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Is it Aled Jones Mark??
sounds just like her


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:05 pm
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What is it meant to be?!!
Famville?


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:05 pm
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Ha ha. That was a green machine player scoring a try there wasn't it? ๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:06 pm
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This better have some exploding sheep, or we're ****ed.


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:06 pm
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Wiggo got changed quick


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:07 pm
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Very surprised (and glad we didn't get all PC) that they just sang the "inflammatory" part of the Flower of Scotland


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:07 pm
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George Washington?


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:07 pm
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Oh Dear ! Is it going to rescue itself ? Embarrassed !


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:07 pm
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Sideys are a theme. Bring on Noddy Holder!


 
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they do need some stwers coming down that singletrack


 
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Just seen three village idiots!


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:07 pm
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Well this is jolly nice!


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:07 pm
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whats happening?
I like it, but whats happening? I'm confused


 
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You can't beat a but of Jerusalem to be fair.


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:08 pm
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I can happily say I've seen 5 secs of the opening ceremony..... Back to junk TV, at least the expectation is low.


 
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Branagh???

Should be Tom Baker though...


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:08 pm
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It really looks like a model railway.

Edit, with out the trains.


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:09 pm
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So whos words are those?


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:09 pm
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Its far far worse than I could have ever imagined, switched it off now.


 
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Ah shakespere.... According to the commentator.


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:10 pm
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Shakespeare's


 
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they do need some stwers coming down that singletrack

Average stw'er rides a laptop, not Singletrack ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:10 pm
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@peterfile, and that they sang Danny Boy instead of The Sash.


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:10 pm
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Is he going to cut down that Cherry tree?


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:10 pm
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the press are going to have mixed views about this!


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:10 pm
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Zomg a flying tree !!!


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:11 pm
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Too niche !


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:11 pm
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To whom do I speak to about a rebate?


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:11 pm
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Jeeesus effing Christ. Luckily there's washing up to do.


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:11 pm
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Does he not realise we have all seen Lord of the Rings...


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:12 pm
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For anyone who whines, I'll just pose this:

What would you have done?


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:12 pm
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this is just... weird. Good to hear a snippet of God Save the Queen. But apart from that ...weird


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:12 pm
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It's different...


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:13 pm
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Oh the deaf drummers arrived. Jolly good


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:13 pm
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This is worse than the streams of tedious helmet cam footage seen on the bike forum.


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:13 pm
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What would you have done?

Said bollocks to the pomp and ceremony and got on with the games?


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:13 pm
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Even if everyone thinks it's cack, it's still going to be spectacular.


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:13 pm
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Its a bit like The Wall...


 
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For anyone who whines, I'll just pose this:

What would you have done?

Thats a thread for tomorrow


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:14 pm
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Trevor Nelson? Really?


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:14 pm
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i Have never watched an opening ceremony before are they all this mixture of dull and WTF?


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:15 pm
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Mary Poppins might appear next flying over those chimneys


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:15 pm
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Must be notherners. Londoners don't work that hard in my experience


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:15 pm
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can we see some small children mangled by machinery , or making gas shells?


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:16 pm
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it does remind you how GB has been at the forefront of most of the western world's developments over the years
but maybe that's a bit too highbrow for this occasion?


 
Posted : 27/07/2012 9:16 pm
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