Oooh…that’s tricky!
Well, I was going for an effect, ya know?
I thought the first 2–with the word “London” at the bottom–was supposed to be a stylized map of England.
Not racist, of course, unless you’re an Iranian despot aiming to deflect attention from other matters, but honestly, is there anyone on the planet who actually likes this thing, other than the designer and the committee which selected it? It screams ugly at you unless you have your head so far up your pretentious ass that you can’t hear it.
In fact I detest it so that I almost wish the Iranians well in their campaign to get rid of it.
I don’t think it’s a great logo either, but still I think he should have at least got a whole box of mints for it.
Re: the Lisa Simpson angle. In the past I’ve seen the person on the left as not having a head, but I just noticed that if he does have a head that head is shaped disturbingly like Bart’s.
Anyway. Ugly logo. Stupid Iran. Silly mascots. Does anyone have an explanation for the little mark in the center? An explanation not involving anatomy, that is.
Maybe it’s the hyphen in
20-
12
If this crappy logo won, can you imagine what the reject pile must look like? I am sure the Iranians could find all sorts of Zionist propaganda there.
You’re not alone…
I say let the Iranians stay home. They don’t deserve international attention for stupid shit like this.
So, fuck Australia, I guess.
Yeah, Fuck Australia! I’m down with that!
… Uh … What were we talking about, now?
Maybe the dot IS Australia?
That’s what I assumed.
Well, it won’t work. Jailing political opposition? That’s an internal matter. But insulting our 1980’s throwback hipster logo? Now you’ve gone too far! Tonight we go to war!
Oh, whatever, they’re cute.
Note that he didn’t set them on fire.
Clearly a man of taste.
Whatever. I have watched a lot of tokusatsu; they feel like they’d be at home in a Power Rangers episode.
Or as the Iranian beach volleyball team. >_<
The Olympics have been about politics from day one, with a long and storied history of cheats, swindlers, racism, violence, boycotts and sanctions, not to mention Avery Brundage’s Nazi sympathies and blatant anti-Semitism. This is nothing more than a continuing tradition, it’s certainly nothing new.
If the Olympics make anybody happy it’s in spite of them, not because of them.
I must be a sap, because the Wenlock & Mandeville origin video at this link got e tearing up a little.
I think you mean ZIOR. Or ZIO’2, maybe.
If it’s too late to send in Stuxnet to sabotage the logo, I vote for jailing its designers, along with their wives.
You have to be predisposed to seeing a Zionist logo. It is like religious people who see faces of Jesus in a piece of toast or a shadow of Virgin Mary on the wall of a church. You can see what you want if you try hard enough and want to. But it isn’t there.
Oh my lord! :eek:
Someone has been cross-breeding Teletubbies with the Great Race of Yith.
Well… given the Great Race connection I’m tending towards guessing that it represents sunken R’lyeh.
We need to alert the Laundry that Case Nightmare Green might be happening at the 2012 Olympics.