I don’t know, I always quite fancied Ginger Spice.
I notice you used the past tense, Sipu, and that’s what the Spice Girls are. Bring on the pipes and drums!
OMG. Mel C is the only one who can sing, and they are rather past their sell-by date.
If they are as bad as the superannuated knights at the Jubilee concert, gawd ‘elp us!
And just when one thought that things really couldn’t get worse…
I’m truly hoping that it’s only because bad news sells newspapers that the London Olympics appears to be a catastrophe waiting to happen.
While I may be of the opinion that it’s about time that the world started to spend money and resources on far more worthy causes than a bunch of people trying to out-run, out-swim, out-throw or out-anything else other men / women – I do, genuinely, hope that the UK, which can ‘out-ceremony’ the rest of the world when it comes to events like Coronations and Jubilees, does not fall flat on its face when organising a mere sporting occasion.
Out-rageous?
Enough to make you pray for a good bombing, got to be a soft option compared with that bunch!
Agh, I cannot seem to get away from this dreadfulness. This is the last straw, Sheona.
But suspect it can only get worse!. 😦
Good evening, Sheonah.
Still tramping up that Panglossian road to the broad sunny uplands of Olympian optimism myself.
Not sure that they are actually going to be performing. Even if they do, it’ll only be a brief flash in the great scheme of things.
What exactly was wrong with them, please? They gave a lot of pleasure and a rite of passage to their generation just as, for example, the Beatles and, especially in my case, the Kinks gave to mine.
I know that I am in a minority hereon but I still think that our Olympics will be a triumph. If the Aussies can celebrate Kylie, as they did, then I’m happy to give the Spice Girls a turn in our farewell.
Especially Sporty Spice, if you’re asking.
The UK has a vast pool of talent. Why not send Amy MacDonald? Why not send Adele? Why not
send a Welsh men’s choir? Or, for that matter, a Welsh boy’s choir? The Spice Girls had their day,
a day that’s now long gone.
Welsh choirs? Rather hear a flock of Welsh sheep….
I think the problem with the Spice Girls – who, I note seem to have more male than female support here – is that they are so last millenium, not just last century. Surely Britain can provide some entertainers of the 2012 vintage, or even 2011.
Sheona, I confess that I have not seen any recent pictures of Ms Ginger Spice, but I suspect I would still fancy her. After all I too am past my best by date.
Mr M, while I do have misgivings about the Olympics, such as the excessive corporate presence and the Zil Lanes, for example, I am otherwise all in favour of the whole exercise and am looking forward to it with anticipation. I had planned to be in London for the Opening Ceremony, but I have been invited to the South of France, so I will be there for a few days before heading north to Inverness. I will be driving up past Edinburgh, up the A9.
London appeared surprisingly empty on Thursday and Friday. There were even spare seats on the rush hour tubes. I gather restaurants are complaining bitterly about the lack of trade. That will probably change next week.
Driving round Bratislava this morning I realised that I have found an opening for has-beens like the Spice Girls. There are adverts for concerts in Bratislava this summer by Bryan Adams, Jethro Tull and the Electric Light Orchestra (original members). There is obviously a market in the former communist bloc for western “artistes” of a certain vintage, and the Spice Girls could slot right in.
Sipu, if I had to choose between meeting you or Ginger Spice, there would be no contest, cherished colleague.
Sheona, after due consideration, I agree. No contest. 🙂
Driving round Bratislava this morning I realised that I have found an opening for has-beens like the Spice Girls. There are adverts for concerts in Bratislava this summer by Bryan Adams, Jethro Tull and the Electric Light Orchestra (original members). There is obviously a market in the former communist bloc for western “artistes” of a certain vintage, and the Spice Girls could slot right in.
Plumps up cushions, opens crisps and settles back with a chilled bottle of “Cave Country” to await the imminent arrival of one apoplectic Ferret in Bratislava. This should be worth watching.
OZ
I didn’t realise that Ferret is a Jethro Tull fan. He will of course be very welcome in Bratislava, but should he wish to discuss my pigeon-holing of Jethro Tull, he’ll be pushed to find us. We’re about 15 miles out in the boondocks. I am a Bryan Adams fan, but I can accept that he is past his peak now. It happens – even to godlike beings such as Sinatra.
