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"Who's watching?
Reminds me of the wonderful fun threads we had going in 2012 watching it together wherever we were.
Thoughts so far? "
Should be at the stadium. Just looks really awkward. I'm wondering if the eiffel tower is gonna be the cauldron? |
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"Could do with Graham Norton commentating. It all went very quiet around the ménage a trois segment  "
Again there was a reference to a French film, Jules et Jim and the whole bit was about accepting everyone. |
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"What I want to know is did the girl reading romantic novals in library finally get her threesom?
She did!
I'm glad you're here!
Evie
Haha thanks for being here too!"
No i think she's sitting in a chair bored shirtless as the two guys smash the living daylights out of each other  |
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"What I want to know is did the girl reading romantic novals in library finally get her threesom?
She did!
I'm glad you're here!
Evie
Haha thanks for being here too!
No i think she's sitting in a chair bored shirtless as the two guys smash the living daylights out of each other "
Shitless |
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By *oxesMan 22 weeks ago
Southend, Essex |
"What I want to know is did the girl reading romantic novals in library finally get her threesom?
She did!
I'm glad you're here!
Evie
Haha thanks for being here too!"
Let's hope some of the athletes can be as lucky as she was with their performances.
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"It seems a bit disjointed.
The catwalk fashion show happening at the same time doesn’t tie into anything.
Apart from French culture? "
Yes, granted.
What I meant is that it doesn’t seem to have a ‘section’, it’s just happening on the bridge and they flick to it occasionally.
Like I said, disjointed.
Feel sorry for them all in the rain. |
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By *oxesMan 22 weeks ago
Southend, Essex |
"It seems a bit disjointed.
The catwalk fashion show happening at the same time doesn’t tie into anything.
Apart from French culture?
Yes, granted.
What I meant is that it doesn’t seem to have a ‘section’, it’s just happening on the bridge and they flick to it occasionally.
Like I said, disjointed.
Feel sorry for them all in the rain. "
Just like the criticism for the London millennium celebrations. |
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By *oxesMan 22 weeks ago
Southend, Essex |
"What I want to know is did the girl reading romantic novals in library finally get her threesom?
She did!
I'm glad you're here!
Evie
Haha thanks for being here too!
No i think she's sitting in a chair bored shirtless as the two guys smash the living daylights out of each other
Shitless"
She is a Cuckqueen? |
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By *oxesMan 22 weeks ago
Southend, Essex |
"The rain, the slow pace, the lack of audience noise and atmosphere. It's quite sad really.
Headless Marie Antionettes and the blood in to the Seine was the only highlight. "
I can see parts of this opening ceremony being recreated like having the athletes paraded up the river thanes before they enter the Arena.
I remember an old documentary about 2012 and the Chinese organiser committee adviced Londonn not too copy but to highlight what you do best. GB could not spend 1billion on an opening ceremony but she took inspo and detailed britain. |
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"It’s been dragging. Got bored so turned it over and watching gogglebox. Much more entertaining
Even the London Olympic opening ceremonies was about 3 and a half hours…"
Yea but at least we had the queen jumping out of a chopper! |
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By *stwo2023 OP Couple 22 weeks ago
Worcester |
"But the Olympics is shit ! Are own equestrian person rightly accused of cruelty ! Draconian games and Boring corrupt . "
Draconian?
Yes she was rightly accused of cruelty. I don't think anyone will disagree.
Think you're taking this all a bit seriously lol
Evie |
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I’ve thought it’s been quite good - enjoyed it and loved the effects of the horse on the water.
Loved the Euro Trash feel to it.
A lot of every ceremony is wanky.
It just needs Jean Michael Jarre and I’m done
K |
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I've liked a few bits but they dragged on too long. It, for me, is slow paced and sparce, right now they are running with the flame through the Louvre, I get it is pissing it down and their security scare earlier, but where are the people. |
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By *stwo2023 OP Couple 22 weeks ago
Worcester |
"It's lit!
Evie
About time! The 2028 games are about to start!
Celine will save it.
Evie
I know she represented someone in the Eurovision song contest but isn't she a Canadian?"
French Canadian 
I dunno really lol but Gaga isn't french, or Serena Williams or Carl Lewis lol
Evie |
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"You might not have liked the ceremony… but the last 10 minutes with the floating balloon flame and celine singing her best Edith.. wow!!!"
Agree with that, and I'm not even a fan of Celine. The flame was worth the wait...just! |
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I enjoyed it. I love that it was set out over the city. I loved the "blood" over the Seine. And the horse. And the 100yr old French Olympian - how cute! And the cauldron. Wow!
Even Celine, who I'm not a fan of, was breathtaking. |
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By (user no longer on site) 22 weeks ago
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The piano on fire sas interesting - assume it was a voice recording rather thsn being sung live?
The mechanical horse was excellent - they could have made it even by using jets of water to simulate it running on water
I went to bed so need to find a highlight program with the cauldron! |
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We started watching it, it was a bit boring for us, we saw the Jamaican team and then went on to tell my stepson about the Jamaican bobsled team and he was like "what" so we just had to put cook runnings on obviously 😂.
We managed to see the end and see the queen that is Celine Dion. |
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By *stwo2023 OP Couple 22 weeks ago
Worcester |
"We started watching it, it was a bit boring for us, we saw the Jamaican team and then went on to tell my stepson about the Jamaican bobsled team and he was like "what" so we just had to put cook runnings on obviously 😂.
We managed to see the end and see the queen that is Celine Dion. "
That's a pretty acceptable deviation
Evie |
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By *ripfillMan 22 weeks ago
Paris, New York, Hong Kong and Havant |
I enjoyed the ceremony. It went on however ….. it was a bottle of wine worth of time …. Eeek !
I have to say
My memory isn’t too bad for my age but … I thought Danny Boils efforts in London were extraordinarily good
“Let’s the games commence “
Good luck GB
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Good idea, perhaps overly ambitious, poorly executed in parts, disjointed, no regard for weather vagaries.....but the automatron horse, Eiffel tower light show and cauldron balloon looked good. Shame they hoisted the Olympic flag upside down.
Was just lacking Eric and Ernie for Lady Gaga's stint on the stairs with a spare boot  |
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By *abluesbabyMan 22 weeks ago
Gibraltar/Cheshire/London |
"We started watching it, it was a bit boring for us, we saw the Jamaican team and then went on to tell my stepson about the Jamaican bobsled team and he was like "what" so we just had to put cook runnings on obviously 😂.
We managed to see the end and see the queen that is Celine Dion. "
Your comment reminded me of the time I was in Paris and Cool Runnings was the massive hit film of the time. So the Paris cinema I walked past were also showing it. But... as they often do around the world... they'd changed its title from "Cool Runnings" to - the way more superior - one of "Rasta Rocket" |
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By (user no longer on site) 22 weeks ago
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I thought it was a confused mess. Some highlights including Lady GaGa and Celine Dion, plus the Eiffel Tower lights were impressive and the balloon cauldron was great. But not a patch on London 2012. |
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The piano on fire sas interesting - assume it was a voice recording rather thsn being sung live?
The mechanical horse was excellent - they could have made it even by using jets of water to simulate it running on water
I went to bed so need to find a highlight program with the cauldron! "
The whole thing should be on iPlayer |
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