OK then, that Olypics thing.

[matgb]

I think this damned thing has spread across my friends page today faster than last weeks LJ wank, so in order to settle the ongoing debate, I have decided to apply science to the problem.

[Poll #996934]
Um, yeah. There's a petition, I haven't signed it as I really couldn't care less, but if you do, feel free.

mapp has the best of the BBC's alternative submissions. ETA: Oh, and anw's entry linked above got metaquoted as well. Also? No comment notifications. At all. Not ignoring you, honest.

ETA 2: Via Duncan, they have a video. Does that help understand it and make it work better for anyone? No, thought not.

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[innerbrat]

It's supposed to represent London for the new millennium, capture the spirit of the city and so on.

So the fact that it looks like an ugly, crass badly done piece of vandalism seems to work OK.

[matgb]

Yeah, it does seem to sum up our rulers approach to things when you put it like that...