Charles on… anything that comes along

Thanks be to NTK: this week’s issue points to http://www.hackthebid.org.

As NTK tells it, this is

a new site aiming to prevent perhaps similar white elephant wastes of public money, giving everyone the opportunity to voice why they might not want London to host the 2012 Olympics, and so to provide some balance to the current, dubiously-representational “Text LONDON to 802012″ poster campaign. It’s hoped that the site will also become a hub for anti-Olympic campaigning of all kinds, possibly discussing the appropriate typeface and font size for printing stickers that could transform the first two letters of “Back The Bid” posters to “Ha” or “Fu” - that sort of thing.

Damn well gets my vote. Look, I don’t want London put into hock and the lives of millions of ordinary people upset for a reality TV event involving celebrities and micro-celebrities and non-celebrities who may or may not have taken drugs, in order eventually to provide a load of training facilities that will be in the wrong part of the country for the majority of athletes, and which will be in areas too expensive for those athletes to live near enough to use, given the absurd house prices and rents in the capital and the pittance that athletes get if they’re not vastly successful (in which case they noodle off to foreign parts to train in more appropriate weather).

I mean, isn’t this what Big Brother is meant to do so much more efficiently by locking them in a house in the East End?

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Someone mentioned this today at a lunch table and we all went “Eeeewww!”

Think of this: every time you shop at Tesco, you make Dame Shirley Porter (do I have to call her “Dame”? Even though she gerrymandered Westminster Council and then fled the country to escape the entirely legal surcharge imposed on her, as such surcharges are always imposed on council officers who act ultra vires?) a tiny bit richer.

I know - makes your stomach clench, doesn’t it?

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