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Olympic Opening Ceremony, London 2012

I thought it was brilliant. It dispelled my cynicism, for a few hours at least. It was very, 100% British, so not sure what foreign viewers would have thought, probably either bemused or impressed.
 
That was the fucking bollocks!

27 million quid very well spent.

Danny Boyle fucking nailed it.

We are so lucky to be British, us English get to moan about the Scotch and Welsh, they likewise moan about us, but together, we are the perfect formula, Jerusalem, Flower of Scotland, Bread of Heaven etc. fucking ace.

And the deaf kids singing the national anthem, one in the eye for Beijing dubbing out the ugly kid :cool:

Gonna go and watch the cycling and cheer like a madman!!!
 
I thought it was in slightly bad taste to have a silence for the dead of 2 world wars and a memorial to the 7/7 bombings, but to refuse a silence for the 1972 israelis.
 
Johnny Canuck3 said:
Looks like it won't be us Canadians dissing your games. It's going to be the Americans. :(

http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthony...ympics-the-most-embarrasing-opening-ceremony/
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tbf Johnny, he's making a prat of himself, he's even slagging off Berners-Lee, "huh, invented the world wide web, what a ponce" type shizz.

And thank you to our closest colonials for your lovely praise of the event, it's no coincidence William and Kate kicked off their marriage in your beautiful country ;)


eta: and the comments on the Forbes article: you use some British rappper??? Especially when rap is uniquely American. :facepalm:
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
tbf Johnny, he's making a prat of himself, he's even slagging off Berners-Lee, "huh, invented the world wide web, what a ponce" type shizz.

And thank you to our closest colonials for your lovely praise of the event, it's no coincidence William and Kate kicked off their marriage in your beautiful country ;)


eta: and the comments on the Forbes article: you use some British rappper??? Especially when rap is uniquely American. :facepalm:
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As you know, your country made ours [along with les gars de la Patrie]. Even today, the ties are broad and deep.
 
Who cares. Beijing spent £250million on their ceremony we spent a tenth of that, is it any surprise it wasnt quite as good? Beijing certainly wasnt 10 times better.
 
The times of India opens it's article with mr bean.

And USA today suggests it worked best for Brits: For Marcyle Garavito and Yiceth Monterrosa, the Victoria Park show was a big waste of time. They spent two hours getting there by bus and subway, then stood in line three hours. Was it worth it?

"No," said Garavito, a student, in Spanish. "We don't understand anything, because it's all about England. And it should be international."

Actually, they did understand a little bit: "Only Mr. Bean," Monterrosa says.

Mr Bean was def a winning move!
 
mrs quoad said:
The times of India opens it's article with mr bean.

And USA today suggests it worked best for Brits: For Marcyle Garavito and Yiceth Monterrosa, the Victoria Park show was a big waste of time. They spent two hours getting there by bus and subway, then stood in line three hours. Was it worth it?

"No," said Garavito, a student, in Spanish. "We don't understand anything, because it's all about England. And it should be international."

Actually, they did understand a little bit: "Only Mr. Bean," Monterrosa says.

Mr Bean was def a winning move!
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I think that says more about them than us. If they dont know that GB was the home of the industrial revolution then they were going to be confused by pretty much everything. And they surely understood the NHS bit after all the whole of europe flocks here for treatment when it suits them.
 
ShiftyBagLady said:
I'm convinced I heard the fireworks
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I live within a mile of the stadium and I 'heard' them when trying to get to sleep. :mad:

God it's wall to wall Olympics. The radio is banging on about it, even my walk to the tube at 06:30 I passed loads of stewards.

Feel sorry for the canteen lady at work. The canteen is never open on Saturdays but is today and must remain so til late because of 'the Olympics'. She was here till nine last night, usually finishes at 3. Eye of the Tiger has just come on the radio. Hurry up and end please.
 
Citizen66 said:
God it's wall to wall Olympics. The radio is banging on about it, even my walk to the tube at 06:30 I passed loads of stewards.
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Aye, the BBC 'News' Channel has been hi-jacked as fucking expected, Olympics top story, fair enough, but fucking banging on about it for 15 fucking minutes and fucking filling time interviewing fucking random members of the fucking public coming & going from the fucking Olympic village is not fucking news, then it's over to other news - only 3 fucking headline stories, about 2 fucking minutes, and back to the fucking Olympics .... :mad:

There's a whole fucking world out there, let the fucking 'News Channel' deliver some sort of fucking news, not this fucking dribble, it's not like they haven't got fucking fuckloads of other channels pouring out this fucking shit anyway. :mad:

*throws brick @ telly* :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
Viewing figures on the BBC for the opening ceremony were an average of 22 million, and a peak of 26.9 million. This is apparently a record for the modern BBC.

:cool:
 
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