List of banned Olympic items..
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alangla said:
Laurel Green said:
Article said:
"NO liquids over 100ml allowed, Payment with Visa or Cash ONLY, 1 small bag per person.. Is this Ryanair FFS?" said another.
I guess that will prevent most women from going. 
Your list does make more sense though!
alangla said:
Laurel Green said:
Article said:
"NO liquids over 100ml allowed, Payment with Visa or Cash ONLY, 1 small bag per person.. Is this Ryanair FFS?" said another.
I guess that will prevent most women from going. Also - earlier someone said that Sikhs were allowed to carry their daggers. On the prohibited list I've got, it specifically says "All types of knives and bladed items, including pocket knives and knives carried as part of cultural dress"
Aids said:
Great post, well put, mon ami!
I should stress that having no interest in the games doesn't mean I want them to fail, as that would be unfair on the participants and all the perfectly normal and genuine people who have invested their time and effort. I just have no interest in anything to do with them. Whole thing has become a corporate and political behemoth that just happens to have a bit of running and jumping tacked on. Seeing the Coke logo emblazoned all over the Olympic vehicles just feels fundamentally wrong, as does the fact so few people seem to share that ill feeling. If anything, the latter is more depressing. Mainstream voicing of that opinion risks a public lynching at the moment (feels like Diana's death in that regard), so rather than get agitated about it and risk upsetting people, I've decided to bite my tongue and try to avoid exposure as best I can.hornet said:
I should stress that having no interest in the games doesn't mean I want them to fail, as that would be unfair on the participants and all the perfectly normal and genuine people who have invested their time and effort. I just have no interest in anything to do with them. Whole thing has become a corporate and political behemoth that just happens to have a bit of running and jumping tacked on. Seeing the Coke logo emblazoned all over the Olympic vehicles just feels fundamentally wrong, as does the fact so few people seem to share that ill feeling. If anything, the latter is more depressing. Mainstream voicing of that opinion risks a public lynching at the moment (feels like Diana's death in that regard), so rather than get agitated about it and risk upsetting people, I've decided to bite my tongue and try to avoid exposure as best I can.
Don`t blame you one bit!This entire thing is a total farce with the games organisers pandering to every pathetic demand of the large companies plastering their name all over this thing. The latest one I heard was how the Boris Bikes cannot be used in the area due to them having Barclays written on it and Lloyds complained 
f
k sake, seriously. Then you get nonsense like the lady who put five hula hoops up in her storefront and trading standards came round to accuse her of copyright infringement. Hardly the 'games for the people' if the only people who can visibly celebrate it need a marketing budget equivalent to the GDP of a small nation.
I believe it was the Independent which described the Olympics as the '£13billion taxpayer funded advertising extravaganza for some of the world's worst companies' and they're not far off.
What next? Being forced to pledge allegiance to Adidas on the way in? All spectators forced to wear plain clothes like they do in North Korea?
Joke.
fk sake, seriously. Then you get nonsense like the lady who put five hula hoops up in her storefront and trading standards came round to accuse her of copyright infringement. Hardly the 'games for the people' if the only people who can visibly celebrate it need a marketing budget equivalent to the GDP of a small nation.I believe it was the Independent which described the Olympics as the '£13billion taxpayer funded advertising extravaganza for some of the world's worst companies' and they're not far off.
What next? Being forced to pledge allegiance to Adidas on the way in? All spectators forced to wear plain clothes like they do in North Korea?
Joke.
In the run up to all this, there has also been all the restrictions on trademarks, words etc that 'ordinary' people are allowed to use in describing things.
I for example cannot make a keyring and sell it as a London 2012 keyring, even if I have beaded the words myself, nor can I advertise a necklace that has 2012 gold rings in it with any of that in the title.
The list of non allowable words and phrases covers just about everything that could be remotely related to the games.
All different of course if you are actually something to do with the 'lympics.
Most people I know that made red/white/blue stuff just marketed it as jubilee instead!
I for example cannot make a keyring and sell it as a London 2012 keyring, even if I have beaded the words myself, nor can I advertise a necklace that has 2012 gold rings in it with any of that in the title.
The list of non allowable words and phrases covers just about everything that could be remotely related to the games.
All different of course if you are actually something to do with the 'lympics.
Most people I know that made red/white/blue stuff just marketed it as jubilee instead!
XCP said:
I am grateful for the sponsorship of Coke and Mcdonalds. This does not mean however that I shall increase my meagre consumption of their products.
Off topic but I was starting to wonder who the fk you were. "Who is this guy that has suddenly appeared with all these posts posting constantly yet I don't recognise the name". A quick look at your profile reveals you've had a name change speedchick said:
I for example cannot make a keyring and sell it as a London 2012 keyring, even if I have beaded the words myself, nor can I advertise a necklace that has 2012 gold rings in it with any of that in the title.
Yes the name of the UK's capital city and the numbers depicting what year it is are owned by the Olympic committee bods you know! If someone asks me what year it is I'm not allowed to tell them without paying Adidas for the first. They own the year now. The hilarious part is that these big companies think people will go into Little Chef, see the Olympic Breakfast and go 'this must be the official sponsoring breakfast of the games!!!' or people might see the Olympic Kebab Shop (established 40 years before the games came here) and go 'The official kebab shop of the games!!!'
