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http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/43005000/gif/_43005619_london_new_pink_203.gif

OK, so that's what it looks like. It's shit, we all get that, so let's not waste time on that point.







There are, however, two things stemming from this today which have made me laugh. A lot.

1) It looks like Lisa Simpson giving someone head.

2) The BBC asked for submissions from readers/viewers of what they thought would be better.

One in particular stood out on the BBC website (before, sadly, being taken down):
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n215/husey_x2/olympic.jpg

It was so good, it even made it onto TV:
http://www.londonist.com/attachments/Matt/goatselondon.jpg

And a video of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W_gInR3gXs


Unfortunately, it seems like someone in the BBC has actually used the internet before, and therefore worked out the reference. They took it off the site and didn't show it at the end of Newsnight when they did the same art gallery thing.

Pity.

yea...that thing is butt-ugly.......................

The Olympics are supposed to be a grand event. This makes it look like a kid's party, only in mauve.

1) It looks like Lisa Simpson giving someone head.


Oh thanks. Thanks very much. :p

I thought the one done like the tube map was pretty good, actually. Didn't they spend £400k to come up with this?

The Olympics are supposed to be a grand event. This makes it look like a kid's party, only in mauve.

It could always be fixed to look better...

anyway, the second logo does look better than the first. Much better.

Edit: NOT that I am very fond of it, but it is better...

That first one is awful. WTF is it?! Isn't the prize for getting it like £400,000 or something?


Although, I must say the second one is quite..... delightful in its 'innocence'. :p

I think it represents a jigsaw without any real picture that doesn't fit together with any rational method of assembly at all...

much like the London Olympics plans I dare say (well its better than the German 14 year olds MSN picture for the 2006 world cup at any rate)

absldfBABAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA GOATSE MADE TV HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Mommy... what's that man doing to that poor Olympic logo?

The other one reminds me of goatse. Is it meant to, or is it just me?

The other one reminds me of goatse. Is it meant to, or is it just me?

:)

Holy fucklogs!

This is just brilliant. :D

I feel that the music perfectly complements the alternative logo.

absldfBABAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA GOATSE MADE TV HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

ROFLMAO! You know it'll be even funnier if they actually choose that logo!

I like the original logo. It's jazzy with the crazy shapes, and has ample pink coloring, representing England. :)

I think it's supposed to be a stylised "2012". It's still crap.

I think it's supposed to be a stylised "2012". It's still crap.

Now that you mention it, I think it is a 2-0-1-2-shaped kind of thing. Neat! :)

Now that you mention it, I think it is a 2-0-1-2-shaped kind of thing. Neat! :)
That and - I assume - meant to be showing areas of Greater London where the damn thing's gonna be held.

As opposed to the goatse one, which is more showing up just what a shithole London'll be during that time.

That and - I assume - meant to be showing areas of Greater London where the damn thing's gonna be held.


You mean London is shaped like the number 2012? Weird.

Goatse - I wouldn't have got it if it wasn't pointed out - I love the innocent explanation underneath, so childlike yet so knowing.

"The hands represent London pulling together to reveal the Olympics" - LOL

1) It looks like Lisa Simpson giving someone head.


Have you taken many Rorschach tests?

What the fuck is it supposed to say? Z O R ??

It really does look like someone kneeling down giving head.

What the fuck is it supposed to say? Z O R ??

It really does look like someone kneeling down giving head.

Like they say, "sex sells." :p

I think it's supposed to be a stylised "2012". It's still crap.

Yeah looks that way..but what the hell is that period looking thing doing in the middle of the 1 and 2?


It really does look like someone kneeling down giving head.

Kneeling down un-zippering the fly...

oh dear

Oh my god, it is hideous.

They should have set a team of high school artists on that, and it would have been cheaper and much more aesthetic. It looks like a toddler experimenting with his blocks made the design for the official logo.

Have you taken many Rorschach tests?

