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Tutankhamun at the 02

by Shipscook @ 2008-01-20 - 04:14:02

This exhibition is billed as a Once in a Lifetime experience, well I felt a bit cheated as we actually saw very little of the treasures from the tomb of the boy pharoah. Ok there were a few staffs, a canopic jar, a couple of sticks of furniture and some shabtis, but nothing like the magnificent stuff that came over before and certainly not the death mask that is being used to sell the event to the public.

As far as the exhibition experience goes there are rather too many queues and the information is pitched fairly low (I mean come on, we have already seen this discovery of the tomb stuff in countless documentaries), which I guess is what you get when history is packaged as entertainment. You would learn far more from a trip to the British Museum and it won't cost you £20 a go.

The gift shop is a bit rubbish too.


 
 

Olympic City how?

by Shipscook @ 2008-01-20 - 04:00:53

As London Transport can't keep the Jubilee line open for people going to and from the O2 on a Saturday Mr Livingstone, just how do think London is going to cope with the Olympics in 2012.

In case you hadn't noticed there are several large exhibitions, multiplex and an ice rink there at the moment, not to mention the bloody Spice Girls and the only links to it are by dangerously overcrowded bus.

Now one of Ken's great ideas was for there to be no parking at the new stadia to discourage people from using their cars. Well given the fact that he can't even get people around London on a bloody Saturday how will London Transport cope with two weeks of events.

Umm Londoner's no more Walnut Whips for you, but all is not lost perhaps if you could also fork out for a Curly Wurly a week for the next million years, then Ken's PR team could design some hoardings to tell you everything is just great, that would be alright then wouldn't it.

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