The Closing Ceremony

[youngian]

He's gonna be unemployed for four years - he wants a good reference...

And he didn't get that job in the sociology department at the University of Jamaica

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Fireworks?

Seb and Boris on fire?

 

[Lord Camomile]

Wish I'd got tickets to something other than the pigging football too

 

[Lord Camomile]

Oh hell, and I've still got to have a shower under a shower that has only one setting: volcanic.

This is the worst evening, ever.

 

[editor]

It's that awful woman singing AGAIN.

 

[free spirit]

Did I miss something, or were the Indian dancers Eric Idle took the piss out of just about the only nod to racial diversity in this thing?

tiny tempah and whatshisface..... but yes, I thought eric idle should have existed stage left sharpish and given them some respect.

 

[1927]

Yeah, the person who came up with the singing acts must be of a certain age. Don't reckon the younger generation would really know the Who.

Anyone of any age whom knows anything about music will know whom the Who are. Of course those more preoccupied with wannabees fly by night mime artists will be at a loss.Fuck em.

 

[free spirit]

It's that awful woman singing AGAIN.

eh? I thought it'd finished.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

tiny tempah and whatshisface..... but yes, I thought eric idle should have existed stage left sharpish and given them some respect.

I was hoping he would look puzzled, but then join in and be great at it, and they'd all do a huge number together. But no, he just waved his arms around like a man who'd never seen brown people before.

 

[Firky]

Am surprised some of you are still watching it.

 

[agricola]

That Ripper Street trailer was pretty good.

 

[free spirit]

what I want to know is why the rolling stones never get asked to play at these things.

or did they knock them back after looking at the rest of the lineup?

 

[Firky]

I was hoping he would look puzzled, but then join in and be great at it, and they'd all do a huge number together. But no, he just waved his arms around like a man who'd never seen brown people before.

You're sounding dangerously like the father in Viz's Modern Parents.

 

[Gingerman]

He's gonna be unemployed for four years - he wants a good reference...

Far more appreciated over here than In the US.

 

[Hollis]

Yeah - "You can't always get what you want" would've gone down well..

 

[littlebabyjesus]

You're sounding dangerously like the father in Viz's Modern Parents.

You didn't feel that? It was all set up for him to start getting into the moves, then they'd all be doing it together. But he didn't. I found that really odd.

 

[weltweit]

I thought they missed a trick when Queen were on....

What song could have been more appropriate than "We are the Champions"

 

[Libertad]

Let the rioting begin, we've only got a week before the football.

 

[free spirit]

I thought they missed a trick when Queen were on....

What song could have been more appropriate than "We are the Champions"

could've got all the champions up on stage for a singalong as well.

 

[Firky]

You didn't feel that? It was all set up for him to start getting into the moves, then they'd all be doing it together. But he didn't. I found that really odd.

Not really to be honest, I just thought it was a comic comicing around with people who happened to be Indian.

Anyway it's not as though he ever wrote and sang a song that patronised the Chinese

 

[Lord Camomile]

what I want to know is why the rolling stones never get asked to play at these things.

or did they knock them back after looking at the rest of the lineup?

I think they price themselves out of the market.

That's the reason for why they don't play Glasto, anyway.

 

[Orang Utan]

Michael Johnson is a very polite man

I suspect he was fulfilling a contractual obligation

 

[Lord Camomile]

If there's one thing good to come from that ceremony, it's that it proves we weren't conned by the opening ceremony - we still know a shower of shit when we see one.

 

[free spirit]

I reckon they'd have done it for the publicity / kudos.

They probably would have needed a couple of years notice though if they're on tour or something, as once their schedule's set they can't exactly cancel another gig to do it.

 

[Ted Striker]

I think they price themselves out of the market.

That's the reason for why they don't play Glasto, anyway.

Someone a few weeks ago that talked as if 'he knew' (as people do), but he said it was nailed on for 2013. As part of their worldwide tour etc.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I think they price themselves out of the market.

That's the reason for why they don't play Glasto, anyway.

Well I thought the acts were only paid £1 anyway, so they ain't doing it for the money, or were they not happy to play for free?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I would guess that the performers were asked to do it for nothing, no?

anyway, I'd rather have The Who.

 

[Firky]

Does anyone know what the newspaper print stage was all about?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I would guess that the performers were asked to do it for nothing, no?

Not anyone serious.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Does anyone know what the newspaper print stage was all about?

The only bit I managed to read was the Samuel Johnson quote "When a man is tired of London"

Someone said there were Shakespeare quotes as well