London 2012 Olympics Tickets

I'm generally keen not to do the classic British thing of putting everything down before it's happened, but it feels like they're deliberately making everything about the olympics as bad as possible. I mean that fucking logo is, whichever way I look at it, a total bag of shit. And the mascots? Appalling, get to fuck. And the stadium? Pffft. And that Kapoor sculpture? Utterly, utterly, utterly hideous. So hideous it surely has to be a joke. And can you imagine a more annoying process than this ticketing nonsense?

Quit your fucking moaning, it's a once in a lifetime event and if you can't enjoy it then fuck off! :-)

well at least they aren't building it up to be the greatest show on earth
so when it does go all tits up ( which it probably will ) people won't get disappoint

the opposite to the england football team at any world cup since 1966

^ Just you wait I have a strong feeling that we have not seen anything yet, I would imagine going on current form that the opening ceremony is going to top the list of world's shitiest, iritating,boring nonsense. The only way it could be worse than my expectations of how bad it will be is if they dig up the rotten corpses of John Lennon and George Harrison and re animate them so that the Beatles can re-form for a special one off Olympics gig because every one loves them, right? and their British, right? I don't think it is a question of what could go wrong any more, more how bad will it get?

Quit your fucking moaning, it's a once in a lifetime event and if you can't enjoy it then fuck off! :-)

I'm just going on the evidence, at least I'm not speculating that it'll go badly or get worse. And anyway, I'm not moaning, I'm outright criticising it.

Quit your fucking moaning, it's a once in a lifetime event and if you can't enjoy it then fuck off! :-)

Once in a lifetime chance to be more embarrassed than the kid at primary school who accidentally calls the teacher mummy about how politicians in this country literally could not organise a piss up in a brewery.

I think it'll be ace.

Sure the opening ceremony will be a bit crap, but they all are (unless you are a mime artist I suppose). I gutted not to have got tickets to anything in the main stadium, but can't wait to take the kids along to the diving - however dull the actual event.

And we got beach volleyball too. Yay.

Remember the Athens Olympics? The UK press had a fucking field day predicting all sorts of gloom, because none of the venues would be ready on time. At least that isn't an issue here.

As for opening ceremonies, of course it'll be shit. Every fucking opening ceremony ever produced has been fucking shit. It's expected!

it's a once in a lifetime event and if you can't enjoy it then fuck off! :-)

The point is that we can't enjoy it 'cos we can't get fucking tickets...

At least Viccy park will be nice once its done.

There's a number of events that don't require tickets. Go and see them.

And one final whinge: Zaha Hadid's aquatics centre, an elegant building not matter what you think of her or her buildings generally, looks ridiculous with its temporary seating bolted to either side. It looks like the back of a whaling boat.

^ Oh god why?

Went on for second chance this am.

Wrestling / Weightlifting / Boxing was pretty much all that was left.

Will see if my corporate pals can pull some out of their arses.

^ Oh god why?

Well, it turns out that people actually want to watch the events that the building is designed to house, and the planners/architect didn't think to incorporate this idea into the building in an intelligent, modular way. So, a building whose primarily purpose (other than the sporting stuff, maybe) is to look light and swooping instead looks like a half-ton of chopped liver dumped on a picnic table.

Ha!

How about a proper English Stand?

I think the Project Manager had a Eureka moment while eating Fried egg on doorstep Toast.

Don't remind me of Kapoor's Metal Rollercoaster Tycoon Fail either.

Well, it turns out that people actually want to watch the events that the building is designed to house, and the planners/architect didn't think to incorporate this idea into the building in an intelligent, modular way. So, a building whose primarily purpose (other than the sporting stuff, maybe) is to look light and swooping instead looks like a half-ton of chopped liver dumped on a picnic table.

I just cannot understand how they did not realise this to begin with and incorporated a design for temporary seating in to the original brief, rather than building it, standing back to admire their handiwork and going: facepalm "shit we forgot to add the seats! Does anyone know where we can get a shitload of scaffolding cheap?"

Why don't we just storm the place, Primark/American Apparel style.

I just cannot understand how they did not realise this to begin with and incorporated a design for temporary seating in to the original brief, rather than building it, standing back to admire their handiwork and going: facepalm "shit we forgot to add the seats! Does anyone know where we can get a shitload of scaffolding cheap?"

They didn't.

They designed a nice looking swimming pool with temporary modular designed seating that is very easy to remove after leaving a nice looking swimming pool behind.

looks like a sanitary towel. with wings.

I understand their long term intention - my firm is involved with the masterplanning of the olympics legacy - but it's still ridiculous that the seating looks so much like an afterthought. It's right that the building should have a life beyond the olympics, but it's its moment in the spotlight and its reason for being.

looks like a sanitary towel.

lololol!!!!!

I understand their long term intention - my firm is involved with the masterplanning of the olympics legacy - but it's still ridiculous that the seating looks so much like an afterthought.

It wasn't an after thought - so it's not ridiculous at all

If I was Zaha I'd be going mental.

Hang on a minute.

Remember the Athens Olympics? The UK press had a fucking field day predicting all sorts of gloom, because none of the venues would be ready on time. At least that isn't an issue here.

And remember the Beijing Olympics (air pollution scare) and the Dehli Commonwealth Games (athlete accommodation not ready/up to standard)?

Let's face it, our press loves to complain about problems - real and imaginary. My bet is on the prospect of tube strikes featuring on the front pages next spring. And for all the negative stuff I've read about the ticket ballot process in the last few weeks, I can't remember seeing anywhere a suggestion of a better way to have done it.