2012 Olympic Games official language is...

[Aperitif]

I say! That's definitely 'not cricket'!

I have just taken delivery of 10,000 'I love Anish Kapoor' T Shirts, with 'ArcelorMittal Orbit mon amour' written on the back.

I got another 10,000 with 'Apfelstrudel' printed across the shoulders - they should sell like hot cakes.

 

[yello]

I vaguely recall people having to remove shirts, or leave bottles outside (because they were Pepsi not Coke - or vice versa) for reasons of event sponsorship... that was cricket wasn't it??

In Aus perhaps? It'll come to me...

 

[User169]

I did, and you're right. I thought of (football) team shirts most of which has some company name or logo on them.

I vaguely recall people having to remove shirts, or leave bottles outside (because they were Pepsi not Coke - or vice versa) for reasons of event sponsorship... that was cricket wasn't it??

At the 2006 World Cup in Germany 1000 Dutch fans were refused entry to a match because their orange trousers carried the Bavaria Beer logo. They ended up watching the match minus their strides.


The 2012 Olympic Games legislation can also be used to quash protest; police have been handed powers to enter private homes and seize political posters during the games. The previous government passed measures allowing officers and Olympics "officials" to enter homes and shops near games venues to confiscate any protest material. Offenders could wind up with a fine of up to £20,000.

 

[yello]

At the 2006 World Cup in Germany 1000 Dutch fans were refused entry to a match because their orange trousers carried the Bavaria Beer logo.

That was it! Not Australia and not cricket... but I was otherwise correct!!

actually, I reckon it might have happened elsewhere too... I'll let google be my fried

 

[User169]

I can just see Lord Coe in a Judge Dredd costume!

They've got the right idea in Hackney!

 

[yello]

I personally find the potential for these measures to be quite offensive. But, hey ho, all in the name of business eh?

And what of the requirements for meeting HRH? Now I'm no great defender of the monarchy but I find it distasteful that anyone can make such calls on her as contract clauses.

Makes me wonder if we've subjugated both law and civil liberties to corporate contracts.

 

[Headgardener]

WTFlip! Requiring that the Queen is "produced" to meet a bunch of FIFA clones and also requiring that the Union Flag of Great Britian and Ireland should take less precedence than some rag with rings on it! Rebel I say .

 

[Hover Fly]

"require behaviour modification for residents, public and business communities"

And pay extra tax for the privilege.


You "won" the Olympics?

 

[Aperitif]

And pay extra tax for the privilege.

You "won" the Olympics?

It costs us Londoners only a 'fouetter noix au chocolat'*


* That's a walnut whip me old china...ref: K. Livingstone - many years ago

 

[Black Sheep]

producing the Queen

yup, lets just wheel her out, it's not like she has feelings now is it?

as for the flag flying on the stadium, I can understand the olympic flag and the logo

but why greece? i know it was the birthplace of the games, but we're hosting.

and why french? no one bloody uses french internationally in business, engineering or anything like that - well, perhaps food and wine

they complain enough when people don't attempt to speak french in france, they can go and swivel on the eifel tower for all I care.

 

[dellzeqq]

I thought the modern Olympics were a French invention.

I'm much more concerned about the special courts and the ORN. And, 'Teef, by the Anish Kapoor nonsense. Happily it won't last.

 

[rich p]

In Aus perhaps? It'll come to me...

I think there were some Pepsi/Coke incidents at the ODI Cricket World Cup in S Africa.



Anish Kapoor? Who can forget his red piles of sand masterpiece

C'est magnifique - non?

 

[ufkacbln]

Read down he page. It gets scarier.

I live a couple of miles form the Olympic site, and in consequence I won't be able to wear my Burger King or Pepsi tee shirts in the street. If I do, Sponsorship Protection Police will rush up and tear the clothes off my body.

H'mm.

Just to lower the tone, I can think of a couple of female officers who could tear my clothes off......

Then back on topic.

This one has been around for a while and is standard at many events where taking away food and drink guarrantees the overpriced ripoff products of the sponsors get sales. Some football grounds have banned non sponsor clothing products as well.

 

[beanzontoast]

FAQ no. 237.

If I stay at home and watch it on tele, can I still wear my Homer Simpson slippers?

 

[Andy in Sig]

It sounds like the French have successfully pulled a fast one but there also has to be an element of deliberate provocation here in choosing the UK of all places in which to give French precedence.

The legal stuff is far more disturbing and it looks to me like a case for sabotage in the sense of people wearing banned T shirts under their "legal" ones and then taking the legal ones off in the stadium. The flags which will be granted precedence over the Union Jack should of course be nicked and burned at every opportunity.