Opening ceremony

[Deleted member 14625]

Enjoyed it after the sluggish start, except Dizzee Rascal getting so much time when Oasis, Coldplay, Spice Girls, and other far more popular British acts were nowhere to be found.

The Yardbirds
Cream
The Experience
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Roxy Music
Joy Division
The Smiths
The Stone Roses
Oasis
all ignored, yet Discombobulated Nincompoop gets to perform for about five minutes...

Pink Floyd extracts were played you div.

Missed that one mate!

 

[scall11]

Just to make sure, the North Koreans brought a big feck off flag themselves...

 

[Garrinchas---Dog]

Woooooaaahh

Big bastard alert!!!

Was that the Cuban
Waving that flag like a tooth pick.........

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

It's basically just the gay village but more expensive and a bit more pointlessly flamboyant.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Anybody else tapping their toes to the funky grooooooove?

 

[MCFC BOB]

Dizzee Rascal is great. Lay off him.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKn4zz-o51w[/youtube]

Stupid name,crap 'music'.

I'm gonna guess your favourite band plays guitars.

 

[Deleted member 14625]

Oh for the love of fuck will this parade shit ever end??

Going to be dodging javelins by the time it gets to the Zeds.

I'll be sendin the Zzzzz's before they get to the Z's.

 

[scall11]

The woman reading out the country names sounds like a female Alan Partridge

 

[johnny on the spot]

and memorials and funerals mate.

An opening ceremony is not the right place for that hymn. Cup finals, funerals, memorials and that is it. Well out of order.

What did you want them to play whilst remembering the deceased from the bombings.

Something else. Seven years have been and gone and the nation has blamed and it has grieved and recovered. To drag it up in the face of nations who have suffered a damn site more is absolutely unforgivable. Abide With Me goes further than grief. It's a beseeching prayer, pleading for God to attend the side of the protagonist and to fortify one's faith in the face of doubt, rivalry and threat.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

Czech republic team wearing wellies. Mrs said is that their national dress.....