[Closed] Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Olympic opener ceremony.

I know - how can we possibly afford two threads on this very subject??

Lol

Oops. 😳

I have a feeling this is going to be very embarrassing... 😳

What a simply frightful faux pas 😳

Perfectly dreadfull.

Not [i]quite[/i] as heroic as my "I've just heard a bomb's gone off in London and I've phoned the radio station about it" magnum opus...

Europe's largest bell will ring inside the stadium

But this is worth the money alone to me!

Among the other features will be two mosh-pits

Spinal Tap model anyone?

I'm even more convinced that many people posting on STW only read the thread title before they gush forth...

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Oh-My-Good-God............ I can see this going horribly wrong!

Rivers? Animals? And they want to have 2 weeks worth of athletics on it afterwards 😆

Actually, reminds me of.....................

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if Will-I-Am appears at any stage I'm gonna hulk out and go on a rampage

if Will-I-Am appears at any stage I'm gonna hulk out and go on a rampage

I expect it'll have the usual ****s who appeared at Buckingham Palace last week 😆

Surely a Boris v Ken Deathmatch would be:

a) More entertaining.
b) Cheaper.
c) More 'British'.
d) A worthy legacy.

What a simply frightful faux pas

Sums up the Olympics?

essentially, they will be portraying the UK as Hobbiton?

So the [b]London[/b] Olympics opening ceremony will be trying to showcase everything outside of London.....

Surely a Boris v Ken Deathmatch would be:

Great idea 💡

Mad Pierre - Member
So the London Olympics opening ceremony will be trying to showcase everything outside of London.....

slainte 😀 rob

Sorry for not towing the established line, but I think it looks fine.

Reasonably innovative and to a degree, reflective of idyllic English life.

Will there be a dog agility display and a prettiest sheep competition?
Who will be representing us in the jam making?

[i]a prettiest sheep competition[/i]

errm, it's London, not Cardiff 😉

Its going to be amazing. Trust me, Im in it! 🙂

...as sheep no.4? 🙂

Maybe they should do an alternative Britain version?
For £26,000,000 less we could have.
Graffiti covered walls
Broken streetlights
Dumped cars , one burnt out.
Some drug dealers
An illegal rave
Group of drunk girls wearing next to nothing
Abit of street drifting in a 325i
Loads of chavs on BMX's smoking , swearing and spitting everywhere.
A few tons of fast food wrappers being blown across the stadium.
Someone being sick in a bin
Fire crews putting out a burning car whilst being bricked.
some young mums with pushchairs smoking and drinking WKD blue
Multi racial gang fight with knives

A Maypole. Really. With Flax on top .

at least it'll make a change from the usual mass synchronised dance and a shed load of fire works.
The Olympic ceremony is instrinsically dull but at least this one looks different.

If you need a change how about turning the telly off and taking a trip to the countryside ?

[i]Maybe they should do an alternative Britain version?[/i]

Maybe they should stick to sport ?

He's done very well to get it this far I reckon... The farmyard in a stadium would be quite a tough concept to sell I'd have thought. Just reminds me of this:-

at least it'll make a change from the usual mass synchronised dance and a shed load of fire works.
The Olympic ceremony is instrinsically dull but at least this one looks different.

A cast of 10,000 volunteers will help recreate country scenes, against a backdrop featuring farmyard animals and landmarks like Glastonbury Tor.

As long as they keep their metropolitan bucolic fantasies that side of the M25 I dont care what they do...

You could be onto something here jimification. I can see where Danny Boyle is getting inspiration. Will the farm animals be dropped into the stadium, I wonder?

To quote Al Murray "its gonna be a bit shit"

Apparently they're building a representation of Glastonbury Tor...which of course means this...

Any chance that it might be an idea to see it before writing it off as a pile of crap?

Personally, everything I've seen to date of the Olympics has been absolutely amazing and really well done.....and before anyone asks, what I've seen close up is the Basketball arena, the Velodrome, Hadleigh MTB circuit, and the various plaza around the Stratford Olympic park.

Its an impossible task.

Do you show the UK as it really is, or as you want others to think it is or what you think it is.

Or just spend it on dancers and fireworks.

I'd not bother with an opening ceremony, just start with the games.

Or perhaps get a bunch of Morris dancers lined up and jump them all with a London Bus driven by Boris as its in London.

Or perhaps get a bunch of Morris dancers lined up and jump them all with a London Bus driven by Boris as its in London.

You could have Boris Bike outriders making nee-naw noises, too.

Any chance that it might be an idea to see it before writing it off as a pile of crap?

Cynicism and pitiless scorn are two of our nation's finest and proudest characteristics, and they will be in full display in the run-up to the big event. Otherwise we'd just be like Belgium, or something.

Cynicism and pitiless scorn are two of our nation's finest and proudest characteristics

Really? Personally I think it just makes us sound like a cross between Victor Meldrew and the Waldorf/Stadler combo, but without the wit or humour.

If only Frankie Boyle rather than Danny Boyle were in charge of it...

Any chance that it might be an idea to see it before writing it off as a pile of crap?

Erm.... no. Cynicism? Its an opening ceremony FFS! Eff all to do with sport. For £27 million (of our cash, remember), anything less than an inclusive soapy TW is, quite frankly, not going to cut it!

I heard a rumour that alongside the Showbizzy and feelgood stuff, there's going to be a series of sporting contests for about 2 weeks. This might be worth watching.

(Only for those sports for which the Olympics is their pinnacle, obviously)