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The 2012 Olympics
Blue Kitty:
Man that giant baby was creepy
bainidhe_dub:
I heard... somewhere, probably NPR... that NBC is playing all the matches live online if not on TV, but if you miss it you have to wait for the highlight reels later. I guess they decided to consolidate the opening ceremony audience. I only watched a bit of the opening ceremony, from about 2 minutes in (after the industrial drudges started pouring out of Mt. Doom/the faerie ring) til a bit after the rings flew up into the air on the power of a thousand gerbs. It was... about how the radio said it was. Very British-history and rather movie-ish. The hundred-strong extra-neon Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was kinda weird out of the middle of coal dust and nowhere. It was pretty spectacular (in the theatrical sense of the word, that my damn professors lodged in my head during Torino I think) especially since I was half-drunk.
jwhouk:
Sorry, but I loved the whole James Bond/Queen Elizabeth clip.
Lupercal:
Yeah, I liked the whole thing. I was in a pub in Holborn watching the ceremony, and semi-drunkenly joked that the jigging nurses were pretty much exactly like the real NHS nurses. Ha ha ha!
Oh wait, there's a fucking huge NHS sign now. Maybe they were actually serious about that...
James Bond, Mr Bean, Paul McCartney, some big internationally recognisable faces (plus Mike Oldfield). Afterwards the commentators were saying it was "very British humour", as if nobody else was going to understand it. I'm sure Boyle made it as easy to "understand" as possible.
LTK:
--- Quote from: Lupercal on 28 Jul 2012, 03:01 ---Yeah, I liked the whole thing. I was in a pub in Holborn watching the ceremony, and semi-drunkenly joked that the jigging nurses were pretty much exactly like the real NHS nurses. Ha ha ha!
Oh wait, there's a fucking huge NHS sign now. Maybe they were actually serious about that...
--- End quote ---
Yeap, you got it, according to the Dutch commentator, the dancers are all employed as nurses at the NHS!
--- Quote ---James Bond, Mr Bean, Paul McCartney, some big internationally recognisable faces (plus Mike Oldfield). Afterwards the commentators were saying it was "very British humour", as if nobody else was going to understand it. I'm sure Boyle made it as easy to "understand" as possible.
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Yes, 'British humour' insofar that it involves the British and it's humorous...
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