Olympic Union Flag raising - RAF out of step
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I thought overall it was a fantastic spectacle.
There were a couple of moments where I wished the pace would pick up, but top marks to the team for the show.
The low point was McCartney; but I guess he was put there to empty the stadium. Was time to turn off when he started screeching!
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There were a couple of moments where I wished the pace would pick up, but top marks to the team for the show.
The low point was McCartney; but I guess he was put there to empty the stadium. Was time to turn off when he started screeching!
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Give the guy a break.
I'd like to see how some of you would do marching on grass, uphill and all at different levels. It couldn't have been easy.
And a least Danny Boyle had members of the armed services carry out this important duty. I myself felt very proud that they had been honoured in this way.
I'd like to see how some of you would do marching on grass, uphill and all at different levels. It couldn't have been easy.
And a least Danny Boyle had members of the armed services carry out this important duty. I myself felt very proud that they had been honoured in this way.
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I think you will all find, if you watch it again, that for about 2 secs most of the flag party was out of step. Fortunately, the RAF chap realised and saved their embarrassment by adjusting.
Anyway, you're a bunch of miserable gits - I reckon what they achieved on a limited budget with so many volunteers was brilliant!
Anyway, you're a bunch of miserable gits - I reckon what they achieved on a limited budget with so many volunteers was brilliant!
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I have just had a quick review of the flag ceremony and I can categorically state he was not tick-tocking.
He was just marching to a different drum beat then everybody else.
He was just marching to a different drum beat then everybody else.
It's received very mostly great praise from various reports on news sites etc around the world.
It appears Danny Boyle clocked this one out of the ground.
Even cynical I am impressed by the message it has gotten through about what it is to be Great, British & Human.
It appears Danny Boyle clocked this one out of the ground.
Even cynical I am impressed by the message it has gotten through about what it is to be Great, British & Human.
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OK, it's an air thread, but didn't the RN provide an officer to hold the flag?
First thing I thought.
Shame we didn't have a Vulcan fly over with bomb doors open.
. . . and the dambusters theme ;-)
Shame we didn't have a Vulcan fly over with bomb doors open.
Load Toad - agreed. I was watching on French TV and French commentators loved it, even if somewhat envious.
They were mystified though by the Pearly Queens and Eastenders - a bit too obscure for international audiences.
I don't see why Beckham had such a high-profile role, and for me McCartney was a bit of a low-point. Elton John would have been more upbeat.
Seb Coe's speech was all about himself, as expected...
I guess the original intention was to have the petals of the torch lit by the flag-bearers of each nation, but maybe that would have been too difficult to organise and keep secret?
They were mystified though by the Pearly Queens and Eastenders - a bit too obscure for international audiences.
I don't see why Beckham had such a high-profile role, and for me McCartney was a bit of a low-point. Elton John would have been more upbeat.
Seb Coe's speech was all about himself, as expected...
I guess the original intention was to have the petals of the torch lit by the flag-bearers of each nation, but maybe that would have been too difficult to organise and keep secret?
Well I thought it was brilliant. I've never voted Labour in my life but I failed to see the "leftie" message at all. I think all you have to do is include a few black people in anything and the usual suspects on here will come out with their "leftie, huggy-fluffy" rants.
I thought the Queen bit was funny, even though I'm no James Bond fan. Beckham and the boat was great, the cauldron was inspired. Felt really sorry for Mohammed Ali - I hope he was aware of what was going on around him even though he seemed unable to react at all.
Overall 95/100 from me If they'd scrubbed McCartney and the Arctic Monkeys it would have been 100 
I thought the Queen bit was funny, even though I'm no James Bond fan. Beckham and the boat was great, the cauldron was inspired. Felt really sorry for Mohammed Ali - I hope he was aware of what was going on around him even though he seemed unable to react at all.
Overall 95/100 from me
If they'd scrubbed McCartney and the Arctic Monkeys it would have been 100
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Fair review Tankertrashnav, I honestly thought it was going to be far from good, but even to my cynical eyes it was a brilliant all round opening show.
