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It's Steve Redgrave! :-D

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I think you're watching this Crazy:madgrin:

 

Wash your mouth out with soap Termi! :!:

 

It's been quite amusing being on Facebook instead, having the descriptions through the jaundiced eyes of my mates who were watching... It's fair to say that opinions are somewhat divided, lol, and it's funny, not watching it at all so having no point of reference whatsoever, to try and guess what they're talking about!

 

For example: ' my mate just text saying the british athletes have got their tin foil space suites on' - 'they just insulted the beatles' - 'BBC 1 A COMPLETE AND UTTER FARCE AND VERY VERY EMBARRASSING!' - 'now war victims and poppies - singing abide with me - we just need the frikken titanic and weve covered the lot' - 'anyone see the NHS Tribute? Disgusting!' - 'Boys in stripey pyjamas, girls in nightclothes, they looked as though they were straight out of a Charles Dickens novel(from the workhouse)'... and that's only on ONE thread! I tell you, what my imagination is conjuring has to be better than whatever they've come up with!!! :lol:

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No-ones that are the future. There can be no accusations of elitism and how inspiring for young athletes that this games is for them. Love it. :-D

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I am really disappointed we had a chance to make last night a really spectacular opening and although it was good in my opinion it just felt a bit flat, and it was so sad to see Mohammed Ali, whoever thought it was agood idea ought to be shot. MH was a great boxer but he is obviously very ill and did he know what he was doing there? I dont know but it wasnt nice to see and in my opinionwasnt the place to see him, yes if he knew and wanted to be there let him sit in a chair and acknowledge the flag as it passed but to have hom stand when he could hardly walk etc to my mind was an insult to him.

But not such an insult as Paul McCartney he was an absolute disgrace surly the jubilee would have shown him and the organisers that even if he used to have it he hasnt got it now (a diplomatic illness would have let him bow out without losing face) and he should have been replaced.

But I hope we will now see some great sport which is the whole point of thenOlympics and neven though I dont have much interest in sports I will be watching, its a one off event and isnt it nice that we got the Ol,ympics in jubilee Year!! )actually it is even if it was a bit conveinient.

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Whoever designed the GB 'space suit' uniforms want's shooting, more Gary Glitter than Olympic.

 

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I though it was absolutely fantastic from start to finish.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But thats because i didnt watch it.:lol:

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I wouldn't watch it if you paid me.

 

It's especially scandalous right now.

 

Senseless spending, privileged toffs self-congratulating, police state at the ready, bad news buried today (did you hear about academies not needing to employ qualified teachers? No? Gove released this earlier this afternoon!), . :(

unfortunately this is not new, teachers employed by acadamies do not have to hold QTS, this has been the case since these schools were first set up under labour. they are not subject to national wage agreements, and can in effect control their own salaries and conditions, which they did with relish...state system now going along with this, where cover supervisors and teaching assistants are now taking classes. warned the unions this was going to happen years ago, but they still went along with it...3rd class education for a 3rd world country, the UK today

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There were some impressive moments. I was not impressed with the NHS bit. Nor with Paul McCartney. Loved the James Bond clip with Queen Elizabeth :) I am pretty certain we could have done without the presenters.

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yep some if was well done...wondering whether the nhs bit, was a sly dig at cameron and co...mccartney is well past it now, and wheeling him out for these occasions is getting a little embarrassing...there must surely be some performers whom are more relevant to todays market

. would have been excellent to have actually seen her maj parachute into the main arena.

one shot of her looking extremely bored examining her fingernails, whilst the presenter wittered on about how she was engrossed, was actually priceless and made my night...

the steel rings lifted above the stadium were without doubt one of the highlights in this 4 hour 'extravaganza' though the whole thing must have been bloody confusing for a foreign audience

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Has it finished yet?

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day one, and after all the hype about how we should have had at least 2 golds by now, the bike race was a non starter, with gb coming in way behind!!.murray bros out of doubles..and in the pool the young lady who's name escapes me came a credible 5th in the final.(found name its hannah miley)

but the big talking point of the day, is all the empty seats!! after all the problems with tickets, and... oh its gonna be a peoples games!! it appears as if the sponsers seats were on the whole empty, this is being put out as 'they all had a late night'!! of course they did...

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Dressage team are doing ok

 

How can they include dressage in the Olympics? After all it's the horse that's doing all the hard graft!

 

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Why so many empty seats?

 

I can understand individual circumstances perhaps causing a few people to have problems that could prevent them from attending - but there were a whole lot of empty seats!

 

I wonder what the investigation will come up with! I feel for people who really wanted to attend and were unable to get tickets - they must have been livid when they saw all those empty seats.

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Seems pretty dumb to start an investigation probably at taxpayers expense to find out why there are so many empty seats. maybe it si because a lot of people cannot afford the seats! Maybe people find it easier and cheaper to watch on TV.

Sorry I got that all wrong. Potential spectators are busy helping the economy by spending money and are too busy to attend! Or perhaps they are still standing in a queue waiting for security to frisk them so that they can enter the area. Another possibility is that they only have Mastercard and want to eat their own food instead of the junk sold at the venues so they are forbidden to enter the arena.

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love the BBC headline this morning...seb coe says 'olympic venues stuffed!!' also the indian contingent have entered a formal complaint as a woman unindentified walked alongside their flagbearer in opening ceremony!! and no-one seems to know who she is?

you couldnt make it up!!

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19035583

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the indian contingent have entered a formal complaint as a woman unindentified walked alongside their flagbearer in opening ceremony!!

Clearly part of the upset is because she wasn't walking five paces behind.

 

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