London 2012 Olympic Meltdown Countdown – Lost In Transit

It’s all starting to hot up here in Londinium.

The athletes arrived at Heathrow on Monday morning. They were then packed on coaches and driven to the Olympic Village. Most of them made it. The American and Australian teams, lucky things, were given an unofficial tour by their drivers, taking in Buckingham Palace. They were lost. To make matters worse, one of the drivers couldn’t work the sat nav. An iPhone, belonging to one of the Athletes, saved the day. Sat nav, schmat nav. Going old school is not always a bad idea.

What area does this cover? “I dunno, mate. I don’t live ‘ere.”

The tired athletes reached the village four hours later, having not had a toilet break. Welcome to London!

Brian Blessed Is On A Sat Nav – Whatever You Do, Don’t Turn Up The Volume!

Brian Blessed, a British actor I mentioned briefly in my post about the abysmal performance of the England team at the World Cup, is to lend his voice to sat nav company TomTom, after a Facebook campaign (natch), saw over 25,000 people sign up. Some people must want their ears to bleed, because this man is LOUD.

Google Directs Pedestrian To A Busy Highway And Is Now Being Sued For $100,000

In Blighty we used to laugh at Americans who would try and sue companies to compensate for injuries sustained, due to their lack of common sense. It tickled us to hear stories like the woman who put a hot cup of coffee on her lap while sitting in a car. She burned herself when it spilled and subsequently sued McDonalds because they didn’t put a warning sign on the cup saying something like “caution. Coffee is hot.” We laugh no more, as this country is catching up fast with a bombardment of adverts from criminal injury firms, encouraging us to sue for things that we used to accept as bad luck, personal negligence, or part of life’s rocky road.