Do these companies really believe this (they cant be this stupid surely?) or is it the organisers using any excuse to kiss up to big business and create jobs for bureaucrats? What amazes me the most is how people have put up with it, businesses have changed their business names due to the organisers' pathetic demands. Surely we should just be telling them to f
k off and leaving them with empty stadiums?martin84 said:
What amazes me the most is how people have put up with it, businesses have changed their business names due to the organisers' pathetic demands. Surely we should just be telling them to fk off and leaving them with empty stadiums?
"The Public" appear to love it. I watched the torch come through my home town, the enormous advertising campaign arrived ten minutes before the actual runner. The companies had people on top of their topless coaches, all dancing and shouting through megaphones while the crowd went wild and cheered and took pictures of them. They took pictures of a Samsung and Coca Cola coach with some hired non-sports people on it. I don't understand why.k off and leaving them with empty stadiums?The public are mongs. The torch came through my home town and I didn't bother going to see it. I'm not fascinated by someone carrying fire in front of a yellow bus.
Did people take pictures of it with a Nokia phone though? Nokia is not the official bus sponsor so use of a Nokia phone might make Samsung complain!
Did people take pictures of it with a Nokia phone though? Nokia is not the official bus sponsor so use of a Nokia phone might make Samsung complain!
Oakey said:
Off topic but I was starting to wonder who the fk you were. "Who is this guy that has suddenly appeared with all these posts posting constantly yet I don't recognise the name". A quick look at your profile reveals you've had a name change
I did post about it.k you were. "Who is this guy that has suddenly appeared with all these posts posting constantly yet I don't recognise the name". A quick look at your profile reveals you've had a name change I am still as daft as ever though.
martin84 said:
Yes the name of the UK's capital city and the numbers depicting what year it is are owned by the Olympic committee bods you know! If someone asks me what year it is I'm not allowed to tell them without paying Adidas for the first. They own the year now.
The hilarious part is that these big companies think people will go into Little Chef, see the Olympic Breakfast and go 'this must be the official sponsoring breakfast of the games!!!' or people might see the Olympic Kebab Shop (established 40 years before the games came here) and go 'The official kebab shop of the games!!!'
Do these companies really believe this (they cant be this stupid surely?) or is it the organisers using any excuse to kiss up to big business and create jobs for bureaucrats? What amazes me the most is how people have put up with it, businesses have changed their business names due to the organisers' pathetic demands. Surely we should just be telling them to fk off and leaving them with empty stadiums?
Who do you mean by 'we'?The hilarious part is that these big companies think people will go into Little Chef, see the Olympic Breakfast and go 'this must be the official sponsoring breakfast of the games!!!' or people might see the Olympic Kebab Shop (established 40 years before the games came here) and go 'The official kebab shop of the games!!!'
Do these companies really believe this (they cant be this stupid surely?) or is it the organisers using any excuse to kiss up to big business and create jobs for bureaucrats? What amazes me the most is how people have put up with it, businesses have changed their business names due to the organisers' pathetic demands. Surely we should just be telling them to f
k off and leaving them with empty stadiums?People like yourself who do not give a toss are not attending anyway,( I assume). Which leaves more seats for those of us who are.
martin84 said:
The public are mongs. The torch came through my home town and I didn't bother going to see it. I'm not fascinated by someone carrying fire in front of a yellow bus.
Did people take pictures of it with a Nokia phone though? Nokia is not the official bus sponsor so use of a Nokia phone might make Samsung complain!
You may not be. I may not be. Enough people are though, otherwise why would these companies spend so much on advertising? McDonalds has a global advertising spend of $2.3bn each year, targetted at ever younger age groups. It's all about ensuring the next generation of loyal customers, and they're very, very good at it. Think of all the young kids getting excited about the Olympics. Now think about what logos they're subconsciously associating with that excitement...Did people take pictures of it with a Nokia phone though? Nokia is not the official bus sponsor so use of a Nokia phone might make Samsung complain!
XCP said:
Who do you mean by 'we'?
People like yourself who do not give a toss are not attending anyway,( I assume). Which leaves more seats for those of us who are.
Plenty of seats still available apparently. Serves them right for their bonkers ticketing procedure really, they expected everybody to flock and empty their bank accounts for them and they didn't. Fantastic. Maybe enthusiasm for the games isn't as high as the television likes to make out?People like yourself who do not give a toss are not attending anyway,( I assume). Which leaves more seats for those of us who are.
My point was I don't understand why people (those who are going) are willing to hand over their money to these crooks and follow rules which makes it hard to tell the difference between us and Beijing. Remember four years ago when this country was outraged at some of the things at the Beijing Olympics? We're just as bad now, only its bureaucrats and big business forcing us to do what they want rather than just a bunch of communists.
I presume the difference is in the detail?
pilchardthecat said:
I fear for what's left of our sense of national pride after the opening ceremony. From what i've heard it's going to consist of a bunch of frightened sheep stting themselves at all the noise, on top of the fake hill from teletubbies
I have no interest in the Olympics but I will be watching that. After the billions wasted, the pathetic ticketing procedure and the officiousness of the organisers in regards to sponsorship they deserve to be embarassed on the international stage in front of hundreds of millions of people all laughing at this country.tting themselves at all the noise, on top of the fake hill from teletubbiesI will have popcorn for that.
Edited by martin84 on Thursday 12th July 16:37
martin84 said:
My point was I don't understand why people (those who are going) are willing to hand over their money to these crooks and follow rules which makes it hard to tell the difference between us and Beijing.
I sometimes don't agree with you, Martin, but this time, the quote above is exactly my take on these olympics - plus the rules and regs are now beyond parody.Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff