Olympic Opening Ceremony, London 2012

[Minnie_the_Minx]

One thing we really aren't all aware of just how significant popular culture is to how we are seen in the world and how important 'our'music is to them, , last night I was talking to my young Hungarian friend and she said, ''you are english, you are so lucky, you have all the music''

I was watching Grosse Point Blank the other night and couldn't believe how much of the music was British

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119229/soundtrack

 

[treelover]

btw, the sound of the event wasn't too good on the BBC, it would have been incredible in the stadium to hear the repetitive beats of the 950 drummers and Evelyn Glennie was fantastic...

 

[quimcunx]

Yep, we aren't just playing to a British audience. you have to connect to the furriners so it has to have some recognition factor.

 

[story]

One thing we really aren't all aware of just how significant popular culture is to how we are seen in the world and how important 'our'music is to them, , last night I was talking to my young Hungarian friend and she said, ''you are english, you are so lucky, you have all the music''

One of my French friends said to me "We do food, you do music".

 

[Firky]

One thing we really aren't all aware of just how significant popular culture is to how we are seen in the world and how important 'our'music is to them, , last night I was talking to my young Hungarian friend and she said, ''you are english, you are so lucky, you have all the music''

I disagree, one thing "we" are acutely aware of is how great our music is. Unless you were born after 1990!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Wish they'd been more Pink Floyd

 

[quimcunx]

Guardian has picked up the Aidan Burley story.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Guardian has picked up the Aidan Burley story.

Lots have

https://news.google.co.uk/news/stor...a=X&ei=vD0TUICSDvHB0gXR5oGYDg&ved=0CDQQqgIwAQ

 

[story]

Guardian has picked up the Aidan Burley story.

And Wiki has been updated to cover it. He's done for.

Thread here.

 

[Firky]

As much as I hope the media to highlight Burley's comments I don't want them to mar what was a great night. Be much better if he was quietly extinguished... in a horrible way.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

As much as I hope the media to highlight Burley's comments I don't want them to mar what was a great night. Be much better if he was quietly extinguished... in a horrible way.

In the Olympic flame?

 

[Firky]

In the Olympic flame?

Minimum wage in a heavily unionised factory full of immigrant workers for the rest of his life.

 

[Psychonaut]

Has the false flag alien invasion thing happened yet?

they were forced to cancel the false flag events, thanks to the tireless work of the conspiracy researchers who exposed it all.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

View from Abroad

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/27/olympics-opening-ceremony-view-from-abroad?newsfeed=true

In China the state TV commentators did an admirable job of galloping through potted explanations of everything from the industrial revolution to Mary Poppins but appeared to be stunned to near-silence by the parachuting Queen.

 

[quimcunx]

"Ah oui. Les corgis."

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

El Mundo correspondent John Muller tweeted: "I think that, despite all their mistakes, it has become clear that without the UK our lives would not be the same."

Wonder what mistakes they're talking about?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Zimbabwean journalist Ranga Mberi tweeted:"#OpeningCeremony segment supposedly showing the people who built modern Britain. But I don't see many immigrants. OK Britain, we see you flaunting your history. Where's the bit in which you invade, loot, kill and plunder?"

 

[Espresso]

Wonder what mistakes they're talking about?

Giving the Armada what for, no doubt.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Giving the Armada what for, no doubt.

They still holding a grudge

 

[free spirit]

tbf I did wonder about that myself, but I'm not sure stuff like fighting wars for the right to flog opium to the chinese would have hit the right tone for an opening ceremony.

 

[2hats]

The Japanese used balloons like that to bomb Canada and America during WW2.

Different material, different flight profile. The fire balloons were designed to sit in the jet stream (had a mechanism to maintain the correct altitude around 10km) and then destroy themselves after delivering their payload. Met balloons are designed to keep climbing and eventually burst and fragment.

Hmm, if the is a screen grab from the ceremony feed (looks familiar), can't help feeling that disk is a little too well lit if it were launched at the start of the event and the altitude a tad high:

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

One of my French friends said to me "We do food, you do music".

Music, the arts, theatre, etc.

You gave the world Andrew LLoyd Webber.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

tbf I did wonder about that myself, but I'm not sure stuff like fighting wars for the right to flog opium to the chinese would have hit the right tone for an opening ceremony.

It's sort of like how the games in Atlanta didn't mention Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs, etc.

 

[twistedAM]

It's sort of like how the games in Atlanta didn't mention Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs, etc.

Yeah they should have just screened some random massive bombing live from Afghanistan. Would have punctuated that shit appropriately.

 

[editor]

I think that was the best Olympic opening ceremony I've ever seen.

 

[miniGMgoit]

I'm rather annoyed that I can't seem to find the whole thing to watch anywhere. I've managed to see it up until the child catcher.

 

[miniGMgoit]

Ah, it's ok, they've got the rest up now

 

[miniGMgoit]

Ok, just finished watching it and I thought it was ace. I liked the first bit the best.
Loved it though. Made me feel all warm and fuzzy

 

[paolo]

sir tim ftw

I really went to bits at that point.

 

[1927]

Can somebody who is better at these things please try and find a very old thread in the Olympic flame and how it should be lit. I am pretty sure i proposed that every nation should carry in a piece that would fit together, pretty much like what happened. I'm suing I tell ya!