That’s the third most common reaction I’ve heard to the new London 2012 Olympics logo. The second most common has been “What the fuck is that?”, while the commonest reaction has been simply to reach for the nearest heavy object and smash the monitor (in case of emergency) to avoid seeing the fucking atrocity any longer than is necessary.
Don’t think for one moment that I’m alone in slating it.
I mean, quite literally, What The Fuck happened there? What? Why? In the name of all that’s holy, how did that ever even get off the whiteboard and out of the brainstorm? Why wasn’t it laughed off the face of the fucking industry the moment it ever took form?
Holy double fuck, that is just so awful. And it cost the taxpayers £400,000, allegedly. Great.
FUCKING GOOD WORK ALL ROUND. HAVE A DAY OFF.
–c.
Fascinating.
- Fnord links to
- Discordianism, which links to
- Pineal gland, which links to
- Telepathy, which links to
- Zener card, which links to
- One-way deck, which links to
- Card manipulation, which links to
- Guy Hollingworth[1], which links to
- Magic (illusion), which links to
- Derren Brown, which links to
- Milgram experiment, which links to
- Peter Gabriel, which links to
- So (album)[2], which links to
- Wallace and Gromit, which links to
- Feathers McGraw, which links to
- Exoskeleton, which links to
- Powered exoskeleton, which links to
- Iron Man, which links to
- Iron Man (film)[3], which links to
- Edwards Air Force Base, which links to
- Desert Tortoise, which links to
- Geococcyx, which links to
- Tarantula hawk[4], which links to
- Schmidt Sting Pain Index, which links to
- W. C. Fields, which links to
- Groucho Mark, which links to
- Rob Zombie, which links to
- Slash (musician), which links to
- Jeff Beck.
–c.
[1] Two tricks by Guy, the second of which is his famous “Reformation”.
[2] One of my favourite albums of all time.
[3] ALL TEH W00T!!!
[4] It’s a type of wasp. Tarantula. Hawk. Wasp. Fucking hell.
So yeah, went to see Yarr pt. 3: At World’s End yesterday, and I thought it was superb. Yes, it does have a few too many plot strands going on at once and it really does stretch credulity a bit far, but hey! This is a Disney movie based on pirates! If you can’t suspend belief and just get on and enjoy it, you are watching the wrong movie.
Enjoyment was helped my being in an almost empty cinema, too. There was one family on the other side from us, and that was it. Total attendance: 7 or 8. Bliss.
And there was an intermission! An intermission, no less! I haven’t been to a film with an intermission since I was about 10. Unfortunately there was no ice-cream woman down at the front, but it was still a welcome chance to nip off to the loo.
So yeah, the film was bloody enjoyable. I shan’t give any spoilers or even anything constituting a review – there are plenty of people out there who can do that better than I. I’ll just say that if you enjoyed the first two installments, you’ll very likely love the third.
Fuck the ninja.
–c.