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So nice to see the royals helping out with our medal hopes by getting a horse to ride around in a small paddock. Cos that's a proper sport.
I was more impressed with the dancing dog on BGT than with this bollocks...
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I've unexpectedly liked the olympics so far, watched a bit of rowing, swimming and gymnastics on saturday, a bit of the diving and cycling yesterday and probably catch a bit more diving today, not sure what else is on, will probably watch a bit at lunch today... havent bothered watching the professional sports like tennis & football... seems pointless having them in the olympics to me...
but you do know theres more than one channel of the olympics.. you dont have to watch dressage you know lol... I agree though, its a complete waste of time.. lets see who can dress the horsies up the best and whose horse walks the nicest!! I bet harvs in his element
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Love the fact that the Government has championed the Olympics as being for the people, yet my employer, a local Government council has completely blocked anything to do with sport from web access. Can't even look at Olympics news on the BBC website in your lunchbreak.
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I, too, have enjoyed the Olympics more than expected so far.
And I'm very impressed with the Beeb's multi-channel thingy on Sky, where you can pick from dozens of high def streams on one channel - with it's well designed interface. (Sounds like I work for 'em, there! Credit where it's due, though.)
Shame the weather's been poor so the beach volleyball birds are in wetsuits.
Damn but I'm so pc...
If you're on android, the official London 2012 app works well, Drags. Dunno if there's a similar thing on ios. No substitute for having proper access to the sports sites, but it seems a decent little app.
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Let's get this straight, the BBC - funded by the license payer, are showing a lot of the Olympics on Sky, which is only accessible to Sky subscribers? Is that correct?
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lol - I've no idea what the beeb coverage is like on freeview, as I don't can't get it (and my region's still not gone digital. I specifically mentioned their coverage on Sky because one of the lads at work mentioned Virgin's made loads of new bbc channels instead of having everything on one channel. Pretty much the same result, just without the fancy interface.
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Its on BBC 1 pretty much all day.. where it cant be on BBC1 it changes over to BBC2.. and its also on BBC3... no idea what the sky coverage is like..
Getting a bit fed up with just watching swimming every night on BBC1 now.. apparently last night was only the half way point with swimming too... wouldnt mind so much but when its women football on BBC3.. I just cant be arsed to watch.. plus you cant get an HD feed of BBC3 and sport in general just looks so much clearer in HD...so I've been watching BBC1 mostly.. I have noticed that GB are terrible at womens basketball though.. and they all look like muntas too..
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You only have one BBC HD channel?
On satellite there's BBC One HD and BBC HD.
The channels are nowhere near each other in the planner, nor anywhere near the SD Beeb channels, so I'm wondering if maybe you have it but never noticed.
I've mainly been sticking to BBC One HD, hitting the red button, then you pretty much choose which of around 18 live events you want to watch - all in HD.
There's been an uncanny amount of Womens' Beach Volleyball in our house lately...
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Pass.. lol.. actually I do remember seeing a BBC HD channel.. I thought it was just BBC2 in HD with a stupid name though... never really bothered to check.. BBC1 is channel 50 and I think BBC HD is channel 54 on freeview... no idea if thats what you are talking about or if there are any more channels I might of missed, will check tonight
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I believe (and I could be wrong here)... BBC HD is used for BBC2 normally on freeview although during special events, such as wimbledon and the olympics it does show different programming from BBC2.. but the red button doesnt work on it nor the BBC1 HD channel... I believe the channels your mate was talking about on virgin tv are the bbc red button channels.. and I think on freeview they are channel 301 and 302.. although I only found that out this morning, so cant confirm if its true or not.. but they are definitely not HD on freeview if they do exist... just BBC 1 and BBC HD are
I watched some boxing last night.. great stuff.. it would of been one of the very few events I would of applied for tickets... the super heavyweight from kazakh is a monster.. 6ft 9 and built like a brick shithouse... then they showed GB's Luke Campbell (bantamweight) and he looked like a scrawny piece of piss lol...
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Note to self: next time I play a football management game (probably Manager Mode on FIFA 13) do not have Ramsey taking penalties and do not sign the Korean keeper lol :P
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Cant believe you watched the football over jessica ennis ya big poof!! ;D
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Ennis is a bit of a moose mate, the other two are much better looking. Forgotten their names now.
Extra time for the football. Am I the only one that thinks 'Team GB' sounds awful..? Always used to be 'Great Britain' in previous Olympics. :-\
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Was at the Aquatics Centre last night... can't describe the feeling of disappointment in there when Becky only got bronze! That American 15 year old was insanely quick though... Shame about the amount of empty seats, would have thought it'd be packed out. Lovely architecture though.
Amazing win for Ennis today, one of the best bodies at the games for sure! Mo Farah has just won in the 10,000m too. Finally starting to see some good results for Team GB!
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Is that a World Record...? Can't remember that many consecutive penalties end up in the net before now..? :o Pretty sure it is..? Anyon :-\e..? :o ??? :o
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Oops, not even close, the record is 48 :o ;D
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Cant believe you watched the football over jessica ennis ya big poof!! ;D
Agreed. Ennis was fantastic - ditto most of team GB in the last few days. Not really bothered about the footy. Would've been more interested if they'd given Beckham the send off he deserved.
