Wenlock’s page on the official olympic website provides even more lovely details. “His eye represents the lens of a camera, recording everything he sees.” Not joking I swear.
It's called Wenlock because after the Olympics disappeared for a few thousand years it was bought back by a guy in the town of Wenlock Edge. The event was considered the first modern Olympic games.
I actually never knew that! Apparently the town is Much Wenlock; Wenlock Edge is a limestone escarpment near to the town. The man in question is William Penney Brookes and indeed, he is considered a founding father of the modern Olympics, his games being a forerunner to them. Similarly, Mandeville is named after the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury. They hosted the first Stoke Mandeville Games, the forerunner to the modern Paralympics. Given this history, it's only right that 2012's Olympics had one of the best opening ceremonies honestly.
I feel like an absolute twit for not realizing the London Olympics logo was a stylized "2012" until now No idea what else it could've been, I just sort of assumed it was some weird modern art that was accidentally crass
Me too, that was just very, very much unexpected. I mean, I know Stuart to be a blowtorch-urer, but knifing a one-eyed yogurt-slinger was a first right there.
There weren't all bad pop singers, Muse played the best Olympic anthem I have ever heard. Muse even carried the torch!!! If you want to know what song I'm talking about, it's called Survival
Trevor Martin at least Donald Trump actually defended the UK when Mitt insulted your ability to hold the olympics. He actually questioned if Mitt could pull it off in such a large city and said the locals should know best.
GamingDude800 actually just having a good jab at how backwards our American politics is. If you are an American you’d understand the burn almost immediately.
I find it oddly apt that Manderville is quite genuinely named after a hospital I once spent an afternoon in with heavy concussion. Because that's how I felt after the mascots were unveiled. Ah, memories...
The millenium dome 'collectables' were also a spurious range of over priced guff... although I have still got a book mark which they had to massively discount towards the end of the 'attraction' , presumably to avoid most of the shite ending up in landfill... happy days!
Damn, they look like someone meshed the Simpson with Dilbert and turned the unfortunate spawn into a Picasso painting....and the girl has target reticules on her chest. Those ones where based loosly on ancient Greek religious figurines, though, so at least their peculiar shape has a purpose.
***** No, but a photoshopped image with Pedobear in the background was erroneously circulated by many news outlets. Like a ton of them, because it fit the artstyle and they didn't recognize the icon.
Weirdly after about a minute into this video I paused it, and watched the 2 hour opening ceremony again, it really was extremely good. Also; the closing ceremony had one or two highlights - the Monty Python song :]
I'm from Bolton (Northern England) and I do NOT recall us making large amounts of steel girders or beams or 'things of that nature' for the olympic stadium. :/ They tell us nowt of interest here
It's been 2 years now and I still haven't watched the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics. I only watched the last 5 minutes of the closing ceremony with Eric Idle singing 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life'.
Do the British make paper-backed packages different from American ones, or is Ashens just really good at opening them quickly? For me the paper usually just splits in half, leaving the toy still sealed inside, until I just have to stab it with a knife or scissors to actually get it out, like at 9:18, but for *every. single. package.* and then there's the wire-ties
+ThePlamzJoker Actually, we're quantum presbytarians. And we've come to visit, MY DAUGHTER! (DUN DUN DUN DUN) omg senpai noticed me im so fukn happy hug me joker
The thing I noticed, is that when he stabs the figure... He thrusts, THEN twists the knife before pulling it out at an angle. This suggests Stewart Ashens has either received training in martial assassination, or he has done hard time.
And thank you my good sir. If not for your input about this man reviewing "Shift" from poundland I never would have realized what I was looking at. And of course, you managed to dispatch that heathen who was the only thing that really made me even care about your comment. I applaud your use of sarcasm and being a smart-ass that certainly saved us, and indeed the entire world. If not for you, I do not know what I might have done. Oh yeah... I might of actually had a laugh or two.
Michael Mast I don't even watch soccer on TV. Never did, and I'm from Brasil, where it's like a national sport/obsession. The cool part is we sports haters will probably outlive all those sports fans maniacs...
Depends on the ad type. The video overlay ads don't need to be clicked on. The pop up text boxes do need to be clicked on. The pop ups pay more per cpm.
My favorite part of the 2012 Opening Ceremony is the fact that while Voldemort is being attacked by 2 and a half dozen Mary Poppinses, Mike Oldfield and a jazz band were performing a swing version of Tubular Bells, his magnum opus and one of the best albums of the prog rock era. The entire thing is nuts.
