Olympics- 2008 Opening Ceremony

[mack]

A spectacular start to the 2008 Olympics yesterday. Can't remember seeing such an awesome opening to any previous Olympics. Glad we're :usaflag: not hosting it in 2012, that's an impossible act to follow. Wonder who the poor unlucky bastards are that have the 2012 Games ? :whistling:


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[roamer]

Indeed.

They wanted to put on a show for the rest of
the world.
They`ll probably get the most gold medals as well.

Largest ever firework display I believe.

Just a shame Paris didn`t win the
2012 selection.

[woodman2]

We`ll be OK. A Spice Girls reunion and a few Pearly Kings and Queens singing "`nees up muvva brown" and you will forget all about 2008.

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[mack]

We`ll be OK. A Spice Girls reunion and a few Pearly Kings and Queens singing "`nees up muvva brown" and you will forget all about 2008.


With out-of-the-box thinking like that Woodman I reckon there'll be no problem in upstaging what China did.

Maybe for the 2012 Opening Ceremony in London, Bilbo and Mirkwood could get together. Bilbo could hook some pipes together into an interesting design and Mirkwood could spray paint them using pretty pastel colors. Beijing, eat your hearts out!

Thinking a little more about that suggestion, maybe it'd be better to just splice together some 'best of' Monty Python bits and put them up on a big screen.

[mack]

The pictures in the first post aren't lasting long; copyright infringement or some b.s. :upyours:

[Bilbobaggins]

brilliant images nonetheless so I guess we can all look past the multiple executions for tax evasion :whistling:

[tommiecoughlin]

never viewed anything like it b/4 mack....couldn't take me eyes off me tellee....awesome.

[gonzo]

No matter how many fireworks they let off it's still the fucking olympics, who gives a shit?

[monkeyspanker]

Just a shame Paris didn`t win the
2012 selection.

she hasnt time now shes running for president

dont know how you do this youtube thing so he is the link

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got it now

[penetrator]

As 1 of the commentators said no democracy could ever compete with what they did, only a dictatorship could use so much of their countries assets for the sake of vanity. I dare say the opening ceremony of the 1936 Berlin Olympics made what had come before look 2nd rate as well.

[woodman2]

Rhapsody in Blue in LA in 84 sticks in my mind.

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[bazzap]

When the broadcast of the opening ceremony started here it was as-is with no commentary. I was really enjoying it. Lasted about 20 mins until the local broadcaster cut to an ad break and came back with commentary. It spoiled it IMHO.

In this digital age, I would like the option being able to just cut out the commentary and just watch the show as though I was in the stadium.



And you would not get all the ads either. Here in Oz, Channel 7 would be the worst in the world for bunging in ads at the most inappropriate times. What is it like where you live?




Living here in West Oz were are in sync time wise with Beijing. You beauty I thought but no because of them poxy Septics and their prime time TV we have to watch the swimming finals in the morning. :bigfinger



Whats London going to do? Hold the mens 100m sprint final at midnight?




:ak:

[Bilbobaggins]

as we are the centre of the universe Bazz, we will hold it at our time and fuck the septics :bigfinger



:lmao:

[mack]

she hasnt time now shes running for president

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Funny clip ms :clap: Paris has some shrewd media people in her camp, it looks like. :thumbsup:


Rhapsody in Blue in LA in 84 sticks in my mind.

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You're right Woodman, that was a good opening ceremony they put on in L.A.
Hollywood knows how to do big song and dance routines, that's for sure. :cheers:

:salsa: _ :riverdance: _:cheer2: _ :salsa: _ :dance:



When the broadcast of the opening ceremony started here it was as-is with no commentary. I was really enjoying it. Lasted about 20 mins until the local broadcaster cut to an ad break and came back with commentary. It spoiled it IMHO.

In this digital age, I would like the option being able to just cut out the commentary and just watch the show as though I was in the stadium.

And you would not get all the ads either. Here in Oz, Channel 7 would be the worst in the world for bunging in ads at the most inappropriate times. What is it like where you live?

Living here in West Oz were are in sync time wise with Beijing. You beauty I thought but no because of them poxy Septics and their prime time TV we have to watch the swimming finals in the morning. :bigfinger

Whats London going to do? Hold the mens 100m sprint final at midnight?

:ak:

Bazzap, I read where NBC pushed the IOC for those time changes. Then NBC could show them during prime viewing time over here :usaflag: since more viewers means more money :rich: one way or another. It's all about corporate greed imo.

To make it even worse for me, the morons at NBC decided to delay their broadcast to us on the west coast by three hours and coordinate it with the east coast showing. :fish:

So I knew before seeing it on T.V. that Phelps won his first race, for example.

The coverage here has lots of commercial breaks too. :fyou: ... and the talking heads babbling. :nono:_ :nono:

But NBC did have a Chinese expert on and he was explaining some of what was going on during the opening stuff as it related to China's history, so that helpful. :stupid:

But sometimes I'd just mute the fuckers when they started babbling on too much. :fyou:

I watched baseball and golf today and tonight anyway, I'll get into the Olympics soon though. :cheers:


No matter how many fireworks they let off it's still the fucking olympics, who gives a shit?


