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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 27, 2012 18:57:33 GMT
I'm quite excited about the Opening Ceremony. To see what happens, bad or good.
I've got nothing against London having the Olympics; I think that's just great and I'm pleased for them. Just to make that clear.
All I'm annoyed about (or mostly what I'm annoyed about) is this attempt to enforce British patriotism upon us all. It's like Nuremburg or something, and obviously I'm politically hostile to that aspect of it.
But I'm not hostile to the London Olympics at all per se.
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Post by trubble on Jul 27, 2012 19:55:00 GMT
V excited.
I see the maypole is ready to go lol
Bring it on!
And f*** Mitt Romney!
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Post by trubble on Jul 27, 2012 19:55:47 GMT
ooooh my favourite music!
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Post by trubble on Jul 27, 2012 19:56:11 GMT
Nimrod.  |
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Post by trubble on Jul 27, 2012 20:21:00 GMT
all went downhill since then
what is this crap?
20 minutes of scene changes so far and a couple of horses? are you kidding me?
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Post by trubble on Jul 27, 2012 20:22:03 GMT
and why is ken brannagh playing the most evil man in the world?
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Post by trubble on Jul 27, 2012 20:24:17 GMT
ok, liking the rings, I'll give it one last go but if it doesn't get stupendous within 20 seconds i am going to the pub.
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Post by trubble on Jul 27, 2012 20:31:51 GMT
I guess they heard me. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 27, 2012 20:34:10 GMT
Is nobody else watching this opening ceremony?
It's a bit . . . . mental.
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Post by jean on Jul 27, 2012 22:41:15 GMT
Absolutely bloody livid this week that the Radio Times are charging 60p extra because it's got an Olympic supplement in it!  Especially when you consider the pathetic preview they did for the Proms. |
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Post by Patrick on Jul 27, 2012 23:02:21 GMT
Meant to have a go at Tweeting RT to see what their excuse is. Andrew Burley is causing a storm at the moment (a little one) because he called the thing a "Leftie Celebration". Cam and Sam are still there and not looking very happy apparently - I expect he's left one of the kids behind somewhere again. Someone else got caught on camera doing a Nazi salute in front of Camilla PB and there's a bit of crossness from Jonathan Agnew that some of the teams were too busy taking photos on their mobile phones as they marched in. Boyle's NHS bit has been seen as two fingers up to the Tories, but there you go.
The pictures were way better on Twitter once again. Didn't watch a single second of it - and don't feel as I've missed out on anything. The country is still in a great steaming, horrible mess and no amount of happy clappy faux patriotism is going to make up for it.
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Post by bonbonlarue on Jul 27, 2012 23:43:42 GMT
I've really enjoyed it actually.
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Post by everso on Jul 27, 2012 23:50:42 GMT
Well I enjoyed the opening ceremony. I especially liked the fact that they used lots of children. I loved the little choir of deaf and hearing kids that did the signing thing. Now THAT's something that Beijing wouldn't have done. I seem to remember that little girl who mimed her "Ode to the Motherland" at their opening ceremony because the real singer's face was less than perfect. Everything had to be perfect - that doesn't sit well with me.
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Post by everso on Jul 27, 2012 23:51:56 GMT
At the risk of getting my head bitten off, I DO think anybody who has agreed to represent Great Britain (although, shouldn't it be team UK, thinking about it? Or aren't Northern Ireland included?) should sing the National Anthem of Great Britain (the fact that it's also, unfortunately, England's National Anthem is besides the point). If Ryan Giggs and Kim Little felt so strongly that they don't care for a Great Britain, wouldn't it have been a feather in their cap if they'd declined the invitation? Why? Why should they sing the national anthem of another country?They are athletes who want to compete in the Olympics. Legally the way they can do that is through Team GB. I didn't realise that enforced Britishness was a compulsory pre-cursor of these individuals seeking the pinnacle of their athletic careers? By the same token, why would they want to represent another country? |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 27, 2012 23:55:45 GMT
Well I could give you an irritated political analysis of bits of it. (The comments on the teams coming in . . . you have to be joking! Not to mention my sub-cultural analysis of the symbolism in the first hour bit, etc.)
Or I could just say . . wow! WTF was that!
It hasn't stopped me hoping this is the last Olympics we participate in as 'GBR', but it's given me a warm glow to think that, if it is, we certainly went out with a bang!
The way that cauldron thing worked (engineeringly) was stunning!
And David Beckham coming up the river with the torch . . ., oh yes please.
Pretending that the Queen parachuted in . . . this guy is on better drugs than me.
I also sort of get the 'Olympic ideal'/sport=good thing a bit. It's like Eurovision, only bigger. I like that.
On the downside there are all kinds of stories going round about some big protest being brutally suppressed by the police outside the stadium, but nothing yet I consider fully reliable. But something has happened.
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 27, 2012 23:57:41 GMT
Why? Why should they sing the national anthem of another country?They are athletes who want to compete in the Olympics. Legally the way they can do that is through Team GB. I didn't realise that enforced Britishness was a compulsory pre-cursor of these individuals seeking the pinnacle of their athletic careers? By the same token, why would they want to represent another country? 'GBR' is not currently 'another country'. It's the country they live in for Olympic representation purposes. The lassie can sing or not sing as she sees fit, for whatever reason she sees fit. The bigoted shite of the Daily Mail who wrote that article making an issue of it and bullying her are the disgrace here, not some lassie who didn't want to sing the English national anthem. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 27, 2012 23:59:15 GMT
I guess they heard me. How did I not see your live posts earlier? I missed them somehow. I was looking for someone to do that with! Shame. Take it you went to the pub then? |
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Post by trubble on Jul 28, 2012 0:21:48 GMT
Oh dammit. I got bored talking to myself and shut the lid.
Yes, Bonbon, just after I threatened to go to the pub James Bond suddenly kidnapped the Queen and for the next hour it was v watchable, if a little ( as Riot so wisely says) mental and yes, Riot, I think Danny Boyle is on drugs - probably some really strong painkillers.
The lighting of the flame at the end was worth everything else. Spectacular. Beijing was impossible to beat until that moment and then you just had to declare London the winner.
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Post by Patrick on Jul 28, 2012 0:31:03 GMT
Can't comment any further - too incensed by it all. |
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Post by trubble on Jul 28, 2012 1:33:55 GMT
Incensed that you missed it? Cos I can't think what there is to be incensed about if you didn't watch it. lol. Ev, I am afraid the kids began to annoy me. Just too many of them for my liking. I reckon the jerusalem/flower of scotland etc stuff should have been sung by a welsh male choir. I have lots of other notes for Danny but I am puting them all in an email and sending them direct. I am sure he'll appreciate the constructive criticism. |
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