Sunday, April 6, 2008

a fart in a hurricane

I would like to congratulate whoever it is who has organized today's procession of the Olympic torch through London. It can only be described as a fete of comic genius. Watching a succession of happless British 'personalities' attempting to half jog through a snowstorm while carrying a burning flame which inevitably kept extinguishing itself is so entertaining that I have just run further than ever before on the treadmill in the gym because I was so engrossed I forgot the time.

Special mention also to the billions of police runnning about brandishing their truncheons in what is surely some kind of bizarre tribute to Benny Hill. I have lived in London for most of my life and now I understand why it's becoming a more dangerous place. The police are too busy camping it up for the Olympics to care about the less showbiz side of crime - you know, the boring old rapes and murders and muggings.

This flame-in-a-snowstorm fiasco is almost as hilarious a concept as believing that people will happily gloss over years and years of the worst form of human rights abuse in order to watch sporty people run around a field and pat each other on the back when they receive a medal for doing the above. I am proud that the people of London aren't prepared to let this go without kicking up a fuss.

4 comments:

almostwitty.com said...

I look forward to seeing the protestors against British human rights abuses in Iraq and Ireland come 2012 ;-)

Peas on Toast said...

Ah....this is when I look forward to a possible emigration over to London. Seriously! :)

fake adult said...

And it seemed to me that it lived its life like a candle in the wind.

Hope the torch - lit or not - doesn't stay there too long. That pope person is coming here in July, and because of that, the main road that gets me and quite a few others to work and back will be closed. For five days. This means that getting to work will involve suburbs directly opposite to the direction of work. Given that the man is right up there with the Chinese government as far as crimes against humanity go, I am hoping his vitriol will get him before July and then they'll have to go through that lengthy process again that they did after that comatose one finally stopped breathing. But this reasoning didn't go down at work quite as well as it could have. Anyway, the torch could always collide with him. Cheers to that little morsel of hope.

zuzula said...

almostwitty - i realise we're no angels either...

peas - really? are you mad?!

fake adult - i'll try to arrange for the torch to arrive at the same time as the popemobile! although I just heard on the news that they're thinking about abandoning the torch relay altogether after more hassle in San Fransisco. No pun intended but it looks like maybe the light is finally dawning in the head of somebody important that this isn't such a great idea after all...