Olympics - godess forbid we might actually have a good time

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on July 19, 2012 at 19:08

Are you seriously,saying that the Olympics games in London this year are a Nazi legacy project? I'm "..........I cant even find the words to describe what an offensive equation that is. You may not be supportive the Games but equate it to a regime that brought about the death of millions through hate is breathtakingly unpleasant.

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on July 19, 2012 at 20:50

Michael I think you're getting carried away. I think you might benefit from checking out the links above or even just reading up some general history of the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

I'm far from alone in noting the fascist associations of the modern Olympics (please see the former Times editor's piece). If you want to comment, its more productive to address what I actually say rather than try to put absurd words in my mouth.

I think one of the things you've overlooked is that I have already said I am a fan of the Olympics - just not in their present form. I will probably watch the mens 100m final – and hope that none of them will subsequently be found to be drugs cheats. It has happened in the past, as you may know.

Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on July 19, 2012 at 22:11

Clive, I see Andy McSmith ('Aryan ideals . . .') manages to confuse Olympia with Mount Olympus at least three times. The 12 gods of Olympus may have enjoyed lighting one another's torches and indulging in divine gymnastics among the northern peaks when they couldn't find enough comely human wenches or ganymedes to ravish, but Hera's Temple, the Heraion, was and is South-West at Olympia where the mere humans held their Games.

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on July 19, 2012 at 22:37

Eddie I defer to your greater knowledge on this one!

When I visited Greece some years ago, I went round the Peloponnese on a local bus and stopped off at ancient Olympia, so at least I know where it is.

It was there I met a fellow tourist, a German lawyer from Bonn, from whom I learnt quite a bit as his Classics knowledge was better than mine (incidentally, I bumped into him again a week later on Crete and later again at Athens).

My "NZ" labelled backpack attracted some attention on Crete. My German acquaintance confessed that amongst the large number of other German tourists, some were probably coming back to see places they'd, er, seen earlier (i.e. 1941 etc). Probably a little after my father had been part of a practical effort to try to keep them away.

I didn't get to Mount Olympus though. I do hope future Olympics can be downsized (or should that be right-sized?)

Permalink Reply by pamish on July 19, 2012 at 15:54

It's going to be really handy to have all those troops on our streets in time for the anniversary of The Riots. This option was courageously resisted by the Met before, but as they are so close at hand....   and wasn't it a gift that the privatised security plans have failed in time to pull Our Boys back from their holidays?

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on July 23, 2012 at 14:01

I was getting very worried about various words and phrases I'm using. They include: L*nd*n, *lymp*cs, and Insp*r* a g*n*r*t*on. It seems these are now completely forbidden except with permission from the Highcog.

Someone has now produced a handy public guide.

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