"We did well for a country with a relatively small population"............... Dude, the population of London alone far exceeds the population of my ENTIRE country. What's this you were saying about a small populace?
That Olympic stuff was hilarious! I remember last year, when I went to England to go back to my home town, a Beano café was selling off fried breakfast as "Olympic Fry-Up". I couldn't stop laughing. xD
Wenlock is named after the village much Wenlock in the West Midlands which was home to the guy who brought the Olympics to Britain :) just thought u might like to know
Me too!! I am British. The opening ceremony was embarrassing, more like a school play than a show of strength. The chinese got it right. We had a chance to be respected in the world but that made us into a laughing stock
We have potential. Unfortunately we're becoming a nation of lefty pussies which is why the opening ceremony was a pile of ill-coordinated multi-cultural garbage. We should've took that opportunity to remind the world that we owned most of the participants at one point or other.
I did not even notice until the moment you mentioned it that the London Olympic logo is supposed to spell out 2012. All these years I've only seen abstract shapes. Woah.
Wenlock’s page on the official olympic website provides even more lovely details.
“His eye represents the lens of a camera, recording everything he sees.”
Not joking I swear.
So big brother init
Another fact: These bug eyed monstrosities were created by a company called Iris Design.
@@aceiskingpoor English people, don't know FREEDOM!!!!
It's just a metal deformed minion
Of course you didn't find any Mandeville's, Wenlock absorbed him to increase his dark powers so that he might rule this world and realms beyond
Wenlock may have absorbed his legs' functon, but he didn't absorb his superb Paralympian spirit. The Sochi mascots did that.
Then of course, the SOCHI mascots used his spirit to cast devious spells that makes everyone within a 5 mile radius handicapped.
oh yeah. should of thought that
@@verynoiceroxx542Then they formed Crippletron. If you know, you know.
It's called Wenlock because after the Olympics disappeared for a few thousand years it was bought back by a guy in the town of Wenlock Edge. The event was considered the first modern Olympic games.
:D. I didn't know that.
see? you DO learn things on youtube!
if i never used youtube i would have never knew the modifyers had a porn parody AND thing about wenlock edge!
So who's this Mandelbrot fellow named after?
@Sassy The Sasquatch neat.
I actually never knew that! Apparently the town is Much Wenlock; Wenlock Edge is a limestone escarpment near to the town. The man in question is William Penney Brookes and indeed, he is considered a founding father of the modern Olympics, his games being a forerunner to them.
Similarly, Mandeville is named after the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury. They hosted the first Stoke Mandeville Games, the forerunner to the modern Paralympics.
Given this history, it's only right that 2012's Olympics had one of the best opening ceremonies honestly.
"I'm sure no harm will come of you"
*Immediately stabs him in the eye*
"I may have lied about that last bit"
I love Ashen's humour.
I feel like an absolute twit for not realizing the London Olympics logo was a stylized "2012" until now
No idea what else it could've been, I just sort of assumed it was some weird modern art that was accidentally crass
Me too! I bloody realised it too since after the Olympics nor the Paralympics were held! IT'S AN OPTICAL ILLUSION OF HELL!
This logo does have the potential to possess people's mind and induce in the act of fellatio and sexual suggestive content!
CURSE U THE WORLD!
I can't unsee Lisa Simpson performing fellatio
I love the idea of watching the Olympics but "not the sport bits" that's true Olympic spirit.
"Good ol' Lance Armstrong, off to inject whatever he can find directly into his retinas."
You know I was actually obsessed with Wenlock and Mandeville I can't bring myself to dislike these things, too many happy memories
I was as well, younger me would've been foaming at the mouth seeing these. Mandeville always had a cooler design in my opinion though.
Same, I loved em as a kid
The London Olympic opening ceremony was absolutely insane. and insanely well choreographed. I'm very impressed nothing went wrong, crazy....
I love how he insulted mitt Romney, I couldn't stop laughing
G R A N I T E F A C E D F A I L M O N K E Y
It's 7:00am I worked a 12 hour shift and when you started talking about the guy shitting in his pants I freaking lost it.
You shit in your pants
Brilliant!
