Are you looking forward to the Opening Ceremony

[Lisarocket]

The floating rings look ace.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

what? what are they doing?

The Olympic rings are flying essentially

 

[Dillinger4]

a MASSIVE hologram.

 

[CharlieAddict]

wow!

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Ok worst bit of the ceremony so far now,lol.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Ok worst bit of the ceremony so far,lol.

Yeah - go away small children we want more floating rings and stuff!

 

[Melinda]

Goose stepping!

 

[Lord Camomile]

Damn those guys keep good time.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Indeed!(in reply to QOG)

 

[Dillinger4]

It is pretty frightening, in a way. The discipline and the unity of China. They are the future, man.

 

[Dillinger4]

Goose stepping!

It is a bit disconcerting to see the Red Army in amongst all the culture stuff.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Can't imagine God Save the Queen getting quite the same treatment.

 

[skyscraper101]

So, if the Chinese get to have their military there, do we get to have the red arrows or are they still banned?

 

[QueenOfGoths]

So, if the Chinese get to have their military there, do we get to have the red arrows or are they still banned?

No - they'll be flying in Mayor Boris Dressed as Henry V!

 

[Lord Camomile]

That man is MAGIC!

 

[Dillinger4]

No - they'll be flying in Mayor Boris Dressed as Henry V!

 

[Dillinger4]

That man is MAGIC!

Innit.

This truly deserves the word awesome.

 

[Melinda]

It is a bit disconcerting to see the Red Army in amongst all the culture stuff.

Absolutely agreed.

The whole vista spun in just a few moments- from 'Holy Fuck!' 21stC Technology to schmaltz to milatrism in just seconds.

Like you said, its all the same bound up together, you dont get one without the others.

 

[DJ Squelch]

We should get Boris to give Mutoid Waste a couple of million to do the London opening ceremony. I'm thinking Glastonbury's Trash City x 1000

 

[Dillinger4]

Absolutely agreed.

The whole vista spun in just a few moments- from 'Holy Fuck!' 21stC Technology to schmaltz to milatrism in just seconds.

Like you said, its all the same bound up together, you dont get one without the others.

Innit. There is definitely something subtly terrifying about it.

 

[CharlieAddict]

so...i take it there were no symbols of pre-modern china then?

 

[Dillinger4]

All those patterns moving on the scroll thing, they are not projected, they are built into it. Its like a massive screen that can be rolled up.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

OMG what is happening!! More flying ftw

 

[TrippyLondoner]

This actually going on for another 3 hours or so??

 

[Lord Camomile]

Innit.

This truly deserves the word awesome.

The choreography required for that must be intense (and a little scary ).

 

[Lisarocket]

We should get Boris to give Mutoid Waste a couple of million to do the London opening ceremony. I'm thinking Glastonbury's Trash City x 1000

Now that is a great idea

 

[Belushi]

It is a bit disconcerting to see the Red Army in amongst all the culture stuff.

Thats the Peoples Liberation Army, get it right!

 

[Melinda]

The Chinese havent revealed the costs of their Olympics, not the building of the Birdsnest Stadium or this opening ceremony.
Unlimited budget!

We are going to be penny pinching because all our contractors will have stiffed us out of billions of pounds by then!
We'll have Babs Windsor and her Pearly Kings and Queens doing the Lambeth Walk.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Yay! Silly hats!

 

[Dillinger4]

The choreography required for that must be intense (and a little scary ).

London can never live up to this.