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Dear Reader.

I keep hearing people (mostly from other countries, American Mitt Romney for example.) saying that British people are really negative and critical and "unpatriotic" about the games and worrying that its all going to be too expensive and don't get me wrong its all true but I would argue that that's what being British is all about. We come together the most as a country when things go embarrassingly wrong for example today there was this thing where bells were being rung across the country from church bells to cow bells and there was someone there from the Olympic comity saying that everyone was so well prepared that nothing could go wrong and mid ring his hand-bell fell to pieces. My entire family cheered.

About the thinking about it being an economic, artistic, logistical balls up. Just because we think about it doesn't mean it will. I bet every country worries about this stuff but they never admit it, if the Britain is anything its a country of realists. We aproach patriotism with a sense of mistrust partly because we know the things that are recognised as "typically British" that always go with enforced patriotism are A) shit and B) not really enjoyed by the British (a lot of the time we eat fish and chips out of necessity not really for enjoyment).