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THE XXXth OLYMPIAD! yaaaaaay

Walker

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First off, I want to ask where the British people who planned that ceremony acquired all their hallucinogens, and whether they feel bad about the shortage they produced.

Second, just saw Estonia!

Australia came awhile ago, obviously.

It's funny, though. Even though I don't give a **** about most of these sports and I'm really goddamn bored about halfway through the ceremony, I really enjoy the stupid march of countries.

The Independent Olympic Athletes (?) were highly amusing.

No idea what time this actually started over in London, but they started broadcasting here at 7:30.

Is anyone else watching this? Or watched this?

EDIT: It amuses the **** out of me. The American commentators on NBC, every time a country-- like Venezuela, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, the US-- with a major baseball community has come up, say "they're really good at baseball, but baseball's last Olympics appearance was '08. And softball."
 
Beijing was better.

Queen Elizabeth couldn't have cared less for the ceremony and was picking her nails oblivious of Great Britain marching around. Can't say I blame her.
Walker said:
First off, I want to ask where the British people who planned that ceremony acquired all their hallucinogens, and whether they feel bad about the shortage they produced.
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NBC's broadcast of the ceremony was utter **** with relentless butchering to make room for commercial breaks so you miss a bit of stuff with various things getting cut short, glad I caught it live on BBC 1.

Other than that I thought it was pretty good with Mr. Bean, Emeli Sande and the lighting of the torch, but the opening performance with the kids & James Bond was lame.


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My parents were watching it, and I came by the TV while waiting for my friends to pick me up to go out for the night. I saw the classic rock portion of the evolution of British music part. It's pretty coincidental that I was there for only that part considering it's most likely the only part I would have cared about. I mean, little bits of Beatles, Stones, The Who, Zeppelin, what's not to like?
 
Watching the rerun at the moment. So far what I've liked:

The props - I thought the opening show itself was quite awesome (I mean the transition to the industrial age). The music was great. Didn't care much about the Bond entrance.
And Tubular Bells :|:w00t:

The Olympic rings were rad - hot rough metal.

Walker said:
Second, just saw Estonia!
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Gikoku said:
Beijing was better.

Queen Elizabeth couldn't have cared less for the ceremony and was picking her nails oblivious of Great Britain marching around. Can't say I blame her.

NBC's broadcast of the ceremony was utter s*** with relentless butchering to make room for commercial breaks so you miss a bit of stuff with various things getting cut short, glad I caught it live on BBC 1.

Other than that I thought it was pretty good with Mr. Bean, Emeli Sande and the lighting of the torch, but the opening performance with the kids & James Bond was lame.
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Spent the whole Daniel Craig sequence going "what the ****?" And laughing.

Frankly, I think that in 2014, for the winter Olympics, everyone should buy lots of liquor and make a drinking game out of it. That would make it waaaaaay more entertaining.
 
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Walker said:
Frankly, I think that in 2014, for the winter Olympics, everyone should buy lots of liquor and make a drinking game out of it. That would make it waaaaaay more entertaining.
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Screw 2014, just start tonight!

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That's awesome, but I was thinking more like THIS, for the opening ceremony:

