Like all sensible news operations, the Guardian have have spent the weekend recreating the Olympics out of Lego. Since they lose £91 per minute, by Guido’s maths*, the cash-starved newspaper has lost nearly £400,000 in the time it must have taken do it. And they wonder how they haemorrhaged some £44 million last year…
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Andrew Pierce on Ed Balls…
“Porky Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls sweet-talked guests at a fund-raising dinner by saying if he wasn’t a politician, he would be a chef. That’s not surprising, since he was accused of cooking the Treasury books when he was Gordon Brown’s boot boy.”
Bloody foreigners, coming over here taking all our twitter followers
PMSL
Needs more empty seats though…
What the fuck are they on? I want some.
Can we please suck Tom Daley’s cock now?!
Might as well, I’m crap at the synchro…no wait, it was all Pete’s fault
motto of Britain 2012 – if you’re hideously white:
keep gay and bugger on!
It’s only English people who are hideously white. Our Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish neighbours are simply white.
as opposed to the Dublin unwashed ?
They could have cut the price by showing more high priced seats being empty.
Did they get a retainer from Lego to cover the costs?
Amazing, what a waste of money!
Hahahahahahahahaha……….second you bitch, we only remember winners on here!
Its hard when you have bust your F5 key
F5 is for poofs.
You seem to know Mr Kebab well.
Coo-eee
*waves*
Yeah. He’s an honorary straight.
You mean he’s bent?
Basically, yep.
That’s what makes it so realistic.
They’e bricking it
How much d’you reckon Times Newspapers will lose this year? Looks pretty certain they’ll *better* the £90 million loss of three years ago. What with one thing and another.
The times probably gets subsidised by the newspapers in NI that actually make money, unlike The Guardian that doesn’t have any sister newspaper that makes a profit. Hahahahahahahaha…..
What’s your point?
What’s YOUR point?
The Graun relies on job ads from the BBC to stay in existence, so it’s subsidised by the taxpayers, who mostly wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot barge-pole
On the other hand, perhaps Polly is not writing twaddle.
“Opening ceremony was a Trojan horse for socialist values, says Labour MP
Backbencher Paul Flynn praises Danny Boyle for ‘smuggling’ ideas on NHS and pacifism into Olympic show”
£27,000,000 spent and a few days later nothing to see
Since when has being against war been a soley socialist vaue. Think the last lot of Socialists in power got us involved in two wars if my memory serves me right.
indeed socialists do like to say it is. blair government were centrists (more votes, nothing gets done).
Working class lego man – http://www.ajcanvasprints.co.uk/store/images/Lego%20Man%20On%20Toilet%20OW%20web.jpg
It appears that the racial mix of the Lego people in this creation are insufficiently diverse.
Only a judge led inquiry will suffice.
There does seem an awful lot of Chinese in the audience. Have they done the Beijing games by mistake?
I see the Stig managed to get tickets to the Lego Olympics too.
It’s essential that we keep shed loads of lawyers in employment.
It reveals a childish take on the news.
It would make a fun tumblr for a bored student. But a newspaper? No.
Socialist instinct = spend money!
and build useless things!
Anyway, seems they let any riff-raff on public transport now : http://kebabtime.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/you-never-know-who-you-will-bump-into.html
He is very careful not to travel that way during the rush hours. Might get his botty pinched or his coiff ruffled.
Me look forward to the Lego game of auditors and liquidators arriving at their head office to shut dem down.
We will have a whole series of Lego extravaganzas including this right on one – http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/maps_and_graphs/2011/11/16/1321458542830/Occupy-lego-characters-007.jpg
Followed by – http://images.mocpages.com/user_images/70465/13110120522_SPLASH.jpg
Seems like a good way for a newspaper to spend time and money. Not.
£393,000? You can double that for the cost of the fucking Lego. Do they make the stuff out of solid gold or something? Have you seen the pr*i*ce of the fucking stuff?
£393,000! I shit more than that a day
If you think the cost of it makes your eyes water, have you tried treading on the f*cking stuff?
