Olympic Opening Ceremony Feedback Thread

[fozzy]

I thought the whole thing marvelous, quirky and good humoured. The forging of the rings was awesome - a marvelous spectacular.

Well done all!

[slipperman]

I was definitely in the "couldn't give a fcuk about the Olympics up until Friday night, but we decided to watch the opening ceremony and I have to say I was blown away by the sheer scale of it. Yes, there were some dodgy moments and no doubt a political bias here and there, but what do you expect for a show that lasted almost 4 hours? Even the mighty Led Zeppelin dropped in a few turkeys during their infamous 4 hour shows! Our son texted us at 1 in the morning to say he and his pals were enthralled and proud to be British - we were the same. Hats off to Danny Boyle and I am sure we will see a lot more of that very attractive young lady who took a starring role in the final part of the show (the internet romance thingy). A career in reality TV is nailed on, without a doubt!
My favourite bit was when the cameras captured HM Queen studying her hands with a look of total boredom, just before she had Paul McCartney inflicted on her (again!!). Let's hope the powers that be will allow her and PTG to have some quality down time in the next few months - they have earned it.

[sunnoficarus]

Having watched it again, the only BIG flaw I would say is, they should have finished with Pink Floyd and the Fireworks. That was the perfect ending.

Macartney, the geriatric pub singer looked and felt like a tacked on afterthought to a pretty spectacular finale.

[BoomShackerLacker]

Still laughing at how Boyle managed to put the NHS at the centre of the show, even spelling out the brand. Big balls and massive sense of humour... He must be giggling inanely at the sheer cheek of that and Bond and Madge.

[fairmaidofperth]

This lot looked like they enjoyed it!

[jimmys_best_mate]

The worst thing we could have done was try and turn it into a massive Trooping the Colour or something like that with 'British pomp' that some people seem to have wanted. It would have been shit.

It's not the right stage for a massive military parade and it's not the stage for some kind of huge 'we used to own you party'. If we'd have tried that we would have looked like cunts in front of the entire world.

What we actually had was pretty good. Some bits were better than others, some sucked donkey cock (McCartney). It seems to have impressed the world though, so it was probably a pretty big success.

[Dicey]

I think you'll find that the Greeks invented the Olympics, so the French have no rightful claim to it. If they must do it for the sake of all the nations we didn't want (like the shit half of Africa) who now speak French, then fine, but English first.

Great Britain isn't a country, London is in England (the official language of which is English), England is in Great Britain, which in turn is in the United Kingdom of Great Britain. We are in England, we just allow the poor kids to play in our playground.

Never read the Daily Mail, I read The Times if you must know. Thanks for the warm welcome by the way.

As for Foxtrot Oscar, if the likes of Locog, Danny Boyle, Shami Chakrabarti and yourself did just that then we could begin to recover our dignity slowly but surely. I'll buy you some plane tickets to Palestine or wherever else you Liberal leftie morons like to cry about if you like.

Where the fuck did this ignorant twat spring from - he's going to be a real asset to this site FFS.

Fuck off back to St Paul's you throbber, and try reading a book or two before posting shit again. Wanker.

[BarkingSpider]

Where the fuck did this ignorant twat spring from - he's going to be a real asset to this site FFS.

Fuck off back to St Paul's you throbber, and try reading a book or two before posting shit again. Wanker.

He's hooked you though hasn't he... You did realise it was a regular ARRSEr doing a sock-puppet wind up?
It was funny reading everyone reacting to his posts.

Was it you VG?

[Monty417]

The worst thing we could have done was try and turn it into a massive Trooping the Colour or something like that with 'British pomp' that some people seem to have wanted. It would have been shit.

It's not the right stage for a massive military parade and it's not the stage for some kind of huge 'we used to own you party'. If we'd have tried that we would have looked like cunts in front of the entire world.

What we actually had was pretty good. Some bits were better than others, some sucked donkey cock (McCartney). It seems to have impressed the world though, so it was probably a pretty big success.

Couldn't agree more.

[Bravo_Bravo]

Where's BravoBravo gone? He's such a nice fellow... perhaps he got lost in a forest of ignorance

I'm here, you fossilised turd.

The quality of your droning induced catatonia.

You're a pensioner, aren't you?