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ONE DRINK per British literary character. No duplicates (i.e., if the rumored army of Mary Poppinses is true, you only need to drink once, not once per Poppins).
ONE DRINK per song written by a British band. Take an extra drink if it is performed by the British rock legend who wrote it. If Paul McCartney and Liam Gallagher sing "God Save the Queen" while backed by Radiohead, drink everything in the house and turn the TV off. The game is over.
ONE DRINK per member of the royal family in attendance. Middletons count. ("Even Pippa?" you ask. Especially Pippa.) Take an extra drink if the royalty is part of the ceremony, and not merely attending it.
ONE DRINK any time Bob Costas adopts a British affectation.
ONE DRINK per instance of heavy-handed corporate branding.
ONE DRINK per country whose athletes have terrible Opening Ceremony uniforms. This includesAmericans in berets and whatever atrocity Spain ends up in.
ONE DRINK per cheap British stereotype. This includes but is not limited to:
  • powdered wigs
  • chimney sweeps
  • Dickensian orphans
  • Cockney accents
  • Bobbies
  • Beefeaters
  • Wayne Rooney
ONE DRINK if an NBC reporter painstakingly explains an obvious piece of British culture. Take an extra drink if the reporter has a British accent.
ONE DRINK per mention of Slumdog Millionaire.
TWO DRINKS per mention of any other Danny Boyle movie.
TWO DRINKS for any form of flight. This includes parachuting, wire-assisted caroms/jumps/descents, people getting fired out of cannons, and double-bounces on a trampoline.
TWO DRINKS if an incredibly old athlete holds the torch and you feel sad because this once-great hero of the arena is now feeble and brittle, a stark testament to the cruel brevity of life as time marches forward, grinding us all to dust.
TWO DRINKS for Richard Branson. Take an extra drink if he's with more than one beautiful young woman. Finish your drink if his shirt is buttoned up.
TWO DRINKS if you see Paul McCartney's neck wattle jiggle.
TWO DRINKS per nation with fewer than 10 athletes.
NO DRINKING AT ALL if Jimmy Page plays guitar. Sit there respectfully and appreciate the master at work.
FINISH YOUR DRINK for any of the following:
  • More than one of the actors who have played James Bond appear on-screen together.
  • Massive technical error (unlikely, as this will be tape-delayed).
  • An animal in the ceremony breaks loose and runs rampant (please please please let this happen).
  • All five Spice Girls appear on-screen together.
  • Hologram Freddie Mercury fronts a Queen song.
And, finally, FINISH YOUR DRINK when the Olympic torch is lit. Upon completion of the Opening Ceremony, do not attempt to drive or operate heavy machinery. This was fun! Let's do it again in four years.
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There was also a British version that came up when I googled it, here.
 
Tsuyu said:
Awww right, the XXX Olympic games!

Hey, there are no boobs here...
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Made the mistake of reading not the Wiki, but the tvtropes on the Olympics. Apparently, for the purposes of the summer olympics, an "Olympiad" is just a four-year cycle, regardless of whether the games are held.

Also, they are currently showing men's beach volleyball. It sucks. NO BOOBS.
 
Walker said:
Also, they are currently showing men's beach volleyball. It sucks. NO BOOBS.
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Don't go getting your hopes up, this year's Olympics has the women covering up to battle the cool temperatures, so you're not going to see boobs anyway.

The women's volleyball game that aired a bit ago had both teams wearing long-sleeve uniforms.
 
We don't have TV and by hell am I glad for it seeing as everything revolves around this phenomenal waste of money at a time when we can ill afford it as a nation.

And anyway, the Winter Olympics is where it's at - proper athletes in proper conditions doing proper stuff like rocketing to their inevitable doom on a tea-tray down an icy slope. That's hardcore.
 
Gikoku said:
Don't go getting your hopes up, this year's Olympics has the women covering up to battle the cool temperatures, so you're not going to see boobs anyway.

The women's volleyball game that aired a bit ago had both teams wearing long-sleeve uniforms.
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But it's all about the volleyball shorts. Dang.
 
On that note, I wonder if Saudi Arabia will go through with their threat to withdraw their two "female"(they have moustaches...) athletes because they can't wear that silly headscarf thing.
 
Angel said:
And anyway, the Winter Olympics is where it's at - proper athletes in proper conditions doing proper stuff like rocketing to their inevitable doom on a tea-tray down an icy slope. That's hardcore.
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I know, right? The Winter Olympics are waaaay more entertaining. Aside from beach volleyball. And female swimming, I guess.

Tsuyu said:
On that note, I wonder if Saudi Arabia will go through with their threat to withdraw their two "female"(they have moustaches...) athletes because they can't wear that silly headscarf thing.
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Dude, the chick who apparently won't fight if she can't wear her hijab is a competitor in judo. Do you REALLY want to be dissing her? She'll probably follow the Swedish athletes home, hunt you down, and judo you to death.

Where'd you hear that the runner was going to go home if the judo-chick couldn't wear it?
 
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