Olympics closing ceremony on TV now.

[Melinda]

Is there a live feed from Buck House on the live feed?

 

[JTG]

Jimmy Page looked like he was really, really munted there

 

[Dillinger4]

ah get over it.

that was funny as hell.

I am laughing.

 

[DJ Squelch]

Oh god, that was shite.

 

[marty21]

who is going to remember it anyway? i can't remember any of the other ones

 

[Dillinger4]

Jimmy Page looked like he was really, really munted there

Gurning to fuck

 

[JTG]

What were you all expecting?

 

[tommers]

I am laughing.

think how funny it will be in 4 year's time! we'll have had time to really hone our humour by then.

 

[rocketman]

Oh god save the queen - she must be about ready to quit, rather than face this humiliation. Come to London. It has rain, buses, people being run over on tiny bikes, and weird dancers - oh, and we just wanna give you a whole lotta love! FFS.

 

[JTG]

seriously, practically all of them are like this, I don't feel humiliated at all

 

[tommers]

not as bad as this thing with the people on the airline steps...

 

[Dillinger4]

think how funny it will be in 4 year's time! we'll have had time to really hone our humour by then.

Its almost like Eurovision.

 

[Melinda]

ah get over it.

that was funny as hell.

Sitting in your house with nowt but a pencil and scrap of paper you could have designed 8 minutes of entertainment to represent London, better than that shaming shambles.


Some Aphex Twn or DnB, 200 dancers and a 100 ft fibre glass bus.

Our austerity Games have started

 

[tommers]

seriously, practically all of them are like this, I don't feel humiliated at all

nah, neither do i. I enjoyed it.









Apart from boris.

 

[Melinda]

ah get over it.

that was funny as hell.

Sitting in your house with nowt but a pencil and scrap of paper you could have designed 8 minutes of entertainment to represent London, better than that shaming shambles.

Our austerity Games have started

 

[fen_boy]

I thought it was alright, the bus was cool.

 

[Melinda]

What were you all expecting?

Some Aphex Twn, banging DnB, 200 dancers and a 100 ft fibre glass bus.

 

[DJ Squelch]

Is rain, buses, topiary & crap slebs really all we have to offer the world?

 

[Dillinger4]

Is rain, buses, topiary & crap slebs really all we have to offer the world?

innit. that is modern Britain. The horror, the horror.

 

[Melinda]

seriously, practically all of them are like this, I don't feel humiliated at all

Only cos Boris didnt get to speak! How come he didnt btw?

Actually remember how shit the Greek showcase was at Sydney?!

But the Sydney showcase at atlanta was decent.

 

[Belushi]

That was fucking dreadful.

It would have been better if a battered old Routemaster had drawn up and Cliff Richard jump off

 

[tommers]

Is rain, buses, topiary & crap slebs really all we have to offer the world?

is monkey, scrolls, and substituting pretty kids for ugly kids all the chinese have to offer? it was 8 mins for the olympic closing ceremony, it's not going to be cutting edge and cool, is it?

this memory tower thing is good.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

From the BBC commentary:

"Boris handed over successfully - put him in the 100m relay for 2012."

Heh.

 

[JTG]

Some Aphex Twn, banging DnB, 200 dancers and a 100 ft fibre glass bus.

well that may represent your idea of London (or Cornwall if we're talking Aphex Twin ), mine too, but not most people's.

Sadly, when we end up doing things like this, seemingly the safest option is to retreat into cliches.

 

[DJ Squelch]

Anyway back to Chinese showing us how it should be done. I feel pwned.

 

[Dillinger4]

Its going to be designed by a load of Nathan Barleys.

 

[JTG]

is monkey, scrolls, and substituting pretty kids for ugly kids all the chinese have to offer? it was 8 mins for the olympic closing ceremony, it's not going to be cutting edge and cool, is it?

precisely

 

[Belushi]

seriously, practically all of them are like this, I don't feel humiliated at all

Stiff upper lip, thats the spirit.

 

[Jazzz]

I was going to start a thread about this yesterday.

a "quintessentially British moment" was what they were trying to achieve. Since when has utter naffness been quintessentially British?

Mind you I haven't actually seen it

 

[Dillinger4]

Stiff upper lip, thats the spirit.