What do you mean by black top cylinder guy, and what do you mean shoved equality down our throats?

At no point did I feel equality was being shoved down my throat.

I'm guessing "Black Top Cylinder Guy" means Ken Branagh playing the engineer Isombard Kingdom Brunel, who was represented here probably because he was the greatest, almost totally noncontroversial, Great Briton who fitted the time periods the ceremony was representing.

I'm not going anywhere near guessing what was meant by 'shoving equality down' anyone's throat.

Shellshock

United States97274 Posts

July 28 2012 07:19 GMT

#1603

Did anyone else notice during the USA prime time rebroadcast that the interesting facts about North Korea was about Kim Jong Il's record breaking golf score and Kazakhstan's was about how Borat was from there? I definitely heard them talking about that.

Brutaxilos

United States2622 Posts

July 28 2012 07:26 GMT

#1604

For a second, I had really thought the Queen had jumped from the plane... THAT would have been epic. But now it just seems silly. :\

First half of the ceremony rocked. After the industrial revolution however, things got really boring. Torch ceremony was pretty cool though but I feel like the whole, multiple people lighting the cauldron is a bit old (Vancouver did it in 2010). Also, the cauldron is in the center of the field again... Are they going to light it at another location like in Vancouver? Again?

Insane

United States4991 Posts

July 28 2012 07:32 GMT

#1605

On July 28 2012 16:19 Shellshock1122 wrote:
Did anyone else notice during the USA prime time rebroadcast that the interesting facts about North Korea was about Kim Jong Il's record breaking golf score and Kazakhstan's was about how Borat was from there? I definitely heard them talking about that.

o_O

The facts were:
Kim Jong Il got 11 hole-in-ones the first time he ever played golf
At some event (I forget the event, sorry), they played Borat's version of Kazakhstan anthem instead of the real one.

Oh yeah, and as a funny thing too, I thought the queen looked super furious and disgusted over the deaf children's choir or whatever that thing was where they were signing while singing.

simmeh

Canada2511 Posts

July 28 2012 07:38 GMT

#1606

let us appreciate some of the finer women at these olympic games

http://www.brobible.com/girls/video/sexy-female-olympic-athlete-london-2012

hubba hubba!

TheEmulator

28078 Posts

July 28 2012 07:43 GMT

#1607

Go canada. yaaaaa!!!!

Chriscras

Korea (South)2812 Posts

July 28 2012 08:38 GMT

#1608

Hey where was the celebration of Alan Turing? Dannyboi!

Bobble

Australia1493 Posts

July 28 2012 08:53 GMT

#1609

On July 28 2012 16:12 Aim Here wrote:

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I think what he meant was that during that scene, there were some suited up developers/factory owners/rich guys dancing and checking out the people working, and there were a couple of black guys in that group. I'm not quite sure about the Industrial Revolution in Britain, but wouldn't the affluent people back then be almost completely white? I think that's what he meant by 'black top cylinder guy', though I could be wrong. I loved that part though, mutton chops always make me laugh, so awesome.

AgentChaos

United Kingdom4569 Posts

July 28 2012 09:10 GMT

#1610

german beach volleyball team so hot

Grettin

42381 Posts

July 28 2012 09:41 GMT

#1611

That was close for Phelps..

Node

United States2159 Posts

July 28 2012 09:49 GMT

#1612

So, not to be that guy, but...

How can I watch the Olympics without paying for something? I have Comcast internet but apparently you can't watch online without a subscription to their TV service, which... no. And I don't wanna restrict myself to whatever happens to be on NBC at any given time (plus, shitty antenna means it's unreliable).

sekritzzz

1515 Posts

July 28 2012 10:12 GMT

#1613

The shire and Lord voldemort.... really? Didn't like the theme of the London olympics at all. Beijing's was miles ahead.

BlueBird.

United States3889 Posts

July 28 2012 10:32 GMT

#1614

On July 28 2012 15:45 Gotmog wrote:
I thought that the beggining was kinda slow. Industrial revolution was looking good but still not that interesting.
I started having fun during pop culture references. And considering that its britian....its so rich with them. Probably no other country could provide that much. but they really missed a few i wanted to see, like Pink Floyd and Tolkien stuff...
Rowan Atkinson and James Bond bit were insane!

I didnt expect this opening to be anything close to last one...It was THE best opening in the history, it made people cry from the sheer beauty.

But this one was interesting in the way as well.

I hated black top cilindar guy....i hated the whole fact that they tried to shove equality down our throats tbh....

They had the clocks from time, the pig over the factories from animals, and an epic conclusion with Eclipse(felt perfect there!) right before Paul M.

There might have been more but thats all the Pink Floyd stuff I caught, I didn't hear the Time part at first, but my gf said it was there and I went back and watched and it was there.

Just finished watching the 10m air rifle medal round, and there was a massive choke by a chinese girl at the end to get bronze instead of gold/silver, it's overall a really boring sport to watch though. I learned alot about Handball tonight, looked up all the rules, and I also learned archery is 70m, which is a pretty insane distance!

sinii

England989 Posts

July 28 2012 11:07 GMT

#1615

So apparently the NBC coverage of the opening event had the minutes silence to respect the tragedy and loss of life in London on the 7 July 2005 cut out and replaced with a Michael Phelps interview?

I'm frankly shocked and disgusted at how damn disrespectful that is, wow I wouldn't be surprised if the US straight up declared war on a country for cutting out a 9/11 tribute at an event with this prestige...

Lylat

France8571 Posts

July 28 2012 11:23 GMT

#1616

No Pink Floyd .. sigh

LaNague

Germany9118 Posts

July 28 2012 11:27 GMT

#1617

On July 28 2012 20:07 sinii wrote:
So apparently the NBC coverage of the opening event had the minutes silence to respect the tragedy and loss of life in London on the 7 July 2005 cut out and replaced with a Michael Phelps interview?

I'm frankly shocked and disgusted at how damn disrespectful that is, wow I wouldn't be surprised if the US straight up declared war on a country for cutting out a 9/11 tribute at an event with this prestige...

have you seen their sports events?
its like this:

their tv audience in general doesnt seem to have the patience/attention span for something like that.

TheSwedishFan

Sweden608 Posts

July 28 2012 11:28 GMT

#1618

I heard what they didn't broadcast it live and it was more a heighlight montage.

red4ce

United States7313 Posts

July 28 2012 11:43 GMT

#1619

Aw snap S. Korea's Park Tae Hwan dq'd from the 400m freestyle in the prelims. He was the defending olympic and world champion in the event and is pretty much S. Korea's only chance at medaling in swimming. He still has a chance at a medal in the 200m free but the 400 was by far his best event. New 400m favorite is probably China's Sun Yang now.

sharkie

Austria18311 Posts

July 28 2012 12:05 GMT

#1620

On July 28 2012 20:43 red4ce wrote:
Aw snap S. Korea's Park Tae Hwan dq'd from the 400m freestyle in the prelims. He was the defending olympic and world champion in the event and is pretty much S. Korea's only chance at medaling in swimming. He still has a chance at a medal in the 200m free but the 400 was by far his best event. New 400m favorite is probably China's Sun Yang now.

what did he do