London 2012

[amcdonald]

Why not travel on the VIP roads, where even the traffic lights will go green for you as you swish past the peasants.

The £5k fine might put you off...

[Doggy Styles]

I always love to watch the Olympic sport on TV and it will be no different this time. But it might as well be in Mongolia for all I care, I ain't going anywhere near it.

And I ain't watching that waste of money they call the opening and closing ceremonies. Not even on TV.

[Doggy Styles]

Incidentally, 2012 is the third London Olympics.

At the first one in 1908, British police teams won all three medals in the Tug 'o War. I wonder if whoever presented the medals greeted them with "Hello, hello, hello"?

[oscarose]

If you live somewhere nothing ever happens it's easy to say "get caught up in it" but I have a major sporting event on my doorstep for 2 weeks every year and although I watch some of it and enjoy it I won't pretend that it isn't disruptive. The olympics are going to be at least 10x as big and will pretty much paralyse a transport system which is already bursting at the seams. It will be a lot easier to enjoy them if you don't have to put up with that for 2 hours a day just to get to and from work.

I take your point as those outside London aren't going to have their daily routines affected. But as Zippy said, can’t you work from home?