Mind you, after this,
BBC News - Boris Johnson hails 'Olympomania' for torch at Hyde Park
I also would want Boris for PM any day over the ineffective slimeball running the show just now.
Mind you, after this,
BBC News - Boris Johnson hails 'Olympomania' for torch at Hyde Park
I also would want Boris for PM any day over the ineffective slimeball running the show just now.
and what percentage of the great unwashed would even recognise out of step?
I attended the Menin Gate ceremony about a month ago: a fine squad of ATC lads and lasses, gleaming, bursting with pride, absolutely straining to get things perfect [99%], wreath laying etc in teams of three.
Followed by an assorted sack of sh1t of scruffy, unkempt, probably unwashed, shifty, embarrassed, apologetic, slouching grotty turn off of the yoof of today.
It would have been much kinder to reverse the order of the ceremony.
Just appreciate what we have, while mourning for what we have lost.
I attended the Menin Gate ceremony about a month ago: a fine squad of ATC lads and lasses, gleaming, bursting with pride, absolutely straining to get things perfect [99%], wreath laying etc in teams of three.
Followed by an assorted sack of sh1t of scruffy, unkempt, probably unwashed, shifty, embarrassed, apologetic, slouching grotty turn off of the yoof of today.
It would have been much kinder to reverse the order of the ceremony.
Just appreciate what we have, while mourning for what we have lost.
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I've never voted Labour in my life but I failed to see the "leftie" message
at all.
Overall I thought it was excellent but where was Boris?
Not sure about Team GBs uniform - had they been at Stansted then it would just have been anotherstag on an Elvis Impersonators weekend!
Oh and BZ to the French for the double sided Union Flag/Tricoleur Flags.
Not sure about Team GBs uniform - had they been at Stansted then it would just have been anotherstag on an Elvis Impersonators weekend!
Oh and BZ to the French for the double sided Union Flag/Tricoleur Flags.
I've never voted Labour in my life but I failed to see the "leftie" message
at all.
at all.
Olympic opening ceremony a Labour party broadcast? Yup, that's about right | Sport | The Guardian
Most opening ceremonies are part po-faced Nuremberg Rally part pretentious 6th Form drama class; lycra clad asexual actors running around with ribbons and at some point a few doves released. They are nearly always the same - only the amount of doves, fireworks and length of ribbons changes.
This wasn't - thank god.
This wasn't - thank god.
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For once, just be proud of their achievements, not a small mistake in difficult circumstances 
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For once, just be proud of their achievements, not a small mistake in difficult circumstances
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You know, for a while now I have thought that it must just be me getting really old and grumpy, but I have come to realise that it is actually that a very large number of people in here are just miserable, whining gits who like nothing more than to sit back with a beer and criticise everything they see or read when - in reality - they themselves are probably incapable of even organising a gathering in the Mess bar with their mates (ooh sorry, an assumption there that they actually have mates).
I don't think that I have ever seen in real life in the Services such a high percentage of bad-tempered, irritable, crabby, argumentative, difficult, tetchy, unreasonable, belligerent, grouchy, grumpy, disagreeable, ill-natured, stroppy, perverse and downright horrid people gathered in one place and all determined to make unfair, excessive, extreme, unwarranted, unnecessary, unprovoked, imbalanced, unjust and out of all proportion snide comments about each and everything that anybody else writes, or things that they see and think they could do better.
No wonder PPRuNe is going to the dogs if it is populated by the majority of you lot.
I don't think that I have ever seen in real life in the Services such a high percentage of bad-tempered, irritable, crabby, argumentative, difficult, tetchy, unreasonable, belligerent, grouchy, grumpy, disagreeable, ill-natured, stroppy, perverse and downright horrid people gathered in one place and all determined to make unfair, excessive, extreme, unwarranted, unnecessary, unprovoked, imbalanced, unjust and out of all proportion snide comments about each and everything that anybody else writes, or things that they see and think they could do better.
No wonder PPRuNe is going to the dogs if it is populated by the majority of you lot.
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