2012 London Olympics

MaxwellTheScribblenaut · Jul 28, 2012 12:15 PM

Figured I might as well start a thread for this, since it's a current event.

So, as I remember, we first started out with:

Latias fan wrote:

Well this years opening ceremony for the Olympics sucked hard. Only skit I really liked was the Mr.Bean and the James Bond skit. Other than that. Pure crap.

And then ended for a moment with:

Clock-la wrote:

Latias fan wrote:
Well this years opening ceremony for the Olympics sucked hard. Only skit I really liked was the Mr.Bean and the James Bond skit. Other than that. Pure crap.
and i guess ameicas will be perfect...i

Latias fan · Jul 28, 2012 12:34 PM

MaxwellTheScribblenaut wrote:

Figured I might as well start a thread for this, since it's a current event.
So, as I remember, we first started out with:
Latias fan wrote:
Well this years opening ceremony for the Olympics sucked hard. Only skit I really liked was the Mr.Bean and the James Bond skit. Other than that. Pure crap.
And then ended for a moment with:
Clock-la wrote:
Latias fan wrote:
Well this years opening ceremony for the Olympics sucked hard. Only skit I really liked was the Mr.Bean and the James Bond skit. Other than that. Pure crap.
and i guess ameicas will be perfect...i

Are you bascially telling me that the only reason I hate this years opening ceremony was because its in Britain? Because this one could be America or Switzerland for all I care. And it would still be disappointing.

Mr. John · Jul 28, 2012 12:48 PM

Yes I will watch it. Maybe not all of it. But I will check it out.

Clock-la · Jul 28, 2012 3:41 PM

Latias fan wrote:

MaxwellTheScribblenaut wrote:
Figured I might as well start a thread for this, since it's a current event.
So, as I remember, we first started out with:
Latias fan wrote:
Well this years opening ceremony for the Olympics sucked hard. Only skit I really liked was the Mr.Bean and the James Bond skit. Other than that. Pure crap.
And then ended for a moment with:
Clock-la wrote:
Latias fan wrote:
Well this years opening ceremony for the Olympics sucked hard. Only skit I really liked was the Mr.Bean and the James Bond skit. Other than that. Pure crap.
and i guess ameicas will be perfect...i

Are you bascially telling me that the only reason I hate this years opening ceremony was because its in Britain? Because this one could be America or Switzerland for all I care. And it would still be disappointing.

yup c:

Also if i hear anouther thing about this then i swaer, blood will spill, its bad enough every advert saying "HI WE HELPED THE OLYPICS OUT" Urgh...SPORTS

Aceedwin · Jul 28, 2012 5:10 PM

Cry some more, little babbies.

The opening ceremony was kind of a hardcore British production. The amount of British history, references and themes were astounding. The Rowan Atkinson and Bond scenes were kind of trying to bridge the gap to the rest of the world, so it's no wonder those're the bits you liked, L-fan. I think the underlying idea was "Okay, Beijing did some serious grandstanding, and we cannot match that. So let's just make it a huge British in-joke collective, and the rest of the world can just suck it."

But yeah, if you understood what was going on, opening ceremony was 5\/\/337.

Anyway, medal table's started with China getting an early lead thanks to two medals from women's shooting. The USA is about to take their first medal, gold or silver, in men's archery. UK's missed out on a cycling medal. Basically, the medal table looks a little odd at the moment. North Korea's in the top ten.

Latias fan · Jul 28, 2012 5:26 PM

Aceedwin wrote:

Cry some more, little babbies.
The opening ceremony was kind of a hardcore British production. The amount of British history, references and themes were astounding. The Rowan Atkinson and Bond scenes were kind of trying to bridge the gap to the rest of the world, so it's no wonder those're the bits you liked, L-fan. I think the underlying idea was "Okay, Beijing did some serious grandstanding, and we cannot match that. So let's just make it a huge British in-joke collective, and the rest of the world can just suck it."
But yeah, if you understood what was going on, opening ceremony was 5\/\/337.
Anyway, medal table's started with China getting an early lead thanks to two medals from women's shooting. The USA is about to take their first medal, gold or silver, in men's archery. UK's missed out on a cycling medal. Basically, the medal table looks a little odd at the moment. North Korea's in the top ten.

Which seems like a very VERY bad thing to do to the Olympics. Y'know a WORLDWIDE event. I get you want to appeal to your own culture. But this is an Olympics even where the entire world is a part of. You pretty much have too appeal to everyone.

Oh and the 30 Mary Poppins fighting a 40 foot Voldemort.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHNVokFR … ge#t=1583s

Aceedwin · Jul 28, 2012 5:44 PM

The Voldemort was poor play. He shouldn't have been the big villain. Maybe one of the more minor ones. The child-catcher > Voldemort.

I think you could make a very good argument to say that the planners should have made it accessible to all nationalities. But the fact remains that Britain as a whole has only one greater hatred than that directed at itself. And that is the hatred directed at everywhere else. It's not really a huge surprise that they'd be all "Disregard internationals, acquire top hats."

There's that, and also the fact that the UK is using this to pull in as much tourism as possible in the future. The partying scene. The examination of London early on. The comparison to show London as both modern and historic to pull in two different kinds of tourist. It's all designed to be a big ol' billboard for potential tourists. Except when it was busy being hilarious.

Of course, we actual Brits are immune, because we were too busy trying to find our *bleep* after the queen jumped out of a helicopter.

