Being forced to dance in front of people after a historic sporting victory is the perfect way to ground someone.
Yet, despite the 80-camera surveillance system at the ground, someone was able to sneak in and draw a huge, 12-metre swastika on the turf.
Under a picture of a man neck-deep in a hole in the ground, someone has written, "It looks like we'll be alright as long as the end of the world doesn't involve rain").
Finally, the collections here produced a designer who is alive and connected to the real ground, someone not caught up in the old games about sex and class, but firmly part of his times.
"As long as I'm above ground, I'll carry on," says 71-year-old Apted when we meet on the 20th floor of ITV's London HQ. "Maybe if I wasn't above ground, someone else would take it over.
I'm more a fan of not buying the ticket in the first place, though that has the draw back that, for many areas of the ground, someone else will happily buy it instead – so there's still the transaction.
Down on the ground, someone congratulated me on getting the confetti burst, a final tippy-top thrill that only about 15 percent of ascenders achieve (those who struggle to find the right focus but who make it to the top anyway).
By definition email is a cloud technology the reality is that somewhere on the ground someone is running an SMTP-based server with unruly and often times unmanageable queues.
