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Right, I can't tell you how tired I am of 'Hey Jude', no no no no-no-no. When the Artic Monkeys are doing Beatles tunes better than yourself, it's time to call it quits Paul.
mattyrm wrote:I thought it made us all look aggressively homosexual. Not that I'm concerned about it, but when lots of your friends are American soldiers and you have to argue with them about the stereotype that British men are limp wristed and effeminate, its not good.
Still, the world we live in.. no doubt Rio will be the exact same.
Shuma and the like will like to say otherwise, but we live in a global economy and a global country. Rio will also be aggressively gay, and if 2020 is held in the USA, it will also feature singing children, dancing men and spandex.
Basically, its all gone to gak since 1955 rolled around. And real men are a dying breed. Acting like a nosh bag is actively encouraged regardless of nationality.
If anything you are proof that isn't true.
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Glorioski wrote:Is it just me or does ShumaGorath have a giant chip on his shoulder?
Anyway good ceremony. Rowan Atkinsons cameo as mr bean has to be my favourite part.
You just now noticed this? You must be new.
mattyrm wrote:I thought it made us all look aggressively homosexual. Not that I'm concerned about it, but when lots of your friends are American soldiers and you have to argue with them about the stereotype that British men are limp wristed and effeminate, its not good.
Still, the world we live in.. no doubt Rio will be the exact same.
Shuma and the like will like to say otherwise, but we live in a global economy and a global country. Rio will also be aggressively gay, and if 2020 is held in the USA, it will also feature singing children, dancing men and spandex.
Basically, its all gone to gak since 1955 rolled around. And real men are a dying breed. Acting like a nosh bag is actively encouraged regardless of nationality.
I've just turned it off. Waste of money, waste of time.
I almost feel embarrassed by it all. I felt that the ceremony was trying to cram in everything that was uniquely British, everything that defines us as a nation and yet, I feel that Danny Boyle has completely missed the target.
Apparently the British culture begins with Industrialisation has the NHS, Harry Potter and pop music, lots of pop music.
This was British, but the dumbed down variant. Most opening ceremonies go back into a nations past and present, I got the impression it was fast forwarded to the pop music. Her Majesty looked bored with it all.
As for the BBC commentary when the atheletes marched in, it was [nation name] is currently suffering [tragedy here], oh joyous. It got the point that I could guess what tragedy they were going to remind us of, like the Tsunami, various civil wars etc. In was hoping that when Great Britain entered, or 'Team GB' as we are expected to say, that the mentioned tragedy would be BBC plagued, alas it was not that honest.
The technical side was excellent, but the cultural side was lacking. Thousand year old continuous nation state and all they can come up with from before the modern era is Brunel, come on.
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Seems the Olympics is mobilizing the UKer's imperalism urge
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I actually thought the NHS bit was quite good.. I think it's something that philanthropists fought for for a long time, and that a lot of British people just take for granted and even abuse in some cases - having travelled and worked around the world, I found the general consensus from a lot of other countries is that they regard it as something special. You could therefore say that it is something 'British', and deserving of a place in the show, and something to be proud of. Just read in a paper that Jeremy Hunt (the culture secretary) was against that sequence, but apparently Seb Coe managed to stop any kind of government meddling in the content of the ceremony.
He looks quite old enough to have been in the Wermacht though....
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I thought the NHS sequence also sent out a nice message to the pro-privatisation right-wingers, such as a certain diplomatic visitor.
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Pacific wrote:Iapparently Seb Coe managed to stop any kind of government meddling in the content of the ceremony.
Which is brilliant because the alternative is you end up with some OTT chest beating like China's ceremony. On the other hand I thought Seb Co's speech at the end was fairly boring considering he's had so much time to prepare for it, the olympic chairman's speech was better.
Orlanth wrote:Thousand year old continuous nation state
300, actually.
Parts of, England goes on a back a tad further and London happens to be in England.
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Corpsesarefun wrote:To be fair we didn't do a vast amount of worth as a nation before the empire...
You kidding right.
Chaucer, Shakespeare (briefly mentioned), Arthurian Myth, Robin Hood etc.
Plenty of old heritage and folklore to draw on, an observer might be led to believe what you say is true, even worse that we have very little real culture prior to modern music.
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n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
Plenty of old heritage and folklore to draw on, an observer might be led to believe what you say is true, even worse that we have very little real culture prior to modern music.
