Olympic's opening ceremony.

[HomerJSimpson]

Could have done with it ending earlier as I had an 8.30 tee time and needed to be there early enough to try and find a swing aht worked but all in all I liked it a lot. Went a bit flat when the athletes paraded but its an integral part of the ceremony and not sure how that can be changed. McCartney looks like a glorified pub singer these days and only rattles out the same bloody tune. Time to go Macca

 

[Smiffy]

Could have done with it ending earlier as I had an 8.30 tee time

I am sure that if you had written to the organisers they would have taken that into account Homer

 

[Smiffy]

Just been watching the mens team gymnastics.
I can't believe the number of competitors who are wearing massive great nicorette patches.

 

[richart]

Just been watching the mens team gymnastics.

:mmm: I'm saving myself for the womens beach volleyball, but each to his own.

 

[munro007]

LOL I think £1BN is the new Million, the way people are talking about the cost of these games.

 

[SocketRocket]

LOL I think £1BN is the new Million, the way people are talking about the cost of these games.

Similar to the amount of English gold stuffed into Scottish mouths.

 

[Iaing]

Similar to the amount of English gold stuffed into Scottish mouths.

And a fraction of the amount of Scottish oil revenue gobbled up by the Westminster parasites.

 

[MegaSteve]

I think Scotland has paid more than the rest of the UK [pro rata] for the London Olympics.

Not quite sure where you've got that 'fact' from... Those of us paying GLC council tax have had to pay a levy towards the Olympics and will, by all accounts, be doing so for a few years yet ...

The aquatic centre looks like quite an amazing facility. And two 50m pools, I hear. That's going to be pretty great for Londoners after the games.

Don't think too many of us living to the west of town will be bothering to travel to use the pool facility...

Having said that a new pool [50M] has been built just around the corner which, I believe, is part of the legacy... Not sure how it was funded but my lads and grandchildren would've prefered a leisure pool...

 

[munro007]

Similar to the amount of English gold stuffed into Scottish mouths.

Why do you find the need to make this an anti scottish thread. :temper:

 

[Aztecs27]

I know I'm late to the party, but what an awesome spectacle. I was at a wedding on Friday so PVR'd it and watched last night. Was the best way, as I fast forwarded through the athlete's entrances. I would have been happy to watch it live, as it's an integral part of the whole thing, but now the sport has started, I don't have 4 hours to watch the whole thing!

The GB Entrance was awesome though. You could see the emotion in Chris Hoy, I thought he was going to start balling, truly awesome to see how much it means to these athletes that we are behind them. Becky Adlington in tears after her race yesterday was another example.

The finale was something I will never forget. Absolutely incredible.

Danny Boyle will (and should) be knighted for pulling that off.

 

[munro007]

I might need to watch some of it again, maybe from 30 minutes in, that seems to be when people are saying it got a lot better.

 

[Aztecs27]

I might need to watch some of it again, maybe from 30 minutes in, that seems to be when people are saying it got a lot better.

That, and the lighting of the flame. The bit with the athlete intros is a boring necessity.