Captain Caveman wrote:
Hey, I fancy being an Olympiad. It's got to beat working for a living, right?
If I use the products endorsed by the Olympics, do you reckon I could reach the desired pinnacle of fitness?
A Supersized(TM) McAthlete(TM) Meal(TM) with full phat Coke(TM) should surely do the trick. Yes.
(Makes me want to puke at how cigarette advertisers have (quite rightly IMO) been banned from sponsoring sporting events, but it's somehow OK for the supposed jewel in the crown of such events to be very publicly part-bankrolled by burger chains and sugary drinks manufacturers. Obesity is an even bigger killer than lung cancer, afterall. As ever then, money talks, people come last).
Just like any other event that this country ends up getting it will be used for greed based purposes.
I used to (when I lived down in London, or up in London depending on geographical location) go to Party in the park. It was a free thing every summer where some half decent acts turned up and performed. Go to buy a hot dog? why, that'll be
seven pounds please. If that doesn't seem alarming consider that said hot dog was purchased in 1997. That was the last one I went to.
So upset was I that I decided to look into it, and asked one of the security guards why they were so expensive. Basically he told me that you needed to buy a license to pitch your hot dogs there, and £5 from every hot dog sale was to pay for the license.
Even something that is supposed to be free and put on for free involves plenty of golden hand shaking and profiteering.
The Olympics is no exception. I bet back handed bungs were flying around as soon as they announced that London had got it. Kind of makes you laugh really. There was the press statement from the leader of the country to say "A good thing for England. Small businesses etc will do very well from it".
Yeah, right. No one will do well from it unless they pay out of the ass for it. Same old, same old.