Or sticking it up your nose
Or anywhere else for that matter.
We all experimented, though. Right?
*in unison* YES! *general yawning*
Lego makes a lovely *exfoliator*, doesn’t it Becky?
*trembles* Not half! Bit lower, Cutie : P
Girls. GIRLS!! Please. We are trying to work here. Go frolic somewhere else. Thanks. *has a quick peek*
I was christened ‘Arthur’ but I thought ‘Authur’ made me sound more like the
sex-machinemoderator that I am.Tell him to go away, Cutie – the guy’s a total spasmo.
Can’t be bothered, baby. He’ll probably trip over the lead and crash the whole site without me saying anything : P
Ha ha! Thanks for bringing that back to me!
Not since the kids grew up. But, yes, I do remember.
When you want a ticket for the Olympics do let us know and we will print another one
This isn’t actually true though, is it? Your logic is that they took three days to make the lego, and in three days they lose this much, therefore that’s what it costs. But I strongly suspect they did other things over the weekend?
If one of their secretaries spends three days this weekend with norovirus you could equally say the guardian will spend £400k shitting and vomiting, but (at least in the non-metaphorical sense) that would obviously be absurd. Still, diverting enough I suppose.
Read the fine print. Tittle Tattle and Gossip. If you want the truth read the Coran ( sic)
I get that this isn’t exactly a paper of record – but I just prefer my tittle tattle and gossip to be a bit more believable…rather than transparently false.
Norovirus then more likely all the staff would go down with it. Therefore calculation stands.
You’re right! That’s precisely the sort of rigour I expected from Guido.
Top bombing lads.
More lottery funding down the crapper.
I have some ideas for the closing ceremony
Sorry, Danny Boyle beat him to it.
Nothing like as devastating as Labour’s economic policy. The blitzkriek of the UK economy.
Riefenstahl was a woman.
I don’t care what the cynics say, I enjoyed this bit.
Sorry, wrong video.
http://www.viralviralvideos.com/2012/07/27/mr-bean-at-olympics-2012-opening-ceremonies/
The first one was good
Guido you maths is crap its £39 we lost. Dimwit
39% you stupid bitch.
I would like to wish Tom Daley the very best of luck in his quest for a medal in the Olympic diving event today.
I am delighted to announce that Rio (Choc Ice) Ferdinand has been charged with improper use of twitter
There is a proper use for twitter! Who knew?
Fattbutt could do with a Magnum
As Lego® are not a sponsor of the Olympics® we demand the takedown of this piece of nonsense®
Get lost, loser.
First !
*licks screen*
I charged Locog £27m for that. My expenses were big that day
Goes on like this till they disappear up their own ass-holes with a left-hand thread of course.
UNC, UNF, Whitworth, BSF, BSE, BASF?
CJD, MDSA, ADHT? Which is your favourite thread of all time, garden shed tapper?
Hmm. That’s a toughie, Jenny.
It probably would be left-hander. Maybe a saucy little 9/16 BSF with 16 tpi, a pitch of 0.0625 in and thread-depth of four thou.
You mean thread-depth of 40 thou, surely?
You’re a bright spark. I knew you’d come back at me. Best wishes.
Which is your favourite thread of all time?
Priceless! Thx
You wrote it, FFS.
The Guardian should ask for a refund on the grounds that the video is not representative. All the seats are full.
They were soldiers bussed in by Seb
I don’t think Lego do soldiers
I love that they have black lego figures. Why? To balance the white ones? THEY’RE FUCKING YELLOW!
The Grauniad must be getting desperate by now, I’d keep an eye on their accounts over the next year.
I bet the Guardian didn’t have any of these did they? (G4S guards)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,461647,00.html
Want one!
I think they put the ball in in post edit ( is that still the correct phraseology ?) but wouldn’t that have been more complicated if the ball went behind a lego man ?
I’ve always hated Lego. You can make a boat out of this shit? A castle? Fuck off.