Olympic ceremony

[nigelcoyb]

I didn't watch it but I see words like "bonkers, eccentric, unfathomable" from english print International papers - which I take to be polite talk for sh1te.

Problem is our true Britishness doesn't make attractive viewing we are only really happy when we're scrapping. It doesn't matter if it's the thin red line, backs to the wall, fight them on the beaches or loading up ships sailing to other lands and kicking the shoite out of people till they become civilised.

We hide it with this Bowler Hat, stiff upper lip gent stereotype, reticent and polite but go to any uk towncentre on a friday and Saturday night and if you don't get fooked up the arse or sucked off in Mc donalds you'll get your head kicked in.

We are a maniac people extreme in everything, we just don't like to tell people.

 

[Phyllis Stein]

An ultra left wing bore fest, according to some. I liked it, but feel a rather important element was overlooked, that being the abolition of slavery. In a number of firsts being paraded, that one would have been a very timely reminder to the world audience.

 

[BlueLlama]

An ultra left wing bore fest, according to some. I liked it, but feel a rather important element was overlooked, that being the abolition of slavery. In a number of firsts being paraded, that one would have been a very timely reminder to the world audience.

The overlooking of Su Pollard was also a disgrace

 

[peteblue]

I didn't watch it but I see words like "bonkers, eccentric, unfathomable" from english print International papers - which I take to be polite talk for sh1te.

Problem is our true Britishness doesn't make attractive viewing we are only really happy when we're scrapping. It doesn't matter if it's the thin red line, backs to the wall, fight them on the beaches or loading up ships sailing to other lands and kicking the shoite out of people till they become civilised.

We hide it with this Bowler Hat, stiff upper lip gent stereotype, reticent and polite but go to any uk towncentre on a friday and Saturday night and if you don't get fooked up the arse or sucked off in Mc donalds you'll get your head kicked in.

We are a maniac people extreme in everything, we just don't like to tell people.

Yeah, but if they'd done a video of all our wars etc, it would still be playing......

 

[linglong]

I'll be completely honest, the modernisation of the west does not translate into a Cultural Spectacle like the Chinese put on.

Slightly More a cultural cringe. In alot of parts it was really boring.

That said, and the show started off really great, it just needed more Derek Jacobi. More Tom Wilkinson, or more Judi Dench. More Neeson, Gleeson, McGregor,

I didn't like the fact it shifted into 'Theatrical History of British Music Mode' it dragged on longer than the Grease Mega Mix.

What I would have done, or I'm thinking how to show the Music Vibe, would have lined up loads of Iconic British Bands and done some kind of Live Aid thing, with Bono, Sting, Elton, Waters, Howlett and Martin. Really smacked it out of the Park.

Bean needed Gervais, Brand, Izzard, Cleese, Pegg, Moran, Bailey, Ayoade to make a comedy short/stage event. It would have been EPIC!

And the creation of sports themselves like football and Cricket should have played a much larger role, as this is, the World Largest Sporting Event, not the Worlds Largest Concert Mega Mix.

Tim Berners Lee should have been joined by Logie Baird, Bell, Stevenson, Percy Shaw, Blumenlein, Wedgewood, Sturgeon and Babbage really showing off that the TV, Internet, Film, Cats Eyes, Stereos, Motors, Trains and Jet Engines were invented by Brits. A Brit invented Radar, the IPOD and even the Frikking Light Bulb before Edison patented it FFS!

On the whole, a really missed opportunity to showcase all the stuff you've done, and just slumped into a texting / lolling / omg party mix.

I'd agree with you,couldnt be arsed watching it all at times it lulled into yawnsville for me it felt like a school disco with all the music going on.