That kitten is not looking at me the right way. I take issue with it.
It’s plotting something I tells ya.
That cat is planning to over-hype some commercial event and flood the airways with it. Kitties already own Youtube, now they want to own TV.
Watch out, and more important come to F.com to post your bitterness.
[quote=“Deuce Dropper”]That cat is planning to over-hype some commercial event and flood the airways with it. Kitties already own Youtube, now they want to own TV.
Watch out, and more important come to F.com to post your bitterness.[/quote]
The cat is actually contemplating which thrilling Olympic event to watch first: synchronised swimming, shot-put, rowing, archery, dressage, javelin, shooting, weightlifting or triathlon. It’s in a quandary with so much enthralling excitement around.
he is emitting a sense of ennui to his owner because the TW channel is showing taekwondo again instead of something interesting.
he is emitting a sense of ennui to his owner because the TW channel is showing taekwondo again instead of something interesting.[/quote]
Watch the swimming on the web…but you guys aren’t going to like it, two Chinese medals today 
he is emitting a sense of ennui to his owner because the TW channel is showing taekwondo again instead of something interesting.[/quote]
Watch the swimming on the web…but you guys aren’t going to like it, two Chinese medals today [/quote]
Not a hater when it comes to on field (floor, pool, track, etc…) performance. Despite the cheating, sport is the fairest thing we have left in society.
Kudos to the swimmers (even if they were chosen from a young age to represent the glorious nation in swimming), it is the culmination of a life’s long dream/work.
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Kudos to the swimmers (even if they were chosen from a young age to represent the glorious nation in swimming), it is the culmination of a life’s long dream/work.[/quote]
And yet we salute Nadia Comencie and the ilk and not to mention ‘academies’ that comb talent and train them worldwide, but we reserve our condescension for the communist state. And yeah right, it doesn’t light a fire under the western behinds. :roflmao:
What kind of horse shit NHS imagery was used during the opening ceremonies? Danny Boyle’s celebration of the NHS with dancing nurses, bouncing patients, and huge hospital beds? That certainly isn’t socialist realism! But a bullshit facade! And to me such public health dick-waving has no place in opening ceremonies. If anything it is a criticism of Boyle against Cameron and such cheap theatrics aren’t proper in a celebration of sports. Didn’t like the socialist imagery during the Beijing Summer Games opening ceremonies and don’t like even stronger currents of it at these games (proving once against that the UK is more Communist than China).
And shame on them for not having a minute of silence at the ceremonies for the Israelis (in memory of the 40th anniversary of the '72 Munich terrorism attacks). To me, that reiterates the anti-Semitism that still is evident in salon society in Europe and amongst the corrupt chattering classes that love to collaborate.
I must admit I thought this was a celebration of Great Britain’s accomplishments in disease prevention and treatment - the discovery of penicillin and whatnot.
I’ll admit I wasn’t always paying that much attention.
I liked the ceremonies though; thought they were suitably eccentric for England.
Love that kitten !!
And here are some nice comments from others on this ceremony. Im excited to watch it tonite. I hope my dvd recording was successful
MY cat is going to be mad at me again for taking his tv chair.
Nurse fantasies are quintessentially English, I think, and that alone accounts for the hospital fetishism… That, and Mary Poppins. Geez, I’d still go 'er in a heartbat!
Come on, old chap, who do you think you’re fooling by pretending to be such a stranger to Japanese porn!
Come on, old chap, who do you think you’re fooling by pretending to be such a stranger to Japanese porn![/quote]
Exactly. If Maria Ozawa was in the opening ceremonies, I wouldn’t be criticizing the medical imagery
I’m not an expert in gynaecology, but I’ll take a look.
Luckily they have a Belgian on the helm … too bad he’s going to retire soon … now what?
I agree with the observation of Deuce that some people in life simply seem unable to experience an event without being hyper critical about it. I have friends on facebook and as global event after global event unfurls you can be sure they will be predictably adopting the, ‘that’s crap/wrong/evil/propaganda,’ stance. In the same way some people can’t actually enjoy a film because they are too busy thinking about continuity, actors salaries, their own desire to be famous etc some people seem unable to embrace a ceremony such as the one that just unfurled without cries that it is jingoistic, extravagant, self-selecting etc. Nice effort shoe horning in about it also being anti-Semitic there Chewy.
