The 2012 Olympic logo

[Wraith]

Is hideous. They spent £400,000 on that crap, which one person described as "looks like Lisa Simpson doing something unmentionable to a very grateful french fry" (<-----best quote ever btw).

The BBC ran a poll in which peoploe could vote to give it Gold, Silver, Bronze or a wooden spoon. 83% said wooden spoon. One example of public opinion can be found here.

Add this to the fact that the cost of the games is now 4 times the original estimate and you have yet another example of government projects being horrendously mis-managed. The worst part is, I'm not surprised.

 

[Cookalarcha]

They made the london 2012 olypics logo from a nazi symbol or summit close to it.. and its crap a 0 year old could make summit better than that. Hope they change it cos its embarassing the rest of the country

 

[Dragon]

OmG!

xD that is the result when the English try to copy us

but I really do like the second link! xD

No, tbh, I think that this is a shame for everybody taking part in the Olympic Games. How can anybody pay that much money for something a blind paralysed 3 year old kid could have done better? ... I just hope that you find a new logo, which is more ... adequate ... for the Olympic Games

 

[Tetsuo_Shima]

Is hideous. They spent £400,000 on that crap, which one person described as "looks like Lisa Simpson doing something unmentionable to a very grateful french fry" (<-----best quote ever btw).

There were some good quotes in the times today someone on timesonline described it as "the aftermath of a ball being kicked through a window", another said "it perfectly captures the essence of the taxpayer being shafted" and another proclaimed that "They've managed to unite the world in hate for it. Very clever" Somebody also said it looked like a slightly misshapen swastika; only slightly, mind. I didn't realise that the symbols represented '2012' til about 15 minutes into staring a the jumbled mess. It kind of looks to me like the four crazy number-esque shapes represent continents or nations and the dot in the middle represents London connecting them all, and then some poorly paid drone in the editing department made the 'continents' slightly resemble numbers and then slapped 'london' and the olympic rings on it.
For £400,000 I would have provided an all-singing all-dancing electro-illuminous stylised hologram logo - that smelled of strawberries. If this is the best people can do for £400k then slap my thigh and call me Charlie. Please don't.

 

[Sephiroth]

im so proud infact, wait a minute while i go to the back garden to grab my colt 45.

 

[PsiSoldier]

Go into paint and do that for a grand total of £0.50 (electricity bill )

 

[Nanor]

How does that cost £400,000?! 400,000 quid on a logo?! How the hell?!

 

[BiG D]

Go into paint and do that for a grand total of £0.50 (electricity bill )

Surely the computer wasn't free. And windows certainly wasn't! And you'll need somewhere to put the computer, so you'll probably need to build a building. And you'll need to buy land for that! And do you know how much paperwork you'll need to fill out before you can buy & build? The manhours that will need to be sunk into this project are extreme! £400,000 was a bargain!

 

[Wraith]

Surely the computer wasn't free. And windows certainly wasn't! And you'll need somewhere to put the computer, so you'll probably need to build a building. And you'll need to buy land for that! And do you know how much paperwork you'll need to fill out before you can buy & build? The manhours that will need to be sunk into this project are extreme! £400,000 was a bargain!

The computer, Windows, land and buildings already exist (I assume you're sitting inside a building in front of a computer running an OS) so these are sunk costs and irrelevant to the project. Therefore the only relevant costs would be the electricity and the labour hours. Even if you allow them 50 hours to design the logo (and I'm being very generous to the designers with that), that gives a per hour cost of £8,000 per hour.

P.S. That sunk costs crap is stuff in the exam I have on Friday so I have to know it, sorry for inflicting it on the rest of you.

 

[Pubic_Warrior]

who gives a fuck??? the last i heard the olympics was about athletics

you cant please some people im tellin you, even if lucy pinder offered herself to them on a plate with no strings attached they would pull their face.

Britain has much bigger problems than the logo, n all of the problems are more embarrassin than that logo can ever be.

when other contries come here they wont be looking at the logo they will be looking for the purse the little chavs has stole from them.

