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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 05/20/2010 : 05:31:34
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/19/london-olympics-2012-mascot
So I guess they didnt learn from the previous REALLY stupid olympic mascots...I love how the article is 100% praise and the user comments are 100% negative.
Note to designers, quit using kids as a crutch for your awful designs, it is possible to make something that kids AND adults like. Kids like really terrible things, they are not good judges of anything.*
*See Barney, Power Rangers, Saved By The Bell, etc.
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Ebone4rock
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Posted - 05/20/2010 : 05:48:34 [Permalink]
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I'm trying to figure out what those two characters have anything at all to do with the Olympics.
Is it me or do many characters created and aimed at children seem to be phallic symbols? (i.e. the characters on Spongebob Squarepants)
Hey! Whats wrong with Saves By The Bell? That show had some seriously hot chicks! |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 05/20/2010 : 05:57:47 [Permalink]
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| Some things can't be justified by simply including hot chicks, the "quality" of SBTB being one of them. I'm sure Cop Rock had a hot chick or two, but making it through the youtube videos is hard enough, let alone watching a whole episode. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Ebone4rock
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Posted - 05/20/2010 : 06:22:48 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
Some things can't be justified by simply including hot chicks, the "quality" of SBTB being one of them. I'm sure Cop Rock had a hot chick or two, but making it through the youtube videos is hard enough, let alone watching a whole episode.
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Here lies a fundamental difference in our philosophies. As far as I'm concerned as long as there are hot chicks then whatever it is it has to be good. |
Haole with heart, thats all I'll ever be. I'm not a part of the North Shore society. Stuck on the shoulder, that's where you'll find me. Digging for scraps with the kooks in line. -Offspring |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 05/20/2010 : 06:41:49 [Permalink]
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| The Nazi party had hot chicks. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Ebone4rock
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Posted - 05/20/2010 : 06:57:15 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
The Nazi party had hot chicks.
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Nice! |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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Posted - 05/20/2010 : 07:21:39 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/19/london-olympics-2012-mascot
So I guess they didnt learn from the previous REALLY stupid olympic mascots...I love how the article is 100% praise and the user comments are 100% negative.
Note to designers, quit using kids as a crutch for your awful designs, it is possible to make something that kids AND adults like. Kids like really terrible things, they are not good judges of anything.*
*See Barney, Power Rangers, Saved By The Bell, etc.
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Seriously?
On your marks for the 2012 Olympic blobs: London mascots rival that dreaded logo
They only have one pair of eyes between them and look like Sonic the Hedgehog crossed with a character from the Disney film Monsters Inc.
But you had better get used to these strange blob-like creatures because Wenlock and Mandeville, as they are known, are the mascots for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics respectively, and will be all over Britain for the next two years.
Following the ridicule over the £400,000 Olympic logo, their creators will be hoping that Wenlock and Mandeville get a more favourable reception - even though they too carry the much-mocked 2012 image. |
The good news, I suppose, is that no one really remembers the mascots once the Olympics are held. These mascots might just be bad enough to cause some kind of rethink before the 2016 Rio De Janeiro Olympic game mascots are unveiled.
Probably not... |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 05/20/2010 : 09:35:32 [Permalink]
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| Nah Rio knows whats up, their solution to this thread is to make Carnival hot chicks into thier mascots...50% of kids will like them too! |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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podcat
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 05/20/2010 : 21:05:27 [Permalink]
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| First the UK couldn't come up with a good political party. Then they couldn't come up with a good Olympic mascot. Nice. :P |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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Fripp
SFN Regular
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Posted - 05/21/2010 : 03:17:11 [Permalink]
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| And the committees of corporate suits. And the ENDLESS meetings... *shudder* |
"What the hell is an Aluminum Falcon?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. I thought my Dark Lord of the Sith could protect a small thermal exhaust port that's only 2-meters wide! That thing wasn't even fully paid off yet! You have any idea what this is going to do to my credit?!?!"
"What? Oh, oh, 'just rebuild it'? Oh, real [bleep]ing original. And who's gonna give me a loan, jackhole? You? You got an ATM on that torso LiteBrite?" |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 05/21/2010 : 04:01:47 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
The Nazi party had hot chicks.
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Yes, and so did Col. Sanders.....
Was I mistaken, or did I see those two bits of nonsense in a TV commercial? I was only half paying attention; just enough to hit the mute button on the remote. They, if indeed it was them, were very irritating.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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astropin
SFN Regular
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970 Posts |
Posted - 05/21/2010 : 08:44:38 [Permalink]
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| This certainly earns the WTF? of the week award. |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 05/21/2010 : 12:40:42 [Permalink]
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Maybe Wenlock and Mandeville will "grow" on us.
I say this because they certainly look like some kind of tumors. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 05/21/2010 : 17:04:56 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
The Nazi party had hot chicks.
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Yes, and so did Col. Sanders.....
Was I mistaken, or did I see those two bits of nonsense in a TV commercial? I was only half paying attention; just enough to hit the mute button on the remote. They, if indeed it was them, were very irritating.
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I was mistaken. The commercial, flogging some sort of appliance, used very similar, knock-off animation -- who comes up with that drivel, anyway?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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*Facepalm* in the U.K.