Boadicea's Chariot 
I don’t know, I always quite fancied Ginger Spice.
I notice you used the past tense, Sipu, and that’s what the Spice Girls are. Bring on the pipes and drums!
OMG. Mel C is the only one who can sing, and they are rather past their sell-by date.
If they are as bad as the superannuated knights at the Jubilee concert, gawd ‘elp us!
And just when one thought that things really couldn’t get worse…
I’m truly hoping that it’s only because bad news sells newspapers that the London Olympics appears to be a catastrophe waiting to happen.
While I may be of the opinion that it’s about time that the world started to spend money and resources on far more worthy causes than a bunch of people trying to out-run, out-swim, out-throw or out-anything else other men / women – I do, genuinely, hope that the UK, which can ‘out-ceremony’ the rest of the world when it comes to events like Coronations and Jubilees, does not fall flat on its face when organising a mere sporting occasion.
Out-rageous?
Enough to make you pray for a good bombing, got to be a soft option compared with that bunch!
Agh, I cannot seem to get away from this dreadfulness. This is the last straw, Sheona.
But suspect it can only get worse!. 😦
Good evening, Sheonah.
Still tramping up that Panglossian road to the broad sunny uplands of Olympian optimism myself.
Not sure that they are actually going to be performing. Even if they do, it’ll only be a brief flash in the great scheme of things.
What exactly was wrong with them, please? They gave a lot of pleasure and a rite of passage to their generation just as, for example, the Beatles and, especially in my case, the Kinks gave to mine.
I know that I am in a minority hereon but I still think that our Olympics will be a triumph. If the Aussies can celebrate Kylie, as they did, then I’m happy to give the Spice Girls a turn in our farewell.
Especially Sporty Spice, if you’re asking.
The UK has a vast pool of talent. Why not send Amy MacDonald? Why not send Adele? Why not
send a Welsh men’s choir? Or, for that matter, a Welsh boy’s choir? The Spice Girls had their day,
a day that’s now long gone.
Welsh choirs? Rather hear a flock of Welsh sheep….
Good old Boris
I think the problem with the Spice Girls – who, I note seem to have more male than female support here – is that they are so last millenium, not just last century. Surely Britain can provide some entertainers of the 2012 vintage, or even 2011.
Sheona, I confess that I have not seen any recent pictures of Ms Ginger Spice, but I suspect I would still fancy her. After all I too am past my best by date.
Mr M, while I do have misgivings about the Olympics, such as the excessive corporate presence and the Zil Lanes, for example, I am otherwise all in favour of the whole exercise and am looking forward to it with anticipation. I had planned to be in London for the Opening Ceremony, but I have been invited to the South of France, so I will be there for a few days before heading north to Inverness. I will be driving up past Edinburgh, up the A9.
London appeared surprisingly empty on Thursday and Friday. There were even spare seats on the rush hour tubes. I gather restaurants are complaining bitterly about the lack of trade. That will probably change next week.
Driving round Bratislava this morning I realised that I have found an opening for has-beens like the Spice Girls. There are adverts for concerts in Bratislava this summer by Bryan Adams, Jethro Tull and the Electric Light Orchestra (original members). There is obviously a market in the former communist bloc for western “artistes” of a certain vintage, and the Spice Girls could slot right in.
Sipu, if I had to choose between meeting you or Ginger Spice, there would be no contest, cherished colleague.
Sheona, after due consideration, I agree. No contest. 🙂
Plumps up cushions, opens crisps and settles back with a chilled bottle of “Cave Country” to await the imminent arrival of one apoplectic Ferret in Bratislava. This should be worth watching.
OZ
I didn’t realise that Ferret is a Jethro Tull fan. He will of course be very welcome in Bratislava, but should he wish to discuss my pigeon-holing of Jethro Tull, he’ll be pushed to find us. We’re about 15 miles out in the boondocks. I am a Bryan Adams fan, but I can accept that he is past his peak now. It happens – even to godlike beings such as Sinatra.