Considering the latest theme that seems to emerged on LOS of late, I figured I would continue the trend of making observations of people clothing.

The Beijing Olympics have begun, and were kicked off with one amazing opening ceremony... thousands of drummers, dancers and a cheap Chinese rip-off of Australias outcast darling Nikki Webster sang, kicked, tumbled and bounced their way through a series of acts singing praises to China for its great history, impeccable human rights record, and its fantastic greenhouse carbon emission 'green' credentials.

Well maybe not quite, but we did see a globe covered in chinese people, a chinese opera singer who looked for all the world like a Lady Boy from Bangkok and even a saga about Eunuch pirate treasure. Eunuch pirate treasure!

To spell it out, in the Olympics opening ceremony, they told the story about a pirate who sailed the world bringing back massive hauls of treasure, and did it all without posessing his testicles! Wouldn't that story be better suited to the para-olympics, along with all the other amputee hero stories? Maybe not.

But the highlight of the night for me was one charismatic singer called "Liu Huan". Now, don't get me wrong - I am certainly no fashion guru - but if you were going to be singing at an event infront of 90,000 people amongst thousands of performers in lavish costumes next to a gorgeous (and apparently single) singer, wouldn't you dress up a little, get the nicer fitted shirt and silk tie out of the closet?

Yeah, I thought so.

And if that event being watched live by 90,000 people was going to be broadcast internationally to over 4 BILLION people, would you say... go out and buy a whole new outfit, new shoes, belt, suit, shirt and tie? Lets be honest, we are talking about a man here... if he was a chick, he would be inclined to spend up big on an item of clothing every time he left the house, us men tend to shop a little less - but even still, as a guy you would dress up and put at least a smidgeon of effort into trying to look respectable.

But apparently not if you are one of China's most popular singers... Liu Huan sang next to a lavishly dressed Sarah Brightman wearing some boring grey slacks, a black tshirt and his hair slicked back into a ponytail. What? What man in their right mind goes to the olympics in a tshirt... Even the olympic volunteers have polo shirts WITH A COLLAR.

Liu Huan looks like he was lounging around in the foyer of a nursing home, reading an old newspaper and half watching the tv in the corner of the room when the Chinese Olympic officials tracked him down, made him put on some little slippers and wheeled him on the worlds biggest stage.

Worse still, it seems that Liu Huan has been caught wearing the same disgusting pony tail and black tshirt previously in photo-shoots and other concerts! If you look closely at the image of Liu Huan atop the globe in Beijing, you can almost see the sweat and grease stains with cigarette ash that is mashed into the front of his tshirt and pants.

Awesome dude. 4 Billion people watching, and you don't even bathe and do your hair... The only thing worse than your fashion crime was Sonia Krugers stupid stupid comments during the opening ceremony.

Ehh!