Still 3 months to go before it even fucking starts and it feels to me - judging from the saturation of Olympics-"stories" in the UK media which is only going to get (even) worse as the corporate advertising orgy, sorry, the 2012 London Olympic Games edges ever closer - like the 2012 Olympic Games have been happening for several years already.
Fuck the Olympics. Fuck the opening ceremony and fuck all the bullshit platitudes emanating from the politicians about the glorious "legacy" this event will leave in its wake, and how it is going to benefit countless communities living nearby the many vastly expensive and taxpayer-funded newly built stadiums, swimming pools, cycling-tracks etc for years to come. (As if all the fat fucks in this country - which is what, the 3rd or 4th fattest country in the world isn't it? - are going to suddenly stop eating pies, chips ands crisps and go jogging everyday from now on simply because London got the 2012 Olympics; and furthermore the impression is given that the many local communities near Olympic venues will benefit from free use of these admittedly world-class sporting facilities from now on when in reality I'm quite sure that this is something of a myth and in reality it won't change very much at all because at the end of day who are the main sponsors of these games? Whose logos are going to be everywhere you look when watching these games on TV? Why those champions of clean-living and healthy eating McDonalds and Coca-Cola....)
And fuck the vast sums of public money which have been spent on the Olympics when the main beneficiaries of it all won't be the general public but rather the rich folk who run the companies such as G4S (the security firm in charge of all venue security); the construction companies awarded the contracts to build the venues; the companies who will end up running the venues for private profit after the games etc etc - and of course all the shareholders of said companies.
Please don't flame me for being unpatriotic as that is not my argument: I'm merely exasperated by how something like the Olympics has changed throughout the 20th Century from being a fabulous celebration of athletic prowess (originally intended to be for non-professional athletes and sports folk) and, just as importantly if not more so, at the same time an event where so many different countries can come together - setting political differences aside - and celebrate diversity to what it is today: an apparent opportunity to print money for many different companies and organisations with even companies who manufacture rocket-launchers getting a piece of the pie..... (see http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012...london-reaction for full story).
Fuck the Olympics. Fuck the opening ceremony and fuck all the bullshit platitudes emanating from the politicians about the glorious "legacy" this event will leave in its wake, and how it is going to benefit countless communities living nearby the many vastly expensive and taxpayer-funded newly built stadiums, swimming pools, cycling-tracks etc for years to come. (As if all the fat fucks in this country - which is what, the 3rd or 4th fattest country in the world isn't it? - are going to suddenly stop eating pies, chips ands crisps and go jogging everyday from now on simply because London got the 2012 Olympics; and furthermore the impression is given that the many local communities near Olympic venues will benefit from free use of these admittedly world-class sporting facilities from now on when in reality I'm quite sure that this is something of a myth and in reality it won't change very much at all because at the end of day who are the main sponsors of these games? Whose logos are going to be everywhere you look when watching these games on TV? Why those champions of clean-living and healthy eating McDonalds and Coca-Cola....)
And fuck the vast sums of public money which have been spent on the Olympics when the main beneficiaries of it all won't be the general public but rather the rich folk who run the companies such as G4S (the security firm in charge of all venue security); the construction companies awarded the contracts to build the venues; the companies who will end up running the venues for private profit after the games etc etc - and of course all the shareholders of said companies.
Please don't flame me for being unpatriotic as that is not my argument: I'm merely exasperated by how something like the Olympics has changed throughout the 20th Century from being a fabulous celebration of athletic prowess (originally intended to be for non-professional athletes and sports folk) and, just as importantly if not more so, at the same time an event where so many different countries can come together - setting political differences aside - and celebrate diversity to what it is today: an apparent opportunity to print money for many different companies and organisations with even companies who manufacture rocket-launchers getting a piece of the pie..... (see http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012...london-reaction for full story).
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