ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
The Olympics is going to be brilliant.
The Opening Ceremony could well be very cool. It's not as of it's being made by an idiot. He does know how to make successful stuff. It might also be a shambles, but I think it's worth a shout. Certainly more fun than not having a ceremony at all.
And surely the fact that tens of thousands of people are involved in it, and many more are attending (often at great personal cost) means that quite a lot of people are enthused about it?
Far easier to damn it before you see it. Then intentionally avoid it and therefore be unpersuadable, unless you accidentally experience in which case you should plan to have a blinkered view to ensure that your views can't be changed.
Yeah, whatever. Of course, I was 'damning' the publicly unveiled
details of the opening ceremony (on the basis that they are self evidently twee, naff (fake clouds and rain anyone?), crass, romanticised, caricatured crap, wholly unrepresentative of Britain in 2012 or indeed at any time in its history, and above all, incredibly backward looking) -
not the ceremony itself.
Still, let's not allow the facts of the situation get in the way of yet another entirely unprovoked, sardonic little dig in my general direction, on your part. Again. (I really must ask you by the way - do you think this kind of thing, trolling basically, puts you in a good light somehow? Personally, I think it just makes you look like a rather smug, petty, unpleasant arsehole with an axe to grind? - not a good look? But there we are, hey!
)
All of that said, it's perfectly reasonable to assume that these details *are* representative of what's to come, unless this really is some incredibly elaborate decoy do you think APOD...? Shit, I do hope so, for the sake of the collective reputation of this country abroad. Oh, and contrary to what you imply, I'd be delighted to be proven wrong, actually, but yet again, let's not have the facts getting in the way here.
As for me ignoring the Olympics, as distinct from banging on negatively and incessantly about them for the next 40+ days, this seems to be quite reasonable; those who *are* looking forward to them, like Curio, can get on with the business of doing so without any detraction from me. But of course, whatever I did, or did not do, and whatever my opinions in this matter - even if you agreed with them (which IIRC you did?), I can be fairly certain that you'd be there pissing on my bonfire regardless, yet again, all as per. Hey, you're nothing if not reliable.
(It's just a shame that that reliability of yours tends to rather break down when you're confronted/called to account though, eh. Still, nice timing on your part, kick a man when he's down etc.).
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