It’s had quite a mauling thus far:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6719805.stm
Personally, I think I’ve seen better in the bottom of the toilet bowl…
What the hell??
I’m sure it is supposed to mean something, but what, exactly?
As a Londoner and someone who was delighted that we got the olympics.
Could we have Fked this up anymore than the fact that the animated version of it has caused epileptic seizures in people that have viewed it? un-Fk-in believable…
It means we’ve found a way to waste money in an even more ridiculous fashion than the preposterous millenium dome.
These will be the most expensive, most over-budget games ever and the marathon runners will get mugged by teenage thugs in “hoodies”, the transport buses will end up sitting on bricks, wheel-less and we will win precisely one bronze medal (which will then be stolen from the athlete’s home). Still, at least the world will be introduced to jellied eels 
They should have had a competition for schoolkids to design the logo. It would have got them interested and I doubt any of the submissions would have been any worse than that thing.
I think we are still paying for the 1976 Games, so no sympathy from me. A bunch of folks around here were devastated that Halifax pulled out out of the race for the 2014 Commonwealth games. I, for one, am glad we did. The price tag was estimated at C$ 1.2 billion, which means it would have ended up costing 1.5 billion, and there is no friggin way a city of 350,000 can support that.
I think we are still paying for the 1976 Games, so no sympathy from me
I believe this was in the news recently and Montreal has just finished paying for 1976. Hey, it only took 30 years right? But the national government didn’t contribute if I remember correctly, ours is throwing obscene amounts at 2012. Also, big projects like the dome and wembley seem to come in at about 4 times the initial budget so it’s only going to get worse. I think I’m well out of it as I don’t live in blighty any more, my wife wants to go, I’m not so keen…
This is a joke, right? They didn’t really come up with that, did they? They’re kidding, right? Please?
Reminds me of Dilbert’s satire of the then-newly created Lucent logo:
HA! Nice Dilbert The logo cost 400,000 pounds (that’s getting towards a million bucks at current exchange rates)…one day after its launch there’s already been a petition (>25,000 signatures) to have it scrapped
I believe the premis is drawn from the Flinstones. The wheel is obvious, not sure about the other numbers.
~Matt
This is what an olympic logo should look like. Unfortunately, it had to be pulled because Chicago has not yet been named the 2016 host.
http://www.chicagoist.com/attachments/chicagoist_todd/10_13_06_Chicago_2016.jpg
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Its supposed to look like 2012 with a little square in the middle for some reason. I couldn’t see it until it was pointed out to me. Agreed, its an awful waste of money and I hope Ken Livingstone kicks Seb Coe’s arse.
As a former Londoner myself, I too am embarassed!
Is it supposed to look like it was chiselled by an epileptic?
Honestly, when this kind of thing happens, I take it as an overt sign of disrespect. It’s a sharp stick in the eye. Ican’t think of any other explanation.
I think the little square is the end of the ‘2’.
I kind of like it 
that one’s kind of plain IMO.
I kind of like it
Tigerchik, you’re either on acid or regressing back to 4 years old, that’s the only explanation for this appalling lack of taste. Scratch out your eyes in penance at once!
I’m a kindergarten teacher right now. I have an appreciation for abstract, finger-painty things.
Over on letsrun.com they are having a very lively discussion on what type of sexual acts they can see in the logo…some of them have pretty vivid imaginations.
You like finger painting - try this
http://www.wafflebox.com/um-wow-3-year-old-finger-painting-genius/
Amazing
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That’s funny, cause the top half is definately anal.
Chris