The London 2012 Olympic Games...

[MrMuppet]

Oh, this is soooo great about china Olympic = http://abcnews.go.com/International...-exposing-chinas-oppression/story?id=16872274 Funny how you did not repeat that over and over and over....

I hope you're aware that London is in the UK (and not the US). Freedom of speech is an American concept (not a Caucasian one). We don't have it in Europe either. We have various ("hate") speech laws here in Europe.

For instance, due to suppression of speech the (probably) largest Swedish discussion board Flashback Forum had to move to the US:

Flashback International Inc
1461 First Avenue
New York, NY 10075-2201
USA

https://www.flashback.org/kontakt

Popular dissident (politically incorrect) sites critical of the regime have had to do the same (such as http://avpixlat.info/).

You Americans should be proud of, use and stand up for the liberties you still have. Even old Europe needs that you preserve them.

 

[irishScott]

Whut? He sounded like shit.

I said "all things considered" . He's ancient. Sounds a helluva lot better than The Beach Boys did a few 4th of July's ago.

 

[sdifox]

Not Mr. Bean, the conductor.

British conductor duh. Pretty good one at that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Rattle

 

[Demo24]

I must be one of the few here that actually liked it. Rowan Atkinson part was funny, as was the bit with the queen and Daniel Craig. Overall I thought it was a nice production with some neat elements thrown in. Sure it didn't have the wow factor of Beijing, but can you really expect them to top that anyway?

 

[irishScott]

I must be one of the few here that actually liked it. Rowan Atkinson part was funny, as was the bit with the queen and Daniel Craig. Overall I thought it was a nice production with some neat elements thrown in. Sure it didn't have the wow factor of Beijing, but can you really expect them to top that anyway?

It had its high points, and I knew it was never going to match the scale of China (with the world economy as it is I doubt any will for some time), but where it slipped up IMO was in conveying whatever it was trying to say. It seemed like it didn't really know its audience. Some things had worldwide appeal, other were much more British-centric, and still others seemed outright out-of-place at the olympics (the facebook status updates, house parties and romance).

I agree the James Bond bit was awesome, and none of the performances were "bad" in and of themselves, it's just the vision failed to connect with its viewers about half the time; at least from my American perspective.

 

[sdifox]

Why do Olympic announcements always start with French? (Not just UK).

This has bothered me for decades.

Who gives a crap about French? No one speaks it except France and some fringe ex-colonies.

I believe the most widely used languages are English and Spanish. Is it just snobby politics that got French into it?

IOC is based in Switzerland. IOC's official languages are French, English and whatever the host country speaks.

 

[mnewsham]

at least from my American perspective.

I think that's probably the problem

 

[irishScott]

I think that's probably the problem

So explain it to me, I'm honestly curious. To start, what's so great about smartphone status updates and house parties that they warranted a place in the Olympic opening ceremonies?

 

[sdifox]

he said ALL THINGS CONSIDERED

For 70 he sounds pretty fucking good

err, no. this is what another Briton sound like at 69

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KV3JaX1nn4

 

[Pr0d1gy]

So sad to see Muhammed Ali unable to take part in the flag ceremony. He just stood there and froze...so sad. His wife tried to move him but he seemed lost and frightened.

 

[sdifox]

I said "all things considered" . He's ancient. Sounds a helluva lot better than The Beach Boys did a few 4th of July's ago.

I offer up a better choice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KV3JaX1nn4

 

[sdifox]

I must be one of the few here that actually liked it. Rowan Atkinson part was funny, as was the bit with the queen and Daniel Craig. Overall I thought it was a nice production with some neat elements thrown in. Sure it didn't have the wow factor of Beijing, but can you really expect them to top that anyway?

It was all over the place. No central theme. I wasn't expecting the Brits to outspend the Chinese, but this was disappointing. Good beginning, but after the industrial revolution it went no where. What has the British musical history got to do with Olympics? I love the music, but it was just out of place.

 

[irishScott]

So sad to see Muhammed Ali unable to take part in the flag ceremony. He just stood there and froze...so sad. His wife tried to move him but he seemed lost and frightened.

At the same time it was great to hear the cheer he received. He can stand there riddled with advanced Parkinson's Disease, and still only be recognized for how great he was/is. That's about the best way anyone can ask to be remembered.

 

[mnewsham]

So explain it to me, I'm honestly curious. To start, what's so great about smartphone status updates and house parties that they warranted a place in the Olympic opening ceremonies?

It went along with the theme of Briton through time. We started off with farming type culture, moved into industrial rev., then moved to war, more industry, then into music which was a primary part of the late 50's-80's/90's and into today. Then moved to a recognizable British tv shows and today with pop music, internet, and how it's affected the youth of today in Briton.

Did you not follow this?

 

[mnewsham]

It was all over the place. No central theme. I wasn't expecting the Brits to outspend the Chinese, but this was disappointing. Good beginning, but after the industrial revolution it went no where. What has the British musical history got to do with Olympics? I love the music, but it was just out of place.

One of the UK's main defining "things" since the industrial rev. was the music industry, I thought it fit nicely.

 

[Zeze]

Yes, it is all great in china, you do not have to repeat over and over and over again in this thread. BTW, this thread is about 2012, not 2008.

