Nooon, rien de rainnn

Missus had some on in the background - loada scheite - 'live' performances with studio acoustics and the few that were live were awful. C'est la vie.

Wee teams in big boats looked ridiculous.

The laser thing went on and on and on and nobody seemed to know wtf was happening. Reached for the red button.

3 weeks of minority sport interspersed with a handful of interesting 'blue riband' events. Whole thing has grown too massive even for the biggest cities in the world to host. Bulging, brown envelopes of course. No doubt it will turn a profit for many but the excess feels gross in this day and age.

I don't really give two fvcks. Not just my francophobia but the Olympics in general - a double whammy.

I do think it is great that UK somewhat sorted funding for our best athletes whether by lottery or other streams. Not everyone can be a footballer.

grate openin cerymoany

Olympic ceremonies have some of the weirdest sheet you'll ever see. Who comes up with all this sheet?

I totally forgot that Japan had an olympics and we're already in france

I had a few laughs watching with the missus. She wanted to believe all the singing was live; I can't see how some of it could've been with such clean sound quality. That flaming piano number for one, the rooftop opera singer another.

Some bits were pretty impressive, some dragged out too long and became boring (that horse ride down the Seine), and I wouldn't have minded that dance party to have a couple more numbers.

The tv production was a bit messy in parts. Long shots of people you can't properly make out. The fashion show running simultaneously to the athletes' parade and the cameras flicking from one to the other way too fast.

And I've no idea what production notes they gave the broadcasters, but the Spanish commentary team seemed lost a lot of the time - especially with the closing athlete relays - but it made for a good laugh too.

comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 10 hours, 6 minutes ago
Nooon, rien de rainnn
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rien de rien,
Very good IOAG, what would Edith Piaf have said about that I wonder ! some of the music was not so good .

And I've no idea what production notes they gave the broadcasters, but the Spanish commentary team seemed lost a lot of the time - especially with the closing athlete relays - but it made for a good laugh too.
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The BBC did a good job explaining what was what.

As it was produced more with TV in mind, the rain spoilt it as we got to many bleary camera shots.

I enjoyed the metallic horse and the woman singing the anthem on the roof, the rest was mostly forgettable unlike London which was the best since Barcelona, probably the best ever.

Who was that big fat black wrestler who kept running up and down the barge frightening the poor model girls !....



could have been Lukaku I suppose !

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 3 hours, 1 minute ago

And I've no idea what production notes they gave the broadcasters, but the Spanish commentary team seemed lost a lot of the time - especially with the closing athlete relays - but it made for a good laugh too.
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The BBC did a good job explaining what was what.

As it was produced more with TV in mind, the rain spoilt it as we got to many bleary camera shots.

I enjoyed the metallic horse and the woman singing the anthem on the roof, the rest was mostly forgettable unlike London which was the best since Barcelona, probably the best ever.
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They did, except they spent the whole evening building up to this big reveal of the mystery masked torchbearer, only for there to be no big reveal because it was just an homage to Assassin's Creed so it was probably just some random parkour person.

I had a pony on it being Joe Biden.

I had a monkey on it being Prince Andrew.

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 4 hours, 6 minutes ago

And I've no idea what production notes they gave the broadcasters, but the Spanish commentary team seemed lost a lot of the time - especially with the closing athlete relays - but it made for a good laugh too.
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The BBC did a good job explaining what was what.

As it was produced more with TV in mind, the rain spoilt it as we got to many bleary camera shots.

I enjoyed the metallic horse and the woman singing the anthem on the roof, the rest was mostly forgettable unlike London which was the best since Barcelona, probably the best ever.
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the London one wuz terrybubble
jingoistic self-agrandzement n arrogants personi-fide

comment by #4zA (U22472)
posted 20 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 4 hours, 6 minutes ago

And I've no idea what production notes they gave the broadcasters, but the Spanish commentary team seemed lost a lot of the time - especially with the closing athlete relays - but it made for a good laugh too.
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The BBC did a good job explaining what was what.

As it was produced more with TV in mind, the rain spoilt it as we got to many bleary camera shots.

I enjoyed the metallic horse and the woman singing the anthem on the roof, the rest was mostly forgettable unlike London which was the best since Barcelona, probably the best ever.
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the London one wuz terrybubble
jingoistic self-agrandzement n arrogants personi-fide
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Yep, and the music was ace as well

London portrayed some of the better British achivements, highlighted the Industrial Revolution and the founding of the NHS amongst other things.

As far as I can remember, all the musicians were British too unless the French have claimed Mike Oldfield, the London Symphony Orchestra and Mr Bean.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331356585_The_Resurrection_of_Zion_Analytical_Literary_Study_to_the_Masonic_Symbols_in_the_Opening_and_Closing_Ceremonies_of_London_Olympics_2012

2012 openin cerynoany was one big occult ritual too bring about the apacalips

comment by #4zA (U22472)
posted 8 minutes ago
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331356585_The_Resurrection_of_Zion_Analytical_Literary_Study_to_the_Masonic_Symbols_in_the_Opening_and_Closing_Ceremonies_of_London_Olympics_2012

2012 openin cerynoany was one big occult ritual too bring about the apacalips
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"In reference to the three degrees of Masonic Lodge, Boyle has divided the ceremony into three stages Youth, adulthood and old age"

Just a bit of a leap there

Anyway, bring on the alpaca-lips 🦙 👄

it is hard too r-gue with anythin in that artical tbf

is watertite

Alpaca lips NOW

le horreur, le horreur

English poets of the Illuminati Masons like William Blake and others; carry within an invitation for a fresh start in another new land to build a new Israel. So, the beating of drums, the large numbers of people coming from all over the world, the lights intersecting to form, pyramids or triangles or pentagonal and hexagonal stars , high towers, money men with high black hats, black smog, evil spirits hovering around to take children's lives , the Industrial Revolution and the devastation comes by and finally the Phoenix resurrection, to burn and come out from ashes in new from as well as the sunflowers that symbolizes the hope in a beautiful tomorrow are all together constitute the road map to the Mount of Zion and the establishment of the new Israel.

You live and Learn.

comment by Jalisco Red (U4195)
posted 51 minutes ago
comment by #4zA (U22472)
posted 8 minutes ago
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331356585_The_Resurrection_of_Zion_Analytical_Literary_Study_to_the_Masonic_Symbols_in_the_Opening_and_Closing_Ceremonies_of_London_Olympics_2012

2012 openin cerynoany was one big occult ritual too bring about the apacalips
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"In reference to the three degrees of Masonic Lodge, Boyle has divided the ceremony into three stages Youth, adulthood and old age"

Just a bit of a leap there

Anyway, bring on the alpaca-lips 🦙 👄
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Brilliant isn't it

when is simone biles? Not watching anything butt that