CLOSED - London Olympics

[pompeyfaith]

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Sorry your gonna hate me.. but passing it to the kids to light really??/ Surely we had someone famous lol

Yes we did but in the spirit of the games they passed the touches over to the up and coming athletes which I thought was a nice touch.

[Spent2much]

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Wowza, is this really true (I'm on BBC 1) that GB invented the World Wide Web in which case AAD probably owes this guy a debt. Me too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

we Brits are simply the best , always have been always will be

[Spent2much]

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i just wonder though, why is the olympic stadium full of the illuminati
symbolism, look at the lights they are pyramids , the 2012 has i in it (zion), the mascots with the one eye (the all seeing eye) .

new world order ?

[alland]

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I have to say sceptic though I am the lighting of the Olympic Cauldron was a shear work of Art, to follow it by a song from Macca is shear brilliance. Almost make me patriotic. Rest of the world try and top that if you can

Well having been force fed the opening ceremony after deciding it was that or have to leave the pub last night, I have to say I was quite impressed with some of the "tricks" Director Danny Boyle pulled out of the bag.

And I have to agree, Lighting the Cauldron was pretty spectacular.

But Handy, I will have to disagree about "Macca" It was cringe worthy listening to him murder Hey Jude, his singing voice has gone now,not that it was ever that good anyway, he's an old man and needs to be put out too pasture.
And a strange song choice of Hey Jude, I mean he wrote that originally for Julian Lennon when his father John left his mother for that Yoko Ono bird...maybe I am missing something?, but what relevance has that to do with the Olympics ?

[alland]

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Oh and something else that stuck me as strange....why was the stadium commentary first in French then followed in English ?, I thought it was supposed to be the UK London Olympics !

[pompeyfaith]

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we Brits are simply the best , always have been always will be

And we would be even better if we had a parliament from a much wider section of society.

[jen_br]

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yeah I get the younger generation but heres my views:

A) will we hear from these kids again?

B) How long before they are disgracing the country and in the SUN

C) imsure they will end up on TOWIE before long.


Who knows maybe one or two of them will go on to make us proud.

To me it was a HUGE let down tot he climax.

[Pixie]

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Oh and something else that stuck me as strange....why was the stadium commentary first in French then followed in English ?, I thought it was supposed to be the UK London Olympics !

You'd have thought they'd have English first and then French (both are the official languages of the Olympics)

[swanfan]

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What a load of completely over-pomped shyte the opening ceremony is.....

They should have gone to Beijing for advice!

Have to agree with you there, even if it was said by a woman...

The whole olympics is over pomped & shyte. Make everyone feel good?! How bout using the money for summat worthwhile... like giving it to Swansea!

[PlanB]

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Have to agree with you there, even if it was said by a woman...

The whole olympics is over pomped & shyte. Make everyone feel good?! How bout using the money for summat worthwhile... like giving it to Swansea!

I think the business community see it as a PR exercise for UK plc which will attract squillions in future foreign investment and exports. Since I can't move for the thousands of people crawling all over London right now (and for the next 6 weeks) I presume this means it's also a huge money spinner with everyone having to eat and sleep somewhere, and buy Oyster cards to ride the tube.

It's about raising our profile in the international arena and making it perfectly clear that GB is nothing to do with the Eurozone

[PlanB]

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Have to agree with you there, even if it was said by a woman...

The whole olympics is over pomped & shyte. Make everyone feel good?! How bout using the money for summat worthwhile... like giving it to Swansea!

All the purpose built venues (and accommodation) are staying after the games are over for the benefit of everyone in the years to come. So since West Ham are getting the Olympic stadium as their new home, is there something else purpose built near Swansea that the team might fancy

[swanfan]

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All the purpose built venues (and accommodation) are staying after the games are over for the benefit of everyone in the years to come. So since West Ham are getting the Olympic stadium as their new home, is there something else purpose built near Swansea that the team might fancy

We're already in a new stadium...
I meant give us the money so we can waste it on overpaid players!

[jen_br]

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I believe there was better choices for the lighting of the flame, im sure most of these kids don't actually get what it was all about.

I could name a shed load of people who could have done it. I would have personally like to see Princess Anne honoured as she is an Olympian. I believe the cauldron lighting is a BIG deal some great people have lit it... and to have 7 people do it was a bit deflating to the whole thing.

I wondered why the French commentary in the first place. Was watching with Canadians and it sounded just like being in Canada where French is inserted into everything!

French is only dominate in one province Quebec, the rest of the country really doesn't do much about french even thou its a national language. But French is listed as the first language for the olympics with english technically tied but really behind it.

[pompeyfaith]

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All the purpose built venues (and accommodation) are staying after the games are over for the benefit of everyone in the years to come. So since West Ham are getting the Olympic stadium as their new home, is there something else purpose built near Swansea that the team might fancy

West Ham have pulled out of that deal so what will happen to the Olympic Stadium after is still uncertain.

[PlanB]

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I thought West Ham were just refusing to share it with Leyton Orient but their bid was still on the table. Anyway we won't know until October but if the bid by Formula One wins that could be seen as a bit too snobbish and less about serving the local community who've had to live with the damn building site on their doorstep for long enough