Comments on: why yes, i am particularly grumpy today http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/2008/08/24/why-yes-i-am-particularly-grumpy-today/ exciting, informative, snarky, and very likely fabricated tales of life as an american expat in london Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:06:21 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jen http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/2008/08/24/why-yes-i-am-particularly-grumpy-today/comment-page-1/#comment-2350 Jen Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:26:58 +0000 http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/2008/08/24/why-yes-i-am-particularly-grumpy-today/#comment-2350 ah yes, remember the "river of fire" for the millenium that wasn't? and the footbridge that had to be shut because it swayed too much w/ people on it?? ah yes, remember the “river of fire” for the millenium that wasn’t? and the footbridge that had to be shut because it swayed too much w/ people on it??

]]> By: noble savage http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/2008/08/24/why-yes-i-am-particularly-grumpy-today/comment-page-1/#comment-2349 noble savage Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:13:41 +0000 http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/2008/08/24/why-yes-i-am-particularly-grumpy-today/#comment-2349 I think they're going to totally cock it up. Some facility won't get built in time or will be falling apart, transport will still be in a shambles, security a mess, Boris will be making gaffes left and right...I just don't have faith that London is going to pull off an immaculate Olympics like China did. Not that they have to be the same but like you said, after living here for a few years it's plain to see that it's part of the British culture to get itself in a tizzy over some big event and then royally screw it up. I hope I'm proven wrong but I'm not holding out that much hope. Besides, I still can't look at the logo without seeing Lisa Simpson giving a blow job. It makes me shudder every time. I think they’re going to totally cock it up. Some facility won’t get built in time or will be falling apart, transport will still be in a shambles, security a mess, Boris will be making gaffes left and right…I just don’t have faith that London is going to pull off an immaculate Olympics like China did.

Not that they have to be the same but like you said, after living here for a few years it’s plain to see that it’s part of the British culture to get itself in a tizzy over some big event and then royally screw it up. I hope I’m proven wrong but I’m not holding out that much hope.

Besides, I still can’t look at the logo without seeing Lisa Simpson giving a blow job. It makes me shudder every time.

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