely going for safe bets, things that they know are going to bring visitors an thus visitor money...why a shakespeare interpretation and not an original play? people are far more likely to go see a shakespeare interpretaion. why a giant puppet? most likely because of the massive success of la princesse in liverpool a few years ago.
he doesn't seem to be against the idea of arts or art funding, but they shouldn't be "pc" (which as mojojojo says, means little in mailand anyway) and they shouldn't be "unoriginal" (he doesn't seem against shakespeare being done sans reinterpretation)... basically leaving the article as little more than "why isn't money being spent on things i personally like and agree with????!!!!"

also...

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London 2012 will take the cultural side of the Games to new levels of daftness.

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Still, this huge arts project probably can’t turn out worse than the Athens Olympics.

it either will be a new level of daftness or [probably] won't be as bad as athens, make your mind up.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:26 pm

"Where for art thou?"

Anyone who gets things that wrong isn't allowed to have any say in arts or the like.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7339

bluebellnutter wrote:

"Where for art thou?"

Anyone who gets things that wrong isn't allowed to have any say in arts or the like.

The author of the column usually writes advice about home insurance and maintenance.
The second string to his bow are horror revelations about councils and bins.

This Sports = real men, arts = poofs shows we have a true renaissance man on our favourite paper.

NOT

davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3837

I'm still trying to work out how hammer throwing and boxing can be lunatic liberal ideology.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:38 pm

Ross Clark wrote some rubbish about the Congestion Charge, something like "the congestion already rations the road surface". I didn't get it either.

ACG · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:42 pm

that would cirtainly explain this bit...

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In London, more money has been spent as part of the Cultural Olympiad installing LED displays on the roofs of bus shelters, apparently ‘to breathe new life into all corners of the capital, transforming the previously unloved tops of bus shelters into a London-wide digital canvas’.

Just one problem: unless you happen to live or work in a tall building with a bus stop directly outside it, you won’t be able to see any of these ‘installations’.

in which he seems to not acknowledge the existiance of double decker bus passengers.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7339

davidjay wrote:

I'm still trying to work out how hammer throwing and boxing can be lunatic liberal ideology.

1. It's based on merit, as opposed to the person with the most money winning.
2. There's not even prohibitively expensive equipment to keep the proles out.
3. No extra points for going to a nice school.
4. I hear they let coloureds participate.
5. Ditto manual labourers.

And if that isn't crypto spartactist liberal lunacy, we're all off to hell in an Olympic sized handcart.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:59 pm

Some lights on top a bus shelter don't sound inherently leftist to me.

I can imagine them brightening up a journey though.

What art do these non-PC types want? Portraits of kings?

ezinra · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 5:02 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

What art do these non-PC types want? Portraits of kings?

Statues of Saint Maggie, Bomber Harris and Lady Di. And proper ones what actually look like them.

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