"You just stand over here, little man - I´m sure no harm will come to you!" **stabs him in the eye**
I lost my shit right then :DDD
Me too, that was just very, very much unexpected. I mean, I know Stuart to be a blowtorch-urer, but knifing a one-eyed yogurt-slinger was a first right there.
me being a brutality (in entertainment and not like the colosseum) lover the fierce stab in the eye (face) was just perfect xD
"I may have lied about that part." :)
"You had one job, Romney!"
CurtisAlfeld it's all over now you can come out
And he does it quite well if that one job is to be loyal to nothing beyond self serving.
There weren't all bad pop singers, Muse played the best Olympic anthem I have ever heard. Muse even carried the torch!!! If you want to know what song I'm talking about, it's called Survival
Ashens reviews Mitt Romney, Spot-on! LOL
and Mitt is Running for office again
Trevor Martin at least Donald Trump actually defended the UK when Mitt insulted your ability to hold the olympics. He actually questioned if Mitt could pull it off in such a large city and said the locals should know best.
GamingDude800 actually just having a good jab at how backwards our American politics is. If you are an American you’d understand the burn almost immediately.
Liberal I see
No matter the American political party, we all hate Mitt Romney
"He's done a big shit in his pants"
Ashens never fails to impress.
I like to Huff queefs
Its now late 2015 and i only now find out it was saying 2012, not a badly drawn UK... they paid 400k on that... great job UK
You are my favorite person on UA-cam, and I believe you deserve a reward. Good show, chap, good show.
Wenlock's name comes from the town of Wenlock where William Penny Brookes started the modern day Olympics. Hope this helps some people
Is it just me, or does anyone else think Wenlock looks like a fugitive Minion?
+Joanne Gray LOL
Joanne Gray You got a chuckle out of me. Which is rare. Congratulations.
It's kinda like a concept design.
I find it oddly apt that Manderville is quite genuinely named after a hospital I once spent an afternoon in with heavy concussion. Because that's how I felt after the mascots were unveiled. Ah, memories...
The Voldemort thing happened.
PlutoParadoxly, And we let it happen.
The millenium dome 'collectables' were also a spurious range of over priced guff... although I have still got a book mark which they had to massively discount towards the end of the 'attraction' , presumably to avoid most of the shite ending up in landfill... happy days!
I seem to remember people talking about how their heads looked like they represented all the government's ever-watching CCTVs
really? people told me it resembled a penis. "giant one eyed monsters"
Look up the 2004 mascots. You will stop complaining.
Damn, they look like someone meshed the Simpson with Dilbert and turned the unfortunate spawn into a Picasso painting....and the girl has target reticules on her chest.
Those ones where based loosly on ancient Greek religious figurines, though, so at least their peculiar shape has a purpose.
Dragonhammer Soulbreath The 2004 mascots make the 2012 ones look like fucking renaissance paintings
good god...why the hell do olympic mascots always look like the reject mascots that couldn't even make it to the minor-junior leagues?
Dragonhammer Soulbreath why does one have one have nipples?
***** No, but a photoshopped image with Pedobear in the background was erroneously circulated by many news outlets. Like a ton of them, because it fit the artstyle and they didn't recognize the icon.
are wenlock and mandeville related to Sheldon Plankton?
Yes
They're steel type, he's water type
I think they're related to to the t-1000 from Terminator 2, as they're both liquid metal
You'd expect the paralympics car to have at least one wheel missing.
(Offense not intended)
Maybe a reliant robin?
I laughed FAR to hard at that.
@@bamman999 or a reliable reindeer?
@@aceisking a joke from 3 months ago on a comment from 7 years ago on a video from 9 years ago just made me smile.
2:24 - oh dear, this video is old enough that Mitt Romney has come back into fashion.
He shall now do the Paris Olympics 2024 tat, since it's here already now!
Wenlock was the reason I moved to Australia
German Battleship Bismarck he will still find you
I met Wenlock in McDonalds back in May 2012
clayton waudby Yes.
Poopy Stain12345 XD
Weirdly after about a minute into this video I paused it, and watched the 2 hour opening ceremony again, it really was extremely good. Also; the closing ceremony had one or two highlights - the Monty Python song :]
12:11
When teachers tell you about your exams
I cannot unsee the 2012 logo now. Thanks a lot.
FACT: Wenlock will eat your soul!
FACT: Wenlock hates all humanity!
Fact!
Does glass get old after 12 years or is it still safe to eat?
Lol wut?
