| darthfozzywig | 19 Apr 2012 10:04 a.m. PST |
link That would have been cool. Even better if it inspired a new wave (ahem) of reenacting. :D |
| Farstar | 19 Apr 2012 10:26 a.m. PST |
Wait, there's a 'Galleys' board? |
| darthfozzywig | 19 Apr 2012 10:27 a.m. PST |
Wait, there's a 'Galleys' board? I myself am often surprised by life's little quirks. |
| darthfozzywig | 19 Apr 2012 10:28 a.m. PST |
Oh my god I think this means we have to throw ourselves off the bridge! Hahaha! People have been watching too many 1970's disaster movies. |
| Yesthatphil | 19 Apr 2012 11:17 a.m. PST |
Probably a consequence of the protestor stopping the Boat Race the other day (the last crowd pleasing thing that rowed down the Thames) … |
| David Manley | 19 Apr 2012 12:22 p.m. PST |
Unfortunately Locog left this planet some time ago. Their ability to conjour up mindless bureaucratic stupidity knows no bounds. |
| David Manley | 19 Apr 2012 12:27 p.m. PST |
Sandcastles as well as triremes….. link |
| darthfozzywig | 19 Apr 2012 12:51 p.m. PST |
Good heavens! Someone might fall off that sandcastle and land on…the. Soft. Sand. Who knows what catastrophe could have occurred if, say, a reproduction Greek trireme had landed near the sand castle? It could have resulted in a ten-year-long Trojan War-like conflict! Thank goodness that potential non-crisis was averted. |
| corporalpat | 19 Apr 2012 1:03 p.m. PST |
I thought only officials here in the States were that paranoid. The insanity is spreading! |
| Caesar | 19 Apr 2012 1:15 p.m. PST |
I really don't get it.
Firstly, why would people throw themselves into the river? I know that a trireme rowing down the Thames is PURE AWESOMENESS but throw themselves in? The hoplites will dispatch them quickly.
Secondly, doesn't the torch already draw large crowds, no matter how it is conveyed? Is that the point? |
| Yesthatphil | 19 Apr 2012 5:15 p.m. PST |
Great link, David Manley … thanks … they do say truth is stranger than fiction. |
| ashill4 | 20 Apr 2012 2:08 a.m. PST |
Best thing to do is never leave the house (unless it catches fire) and wrap yourself in cotton wool. Sometimes I despair of the UK. Every week hundreds of thousands of people crowd together to watch football matches and rugby matches and, apart from some isolated incidents like Hillsborough, casualties are almost unheard of. There is no health and safety case for cancelling the trireme – I suspect that there is some other agenda at work. |
| Olive Rudge | 20 Apr 2012 2:23 a.m. PST |
A few years back the flame was carried through the
London streets. What a mess, the silly blue peter
girl even lost it. Protests all the way. The Police
lost the plot.
Far better to have it in the middle of the river.
More dramatic and stylish.
The tireme has already sailed to London
in the 90's. |
| kreoseus2 | 20 Apr 2012 4:35 a.m. PST |
Lets go in a Longship and steal the olympic torch….. |
gets medieval.