Olympics opening ceremony

[Raleigh Chopper]

Shall we have a game of Opening Ceremony Bingo? What do we think are dead certs (I'm talking in terms of ceremony content, I don't mean "Olympic flame lit by a torch"...that's a little TOO obvious).

I'm waiting for:

-the IOC president blithering on about playing fair and the Olympic Family (subtly ignoring all the drugs stuff)
-light booing of a high level Brazilian politician
-samba bands, many
-Neymar
-chirpy Australians waving selfie sticks and wearing a little too much yellow in the team parade
-a ropey looking Pele

Canada will be all dressed like Mounties.
USA will have more stars and stripes on them than Evil Knieval.
The refugee team will all be in a small boat.
The word Samba will be mentioned at least 500 times.

 

[Easy 10]

Canada will be all dressed like Mounties.
USA will have more stars and stripes on them than Evil Knieval.
The refugee team will all be in a small boat.
The word Samba will be mentioned at least 500 times.

Liked that.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

There has been lots of build up, all bad.
Zika virus, demonstrators saying its a waste of money, unfinished poorly built stadiums Russia not being allowed to take part , Brazil being nearly bankrupt and I think I remember a building or something falling down.
Can't remember anything good.
I like a good opening ceremony London was brilliant but they are often turgid.
The bit where all the countries parade though is the most boring piece of TV you could wish to watch.
So the ceremony starts at 11.30 but the BBC programme starts at 8.30 what on earth are they going to talk about for 3 hours. No doubt we will have that Welsh bloke waxing lyrical, they seem to wheel him out before every sporting event these days.

And there he is, right on cue, the Welsh bloke waxing lyrical.

 

[Easy 10]

The biggest ever CON was those maHOOsive fireworks footprints in Beijing stomping their way towards the Birds Nest. They absolutely BLEW ME AWAY when I was watching live.

Till it turned out they were CGI. Fcking chinese.

 

[Pevenseagull]

A real.carnival atmosphere


A few things of AWESOME quality will occur.
It's the OLYMPICS..

So far the low points are, Michael Johnson's jacket and SIR Steve Redgrave turning up looking like he's walked.off of an afternoon tending to his allotment.

 

[The Fifth Column]

The word indigenous has cropped up a few times already and we've had large animatronic creatures crawling over the set. Some blokes on a hamster wheel and others with bricks on their feet now. I have no idea what any of it means. Perfect.

 

[The Fifth Column]

Blimey, theres some gadgers with a fan now spraying what I can only imagine is anti-mosquito smoke. Zika virus? Topical i suppose!

 

[Albumen]

Enjoying this.

 

[The Fifth Column]

Right here come the teams. Wonder what kind of reception the nation of drug cheats will get?

 

[Beach Hut]

We have Fox Hispanic version here **** knows what they are saying

 

[The Fifth Column]

We have Fox Hispanic version here **** knows what they are saying

Something like this I imagine

 

[Beach Hut]

Something like this I imagine

Nearly but Republic of Korea just walking in

 

[The Fifth Column]

Loving the BBC subtitles, according to them Slovakia had a Michael Bolton divorce from Czechoslovakia in 1993?!? WTF?

 

[Worthingite]

Why have our lot come dressed as Paddington Bear?? They must be boiling

 

[Worthingite]

Brazil's Olympic team opening ceremony gear genuinely has a C&A logo prominently on it. Wow.

 

[Badger]

This speech is TERRIBLE. Rambling on and on about nothing in particular.

 

[nicko31]

From the highlights this morning, did look impressive, done on a modest budget without any cheating Chinese CGI..