As long as it isn't white
3
Darude - Sandstorm
Lil'Mlg do I hear sarcasm :3
Its 2015 and I didnt realize that the logo Said 2012 on it untill you mentioned it
Wenlock is actually named after the town of Much Wenlock which I go to school in
I'm from Bolton (Northern England) and I do NOT recall us making large amounts of steel girders or beams or 'things of that nature' for the olympic stadium. :/ They tell us nowt of interest here
It's been 2 years now and I still haven't watched the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics. I only watched the last 5 minutes of the closing ceremony with Eric Idle singing 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life'.
WENLOCK GUARDIAN TO THE SEVENTH GATE OF HELL
I actually like the olympics 2012 mascots, they look like melted magnemites!:D
"Mr hanky the Olympic poo". I lost my frickin mind: literally cried.
10 years ago 😳
I had one of those inflateable torches. Do you know what I did with it? I shoved it up my sleeve and pretended I was Davy Jones. Good times.
the beginning is weird in that it seems rare to see ashens actually really praise something lol
(in this case being the olympic opening ceremonies)
Did anyone notice that he is doing this video on the other side of his couch???
Blasphemy!
5:06 I'm Mandeville - Man-Deville - Man - DEVIL
Loved this episode
"Mr. Hankey, the Olympic Poo."
I love Ashens.
Do the British make paper-backed packages different from American ones, or is Ashens just really good at opening them quickly?
For me the paper usually just splits in half, leaving the toy still sealed inside, until I just have to stab it with a knife or scissors to actually get it out, like at 9:18, but for *every. single. package.*
and then there's the wire-ties
don't worry i'm just trash Ashens is just really good. I'm British and have to do what you do
That Mitt Romney bit aged like a fine wine.
#Wenlock4Smash
This is amazing Ashens.
"Stand right over there. I'm sure no harm will come to you." Stabs him in the eye
wenlock wishes for the return of the once great empire.
The Rio Olympics were only a few months ago and already I'm confusing myself like "Wait, weren't the Olympics in Rio in 2012?"
Wenlock and Mandeville always reminds me of those aliens on The Simpsons.
"My name is Kang, and this is my sister, Kodos."
"Hello."
+josh kirby "Shazbot"
+josh kirby "Oh, great - Mormons!" ;)
+ThePlamzJoker Actually, we're quantum presbytarians. And we've come to visit, MY DAUGHTER! (DUN DUN DUN DUN)
omg senpai noticed me im so fukn happy hug me joker
does the logo remind you of Lisa?
When the torch passed trough my village, we were expecting a local hero or something. But instead we got a 98 year old who went to the local gym.
I remember when those creepy figures were in happy meals and I had them on my drawers for ages
I just had to go watch the olypic opening and holy fuck it was like droppin acid.
12:13 Repeat button.
The thing I noticed, is that when he stabs the figure... He thrusts, THEN twists the knife before pulling it out at an angle.
This suggests Stewart Ashens has either received training in martial assassination, or he has done hard time.
He's known on the streets as the stab onion.
And thank you my good sir. If not for your input about this man reviewing "Shift" from poundland I never would have realized what I was looking at. And of course, you managed to dispatch that heathen who was the only thing that really made me even care about your comment. I applaud your use of sarcasm and being a smart-ass that certainly saved us, and indeed the entire world. If not for you, I do not know what I might have done. Oh yeah... I might of actually had a laugh or two.
This has made me hate the Olympics even more than I originally did.
Thumbs up for not enjoying sports! Never could get into it (not part of the narrow field of interest my autistic brain decided to attach to)
I'm exactly the same
Michael Mast I don't even watch soccer on TV. Never did, and I'm from Brasil, where it's like a national sport/obsession. The cool part is we sports haters will probably outlive all those sports fans maniacs...
CCCP Digital Studio :-)
Michael Mast Lol, not even autistic here but sports don't intrest me at all.
I'm autistic too^^ Pokemon is mineTT
The Voldemort puppet terrified me so much I actually bought the DVD set to re watch the scene years later xD
Legend has it wenlock required Shaggy to use 50% of his power.
And Mandeville required 25%
Since Wenlock and Mandeville are out of work from the Olympics maybe they can get work playing a silly villain on Doctor Who.
God... this is nostalgic!
Oh my goodness, at 12:15 I just broke down.
So did Mandeville. :P
you just throw shit everywhere xD i love it
The irony is that the 2012 olympics could be defined as the last hurra of "great" britain before the transition to the "naff" britain of today.
