London 2012 Olympic Logo and Mascot Disgrace: Who Are The Real Criminals?

Laughing Stock London 2012

I had a 50 pence coin in my change last night. Minted ahead of time with the 2011 date on it, my coin of the realm bears the puerile 2012 graffiti celebration that is the "Lisa Simpson Blow Job logo" above two athletes fencing with their weapons out.

To make it even worse, now I see that one of our ludicrously infantile Olympic mascots looks for all the world like a penis. And so out of hopeless manic lunacy, caused by the lunatics who have taken over the asylum that is Britain, I have created a new - more forthright - logo that incorporates the essence of the 2012 London Olympics penis mascot.

Well someone was going to do it weren't they - and so I think we might as well laugh at ourselves now that we in the UK are all the laughing stock of the world.

Come 2012 some comedy documentary maker is going to be going all over the world asking people to tell them what they see when they look at the London Olympics logo and mascot. How they will laugh at us as we stand erect with our stiff upper lips receiving our bronze medals.

And what platitudinous, punterising propaganda will the buffoon-clown dicks who were put in charge of choosing the logo and mascot have to say then?

Really, I ask you, who are the real criminals? Do you have any idea how much tax payer's hard earned money was spent on all this phallicy? Well the London Olympic Games Organising Committee - headed by Lord Sebastian Coe (no apparent training in graphic design or common sense) paid £400,000 for the blow job.

They are remaining closed lipped on the price paid for the mascots, while Lord Coe mouths the same alibi for paying somone named Iris for the penis mascot that he did for the blow job:

"Lord Coe, chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic games, defended the mascots, saying they would inspire young people to engage with sport. "

With more than 17,000 websites comparing Lord Coe's mascot to a penis you have to wonder what's coming and going on in the head of his friend Iris.

Professor Bender's Ghost

Dog Nappy Petition

Bent Society has set up an online petition as part of our Gonzo Criminology campaign for the compulsory wearing of canine nappies for all dogs in public places. Police dogs included!

Here is the link. If you agree with our sentiments then please sign at the online site of Go Petition: http://www.gopetition.com/petition/41548.html . If you don't - well then maybe you are happy to walk dog filth into the home where you live and your place of work?



If we get 500 signatures we will register our petition with 10 Downing Street.

Please help us all bring an end this shamefully infantile, crass and unsightly, expensive, ridiculous and unproven Blairite-ugly, New Labour punterising signmongering nonsense.

Professor Bent

Turdish Dog Owners

I am fed up with foul dog owners letting their animals defecate outside my house and garage. It is bad enough that we have an infestation of morons walking lethal flesh ripping bull breed dogs around our streets among our children. Why are humans not allowed to defecate on the pavement and dogs are? How bent is that?

Why is it that moronic selfish dog owners are allowed to play canine bacterial and parasitical Russian roulette with our lives and that of our children?

The absolute fortune that is being spent on dog poo bins, sign mongering warning signs, adverts to encourage responsible behaviour and specialist fast response dog turd clean up teams is outlandish during the current economic crisis.

The solution is so simple. All dogs should be required by law to wear a nappy in public. We need to put a bill through parliament.

Problem solved and millions of pounds of public money saved.

MC Widdy

Strange Interactions: University of Crime and Game Substitution Theory

It is a truism that crimes and their causal effects are most difficult to single out for particular causal attribution.

For example, we know from what offenders tell us that prisons serve as a university of crime (although, strangely, criminologists have never examined this properly). We know the the Internet also allows offenders to share modus operandi information

Sutton's Game Substitution Theory is to date, arguably, the most compelling explanation yet for the otherwise unfathomable 15 year long fall in crime. What criminology needs to do is to develop methods and knowledge in understanding how to gauge the benefits of certain crime facilitators for offending and weigh that against the "good" that the facilitator causes in reducing crime.

Criminology needs also to both tighten up and expand the scope of its definitions. For example, the Internet may facilitate offending offline - but cyberspace is itself a virtual environment where offline facilitators (such as printed hacker "zines") can facilitate online offending. So facilitators can also be environments as well as objects, substances and people.

I see that Nottingham's notorious Gangster Mr Colin Gunn is in the news regarding how his Facebook page has been used to intimidate people on "the outside". Tautologically, Mr Gunn's time spent checking his Facebook page will have either reduced or not reduced his offline-offending. Perhaps he took he eye of the game and that's how he got caught in the real world? Perhaps not. There is a lot of complexity here for criminology to get to grips with.



Lox.

The Crime Drop and Routine Activities in Cyberspace

Marcus Felson's Routine Activities Theory is that crime is driven by technological changes in society. In the latest version (4th edition) of his book, published in 2010, Felson examines all the things that the Internet can do as a facilitator for crime. But Felson completely fails to examine whether the huge popularity in online activities from Facebook to virtual gaming and time spent in the cyberspace of interactive video games might be responsible for what criminologists describe as the unfathomable drop in crime over the past 15 years.

Mike Sutton's blog on the Best Thinkers website suggests that Felson's Routine Activities Approach in fact predicts that crime should fall if potential offenders and victims are spending several hours a day "routinely" active online or game playing on consoles at home. Sutton asks "Is the RAT in the NET?" He proposes that we need to investigate the possibility of this plausible reason with a "Game Substitution" hypothesis for the crime drop.

Read it here (click)


By Secret Squirrel