Of course, the irony is that if I say: Why can’t you be less judgemental? then what I am really saying is: why can’t you be more like me? Which, of course, is judgemental.
I thought the way there were thousands of stories unfolding at once made for an eclectic and vibrant beautiful chaos that must have been so much better watching live at the stadium. It seemed to be about how our decisions had affected what happens on the island itself and not a history of the devastation we have caused elsewhere. Equally it focussed post war on what happened in EAST London, where the ceremony was taking place. Therefore it was more about African and Caribbean influences (more east end) than about Asian and sub-continental influences (more west London). That’s why Dizzee Rascal played (East London grime music) why Tiny Tempah, Tinchy Stryder etc had their music featured (why Beckham was selected) as the show became more about the culture we have exported to the world. Of course, this invites comments from the morbidly critical such as: UK exporting culture, do me a favour etc. Beckham propaganda machine. No Daley Thompson due to racism blah blah blahdy blah.
I suppose it’s ok for people to hate/ criticise the ceremony because the ceremony itself isn’t actually a person and won’t feel upset. You are just railing against your own feelings. If someone can’t sit and simply enjoy something wonderful, that has taken years to prepare and involved thousands of people working hard to create a sense of something spectacular, without having to find ways to be unhappy about it, then that is the real problem right there. I hope such people, like the ones I see on facebook, do get to find joy in other aspects of their lives, because when it comes to dealing with global events, or the behaviour of others they seem to find it difficult to accept a happy and positive opinion.
Call me bombastic, but I thought the opening ceremony was fantastic.
I must admit I thought this was a celebration of Great Britain’s accomplishments in disease prevention and treatment - the discovery of penicillin and whatnot.
I’ll admit I wasn’t always paying that much attention.
I liked the ceremonies though; thought they were suitably eccentric for England.[/quote]
You probably were paying enough attention, only a right wing blowhard of Chewian proportions would view it in that manner, and use it as self-serving fodder in a messageboard masturbatorial rant. Ironically he mentions Maria Ozawa a few posts later (we can all see where his head, and hand were likely at during that ‘wankish’ post).
After China’s spectacular opening, games and closing, i really thought England will have a really hard act to follow. But after watching the replay tonight (although bummed out that part of the program was not rebroadcast…the whole internet age sequence was cut out …and the original 4 hour broadcast cut to 2) I must say that Britain has done it. THey did it their way and it was totally FAB. Congrats to the UK for an excellent opening ceremony. Looking forward to a couple of weeks of great sports and an equally inspiring closing ceremony.
BRAVO Britain !
(the second half of my 4 hour dvd showed the awesome 250km one day bike race)
I’m sure I would have enjoyed watching it if only those who control TV broadcasting in Taiwan could have seen fit to play along with officialdom’s oft-repeated assertions that Taiwan and its people want to be part of and participants in world affairs and events, and had broadcast it like everywhere else in the world broadcast it, rather than choosing yet again to isolate themselves and Taiwanese viewers in the usual bubble of Taiwaneseness by instead sticking to broadcasting another tacky Taike show featuring Hu Gua or Jacky Wu rubbing up against mini-skirted cleavage-flaunting starlets or another of those endless and endlessly repetitive soaps in which the usual cast of actors and actresses take turns to slap each other, cry, marry, fall down, and go to hospital.
Or did I look at the wrong channels?
And for those criticizing the content of the opening ceremony:
The Olympics, and probably all other major world sports events, have long been at least as much about showcasing the host country as about showcasing the featured sports, so why should the London Olympics be any different?
Chest-thumping is natural and normal human behaviour. It’s hard not to expect it when you have free run of the world’s biggest stage and you’re paying massively for the privilege. The best one can reasonably ask is that it’s done tastefully, colourfully, humorously and with a decent amount of self-deprecation. From what I’ve read, the ceremony satisfied those criteria quite well enough.