Your the BEST!
Depends on the ad type. The video overlay ads don't need to be clicked on. The pop up text boxes do need to be clicked on. The pop ups pay more per cpm.
That face in Ashens.com @ 12:41 :D
That figure is doing a Nazi Goosewalk :|
Omg turn subtitles on
Laugh you ass off
"Am yeah when national defense was all quite nicely organizing" - made me watch the entire thing again!
+catgrin :) Ikr
+catgrin 9:47 xD Read the subtitles for that.
I love how 2012 olympics tat is still in the toy shops near me. I don't think they will ever get rid of that shit.
Is it still there?
My favorite part of the 2012 Opening Ceremony is the fact that while Voldemort is being attacked by 2 and a half dozen Mary Poppinses, Mike Oldfield and a jazz band were performing a swing version of Tubular Bells, his magnum opus and one of the best albums of the prog rock era. The entire thing is nuts.
wenlock short for much wenlock a town in Shropshire where the Olympics originated
The olympics originated in Greece...
8:02
"We did well for a country with a relatively small population"...............
Dude, the population of London alone far exceeds the population of my ENTIRE country. What's this you were saying about a small populace?
the population of london is like 6 million (i think) more than scotland 😂 you love to hear it.
That Olympic stuff was hilarious! I remember last year, when I went to England to go back to my home town, a Beano café was selling off fried breakfast as "Olympic Fry-Up". I couldn't stop laughing. xD
I loved that bit of the ceremony
i like the mascots. they're dumb but that's why I like them
+Snot Nose The Goblin I only like akira. there's nothing cutesy about it unless you count the rape boobies that one time
They're better than anything that came out of the Rio Olympics.
+XanthinZarda What did you think of Vinicius and Tom?
+Snot Nose The Goblin hahahahahaha nice joke m8.
Believe it or not, there are Olympic mascots that are WORSE than those two.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena_and_Phevos
ThePreciseClimber .........*fucking hell*
ThePreciseClimber
Did they make that image in MS Paint?! Jeeeez
*GOOD GOD*
She's got targeting reticles in the nipple area...why?
Who designed those? Looks like the cock of the devil!
Worst mascot ever? I'd like to see what this guy has to say about Atlanta's mascot. :)
What the imbread gay pervert playing banjo?
ImBREAD
Lol wut
Wenlock is named after the village much Wenlock in the West Midlands which was home to the guy who brought the Olympics to Britain :) just thought u might like to know
make a plastic piece of crap...slap a brand name on and instantly the price rockets up!!
TADA
Sounds like Beats by Dre.
Russy W 'An Excellent Brand Name'
Chef Excellence well fucking done on that
The Wenlock doesn't look evil, it's kinda cute .-.
5$ for that car ? You can get a hot wheels for 4$ and it is way better
no £5 which is about $7 or $8
+Lee Doughty so you can basically buy 2 good toys (for a kid) or a piece of plastic
tr3nta exactly, its a joke
I love Ashen's description of the Olympics.
American here. I'd kill to have Romney in charge these days lol
Pride. Passion. Party.
a racist political party?
oh, you mean ukip, of course!
Or the Tory party.
nemo in the flesh
Sounds like gay pride.
Dissin' my girl Jessie J?
The olympic opening ceremony was horrific! Massively cirngey and lame. Romney was right.
Yes, but we Brits just need a chance to have a go at people
HRHooChicken lame? i would like to see your country do any better.
Me too!! I am British. The opening ceremony was embarrassing, more like a school play than a show of strength. The chinese got it right. We had a chance to be respected in the world but that made us into a laughing stock
HRHooChicken Oh yeah because we're not a fucking laughing stock anyways? And besides it was for abit of fun rather than patriotic jerk circle
We have potential. Unfortunately we're becoming a nation of lefty pussies which is why the opening ceremony was a pile of ill-coordinated multi-cultural garbage. We should've took that opportunity to remind the world that we owned most of the participants at one point or other.
I did not even notice until the moment you mentioned it that the London Olympic logo is supposed to spell out 2012. All these years I've only seen abstract shapes. Woah.
My friend andy worked at the factory that made the Olympic torch and got to keep a spare one. Apparently they make good golf clubs.
I love the fact that you're a UA-camr who makes references to stuff like Much Binding in the Marsh.