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Olympics closing ceremony on TV now.

Surpass it eh? :D

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..can't wait!
 
JTG said:
Perhaps we should have had a troupe of perpetually embarrassed people feeling self conscious in the belief that everything produced by their country looks rubbish in comparison to anything done by anyone else, anywhere in the world. Anything foreign must be cooler than anything we can manage. Quintessentially British that.

You lot would have been great at it.
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Eight years ago I bet you were accusing people of being sheep for not believing the millenium dome was the greatest thing ever :p
 
"in fact, we should have old rocks stars on podiums hidden under the very streets for just such occasions."

This is a genius idea. I can imagine people monitoring banks of CCTV:

"Quick, someone isn't having a good time outside the Wetherspoons in Camden. Summon Ringo Starr!"

:)

Matt
 
Belushi said:
Eight years ago I bet you were accusing people of being sheep for not believing the millenium dome was the greatest thing ever :p
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Nah I wasn't.

A ten minute slot at someone else's party is hardly a national embarrassment though
 
JTG said:
Perhaps we should have had a troupe of perpetually embarrassed people feeling self conscious in the belief that everything produced by their country looks rubbish in comparison to anything done by anyone else, anywhere in the world. Anything foreign must be cooler than anything we can manage. Quintessentially British that.

You lot would have been great at it.
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Im inordinately pleased by the heart displayed by our athletes, they dared to dream and achieved far beyond what we expected.

Sadly the 'creatives' who are chosen to plan our millennium events, opening and closing ceremonies and logos tend to be neither cutting edge nor traditional.

They fall consistently below the standards of independent companies who put on Manumission, Trash City, Ministry of Sound or even the frigging Jubilee celebrations.

We are good at this putting on spectaculars, but the moment politicians and Nathan Barley type nobheads get involved- it turns to liquid shit.

As for our world image editor- I dont disagree with you, but people know us for our music and artistic endeavours as well as Big Ben, Buck House and buses.
 
JTG said:
Perhaps we should have had a troupe of perpetually embarrassed people feeling self conscious in the belief that everything produced by their country looks rubbish in comparison to anything done by anyone else, anywhere in the world. Anything foreign must be cooler than anything we can manage. Quintessentially British that.

You lot would have been great at it.
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I think we could do a great show. It's just that there seems to be a some British thing of deciding what is good by comittee vote which means we end up with lowest common denominator stuff like Beckman & buses. Dig a little deeper & have some balls to put something on that your average Daily Mail reader hasn't heard of. We don't have to look to the past & tradition to find things that are great about the Uk. Lets look to the future & kick the worlds arse.
 
People seem to want to believe a little too hard London will fail - you know the type though, only ever likely to be upbeat at their own funeral. Fwiw, in relation to what the Chinese put on, I hope we do fail.
 
a few years ago, Bristol was bidding for the European Capital of Culture. The people running the big managed to ignore all the best bits of Bristol's culture and produced a clueless, corporate shambles of a bid which deserved to lose.

we just shrugged an got on with it, the people make the city, whether in Bristol or London. London represents itself to the people who visit it, it's impossible to portray the place adequately any other way.

So don't worry about it

:)
 
Our reponse to this will be a measure of what we've become - if we're intimidated by it, then we might as well join the ranks of the needy Americans, or the Chinese with something to prove. Are we not a little more mature than that, a little more self-assured?

It's like throwing a dinner party and then insisting on buying all new tables and chairs and crockery and candles. We should offer pie and mash, and be proud of it.

And Boris should defo have done his jacket up and stopped waving like a plump little girl on a fairground carousel.
 
I don't think Britain is mature or self assured. It is infantile and insecure, always trying to convince itself of how 'cool' it is.
 
It's a tad smaller obviously but I thought Manchester put on a great show for the Commonwealth Games in 2002. If London follows the same example, scaling it up a little but not too much, then it'll be fine.
 
Dillinger4 said:
I don't think Britain is mature or self assured. It is infantile and insecure, always trying to convince itself of how 'cool' it is.
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Oh, get over yourself. The creative output of this country is hardly the work of a terminally 'infantile and insecure' nation.

Btw, I liked the bits of the video with the Basil Fawlty strutting guardsman and the bloke doing graffiti.
 
editor said:
Oh, get over yourself. The creative output of this country is hardly the work of a terminally 'insecure' nation.

Btw, I liked the bits of the video with the Basil Fawlty strutting guardsman and the bloke doing graffiti.
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totally. what's infantile and insecure is continuously pointing out how shit everything is here when the truth is somewhere between 'shit' and 'fucking great'.

some people on here are weird
 
editor said:
Oh, get over yourself. The creative output of this country is hardly the work of a terminally 'infantile and insecure' nation.

Btw, I liked the bits of the video with the Basil Fawlty strutting guardsman and the bloke doing graffiti.
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Breakdancing guardsmen FTW!
 
The dancers and their newspapers were the worst bit. Comedy gold. I was pissing myself.
Yeah, it was naff, of course it was naff.
But all those speeches and the relayed comments from the Edwards reminded me of how disgusting the whole spectacle was and made me ashamed of watching even a second of the Olympics in China.
Did anyone hear the relayed comments from an official about Chinese workers being more efficient cos, unlike Western workers, they can work more than 4 and a half days a week and that the didn't have unions so no one can complain. And this was read out by the commentators with a straight face. There's no sitting on the fence with this one - a bit late for me to realise this, but how can the presenters (or for that matter, anyone working out there, including the outfits), sit there and listen to that without comment?
 
Dillinger4 said:
I don't think Britain is mature or self assured. It is infantile and insecure, always trying to convince itself of how 'cool' it is.
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I suspect you're talking of a country you know and have experienced - it's young, it's not sure of itself. Maybe it's even what is called 'transference' in psychology.

In many respects, London is now the most successful city in the world - and none of that happened by accident.

This is serious business now with serious people behind the scenes. Sure kids - insecure and otherwise - have a role to play, but they really aren't going to characterise the effort moving forward.
 
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