 

[thatbloke]

Now the video containing the logo is causing epileptic fits in people too!

(As a side note, they reported this in BBC breakfast this morning... then SHOWED the clip with no warnings!!!)

 

[Wraith]

who gives a fuck??? the last i heard the olympics was about athletics

you cant please some people im tellin you, even if lucy pinder offered herself to them on a plate with no strings attached they would pull their face.

Britain has much bigger problems than the logo, n all of the problems are more embarrassin than that logo can ever be.

when other contries come here they wont be looking at the logo they will be looking for the purse the little chavs has stole from them.

To put it bluntly, I give a fuck. This is just the latest in a long series of government bright ideas where they get a quote for a project where the actual cost then vastly exceeds it by several hundred percent. Off the top of my head I can think of a few other examples - Millenium Dome, Wembley Stadium, London Eye etc etc. This money comes from the taxes that the government takes from every worker (including you) so it should be controlled much better than it is. It wouldn't be accepted in the private sector, where people are using their own money, so why should it be accepted when someone else is using our money?

Let's say you got a quote from a builder (for example) which said £5,000 to replace your roof. The builder then gets part way through and then tells you he's actually going to charge you £20,000 to do it, you'd tell him to fuck off wouldn't you? It's the same thing just on a much bigger scale.

You're right that there are other problems like Chavs, but that doesn't mean the government needs to add to them with yet another blatant waste of tax payers money. Maybe that £400,000 they spent on the logo could have funded extra police officers. At a salary of approx £20,000 p.a. for a new PC. (link) that equates to 20 new officers on the beat helping to stop the Chavs from stealing. Wouldn't you prefer that to a logo that "looks like Lisa Simpson doing something unmentionable to a very grateful french fry"?

 

[DocBot]

At a salary of approx £20,000 p.a. for a new PC. (link) that equates to 20 new officers on the beat helping to stop the Chavs from stealing.

Not that it's any of my business, but that's blatantly wrong and you know it. The average yearly COST of a police officer >> his / her salary.

Careful with the bad arguments, they can ruin a good point.

 

[Wraith]

Not that it's any of my business, but that's blatantly wrong and you know it. The average yearly COST of a police officer >> his / her salary.

Careful with the bad arguments, they can ruin a good point.

True enough, but I didn't have time to go into more detail and even if the money was spent on just 1 new police officer it would be better than being spent on that logo so my point still stands.

 

[Pubic_Warrior]

well its obvious that the french fry got the better deal here and if a builder charged me £20,000 to change my roof id push over his ladders with him on them.

however i cant push over the governments ladder (can you see where this is going??)

whatever the government do there is nothing we can do about it, there is no point ranting and raving, so enjoy what little life we have after they tax us to fuck for it.

the olympic logo has been chosen so why waste another £400,000 trying to de-satisfy a french fry, that would be an uber waste of money, and im sure that what ever they come up with will still be shit anyway way.

the logo may be lame but our atheletes arnt so they better make up for it

 

[DocBot]

True enough, but I didn't have time to go into more detail and even if the money was spent on just 1 new police officer it would be better than being spent on that logo so my point still stands.

See: there you have a _good_ argument instead of a bad one (apart from the "I didn't have time to go into more detail" part; you obviously had time to research the av. salary of a police officer, you just didn't think it through).

 

[Wraith]

See: there you have a _good_ argument instead of a bad one (apart from the "I didn't have time to go into more detail" part; you obviously had time to research the av. salary of a police officer, you just didn't think it through).

Googling "Police salaries" took about ten seconds. Collecting and collating all costs associated with a new police officer would be about an hour (estimate - and probably horribly inaccurate ) to ensure I got everything and, like I said, wasn't the main point of my argument. If you consider my original estimate to be overexaggerated then fine, but my point is still that the money could have been better spent.

 

[DocBot]

Fine, fine. I meant you didn't think it through as in "obviously it's going to cost more than the salary" - and with that + the fact that you don't have time to find out the actual cost, you shouldn't have made an estimate at all. Your point still stands, though, and I agree with it.