Does this help?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/Emmelinemay/london.gif

Does this help?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/Emmelinemay/london.gif

bet they never saw that caming

Does this help?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/Emmelinemay/london.gif

I'm traumatised and it's your damn fault! I'm never going to get that out of my head! :eek:

Does this help?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/Emmelinemay/london.gif

:eek:

You already posted it on the mafia forum, now you have to post it here!!?!!?!?! :mad:

:eek:

You already posted it on the mafia forum, now you have to post it here!!?!!?!?! :mad:

And you were kind enough to repost it for him. Now we get to see it 4 times, instead of just once! ;)

:eek:

You already posted it on the mafia forum, now you have to post it here!!?!!?!?! :mad:

I thought it illustrated Nadkor's point perfectly... (We need that "innocent whistle" smiley here.)

Goatse logo=win

I thought it illustrated Nadkor's point perfectly... (We need that "innocent whistle" smiley here.)
here
http://www.thesmilies.com/smilies/innocent0009.gif (http://www.thesmilies.com)

Paris was supposed to win so...

Goatse logo=win
Must...resist...temptation to link....

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/43005000/gif/_43005619_london_new_pink_203.gif


What the hell is ZOR?

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n215/husey_x2/olympic.jpg



YAY! FTW

apparently that piece of shit cost half a million quid...:rolleyes::headbang:

I actually don't mind the logo. I mean you've got to look at it from a relative perspective. Olympic logos always are characterless over-designed crap. And on that scale it isn't too bad.

It's the ruinous cost that's the sticking point with me, but even that has an upside, in that I half expected it to be much more. Certainly if this is the only extravagant and profligate waste of tax payers' money revealed on the Olympics then I'll be very surprised.

They should have held a national competition to design a logo.
That way, lots of money would have been saved, and we would have ended up with a much better design at the end of it.

This thing just gets better and better:
The new logo for the 2012 London Olympic Games is to be removed from the organisers' website after fears it could trigger epileptic fits.
BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6724245.stm)

Britain - fucking things up since 1066

I was disappointed with the new London 2012 Olympic Logo (£400,000 what a waste of good money!),
and I prefer the temporary logo. I have also designed my own version :-)

Link

http://img01.picoodle.com/img/img01/8/6/5/f_London2012m_dee6340.png

hideous. but it's not like I cared about the olympic games anyway.

This thing just gets better and better:

BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6724245.stm)

Britain - fucking things up since 1066

Haha! Epilepsy? I thought you could only get it from moving images. Either this is some form of hyper over sensitivity OR the authorities are just to embaressed to admit that it's shit. What a great excuse! :p

Haha! Epilepsy? I thought you could only get it from moving images. Either this is some form of hyper over sensitivity OR the authorities are just to embaressed to admit that it's shit. What a great excuse! :p

Apparently people have actually had fits from looking at it:

Charity Epilepsy Action said it had received calls from people who had suffered fits after seeing it.

Just like the Simpsons after watching Battle Seizure Robots:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Battling_seizure_Robots.jpg

Apparently people have actually had fits from looking at it:



Just like the Simpsons after watching Battle Seizure Robots

Well the two situations are just as bizzare. Either it shows how far the government will go to not accept it's shit, or it presents a new hilarious fact that people can have a fit from merely looking at still images.

Maybe it wasn't a fit but a nervous breakdown from feeling so horrified and disgusted at that pic :p

£400,000... they should be charged with treason for wasting taxpayers' money like that (it was taxpayers' money, right? Regardless, they should be punished).

The Digital Network;12737021']I was disappointed with the new London 2012 Olympic Logo (£400,000 what a waste of good money!),
and I prefer the temporary logo. I have also designed my own version :-)

Link

http://img01.picoodle.com/img/img01/8/6/5/f_London2012m_dee6340.png

the link is broken, and I also laugh at your inablity to use IMG tags.

the link is broken, and I also laugh at your inablity to use IMG tags.

works for me

the link is broken, and I also laugh at your inablity to use IMG tags.

Link works fine.