Out of context but I can't resist. We're slowly converting your younger generation with rap music
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Plenty of old heritage and folklore to draw on, an observer might be led to believe what you say is true, even worse that we have very little real culture prior to modern music.
Out of context but I can't resist. We're slowly converting your younger generation with rap music
10-15 years ago perhaps. Currently I think you'll find we're slowly converting you're younger generation with dubstep.
Orlanth wrote:Thousand year old continuous nation state
300, actually.
Parts of, England goes on a back a tad further and London happens to be in England.
England hasn't been a state for 300 years.
Actually it has, its part of the Union. Besides England certainly does have a cultural presence going back that far and further, which is the relevant point.
n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
Orlanth wrote:Thousand year old continuous nation state
300, actually.
Parts of, England goes on a back a tad further and London happens to be in England.
England hasn't been a state for 300 years.
Actually it has, its part of the Union. Besides England certainly does have a cultural presence going back that far and further, which is the relevant point.
No more than the street I live on is a state.
...and I get your point. I'm just being a pedantic nuisance, for which I apologise.
Plenty of old heritage and folklore to draw on, an observer might be led to believe what you say is true, even worse that we have very little real culture prior to modern music.
Out of context but I can't resist. We're slowly converting your younger generation with rap music
10-15 years ago perhaps. Currently I think you'll find we're slowly converting you're younger generation with dubstep.
Pretty sure that qualifies as an act of war.
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I think it is all rather overly inverted and silly. We are at the 'development of the internet' bit and it runs like an internet provider advert, all about social networking and none of the other applications, it all feels really odd.
I also second Orlanth about the lack of ancient history, a missed opportunity to get a few thousand years of history shown... Although hopefully if there'd been a stonehenge, we'd have avoided any Spinal Tap style mistakes.
...and I just got grinning about the prodigy and now I'm muttering at dizzy rascal.
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ShumaGorath wrote:
It appears non UK viewers can not. Anyone know of any illicit restreams?
Try NBC, they have US broadcast rights.
Anyway, it was good, but not as good as China's. But then China's was about the coolest thing I've ever seen.
I was particularly impressed with the bit where the Chinese arrested the peaceful protestors. Locking up the 2 women I'm their 70s when they applied for a permit to protest was especially classy.
I also liked Russia,'s unexpected contribution of invading Georgia during the opening ceremonies.
mattyrm wrote:I thought it made us all look aggressively homosexual. Not that I'm concerned about it, but when lots of your friends are American soldiers and you have to argue with them about the stereotype that British men are limp wristed and effeminate, its not good.
Still, the world we live in.. no doubt Rio will be the exact same.
Shuma and the like will like to say otherwise, but we live in a global economy and a global country. Rio will also be aggressively gay, and if 2020 is held in the USA, it will also feature singing children, dancing men and spandex.
Basically, its all gone to gak since 1955 rolled around. And real men are a dying breed. Acting like a nosh bag is actively encouraged regardless of nationality.
I thought it was very well done and I'll fight you with my manly fists in the snow any time. I liked the contrast to the Beijing olympics which were all about power and capability, this opening ceremony was much more about humanity and history. I was expecting to be underwhelmed and left quite impressed.
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dogma wrote:
ShumaGorath wrote:
It appears non UK viewers can not. Anyone know of any illicit restreams?
Try NBC, they have US broadcast rights.
Anyway, it was good, but not as good as China's. But then China's was about the coolest thing I've ever seen.
I was particularly impressed with the bit where the Chinese arrested the peaceful protestors. Locking up the 2 women I'm their 70s when they applied for a permit to protest was especially classy.
I also liked Russia,'s unexpected contribution of invading Georgia during the opening ceremonies.
It was definitely a year to remember.
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Apart from the fact that Sky's audio was on the blink for the first 40 minutes I enjoyed it very much. Sadly I have always hated Hey Jude but you can't have everything in this life.
I thought it showed the world how much culture and stuff has come out of the UK. The cameo by the Queen was brilliant. Mr Bean's piano performance was a good injection of humour. Beckham's boat ride was nicely done.
And, apart from a brief flash of David Niven, no-one mentioned the war!!
You can argue with details of the content but you have to admit it was a masterpiece of technical co-ordination getting all that different stuff on and off stage working properly. The visual effects were brilliant. The macro pixel array was genius.
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