{"id":5540,"date":"2007-06-06T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T04:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2007-06-06T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T04:53:00","slug":"2012-london-olympics-logo-in-epilepsy-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/2012-london-olympics-logo-in-epilepsy-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics logo in epilepsy controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote yesterday<\/a> about how bad the 2012 Olympics logo was, even if it did resemble Lisa Simpson giving head. Well, now BBC reveals<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A segment of animated footage promoting the 2012 Olympic Games has been removed from the organisers’ website after fears it could trigger epileptic fits. […]<\/p>\n

Charity Epilepsy Action said it had received calls from people who had suffered fits after seeing it.<\/p>\n

Organiser London 2012 said it will re-edit the film. […]<\/p>\n

Emphasising that it was not the logo itself which was the focus of worries, [a spokesperson] said: “This concerns a short piece of animation which we used as part of the logo launch event and not the actual logo.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ya, right! There’s a horror film in this somewhere. Perhaps this is the return of the antichrist, only not in human form, for how banal would that be? Humans can be eliminated, but once such a logo is unleashed upon the unsuspecting world…<\/p>\n

(Link via email from Prabhu<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote yesterday<\/a> about how bad the 2012 Olympics logo was, even if it did resemble Lisa Simpson giving head. Well, now BBC reveals<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

A segment of animated footage promoting the 2012 Olympic Games has been removed from the organisers’ website after fears it could trigger epileptic fits. […]<\/p>\n

Charity Epilepsy Action said it had received calls from people who had suffered fits after seeing it.<\/p>\n

Organiser London 2012 said it will re-edit the film. […]<\/p>\n

Emphasising that it was not the logo itself which was the focus of worries, [a spokesperson] said: “This concerns a short piece of animation which we used as part of the logo launch event and not the actual logo.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ya, right! There’s a horror film in this somewhere. Perhaps this is the return of the antichrist, only not in human form, for how banal would that be? Humans can be eliminated, but once such a logo is unleashed upon the unsuspecting world…<\/p>\n

(Link via email from Prabhu<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nOlympics logo in epilepsy controversy - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/2012-london-olympics-logo-in-epilepsy-controversy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Olympics logo in epilepsy controversy - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I wrote yesterday about how bad the 2012 Olympics logo was, even if it did resemble Lisa Simpson giving head. 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