*Resists temptation to say "I laugh at your inability to click on a link*

Link works fine.

*Resists temptation to say "I laugh at your inability to click on a link*

It works now.

Still, this guy fails at posting images.

The Digital Network;12737021']I was disappointed with the new London 2012 Olympic Logo (£400,000 what a waste of good money!),
and I prefer the temporary logo. I have also designed my own version :-)

Link

http://img01.picoodle.com/img/img01/8/6/5/f_London2012m_dee6340.png


Thats pretty nice work [NS]TDN

This thing just gets better and better:

BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6724245.stm)

Britain - fucking things up since 1066

Hide the Beckham kid!

Apparently people have actually had fits from looking at it:

I had laughing fits looking at Compulsive Depression depiction of the logo.

Well the two situations are just as bizzare. Either it shows how far the government will go to not accept it's shit, or it presents a new hilarious fact that people can have a fit from merely looking at still images.
I think some people can get fits from looking at still images. Wiki agrees with me:
"Photosensitive epilepsy is a form of epilepsy in which seizures are triggered by visual stimuli that form patterns in time or space, such as flashing lights, bold, regular patterns, or regular moving patterns."

So, that leaves that Tate Modern out...

Maybe it wasn't a fit but a nervous breakdown from feeling so horrified and disgusted at that pic :p
That's probably more likely. Or, they just saw how much it cost.

Blatantly no one actually read the article. The fits arose from an animation on the website, not the actual logo itself!
On the other hand, being Aberdonian, I find the concept of paying four hundred grand for a few bits of fuzzy felt is enough to send me into a palsy.

AMK
xxx

I'm not kidding about theft, here. I mean that "think tank" took £400,000, gave themselves bonuses and then knocked up a piece of shit in their lunch break.

*sighs*

Couldn't they have gotten Banksey to do it properly, instead of this faux-graffiti shite?

Haha! Epilepsy? I thought you could only get it from moving images. Either this is some form of hyper over sensitivity OR the authorities are just to embaressed to admit that it's shit. What a great excuse! :p

It was an animation. Probably the one Compulsive Depression posted... :eek:

the link is broken, and I also laugh at your inablity to use IMG tags.

Swilatia I do know how to use the IMG tag function (as well as Quoting, I also do editing at NSWiki). The reason why I posted a link is to be considerate to people with slower connections, otherwise this page would take longer to load.

You also have the inability to spell inability (it was spelled as inablity, how ironic) :)

I haven't made many posts on the forum (I have been a member of NS for nearly 2 years), but at least I have put in some decent input into this topic.

Thank You :)

The Digital Network;12737723']Swilatia I do know how to use the IMG tag function
You click the "insert image" link. Next.
(as well as Quoting, I also do editing at NSWiki).
Um.. what does this have to do with this "NSwiki"?
The reason why I posted a link is to be considerate to people with slower connections, otherwise this page would take longer to load.
Those people can turn images off. Besides, it's just one image.

Besides, the people with slow connections can just turn images off.
You also have the inability to spell inability (it was spelled as inablity, how ironic) :) You must be running out of real agruments, aren't you.

I haven't made many posts on the forum (I have been a member of NS for nearly 2 years)
Whe don't care about NationStates. Only the General forum.

but at least I have put in some decent input into this topic.
You're not that quoted.

Thank You :)

For?

Depressingly, it cost £400,000 to commission.:(

Ho hum. I fail to see why something with a little decorum would have been so objectionable.

You click the "insert image" link. Next.

Um.. what does this have to do with this "NSwiki"?

Those people can turn images off. Besides, it's just one image.

You must be running out of real agruments, aren't you.


Whe don't care about NationStates. Only the General forum.


You're not that quoted.

For?

....um...ok, this will be the last time I will be taking part in this forum, because I now know I am not welcome if this is the way people are treated if they don't use forums very often and there is no point arguing with someone with 12,000+ forum posts (we were talking about the 2012 London Olympics?, what just happened?). Well I can help being a n00b and I was just being friendly, and so I decided to take my business elsewhere, see you on another website.

