I wish I could watch it live. They're not going to air it here in the US for nearly seven hours yet. =/ |
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The opening ceremony starts in a couple of hours. Unlikely that it will rival the ridiculously lavish spectacle at Beijing, but I think it should still be pretty awesome. |
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I wish I could watch it live. They're not going to air it here in the US for nearly seven hours yet. =/ |
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They (the media) reckon it will either be Sir Steve Redgrave or Sir Roger Bannister who will light the cauldron with the torch. |
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"Reject culture..." "Put the Art pedal to the metal!"
- Terence McKenna
Could be the Queen of course. |
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Yawn. Even the Muslim suicide bomber has fallen asleep by now. |
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Absolutely fantastic opening ceremony... Danny Boyle is my hero! |
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Like Patrick says, it started off really slow and I thought it was gonna be terrible. Then comes the Industrial Revolution and the show really begins. |
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Watching now. Is there any site that streams it live? Or at least, sooner than what my timezone receives? |
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Abraxas
Originally Posted by OldSparta
For me the beginning was the highlight with the forging of the rings, and the cauldron was a great idea too. |
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teeheeeheee |
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Lol, I know. She always looks bored at these kinds of things. It's hilarious the way the presenters always try to paint her as being cheery and ecstatic when she actually looks quite moody and disinterested. There was one point in the ceremony where the BBC presenter said something like "And there's the queen, looking on intensely at the event". The camera pans to the queen, looking like one of the corgis has pissed on her new shoes. |
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The opening ceremony was... umm... different . |
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i only saw some of the opening ceremony. |
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Vino! |
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"Reject culture..." "Put the Art pedal to the metal!"
- Terence McKenna
Sucked. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
It seems that most Brits loved it and that most other people didn't really get it. |
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I read an article in the papers today; basically everybody across the world except the yanks really liked it, for some reason. What with Romney's awful gaffe and dressing their team up in military inspired uniforms, they're not exactly endearing themselves right now. Apparently their media also cut out the memorial to the 7/7 attacks, and the brief lesbian kiss (which was, however, shown on Saudi television)... nice goin. |
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Personally I quite liked it, up until the whole 80's cellphone/txt mssge thing. I think the ones who didn't were the millions upon millions of Joe Six-Packs and Suzie Homemakers who seem to proudly suckle at the teat of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. They seem to lead the world in anti-intellectualism and anti-traditionalism - even though these are the same people who spout off all the time about what they call 'traditional family values' they're contemptuous of the traditions and values of any other country or people. |
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the nbc coverage here in the states has been crap |
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They're cutting out foreign anthems now? Wow, American parochialism really seems to be reaching new heights this year. It's kinda concerning. :/ |
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I didn't watch it last night because the freaking news told us we came in fifth before it even aired and I couldn't turn the damn channel fast enough, but I think the reason they cut out the anthem was because we didn't place. I've heard several foreign anthems throught the Olympics, and every time we either got a silver or bronze. |
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