Olympic Opening Ceremony Feedback Thread

[Counter-Bluffer-Ops]

Do you mean something along the lines of, Wait till the end of the athletes parade when all the nations of the world are in the arena. Then machinegun the bastards. Then use the olympic flame to light the funeral pyre to cremate the bodies?

I like your way of thinking old man. I should send in your suggestions, there may still be time to rewrite the closing ceremony.

A tad harsh, but you're thinking along the right lines. I was thinking more about an Olympic Parade where they marched past and saluted the Sovereign in order to acknowledge our contribution in civilising and improving them, followed by a film spectacular to include 'Zulu', 'The Guns of Navarone', 'The Cruel Sea', the 'Heroes of Telemark, 'Khartoum' and others. All this followed by a swift and heavily controlled journey to the airports to prevent any unwelcome stayers-on.

[StickyEnd]

I thought the opening ceremony was fantastic. I expected a disaster and was happy to be shown wrong.

[sunnoficarus]

Well, me and the Mrs sat through the entire thing last night on the Sky box, grows on you and I was even moved to buy the soundtrack album on iTunes.

[Counter-Bluffer-Ops]

Well, me and the Mrs sat through the entire thing last night on the Sky box, grows on you and I was even moved to buy the soundtrack album on iTunes.

I would have but I was busy with our neighbourhood patrol.

[Pitswamper]

I would have but I was busy with our neighbourhood patrol.

Filling them in?

[Cable_Ties]

I enjoyed it and was pleasantly surprised not to be squirming in embarrassment. More so when Mrs Ties (a Canuck) started laughing like a loon at HM Queen and Bond doing their bit.

[King_of_the_Burpas]

FFS what do some miserable people want from an opening ceremony? Isn't there better things to do than pick holes in the ceremony, we were for it. Well done.

Here we go again. I don't understand why we need to suspend our critical faculties just because it's a patriotic duty to lurve the Games.

Some people have poured scorn on the fat RAF chap. If you check the footage you'll see that he was the only one marching in step. All the other buggers were all over the place with shocking drills and had clearly never seen a pace stick.

It's my patriotic duty to point out the excellence of the RAF's contribution: first class marching about in impeccably bulled boots, great drills and thanks to the RAF's SAM cover, no planes crashing into Brunel.

Let's celebrate the Royal Air Force without any miserable Arrse quibbling.

Anybody who disses the RAF is a "miserable" sod, lashed to a sofa chariot, surrounded by stale Pringles, tab ends and an empty bottle of Liebfraumilch.

[Counter-Bluffer-Ops]

"a spectacle only Britain could produce"

...that's the worrying bit.

[fairmaidofperth]

I thought it was a technical masterpiece and congratulate all those that worked on it. Sir Paul excepted.

I had the immense privilege of being at the final rehearsal and once it got going was blown away by the lighting, sound, the sheer scale of what was happening. The highlight for me was when the rings started moving above our heads.

[chocolate_frog]

Well, I could certainly sign up to a Greek style Olympics... All the contestants competed in the nuddie.

Every venue a sell out - guaranteed

Doubtful... the Greeks only allowed men to compete. The Spartans had a special female olympics, but I doubt they had a Paralympics.

Not all bad news though. Cheaters were whipped in front of the crowd.

Why do we have two events? Shouldn't they be together?