Olympics. Meh.

wells · Thu 09 Jun, 2011 01.09

Do you reckon they designed it first and then worked out what it would represent?

remlap · Thu 09 Jun, 2011 02.14

Nick Harvey wrote:Penny Smith has just summed it up nicely on The One Show.

She described it as an enormous cheese grater.

Reminds me of a Neumann Microphone in a golden colour.

Chie · Thu 09 Jun, 2011 10.14

wells wrote:Do you reckon they designed it first and then worked out what it would represent?

I think they wanted to perforate the torch with holes to save money and settled on a symbolic number of 8000.

Nick Harvey · Thu 09 Jun, 2011 11.06

Chie wrote:I think they wanted to perforate the torch with holes.

Ah, an absolutely unique comment.

Alexia · Thu 09 Jun, 2011 13.16

Nick Harvey wrote:
Chie wrote:I think they wanted to perforate the torch with holes.
Ah, an absolutely unique comment.

Indeedily, a gramatically incorrect tautology. Quite a feat.

You don't perforate with holes; you perforate with a stick, or a pin. Plus once something has been perforated, you don't need to worry about saying it has holes in it!

Chie · Thu 09 Jun, 2011 16.50

I thought you had flounced?

jsm · Thu 09 Jun, 2011 17.15

I think the torch would have looked nice if it was silver. The brass/gold color is just awful.

Ronnie Rowlands · Thu 09 Jun, 2011 18.04

Chie wrote:I thought you had flounced?

He did, then both bosses told him to stay.

Chie · Thu 09 Jun, 2011 19.17

Ronnie Rowlands wrote:
Chie wrote:I thought you had flounced?
He did, then both bosses told him to stay.

His signature says Inactive Member.

Alexia · Thu 09 Jun, 2011 19.34

My nitpicking urges got the better of me.

Chie · Thu 09 Jun, 2011 19.36

Yay!

By the way, you spelt grammatically wrong.