Oh, this is soooo great about china Olympic = http://abcnews.go.com/International...-exposing-chinas-oppression/story?id=16872274 Funny how you did not repeat that over and over and over....and.....

More goodness and greatness...by cheating = http://sports.yahoo.com/news/chinese-doctor-reveals-state-sponsored-doping-033024064--oly.html

The hell do these have to do with the quality of ceremony?

 

[sactoking]

IOC is based in Switzerland. IOC's official languages are French, English and whatever the host country speaks.

This time are all the announcements in French, English, and Cockney slang?

 

[sdifox]

One of the UK's main defining "things" since the industrial rev. was the music industry, I thought it fit nicely.

I would have thought it was the decline of the Empire but I guess music industry works better :awe:

 

[sdifox]

This time are all the announcements in French, English, and Cockney slang?

no Cockney slang I am afraid.

 

[irishScott]

It went along with the theme of Briton through time. We started off with farming type culture, moved into industrial rev., then moved to war, more industry, then into music which was a primary part of the late 50's-80's/90's and into today. Then moved to a recognizable British tv shows and today with pop music, internet, and how it's affected the youth of today in Briton.

Did you not follow this?

I guess the thing was after a point it didn't seem British (in terms of culture), which contributed to the aforementioned triviality. House parties and smart phones are common among a lot of the developed world. I'm on a college campus, on any given weekend I see such things, literally outside my window. I'm sure it's affected the youth of Britain greatly, but that's more a factor of world culture than British culture IMO. If I know this as a red-blooded American, I would hope the supposedly more worldly British know it as well, so it seems like they were grasping at straws for material once the musical montage was over.

 

[Drako]

WTF,

Who the hell was that Al Gore Interloper?

 

[OCGuy]

I hope you're aware that London is in the UK (and not the US). Freedom of speech is an American concept (not a Caucasian one). We don't have it in Europe either. We have various ("hate") speech laws here in Europe.

For instance, due to suppression of speech the (probably) largest Swedish discussion board Flashback Forum had to move to the US:

https://www.flashback.org/kontakt

Popular dissident (politically incorrect) sites critical of the regime have had to do the same (such as http://avpixlat.info/).

You Americans should be proud of, use and stand up for the liberties you still have. Even old Europe needs that you preserve them.

I am glad that an outsider can see what so many Americans take for granted. I wish people like you would speak up more often, despite our obvious flaws.

 

[MrMuppet]

So explain it to me, I'm honestly curious. To start, what's so great about smartphone status updates and house parties that they warranted a place in the Olympic opening ceremonies?

You completely missed the point. It would appear you all did. However, that's intended, I guess.

It was about "embracing" political correctness, "tolerance" and "multi-culturalism" (in reality it's about embracing multi-ethnicism and not opposing Islam, in this case pro miscegenation propaganda... basically exterminating European Whites (blondes especially, the mother being blonde was no coincidence, it was symbolic) or at the very least making us small minorities in our own European homelands and no reservations for us). The reason you didn't realize may well have been because you're American and simply not aware. Or because the propaganda has gotten to you (it's common in Hollywood as well). The act did not reflect history as any non-White immigration to Europe worth mentioning is a much more recent phenomenon than in the US (we are the natives and we did not have African slaves or even Asian immigrant laborers, it really started post-WW2 so the industrialization did not look like that at all, demographically).

In my country (Sweden) we have a population of about 9 million (of which more than 26% are either immigrants or the children of immigrants and at least of the immigrants ~40-45% come from non-White countries). Our current Minister for Enterprise said not too long ago that she thought it would be a great idea to bring in another 30 million [sic] immigrants to Sweden (again, in a country of less than 7 million ethnic Swedes). She went further and called the immigrants "settlers"/"colonists". (Two thirds of the net immigration was from non-White countries 2011. This ratio would not shrink but increase if the plans were set in motion full speed.)

We're basically being replaced. It's hard to describe it in terms other than genocide.

 

[Drako]

Mr Bean...

Blackadder ...

 

[zokudu]

You completely missed the point. It would appear you all did. However, that's intended, I guess.

It was about "embracing" political correctness, "tolerance" and "multi-culturalism" (in reality it's about embracing multi-ethnicism and not opposing Islam, in this case pro miscegenation propaganda... basically exterminating European Whites (blondes especially, the mother being blonde was no coincidence, it was symbolic) or at the very least making us small minorities in our own European homelands and no reservations for us). The reason you didn't realize may well have been because you're American and simply not aware. Or because the propaganda has gotten to you (it's common in Hollywood as well). The act did not reflect history as any non-White immigration to Europe worth mentioning is a much more recent phenomenon than in the US (we are the natives and we did not have African slaves or even Asian immigrant laborers).

In my country (Sweden) we have a population of about 9 million (of which more than 26% are either immigrants or the children of immigrants and at least of the immigrants ~40-45% come from non-White countries). Our current Minister for Enterprise said not too long ago that she thought it would be a great idea to bring in another 30 million [sic] immigrants to Sweden (again, in a country of less than 7 million ethnic Swedes). She went further and called the immigrants "settlers"/"colonists". (Two thirds of the net immigration was from non-White countries 2011. This ratio would not shrink but increase if the plans were set in motion full speed.)

We're basically being replaced. It's hard to describe it in terms other than genocide.

Wat.