What an embarrassment an old man living in the past very much like this country no wonder we are in such a mess it wont be long before the euro will be bailing us out .
I liked it. A bit of something for everyone. What would you expect from a celebration? I wasn't in favour of the Olympics coming but now that they're here, best to make them a success and maybe they will be. Thought the ceremony was fab entertainment. Oh OK. I'll get with the programme. Bah! Humbug!
Be great to see some gold medals for Britain....thought the cauldron was an awesome idea! Glad to see that Steve Redgrave was the bearer of the torch into the stadium.....come on the Brits!! Make us proud!
I thought it was an amazing opening ceremony.... until Macca popped up. I had been thinking well done to Danny Boyle for not dragging out the usual suspects; Cliff, Tom, Shirley and Macca but sadly, one of them crept in at the end.
Have to agree Macca was a let down, he just seems to have lost the knack of singing live. The rest of it seemed ok ( the bits I saw) but was it really worth £27million? Could we not have spent some of that money on more worthy causes? NHS? Kids? Jobs? Don't get me wrong, having won the contest to stage these games we must try to make them the best possible but in our current financial predicament I believe "austerity", as them in charge keep banging on about, should have been a priority......... Sits back and waits for the backlash.....
"Austerity" is a word that mixes very poorly with "party" and "celebration". The recession is a European and American thing anyway. Asia is storming. Having bid for and won the Games you expect us to put on a village fete and tell the world - sorry, can't afford it any more? We have a global responsibility now.
Don't disagree with you, however we are affected by the problems in Europe ( should have never joined in my opinion) and therefore I don't think we should have spent so much! I wouldn't want to go so far as to suggest " a village fete" but personally I think it was too extravagant. The games and the athlete's taking part are the most important part of this whole thing not the spectacle of last night. And here's another question/ point of view, what is going to happen to the Olympic village? Could we not use it as accommodation for the wasteful mp's to stop them claiming ridiculous expenses from the taxpayer?
Overall the ceremony was great, Paul 'pub singer' McCartney let it down at the end but otherwise well done.
I was a little unsure about the Hobbit Village open scene, I though here we go again, portraying Britain as bunch village dwelling Morris Minor driving simpletons, but it got better. Actually we're a bunch village dwelling Morris Minor driving simpletons with iphones now...:biggrin:
Yes, I was fully expecting Tinky-Winky to pop out and say 'eh-oh' but, thankfully it got better, until McCartney of course - actually thought he looked like Michael Jackson's zombie character from the Thriller video...
I'm no Macca fan (Harrison wrote all the best songs...) and would have preferred Elton Bog. But then, it's not all about me, is it? And I suppose that Hey Jude and a real semi-live Beatle is a more popular choice in the far-flung corners of the world.
If you do a little Google research you'll quickly find out that it's got a far better use than housing MP's.
With the flag fiasco this week when they started to play "The Sex Pistols ... I thought OMG I can only imagine if someone had swapped the track to "God Save The Queen" by them!!
NOOOOOO!!!! not the same tired old acts...pleeEEEAAASSSSEEEEEeeeee....Elton would have been the other totally predicable choice..still, at least he wouldnt have blown the entire performance through his pooper.... It always makes me larf when S'Paul plays Hey Jude..they always get stuck in that circular chorus and can nenver get out of it..the end becomes the beginning becomes the end becomes the beginning....in the end, someone has to wave and call time and then its the inevitable shambolic collapse of the song, hopefully masked by the noise of the cheering crowd as the sound engineer pushes the fader north.
I presume that in order to control the costs involved with the Olympics all the personnel employed on the various committees and sub/sub committees will have their contracts terminated at games end without massive payouts in compensation for loss of job/gravy train.
