Is not a woken and vengeful ghost enough?
Feb. 18th, 2005 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexsarll"This may be a stupid question, but does anyone want a brick?"
"Is it a squeezy one?"
"No, it's a brick. Like you use to make houses."
We're moving offices, and that means chucking out time, and that means descending like vultures on each other's discard pile. Some of you will be getting slightly strange presents out of this, and there's sure to be a giveaway post once the adrenalin wears off and I contemplate my swag. Because the way it works here is that if you even have one reflex to move towards something, you grab it now, and wonder whether you actually want it later.
Today's anti-Olympic rant is going behind a cut because, as Takeshi Kovacs says, "it's amazing how constant repetition can make even the most obvious truths irritating enough to disagree with."
This BBC article about opponents of the Fvcking Bid is, for the most part, very good. And it's wonderful to see the national broadcaster giving the views of what is at the very least a significant minority the airtime they deserve, even in the face of heavily funded attempts to manufacture consensus.
However: "The bid's opponents aren't curmudgeons - their hearts will still flutter at the sight of another Kelly Holmes sprint finish."
Sorry, but if my heart *ever* flutters while I'm watching the Olympics it'll be a coincidental medical mishap. Sprinting isn't inherently boring, but it needs a bit more context to interest me; Indiana Jones escaping a deathtrap, for instance or James Bond charging in to defuse a bomb. Hell, I even like one bit of fiction which is entirely centred on a running race: The Human Race, in which the Flash races Sonic the Hedgehog across the Universe to save the Earth.
(The Flash later races Death itself too, but somehow that's not quite as good)
On a similar note, one Metro correspondent thinks we refuseniks are inconsistent. "I hope those opposed to London's Olympic bid are at least consistent and are opposed to all future world sporting events being staged here. If you don't want London to host the Olympics, then presumably you never want us to host the World Cups of football, rugby, cricket etc?"
Well obviously I don't want any of those either. What's your point, Colin Stankey?
Oh, and the pro-bid Standard reports that Londoners will be 'invited' to host athlete's families free of charge. If it's anything like the level of democracy that's been applied to the bid so far, then forcible billeting seems more likely.
I'm thinking the Fan Club sounds good for tonight, especially as it's the second part of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kitty_collar's birthday celebrations. luxembourg are on around 10, apparently.
"Is it a squeezy one?"
"No, it's a brick. Like you use to make houses."
We're moving offices, and that means chucking out time, and that means descending like vultures on each other's discard pile. Some of you will be getting slightly strange presents out of this, and there's sure to be a giveaway post once the adrenalin wears off and I contemplate my swag. Because the way it works here is that if you even have one reflex to move towards something, you grab it now, and wonder whether you actually want it later.
Today's anti-Olympic rant is going behind a cut because, as Takeshi Kovacs says, "it's amazing how constant repetition can make even the most obvious truths irritating enough to disagree with."
This BBC article about opponents of the Fvcking Bid is, for the most part, very good. And it's wonderful to see the national broadcaster giving the views of what is at the very least a significant minority the airtime they deserve, even in the face of heavily funded attempts to manufacture consensus.
However: "The bid's opponents aren't curmudgeons - their hearts will still flutter at the sight of another Kelly Holmes sprint finish."
Sorry, but if my heart *ever* flutters while I'm watching the Olympics it'll be a coincidental medical mishap. Sprinting isn't inherently boring, but it needs a bit more context to interest me; Indiana Jones escaping a deathtrap, for instance or James Bond charging in to defuse a bomb. Hell, I even like one bit of fiction which is entirely centred on a running race: The Human Race, in which the Flash races Sonic the Hedgehog across the Universe to save the Earth.
(The Flash later races Death itself too, but somehow that's not quite as good)
On a similar note, one Metro correspondent thinks we refuseniks are inconsistent. "I hope those opposed to London's Olympic bid are at least consistent and are opposed to all future world sporting events being staged here. If you don't want London to host the Olympics, then presumably you never want us to host the World Cups of football, rugby, cricket etc?"
Well obviously I don't want any of those either. What's your point, Colin Stankey?
Oh, and the pro-bid Standard reports that Londoners will be 'invited' to host athlete's families free of charge. If it's anything like the level of democracy that's been applied to the bid so far, then forcible billeting seems more likely.
I'm thinking the Fan Club sounds good for tonight, especially as it's the second part of
kitty_collar's birthday celebrations. luxembourg are on around 10, apparently.
