We're talking about the Olympics here and you are complaining about getting to work for two weeks? Look at it this way - it'll give you a great excuse to be late.

The Olympics is *boring*, Katherine, so I don't see why I should be inconvenienced by it *or* pay for it.

And I don't want an excuse for being late - I rarely am. I want to be on time.

He's already got an excuse for being late Katharine – he lives in an environment where there are far too many people, living like battery hens, all trying to be in the same place at the same time. He *likes* it there! Perhaps the new Olympic sport could be "getting to the Olympic Stadium from Morden using only the Northern Line and a one day travel card". Simon could be our new sporting hero, our next Steve Redgrave. Chortle chortle chortle.

Well, I guess you can make of it what you want. Last time round me and friends spent a great day watching and working out the rules of synchronished diving. With a bit of internet research we were armchair experts by the end, but I bet I'd have called synchronised diving boring if you'd asked me beforehand.

Katherine's right, it's all in the attitude. Not being particularly sport-mungus living through the Olympics in 2000 was still a fantastic experience.

Now that the old town has won your best bet is to enjoy it, because resistance *is* futile ;-)

Meh... loads of disruption for years beforehand, everywhere heaving with tourists at the time, and will cost us all a fortune. Something ELSE I have to pay for that I don't want & never asked for. Joy.

I disagree with Andy. The 2000 Olympics was, on the whole, a PITA.

- ego-driven politicians scrambling for personal glory
- nasty business deals
- mega-advertising of tickets you can't afford, can't imagine wanting or both
- public transport disruptions for weeks at a time in the years leading up to the event
- great mountains of impractical sporting venues that take up room and only get used a few times a year

bleah.