Official Olympics 2012 thread

4YearGraduate said:DOR said:asstro said:Bummed she won't be there:





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Major bummer...




and this bonehead had to be racist on teh twitter:


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yeah I was looking forward to her, er, participation? and Im not even a fan of blondes. anyway, she's apparently a racist shithead.





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asstro said:Looking forward to the next two weeks. Bummed she won't be there:





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who is this BTW? and why is she not participating?





LOVE the direction this thread is already heading in BTW...
 
I caught it on a big screen on mute while eating bbq pork and brisket.





The forging of the rings was pretty cool.





We could tell that Paul was doing Hey Jude by reading his lips lol





I don't really care at all about the olympics. Does that make me a bad person?
 
Highlights.





Bean


Bond/Queen


Forging of the Olympic rings/industrial revolution sequence


Ali





Oh and...





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According to the opening ceremonies the history of England is that they stood around and looked at each other for a while and then decided to build factories and then they worked and worked and worked and worked so that they could have the olympics!





What a completely boring opening.





Makes me want to watch re-runs of the Beijing opening to see what a real olympics start is supposed to look like
 
Damn, you sound unsophisticated!





Although I've quibbled about individual choices made for various snippets, the overall theme and tone were exactly the mix that represents UK today.





YMD
 
Say what you will about the opening ceremonies, and it wasn't really touching China... BUT, China didn't peak with Pink Floyd blaring while the torch was lit. That was fucking killer, and a perfect choice of music to bring the whole thing to a crescendo.





Thought NBC was brutal, by the way, and the fact that the cut out the memorial to terrorist victims for the Michael Phelps-Seacrest interview is awful. Fuck Michael Phelps, go sit on a $5 footlong.
 
DocMcCoy said:Well, SI got it.




I saw that this morning- and, as much as the spectacle of China was a great spectacle (see above post) that article did a great job of synthesizing all the ideas of in last night's opening.
 
rootlesscosmo said:asstro said:Looking forward to the next two weeks. Bummed she won't be there:





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who is this BTW? and why is she not participating?





LOVE the direction this thread is already heading in BTW...




She is Australian hurdler Michelle Jenneke, not an Olympic level competitor yet. World class in other respects.





That USA/Croatia game earlier today set back the cause of women's basketball 20 years. Unwatchable.
 
I want to take this opportunity to say how much I respect our British cousins, both for the ideas expressed in the opening ceremony, and the depth of character and spirit that prompted that exhibition. You should be proud of yourselves.





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Womens 400m Individual Medley........I'm always suspicious when a 16 year old Chinese girl appears from nowhere & smashes the WR.
 
Lotche is obviously the new swimming bad ass...he completely smoked everyone...but seeing that interview with him in his fucking closet and learnIng he owns a blinged-out mouth grill makes it hard to like him...seems like he has a whole lot of dipshit in him.





But that doesn't matter I guess...he is going to murder everyone in the pool.
 
The_Hook_Up said:


But that doesn't matter I guess...he is going to murder everyone in the pool get so much tail, bro!
 
Herm said:The_Hook_Up said:


But that doesn't matter I guess...he is going to murder everyone in the pool get so much tail, bro!




Big deal...he could get the tail and crush world records without being a dipshit.
 
gareth said:He wore the blinged out mouth grill on the podium last night... Cool look, swimmer bro.




Dude seems desperate for attention after being in Phelp's shadow for all these years.





He's always been one of these guys that, despite seeing dozens of photos, I can never recall what he looks like.