Don't Drink the Water, at the Olympics

Explain to me again, why are we having the Olympics in Beijing, instead of London? So, you might get the runs from drinking the tap water, your shoes might get spit on while walking down the street, you might be ordering something completely different than the translation on the menu, you might not get to the store counter unless you lead with your elbows, you'll have to wear a mask to avoid the air pollution and exhaust fumes, and the locals won't even smile at you. Yup, looks like the 2008 Summer Games are going to be a blast!

Update: The bro reminds me that he covered the spitting, the non-queuing, and the non-smiling before now. I covered the Chinglish earlier too. I believe the air quality and snarled traffic in Beijing is very old news at this point.