I do wonder whether Little Chef is being threatened with legal action for its description of an all day breakfast called an 'Olympic Breakfast'. Despite the fact that the company has had this on its menus for decades, I would not be surprised by some sort of issue arising. Why do I think this might be so? Simple - it seems there are cunts out and about, making sure that common sense is not applied, and that any reasonable attempts to promote and enjoy the Olympics are thwarted. As ever, some of the spoilsports are arseholes who take it upon themselves to interfere. These are the same people who step in to be potentially offended, on behalf of groups who are not actually offended by things. It is the way things are now, and twats deny freedoms of expression on issues of race, religion, sex, culture, health & safety, and other things.
A florist was ordered to take down an Olympic rings display after being told it breaks trademark laws. The five rings of tissue paper in the shop window, alongside a trophy and some medals, was intended to do little more than show some enthusiasm and patriotism. However, trading standards officers stepped in to be cuntish, and they warned the owner that she could be sued by sponsors over unauthorised use of the logo.
Does this mean that I have just made use of the logo in an unauthorised way that could lead to legal action? I am not sure, because I am simply reporting news and opinion. There are lots of things that we should be concerned about in life, and in the UK today there are challenges that require everyone to appreciate the situation and pull together. I therefore find it amazing that there are people who think that tissue paper in the shape of some rings is cause for intervention. When I was in primary school it was often scrunched up tissue paper stuck to coloured sugar paper and card with Copydex that formed the core of a collage. Are inspectors touring schools, I wonder, to look at kids' efforts on display in the assembly hall, to make sure there are no infringements?
On a similar note, not related to the Olympics
Elsewhere, shop owners have been affected by more nonsense. They had planned to hang bunting across their street to celebrate the Jubilee. However, highways officials from the council have demanded use of cherry pickers and that roads be closed, on H&S grounds (as cuntin ever, eh?) AND that there is in place a £5,000,000 insurance policy. The 140 metres of bunting stitched by some women will now have to be redeployed. Apparently the chairman of the traders' association concerned said the officials were "a bunch of party poopers." I think you can all guess what I would call them instead!
On TV the adverts now have a high probability of having links to the Olympics. Just because a company is daft enough to spend a fortune on advertising does not mean I will be inclined to buy its products. "Official supplier of bog roll to the 2012 Olympics teams" does not mean I'll be wiping my arse with the stuff the company sells. The fact that some unknown athlete [who should be known now, because her name appears on screen, and yet I still cannot recall it] says her 'personal best' is a Subway snack that contains less than 5% fat does not mean that I will for the first time ever eat one of the things. Also, why is an Olympic competitor advertising an electric fucking toothbrush?
It is scandalous that the tickets for the Olympics are printed in the USA and then flown to London for posting out - but I've posted about that already.
It is scandalous that 95% of all official (a euphemism for overpiced) merchandise is made abroad and not in the UK when it's apparently 'London 2012' - but I've posted about that already.
It is scandalous that transport workers have demanded and are getting extra money for doing their jobs, and working on the buses and tube, because they might be a bit busy - but I've posted about that already.
It is scandalous that in today's paper there's confirmation of yet another farce - the banning of people attending events with food and drink on their person. That's right, it seems that 'airport style' security will mean the confiscation of liquids in bottles over 100ml (ie. one and a half gulps) and food. Picnics and cool boxes will be banned. So, those with tickets that have paid a month's mortgage for will have to battle with traffic, but not have sustainance by way of food and drink when they arrive at their chosen event - unless they make a purchase at official food outlets. I have already explained what 'official' means, and in the case of food and drink, it will mean a conversion rate that in some cases devalues your money to a sixth or seventh of its value outside of an Olympic venue! Yes, instead of drinking a 25p bottle of water you brought with you, you'll have to drink a £1.75 bottle available from the official retailer. I wonder if at airports, Travelex will catch visitors to the UK and publish that £1 Sterling buys you £0.14286 Olympic Sterling, plus commission of course. On other items, the exchange rate is not so bad. A 330ml bottle of Heineken is £1.00 at Asda, but £4.20 in the Olympic world, so only a 320% mark-up.
A spokesman has apparently said that guards will confiscate picnic boxes, but a sandwich should be fine. Hang on, what size of box or container determines it as a 'picnic box' then? What are the dimensions, please? Even budget airlines give you advance warning of the size limits on hand luggage. What about cool bags - because they are most definitely not 'picnic boxes' and are easier to carry, or secrete on one's person? Finally, what constitutes a sandwich? A single round, or a triple? Can it be in a cardboard triangle? Does the carrying of two sandwiches escalate things to a classification of 'picnic', leading to confiscation? What about rolls and a Danish pastrey come to that? If a roll can be taken into a venue in lieu of a sandwich, where is the line drawn on length. 6" Sub? 12" Sub? This is madness, and further, saying a sandwich "should be all right" is not very assuring. Over-zealous budget airline staff can sometimes make a woman put her handbag into her hand lugguge before taking three steps past the boarding desk and then taking it out again. Are twats at the Olympics entrances going to force people to one side and force feed them.
I fear that if there a sun cream official fucking sponsor, then the guards at the gates will be binning any cunting container over 100ml and forcing a later purchase from an official retailer - at £11.99 per 200ml. Will those queuing have to put liquids in a polythene bag not exceeding 20cm x 20cm? Sandwiches cannot be put in polythene without the risk of them going off a bit and 'sweating'. A sandwich box is no good, as some cunt might classify it as a mini-picnic.
There is a need for clarification, and unfortunately people in charge never consider properly all the details and options, and pitfalls, let alone give clear advice.
Anyone with any sense will be at home, watching a bit of TV if they feel obliged to see a twat flick a tiddlywink into a plastic beaker, or a small sailing boat zigzag its way across a lake or meander just off the coast of Weymouth. That way, a 50p can of Carlsberg is but a fridge away, as are as many sandwiches, nibbles and dips as would constitute a 'picnic' should one decide to step into the garden.
My final whinge is that the television channels are ob-cuntin-sessed with "Team GB" and everyone in the media is so fucking biased that watching anything for the fun of watching a competitive event is impossible. Instead, we have to hear about the British competitor, non-fucking stop. If you're not in Team GB, you don't count. Often, we'll see a race with a GB hopeful who turns out to be hopeless, and then the coverage will switch to "The men's bumble-bee catching with A4 card and a jam jar" from Oswestry because heat seven is about to start and nineteen year old Giles Butterworth from the Liskeard Athletics, Apiology and Horticultural Club is about to set off, and hoping for 'bronze' if he avoids getting stung. I want to see good sport without such blatant partisanship at an obscene level. Meanwhile, idiots with overpriced tickets will have been stung a whole lot worse than anything that could affect Giles in Oswestry.
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