By the way thanks to everyone with positive and constructive comments. :)

....um...ok, this will be the last time I will be taking part in this forum, because I now know I am not welcome if this is the way people are treated if they don't use forums very often and there is no point arguing with someone with 12,000+ forum posts (we were talking about the 2012 London Olympics?, what just happened?). Well I can help being a n00b and I was just being friendly, and so I decided to take my business elsewhere, see you on another website.

By the way thanks to everyone with positive and constructive comments. :)

nah, you just need to lurk around, see how the real generalites do it, etc. I remember how ruffy was acting at the begining, with his "don't you wiki me pedia" and all that. He's still rather foolish, but it's improved.

Just take back what I just said (I was just confused :confused:, I shouldn't of acted the way I did), I feel a lot better now after the advice, thanks Swilatia :).

I think the Teletubbie Tinkie Winkie designed that one :p

nah, you just need to lurk around, see how the real generalites do it, etc. I remember how ruffy was acting at the begining, with his "don't you wiki me pedia" and all that. He's still rather foolish, but it's improved.

Swilatia, what the hell are you going on about? Is it really that important to you that you point out people who are less experienced than you so you can appear better? I have very few posts on this thing, that does not make my input any less valuable. It does not mean that I am open to more ridicule because I have better things to do with my time than post on internet fora/forums.
I fully appreciate more experienced members passing on hints and tips as and when they are required and asked for. However, the method you are going about this is smug, needlessly disruptive and frankly childish. Remember, you were a n00b once. Some of us don't want to be l33t we are happy getting sunlight once in a while.

AMK
xxx

Swilatia, what the hell are you going on about? Is it really that important to you that you point out people who are less experienced than you so you can appear better? I have very few posts on this thing, that does not make my input any less valuable. It does not mean that I am open to more ridicule because I have better things to do with my time than post on internet fora/forums.
I fully appreciate more experienced members passing on hints and tips as and when they are required and asked for. However, the method you are going about this is smug, needlessly disruptive and frankly childish. Remember, you were a n00b once. Some of us don't want to be l33t we are happy getting sunlight once in a while.

AMK
xxx
What is this "l33t" you speak of?

A term to describe people who are far too amazing and cool to engage in normal dialoge with people in the hope that they will be looked upon as uber masters of whatever it is they are trying to abuse. Seems to fit quite nicely here.
Either that or its an l, two 3s and a t. Which makes it neither a number nor a word. Hmmm

AMK

....um...ok, this will be the last time I will be taking part in this forum, because I now know I am not welcome if this is the way people are treated if they don't use forums very often and there is no point arguing with someone with 12,000+ forum posts (we were talking about the 2012 London Olympics?, what just happened?). Well I can help being a n00b and I was just being friendly, and so I decided to take my business elsewhere, see you on another website.

By the way thanks to everyone with positive and constructive comments. :)
If you mean Swil, he runs it up in the Spam Forum. Pretty lame, really.

Does this help?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/Emmelinemay/london.gif

God that's hilarious.

And this is why every olympics should be held in the U.S. You people cannot design a decent logo. You had months to do it, a lot of funding...AND YOU CAME UP WITH THAT!

This is what I, as self appointed representative of the United States of America have to say in response to your so called logo:

:sniper::mp5::gundge:

I think it gave me an epileptic fit.

And this is why every olympics should be held in the U.S. You people cannot design a decent logo. You had months to do it, a lot of funding...AND YOU CAME UP WITH THAT!

This is what I, as self appointed representative of the United States of America have to say in response to your so called logo:

:sniper::mp5::gundge:
...

This is why they should only let people in the US with a high school or above level education post anything on the internet.

And this is why every olympics should be held in the U.S. You people cannot design a decent logo. You had months to do it, a lot of funding...AND YOU CAME UP WITH THAT!