Latias fan · Jul 28, 2012 7:05 PM

Clock-la · Jul 28, 2012 8:28 PM

Latias fan wrote:

Aceedwin wrote:
Cry some more, little babbies.
The opening ceremony was kind of a hardcore British production. The amount of British history, references and themes were astounding. The Rowan Atkinson and Bond scenes were kind of trying to bridge the gap to the rest of the world, so it's no wonder those're the bits you liked, L-fan. I think the underlying idea was "Okay, Beijing did some serious grandstanding, and we cannot match that. So let's just make it a huge British in-joke collective, and the rest of the world can just suck it."
But yeah, if you understood what was going on, opening ceremony was 5\/\/337.
Anyway, medal table's started with China getting an early lead thanks to two medals from women's shooting. The USA is about to take their first medal, gold or silver, in men's archery. UK's missed out on a cycling medal. Basically, the medal table looks a little odd at the moment. North Korea's in the top ten.
Which seems like a very VERY bad thing to do to the Olympics. Y'know a WORLDWIDE event. I get you want to appeal to your own culture. But this is an Olympics even where the entire world is a part of. You pretty much have too appeal to everyone.
Oh and the 30 Mary Poppins fighting a 40 foot Voldemort.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHNVokFR … ge#t=1583s

Yes.

Curse us for showing our culture in an event that we are hosting.

how insensitive of us to do such a thing. i mean showing our culture is just so goddamm awfull. shame on us!

EDIT; anouther thing im discusted that america cut out parts about the 7/7 bombings in london... im just saying...why did they do that? hmm

JazzJackrabbit · Jul 31, 2012 2:51 PM

The phone love story thing was stupid, the healthcare thing was stupid, and the bedtime thing was handled badly. The nurses were scarier than the black things with green eyes. And that one guy only created hypertext transfer protocol, and not the internet. And continuity? What is that?

They should have focused on the literature and the stories. I think I could have done much better, and the closest I've been to London was still on this side of the pond.

anouther thing im discusted that NBC cut out parts about the 7/7 bombings in london... im just saying...why did they do that?

NBC is afraid to offend Muslims. The reason they didn't skip the 9/11 tributes in our most recent Olympics is because skipping it would cause a lot of outrage within their real audience. They could afford to block 7/7 because their viewers don't know it happened. They are also infamous for commentating on every detail, talking over the performance.

We used to watch the olympics on CBC because they don't talk over everything, but since 2008 or 2010 the license was bought by a different Canadian network we don't have.

Clock-la · Jul 31, 2012 10:43 PM

There still no excuse no matter how you covEr it up...

36IStillLikeSpyro36 · Jul 31, 2012 11:27 PM

easy, don't watch TV and don't associate yourself with a culture. problem solved.

Clock-la · Aug 01, 2012 9:44 PM

36IStillLikeSpyro36 wrote:

easy, don't watch TV and don't associate yourself with a culture. problem solved.

i like cultures.

I just hate the hypocrisy America shows at times...I mean for the land of the free there seems to be alot of censoship towards the opaning cermony...

36IStillLikeSpyro36 · Aug 01, 2012 9:53 PM

"freedom" is meant in an apparently very superficial way, as far as recent things show. for example, you can listen to metal here and the government doesn't go after you. the problem is, people equate this with "freedom".

Clock-la · Aug 01, 2012 9:54 PM

36IStillLikeSpyro36 wrote:

"freedom" is meant in an apparently very superficial way, as far as recent things show. for example, you can listen to metal here and the government doesn't go after you. the problem is, people equate this with "freedom".

im just saying...i mean i could bring up...other points but I do not wish to...

Aceedwin · Aug 03, 2012 10:52 PM

Those four posts are actually the funniest I've seen on this forum since ever. I'm not sure I can comprehend all this humour at once.

Clock-la · Aug 04, 2012 11:29 AM

Aceedwin wrote:

Those four posts are actually the funniest I've seen on this forum since ever. I'm not sure I can comprehend all this humour at once.

Yay, btw won silver in rowing

Aceedwin · Aug 04, 2012 12:44 PM

We've won a lot more than one silver. We've picked up four golds, two silvers and three bronzes.

Home nation slips into third place on golds won.

Clock-la · Aug 04, 2012 5:14 PM

Aceedwin wrote:

We've won a lot more than one silver. We've picked up four golds, two silvers and three bronzes.
Home nation slips into third place on golds won.

yay, I saw the thing on rowing though, were his seat broke ;o teh drama

Aceedwin · Aug 04, 2012 7:10 PM

And then the guys were crying, and apologizing for dissapointing everyone. With a silver. That's just mad, that is.

Clock-la · Aug 04, 2012 7:50 PM

Aceedwin wrote:

And then the guys were crying, and apologizing for dissapointing everyone. With a silver. That's just mad, that is.

I said to my dad "sil;vers good!" and everyone had a go at me sad

Aceedwin · Aug 05, 2012 11:33 PM

The way we structure our medals tables, golds are basically all that matters. I think the Americans do a points system, where each medal is worth a certain amount of points. Feels like a better system than "SHOW ME DA GOLD SUCKA".

Clock-la · Aug 06, 2012 12:08 AM

Aceedwin wrote:

The way we structure our medals tables, golds are basically all that matters. I think the Americans do a points system, where each medal is worth a certain amount of points. Feels like a better system than "SHOW ME DA GOLD SUCKA".

Question what happened to usain bolt! I read he tripped then on the news said he beat his reccord yikes

Aceedwin · Aug 06, 2012 12:33 AM

Neither. He beat the Olympic record, but not the world one. He won gold, obviously.

Clock-la · Aug 06, 2012 1:37 PM

Sooo..he still won gold? Allright

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