Metamatic Forums Socialising The Green Room Olympics London 2012

Is it so annoying for you over there? or is it just cos of Duran Duran?

I couldn't agree more Martin. Working in an indirectly related service industry, I have to work 12 hour shifts to support it (and no extra money before anyone asks).

It's not so much the games themselves, but the year long hype that surrounds it, and the 100% belief from the media that we are all going to have so much fun.

I can't wait for the period after the games when we will be treated to endless reality show / documentaries, when we'll hear about Ray the hot dog seller and the challenges of getting his cart into the velodrome, and Sophie the VIP Meet & Greet Customer Relations Executive, who outlines the panic that surrounded the loss of Usain Bolts' lucky shoelaces!

and indeed they do?

Must be the post 1780's powdered wigs.

Personally I'd have chosen Ms Bush... like the King of the mountain, under a big sky, running up that hill with torch in hand, in search of Peter Pan (Boris Johnson cloudbusting on his bike)

Paul Morley on DD and The Olympics ... in The Gruniad

"... sealing the "international-symbol-of-Britain-whether-we-like-it-or-not" deal when two Beatles are dead and Adele and Coldplay are too extreme, and when most of the world has no knowledge of PJ Harvey and Arctic Monkeys, let alone Siouxsie and the Fall."