So you came up for air :dointhebizz: _ :drunk:
and are posting some, huh Happy? :nosepick:_ :out:

[bazzap]

All this Olympics watching is doing my head in


I'm watching too much of it on my days off






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[roamer]

Well the Chinese:chinese: are leading the way
with gold medals won, 39 to the US` 22 :marching:

but team GB aren`t doing bad,we`re 3rd:26_8_11::26_8_11::26_8_11:
closely followed by the Aussies.:ausflag:


http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GL/95A/GL0000000.shtml

[Fork Handles]

Where's the Enga-land team then?:ausflag:

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[old crust]

And you would not get all the ads either. Here in Oz, Channel 7 would be the worst in the world for bunging in ads at the most inappropriate times. What is it like where you live?
Whats London going to do? Hold the mens 100m sprint final at midnight?
:ak:

Channel Nine were worse, ran an ad just as Miller was catching Thomson out to win the 82 Melbourne Test.

There won't be a London 100 meters, we are only having events that we can sit down in.

[bazzap]

Channel Nine were worse, ran an ad just as Miller was catching Thomson out to win the 82 Melbourne Test.




One of the joys of living in the Australian bush in those days was that we only got the ABC broadcast. Never seen one day cricket live on TV until 1986. At least there was no ads even if we did have to put up with Norman May


Actually I was listening to "Nugget" the other day broadcasting on the radio on the Bejiing Olympics. He made the point that Australia went into 7 swimming events with the world record holder and never won gold. No Australian male won gold in swimming at all.




I suppose the Government will throw more money at it hoping for better results in London same as they did back in 1976 when Australia did not win a single gold medal.Total bullshit IMHO. Sad to see in a resources rich country like Australia that many places especially in the bush don't have proper medical facilities, the roads are no good, we have water shortages etc etc



I'll get off my soapbox now

[bazzap]

And dare I say it but well done to the GB team. Looking good for 2012.




Just looked at the All Time medal tally



http://www.theage.com.au/olympics/beijing-2008/medal-tally/



Certainly some strange combinations in previous games !! Look at the #95 positions


Great Britain/Germany ? Cuba/United States ?


I am not sure if the #64 position would get a run again either !!





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[Figjam]

I am not sure if the #64 position would get a run again either !!



That was way back in 1912 Bazz when the sheep shaggers piggy backed a lift to the olympics with us :grouphug: they were going to be our 7th state :king:

[penetrator]

Felt sorry for that chinky hurdler going out through injury yesterday but fuck me what an over reaction by the other 1.3 billion chinks, the newsreader on their state news channel burst into tears when he reported on it as did pretty much everyone else by the looks of it. I dont recall Trever McDonald turning on the water works when he had to report on Paula Radcliffe pulling out of the marathon in Athens when she was expected to win gold.

[penetrator]

It was pretty obvious from the second we won the rights for the 2012 games what the main theme of our Olympics will be, a chance to show to the rest of the world how multi cultural we are. What a stroke of luck then that the competition to find a child to go to Beijing for the handover was won by a moslem girl wearing a veil. Of course we can all rest assured that the competition was in no way fixed as Blue Peter can be trusted 100% not to fake competitions BBC fined £50,000 for Blue Peter scandal (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2051044.ece)

Schoolgirl, 10, to help Beckham bring Olympic flag back home

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Schoolgirl Tayyiba Dudhwala, left, will appear with David Beckham in a ceremony also featuring the first performance in six years by ballerina Deborah Bull, right

David Beckham will kick footballs from the top of a double-decker bus into the Beijing crowd tomorrow night as London celebrates the handing over of the Olympic Games.

The former England captain, who played a key role in London's winning bid in Singapore three years ago, is an iconic figure in China where he is more popular than any Olympic athlete other than those from the host nation.

He will take part in an eight-minute show staged by London during the closing ceremony in the Bird's Nest Stadium when the Olympic Flag is handed over to Boris Johnson, the London Mayor.

Beckham will walk into the stadium holding the hand of ten-year-old Tayyiba Dubhwala, from Forest Gate in East London, who won a Blue Peter competition to take part in the ceremony.

Other celebrities include guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Leona Lewis, who are said to be performing a new version of Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love.

An estimated global audience of 1.5billion will watch London’s offering on TV and it will coincide with a string of events in Britain, including a party in the Mall in front of Buckingham Palace, free concert for 40,000 and big screens set up in parks around the country to see the handover.

Bill Morris, London 2012's director of ceremonies, stressed that London was not aiming to match Beijing in terms of scale at the handover ceremony - the Chinese are expected to have a cast of literally thousands involved.

'Our approach is to keep it simple and creative, to make it youthful and diverse, entertaining and fun. It will be London, UK, loud and proud.'

He admitted he had been stunned by the scale and spectacle of Beijing's opening ceremony but said he was not overawed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1048034/Schoolgirl-10-help-Beckham-bring-Olympic-flag-home.html?ITO=1490

[tommiecoughlin]

Does anyone know if Kobayashi...http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v682/spike67/kobayashi01.jpg...took the Gold in the "Hot Dog Eating Contest...no condimentz Open Division"?:detective:...eye went to saleep b/4 the results were final....better not be the fat Chinese kid as he was clearly under 16.:2bats:

[penetrator]

Here's the final top ten medals table, great to get 1 over the Aussies, just a shame they cant take being stuffed in good grace. 2008 is deffo gonna be a bad vintage for Australian wines what with all the sour grapes down under :bigfinger

[tommiecoughlin]

Love those team names penetrator... F N funny LOL:cheers: