are you ready for the LOLympics?

[Parts]

I find the winter ones easier to watch they have events that are at least somewhat dangerous

[bodie]

I am not even remotely interested in it

Why is "summer"  and "gold" not being used in adverts?

I assume Boris & Co think the words are too closely associated with the Olympics.

Boris is such a national treasure we should have his head on a spike outside the Tower of London... for posterity 

['andersom']

I am not even remotely interested in it

Why is "summer"  and "gold" not being used in adverts?

I assume Boris & Co think the words are too closely associated with the Olympics.

Probably some sponsors dictating that too.

[bodie]

I watched some of the opening ceremony

however,  'Jerusalem' always makes me cry, as it was sung
at my Dad's funeral.  I managed to sing it that one time, without
sobbing but since then i find it affects me too much.

The James Bond bit with Daniel Craig and The Queen jumping from
the helicopter was quite funny,  but i didn't watch any more.

[RageBeoulve]

I dunno, he did pretty well last night with his speech - he proper knocked down Mitt Romney

Not hard to do.

[Queen Victoria]

Overall I enjoyed the Opening Ceremony.  I liked that it focused more on the people rather than some fantastic extravagazana like Beijing or cultural aspect like gnomes.  I didn't care much for the musical history section (because I only recognized one or two songs) and the overly long dancing by the NHS.  I liked the tip of the hat to WWI, the NHS and Great Ormand Street Hospital.

The torch lighting was different, again focusing on people rather than one person. 

Gave it a 9.2 out of 10.

[odeon]

I am not even remotely interested in it

Why is "summer"  and "gold" not being used in adverts?

I assume Boris & Co think the words are too closely associated with the Olympics.

Probably some sponsors dictating that too.

But of course. They'll do that if they can. The difference is that in most other organisers would tell them to fuck off.

[bodie]

have you seen it when the winners 'bite' the medals?

[odeon]

Haven't watched any of it, yet.

[Adam]

I thought the opening ceremony was great. I was thinking it was gonna be awful, but the industrial revolution bit and the NHS were fucking brilliant

Who else would celebrate their health service in the olympic opening ceremony?

I wasn't as keen on the music bit either really, as I find music is such a diverse thing, it's rarely gonna be for everyone. But most people probaably liked that bit.

QV i think the overly long NHS bit was a political thing - we are having problems with out current govt and our NHS being sold off. The whole "Voldemort coming to take the NHS kids and then Mary Poppins saving them" bit was a big statement really. So that's prorbably why it went on for so long. the NHS is significant this year more than any other

[Adam]

btw that was Manchester the idustrial revolution part was

Manchester was the start of the industrial revoltion. They called it Cottonopolis

[Queen Victoria]

I forgot to add that I liked that they had the torch come in between 2 lines of people who worked on the Olympic Stadium construction. 

[Adam]

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/londonspy/choreographer-haunting-vision-edited-us-tv-112404593.html

[Al Swearegen]

http://www.watoday.com.au/olympics/news-london-2012/olympics-blunder-north-koreans-refuse-to-take-field-after-flag-mixup-20120726-22s0m.html