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Choose your live feed of the Olympic opening ceremony!
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OMG, just saw the Queen and James Bond jump out of a helicopter into the Olympic stadium!!
(, Fri 27 Jul 2012, 21:30, Reply)
Chances are the costumes will be on e-bay tomorrow morning
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TownsendsPublisher is all gravy baby, Fri 27 Jul 2012, 21:49,
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It's a load of bollocks. Kenneth Brannagh. A celebration of the NHS. A celebration of how we industrialised the countryside to become a nation of steelworkers.
But Mr Bean of (all people) just arrived and made it brilliant.
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Kung_Fu_Russ ran out of amusing signatures on, Fri 27 Jul 2012, 21:49,
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Hey, I usually hate everything but this is actually really good!
They are even playing the Sex Pistols now!!
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I know what I hate and I don't hate this.
Even managed to crowbar the brookside lesbian kiss in.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Fri 27 Jul 2012, 22:13,
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It was fucking amazing
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 27 Jul 2012, 22:25,
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They should have done re-enactments of all the best battles we fought
Just 3 hours of killing germans and zulus. Civilising the world with cannons and torture.
You could fly bombers over the stadium, ship battles in the centre, Lawrence of arabia taking Aqaba and all that other stuff. it would have been fucking immense.
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I'd have paid good money to see that
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 27 Jul 2012, 22:27,
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Iwas, up until tonights events, a huge sceptic...BUT THAT CEREMONY WAS FUCKING EPIC ON SCALE OF EPICNESS THAT EPIC CANNOT EVEN HOPE TO REACH. Full credit to Danny Boyle and his minions.
It really, really did piss all over Beyjings effort. THE FUCKING QUEEN AND JAMES BOND!!! It made me late for work ! :))
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Hummel Who died and made you....oh wait...., Sat 28 Jul 2012, 2:53,
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Apart from the Moon and the Stars, that was the most spectacular sight I've seen tonight
Probably, barring that, ever. The most stupendously theatrical presentation in the history of mankind. Must get a HUGE hi-def screen and Blu-Ray to really appreciate (was limited to an old 27-inch CRT).
Don't even know how the majority of the effects were achieved, never mind the set changes. From Glastonbury Tor to satellite view of the City? 10-storey smokestacks (with smoke)? Rivers of molten steel (with appropriate sparks when struck, or just hot)? Glowing bed blankets? Full-stadium coordinated light graphics, integrated with stage sets?
Just waiting for Sean Connery to appear at the closing ceremonies, in tropical military whites. He removes his sun helmet and invites, "Your Majeshty?," as he bows. Rising, he offers his elbow and the happy couple retire into the sunset ["Rule Britannia" over].
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Squilliam but . . . . *I'm* the one with all the talent!, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 3:10,
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wow. according to the commentators
apparently kim jong il scored 11 holes in one in his first game of golf!
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Could have done with less Macca at the end there.
Hey Jude is a terrible singalong choice. Should've gone for that Yogi Bear song instead.
Overall though, top work from Danny Dyer on pulling it all together.
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Pig Bodine., Sat 28 Jul 2012, 8:59,
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