This is what I, as self appointed representative of the United States of America have to say in response to your so called logo:

:sniper::mp5::gundge:

let's take a look at logos of olympiads held in your country...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/84summerolympicslogo.gif

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/1996summerolympicslogo.jpg

Both hideous. So don't blame britain. Besides, all olympic logos are hideous.

I prefer this one:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3e/Berlin_1936.jpg

And this is why every olympics should be held in the U.S. You people cannot design a decent logo. You had months to do it, a lot of funding...AND YOU CAME UP WITH THAT!

This is what I, as self appointed representative of the United States of America have to say in response to your so called logo:

:sniper::mp5::gundge:

Let's translate this to real life.

You are in a conversation with someone, anyone, about something. And at the end of a counterpoint, they say this:

"And this is what I have to say in response to your so-called argument.."

And then they make little guns with their fingers and start yelling PEW-PEW-PEW-PEW.

Would that make you want to do *anything* but punch them in the nose?

A term to describe people who are far too amazing and cool to engage in normal dialoge with people in the hope that they will be looked upon as uber masters of whatever it is they are trying to abuse. Seems to fit quite nicely here.
Either that or its an l, two 3s and a t. Which makes it neither a number nor a word. Hmmm

AMK
well, we sin't really use it here. This not WoW.

I thought the one done like the tube map was pretty good, actually.

Cool! That one was done by my brother-in-law!

let's take a look at logos of olympiads held in your country...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/84summerolympicslogo.gif

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/1996summerolympicslogo.jpg

Both hideous. So don't blame britain. Besides, all olympic logos are hideous.

But none of those look like they were designed by a modern "art" artist they pulled on off the street who happened to be on lsd.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/Emmelinemay/london.gif

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Battling_seizure_Robots.jpg

I guess its normal to react like the Simpsons.. If you see your Daughter/sister pic on the London Olympic Logo.

I have a feeling the whole 2012 Olympics are going to be a complete embarassment and leave the UK with a huge loss. It will probably make the Millennium Dome seem like a good idea. For a start they are bankrupting a load of voluntary organisations because lottery money is being diverted into this shambles. They have a completely useless rupert like Seb Coe in charge. The French and Australians are the only people who really do this kind of thing well.

It looks like bad 1980 graffiti.

Does this help?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/Emmelinemay/london.gif
That looks more like Lisa Simpson's into some sub-dom action and is licking the foot of her master/mistress, who has it raised up on a pedestal as one would if one was having their shoe cleaned by a shoe-shine boy.
or bad bad girl as the case may be.

Blatantly no one actually read the article. The fits arose from an animation on the website, not the actual logo itself!
On the other hand, being Aberdonian, I find the concept of paying four hundred grand for a few bits of fuzzy felt is enough to send me into a palsy.

AMK
xxxAs far as I'm aware the logo is meant to be a moving image. However due to the complaints you can't find it anywhere anymore.

From what I saw on BBC news the full logo was what you saw plus every few seonds the logo would like it recieved an electric shock and change colours. Which from my understaning of epilepsy is enough to tigger a fit for some people - that is a short, but rapid and regular change of either colour movement or both.

And this is why every olympics should be held in the U.S. You people cannot design a decent logo. You had months to do it, a lot of funding...AND YOU CAME UP WITH THAT!
Yes, because America has never, ever, fucked anything up or come up with anything stupid before, has it? And coming up with a silly logo means we couldn't even dream of putting on a decent Olympic games, doesn't it?

This is what I, as self appointed representative of the United States of America have to say in response to your so called logo:

:sniper::mp5::gundge:
And a gun and gunge smilie. How original.

But none of those look like they were designed by a modern "art" artist they pulled on off the street who happened to be on lsd.

so? it's not something to blame on the entire world except america.

well, we sin't really use it here. This not WoW.

*sighs* all this new lingo I have to learn to be like you. I don't know if I am ever going to manage! :(

AMK

*sighs* all this new lingo I have to learn to be like you. I don't know if I am ever going to manage! :(

AMK

I don't expect people to try to impersonate me.