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Lauren


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Haha, Tricia I've been saying the same thing. For a moment I wondered if anyone there actually knew the verses or just the catchy hook.

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Well done Danny Boyle for bigging up the NHS and getting a lesbian kiss shown in some middle eastern countries on TV for the first time! Tht was astounding in places.

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triciathetree wrote:

I don't know about in the UK, but here they've been playing snippets of London Calling on all the commercials, but cutting out pretty much all of the lyrics that aren't "London calling". I guess they thought the apocalyptic imagery wasn't setting the right spirit...

 It's like during Euro 2012, Kia had a sponsor ident thing every advert break using the Buzzcock's "Ever Fallen In Love", to sugggest you couldn't help but fall in love with their supermini hatchback, but I couldn't help myself from completing the sentence each time it came on.



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Well, normally i'm a bitter cynical old boot, but i fucking loved that opening ceremony..... apart from mccartney. but i loved the internet guy (too lazy to look up his name) and the social networking bit, and the kids lighting the flame, i nearly cried, but i had my hard face reputation to live up to

prob be the only thing i watch, apart from when i'm at work underneath 9 different tv screens showing sport



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what was wrong with Hey Jude - for me, that was a highlight. Beatles are by far the most iconic thing Britain has produced and the entire stadium (and beyond) singing along really showed the unity that the olympics are meant to represent. No other song could have done that and personally I thought it was heartwarming.

Did anyone else think it was ironic when the people who were carrying the olympic flag because of their attempts at keeping peace handed it over to the army? and I swear I saw a bloke in the crowd doing a Nazi salute when the German team came on.

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I enjoyed the unexpected bits of comedy: James Bond and (bad comedian) Rowan Atkinson - he wasn't quite Mr Bean was he? And felt weirdly proud when Dizzee was singing Bonkers, just can't fathom why.... And the torch lighting was monumentally badass. I recorded it and stayed up til 4.30 am watching it and only ffwded the French speech. Was expecting to ffwd vast chunks of it.

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You did see the Nazi salute! Apparently blamed on "stiff joints"...

I'd just like to appreciate that we had a 40ft Voldemort.

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I wish Atkinson had veered more towards Blackadder than Bean.

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Generally I prefer blackadder to bean but in this instance I think bean was the right call. It had to be funny in any language and it had to be quite simple. I thought it was funny. Maybe because it was unexpected but still funny. Rowan Atkinson can make a pretty basic idea really funny with the perfect expression. I was actually quite annoyed when Jarvis revealed in Mother Brother Lover that the 'bad comedian' was Rowan Atkinson.

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Having gone to an international school I can vouch that generally foreigners find Mr.Bean hilarious. Lots of my (none-british) friends really don't get blackadder though I prefer it.

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...and that Back and Forth thing they did for the Millennium Dome was fucking embarrassing.

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fredthe3rd wrote:

Generally I prefer blackadder to bean but in this instance I think bean was the right call. It had to be funny in any language and it had to be quite simple. I thought it was funny. Maybe because it was unexpected but still funny. Rowan Atkinson can make a pretty basic idea really funny with the perfect expression. I was actually quite annoyed when Jarvis revealed in Mother Brother Lover that the 'bad comedian' was Rowan Atkinson.

 Agreed. I have a soft spot for Atkinson and Bean. Never fully got into Blackadder but his stuff in NotTheNineOClockNews was great.



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Jazza


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Also I could have sworn blur were meant to be playing in the opening ceremony - did I just imagine that?



-- Edited by Jazza on Sunday 29th of July 2012 10:47:38 AM

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anet


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Nothing wrong with Hey Jude, I love that song. But Paul McCartney makes me cringe these days. The only blessing was that he didn't do his hideous trademark thumbs up and gurn pose at the end.



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I was going to give my views on Blackadder and Mr Bean too, but the little voice in my head said 'only one opiniated rant at a time anet'

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Fran


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I'm not quite sure what this is about, but seems to be an Olympic related event.

 

http://twitter.com/OMEGA_Eye/status/229335762305433600/photo/1



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Jazza wrote:

Also I could have sworn blur were meant to be playing in the opening ceremony - did I just imagine that?



-- Edited by Jazza on Sunday 29th of July 2012 10:47:38 AM

 

They're playing a closing ceremony concert @ Hyde Park.



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Stephen


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I thought the whole thing was mostly brilliant, too. Thought the live acts (McCartney and Oldfield // Dizzee Rascal and Arctic Monkeys) nicely divied up the old/young indie/grime categories.

Also, as Jazza said, Mr. Bean is enormous worldwide, so it made sense to include him. Thought it was quite a good sequence actually, especially given that Rowan Atkinson hasn't performed live in about 20-odd years now I think!

Enjoyed McCartney, too. A bit naff of course, but then again it is Macca. Thought the longer hair suited him quite well, too. Looking good for 70!

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I've seen him do stuff more recently than that. Both him on stage alone, I think he was a French waiter in one and a teacher taking registration in another. Neither were hilarious.

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Isn't the teacher taking registration from the late 80s or somesuch...?

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I might be getting mixed up. I've seen these retrospective clip shows, but I have definitely seen him do live more recently. I think there was a one where he was a priest as well.

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