That's the sort of remark I meant, tho, LF. Why "fortunately"; if you stay in London, the Games needn't impinge on you if you don't want them to. Just don't read those pages in the paper & don't switch in to those tv channels. There's a sort of grudging element at work about such remarks which I find distressing. The logistic cockups over the security, & other concomitant inefficiencies, are quite a separate point from the intrinsic undesirability of the Games' very presence & existence, which some, for reasons altogether impenetrable to me, appear to perceive ~~ at tedious and inordinate length.

~M~