Olympic Opening Ceremony, London 2012

[ska invita]

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

As a vegetarian id just like to say French food is shit. Everytime i got to france i go hungry. Nouvelle cuisine may have been big in the 80s, but they're stuck in the past. Other than that its meat and maybe two veg.

 

[ska invita]

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.

do you reckon? ive broken my leg in france and got some kind of blood poisining in Spain and the health service i experienced there was incredible. I bet Germany isnt shoddy either. I do know a couple of people who have done some 'health tourism', but neither was from europe

 

[agricola]

Tweet of the day so far:

"And all that cost £10m less than Andy Carroll"

 

[Lord Camomile]

£8m, but still...

 

[5t3IIa]

Can someone tell me what happened with Bond and the Queen? I missed it cuz walking to the park/being drunk is it on YouTube?

 

[ska invita]

I can imagine some certain Amercian's going, they're celebrating socialized health care, wtf?!

IME its always funny when people from the US find out the BBC is a state broadcaster with no adverts

 

[weltweit]

Wonder what mistakes they're talking about?

Gibraltar

 

[claphamboy]

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.

Thanks for posting this, Minnie, I've just been down the local Co-op to get my paper, the queue was massive for some reason and everyone was talking about the opening ceremony, so I chipped in with that quote from the Guardian and had everyone laughing!

As an added bonus I got to repeat it on three separate occasions on the walk back home to 3 different sets of neighbours that were in their front gardens, all of which laughed.

All this laughter has had me laughing too.

Indirectly, you have helped make at least a couple of dozen people have an extra laugh on this beautiful sunny morning.

 

[Pingu]

ok...

i have no feeling for the olympics at all aside from "thank fuck I dont have to try to get about london for the next two weeks" and tbh really couldnt give a shit about the thing.




but...



that was actually a fuckton better than i thought it was going to be and i have to say I quite enjoyed it.

 

[weltweit]

Can someone tell me what happened with Bond and the Queen? I missed it cuz walking to the park/being drunk is it on YouTube?

Bond arrived at Buck house and collected the Queen, he and she flew to the stadium in a helicopter and when hovering over the stadium the queen (in pink) jumped and openned a union jack parachute, closely followed by Bond (Daniel Craig)..... (some of this may have been TV trickery of course

 

[claphamboy]

Bond arrived at Buck house and collected the Queen, he and she flew to the stadium in a helicopter and when hovering over the stadium the queen (in pink) jumped and openned a union jack parachute, closely followed by Bond (Daniel Craig)..... (some of this may have been TV trickery of course

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

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 ....

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.

*throws brick @ telly*

The sun's out claphamboy

 

[5t3IIa]

Bond arrived at Buck house and collected the Queen, he and she flew to the stadium in a helicopter and when hovering over the stadium the queen (in pink) jumped and openned a union jack parachute, closely followed by Bond (Daniel Craig)..... (some of this may have been TV trickery of course

Wtf

Thanks! I'll find it on YouTube myself then

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Thanks for posting this, Minnie, I've just been down the local Co-op to get my paper, the queue was massive for some reason and everyone was talking about the opening ceremony, so I chipped in with that quote from the Guardian and had everyone laughing!

As an added bonus I got to repeat it on three separate occasions on the walk back home to 3 different sets of neighbours that were in their front gardens, all of which laughed.

All this laughter has had me laughing too.

Indirectly, you have helped make at least a couple of dozen people have an extra laugh on this beautiful sunny morning.

I'm pleased I cheered you up, and the sun has come out to cheer you up even further. I was up 'til near enough 4.00am trawling through foreign reactions.

 

[claphamboy]

The sun's out claphamboy

Yes, and I have a broken telly.

 

[2hats]

As a vegetarian id just like to say French food is shit. Everytime i got to france i go hungry. Nouvelle cuisine may have been big in the 80s, but they're stuck in the past. Other than that its meat and maybe two veg.

Couldn't agree more. As someone who is both a veggie and milk product intolerant I'd like to point out that virtually all of it that isn't predominately meat is full of that dairy shit so inedible to me. It's as bad as processed food. The Italians do food (unlike the French who try to overcomplicate virtually every dish, they keep it simple with just a few ingredients).

 

[ska invita]

Couldn't agree more. As someone who is both a veggie and milk product intolerant I'd like to point out that virtually all of it that isn't predominately meat is full of that dairy shit so inedible to me. It's as bad as processed food. The Italians do food (unlike the French who try to overcomplicate virtually every dish, they keep it simple with just a few ingredients).

Definitely - Italy wins (though ive never been myself - i can imagine). THough London is a great place for food these days

 

[2hats]

I can imagine some certain Amercian's going, they're celebrating socialized health care, wtf?!

In your face Fuckwitt Romney.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

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/

He's just pissed off there was no Mickey Mouse or cheerleaders

 

[weltweit]

In your face Fuckwitt Romney.

Wonder what he made of the ceremony...

 

[Divisive Cotton]

I think the opening ceremony worked last night because if you want to put on a stage extravaganza that shines emotion in many different ways then you will need a soundtrack for that, and Britain is probably one of the few countries in the world that has a diverse rich contemporary musical tradition to tap into

Probably the only comment of interest last night from Trevor Nelson was that Underworld were responsible for organising the music

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Bond arrived at Buck house and collected the Queen, he and she flew to the stadium in a helicopter and when hovering over the stadium the queen (in pink) jumped and openned a union jack parachute, closely followed by Bond (Daniel Craig)..... (some of this may have been TV trickery of course

Don't be ridiculous

Why do you think all those NHS workers were there. She was well covered if she had a dodgy landing

 

[weltweit]

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/

Well he may have been embarrassed, but I don't think any Brits were.. wonder what that says about him?

 

[5t3IIa]

I didn't think Trevor did a bad job at all Some of the potted bits about each country were weird as fuck "Volcanic island, lovely beaches" then "War torn dump, has diamonds"

 

[weltweit]

The Italians looked slick in their Armani suits ....

But just what were the Germans thinking? :

 

[hegley]

Bond arrived at Buck house and collected the Queen, he and she flew to the stadium in a helicopter and when hovering over the stadium the queen (in pink) jumped and openned a union jack parachute, closely followed by Bond (Daniel Craig)..... (some of this may have been TV trickery of course

First time a helicopter's been flown through Tower Bridge according to the papers.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

First time a helicopter's been flown through Tower Bridge according to the papers.

Well not really, because I found a video the other day of the practice run where two of them go through

 

[Ozone]

Can someone tell me what happened with Bond and the Queen? I missed it cuz walking to the park/being drunk is it on YouTube?

Here we go....Lizzie and Bond's monumental moment!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19018666

 

[hegley]

Well not really, because I found a video the other day of the practice run where two of them go through

First time a helicopter's been flown through Tower Bridge with the Queen and James Bond in it according to the papers.

 

[Lord Camomile]

But just what were the Germans thinking?

That it was the Winter Olympics, apparently.