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Just had a look on Sky Sports and we're third on the Medals Table :o How on earth have we managed that :o 8)
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Just had a look on Sky Sports and we're third on the Medals Table :o How on earth have we managed that :o 8)
Cycling and Rowing.
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Not bad considering the size of the population in the UK ;D
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We are the only nation competing in every single sport though.. the only nation to do so.. because of automatic qualification.. it also means we have the most number of athletes competing... probably has helped a bit... just about to watch Mr. Bolt kick some ass tonight
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Aw bum, not as impressive as I thought then lol :-[
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Having people automatically qualify has little or no bearing on getting medals. Team GB have been outstanding - don't belittle their amazing accomplishments.
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Not belittling, we've done great so far but being the host nation definitely has its benefits, especially with the fantastic support our athletes have been given so far! someone I know put themselves on the waiting list for tickets and got 100m mens final tickets for £10, why couldn't they of been sold for that price in the first place, huh >:(
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Chris Hoy! Fan fkn tastic!!!
I love the limpics!!!
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1 1st Soviet Union
9 2nd East Germany
8 3rd USA
8 12th Great Britain
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1 1st Unified Team (former Soviet states)
9 2nd USA
9 3rd Germany
2 13th Great Britain
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1 1st USA
9 2nd Russia
9 3rd Germany
6 36th Great Britain
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2 1st USA
0 2nd Russia
0 3rd China
0 10th Great Britain
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2 1st USA
0 2nd China
0 3rd Russia
4 10th Great Britain
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2 1st China
0 2nd USA
0 3rd Russia
8 4th Great Britain
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2 1st USA
0 2nd China
1 3rd Great Britain
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EDIT - corrected to final table. When originally posted China lead USA, with GB third...
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Will inspire a generation
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INterestingly, in our best Olympics in 1908, the odds were slightly skewed in our favour. With a lot less countries competing, something like a third of all competitors were from Britain. There were also a lot of events such as Tug of War and Motor boating which we won.
I'm all in favour of bringing back motorboating and combining it with beach volley ball into a single event ...
.... oh, it wasn't that sort of motorboating. Damn it. >:(
Having people automatically qualify has little or no bearing on getting medals. Team GB have been outstanding - don't belittle their amazing accomplishments.
Absolutely agree. These people are real role models.
I don't necessarily agree with all the calls for extra funding for sports in schools, there are other things that are higher priority that are suffering cuts. Though I'm all for the lottery funding a sporting revolution in this country, something for everyone which will make decent levels of sports coaching avaialable to all promising athletes, instead of funding elitist things such as the National Opera.
We also need to get rid of this stupid notion that kids shouldn't play to win and have real competition back in our schools.
I also don't mind the athletes making a bit of wonga after the effort most of them put in.
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These athletes demand respect.
Every time one of them thanks the public and nation i want to kick John terry
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I was watching the women volleyball finals last night and I paid them a lot of respect... ;D
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Every time one of them thanks the public and nation i want to kick John terry
Damned right.
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John Terry isn;t the only footballer who hasn't proven to be a good role model, far from it.
I suspect that players in the past were even worse, there just wasn't the same media interest in it.
People are qucik to forget the Beckham & Rebecca Looes business, but still hold him up as a role model. I'm sure there are lots of parents who want to see their kids covered in tattoos.
The whole thing about being role models it thrust upon them by people anyway. They don't go into football choosing to be role models and if people choose to hold them upp as role models it's as much the fault of the media and those who claim they are role models for not choosing their role models more wisely.
And let's face it, MUrdoch's empire, the same company that own Sky Sports have had a vested interest in generating as much interest in footballers as possible.
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My problem with Terry et al isn't that they disgrace themselves with their public shagging about. It's that they appear to have no pride in representing their country, they don't seem to put the effort in, they constantly underperform . Compare to our Olympians, most of whom earn a pittance in comparison to professional footballers yet most seem to exert themselves to their boundaries and are so proud to represent GB.
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What he said
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Except for the fact that JT does in fact take great pride in representing his country and puts the effort in. He may not be everone's cup of tea off the pitch but he puts in 100% on the pitch whether it's for club or country. Unlike many players, Rooney for example, you won't find JT doing anything but belting out the national anthem.
To single him out for this particular "offence" is ridiculous.
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I agree... JT, if anything, has had more pride captaining england than anyone else in the past few decades, and his desire to win something is second to none, the fact that the english press have tried to destroy him just tells me his attitude and commitment to the cause are fantastic... styles is not even english.. so you can take his comments with a pinch of salt lol.
Also late, you said back in the wimbledon thread that you wouldnt support andy murray because your patriotic to england... (despite murray always playing for GB in wimbledon)... however now in the olympics we have won loads of medals and done a fantastic job, you are all for the support of team GB... seems slightly contradicting does it not ??
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It's possible and perfectly reasonable to support someone one week and not another.
You don't cheer if Steven Gerard, Jermain Defoe, or Theo Walcott scores for England?
I'm more than happy to support pretty much anyone who represents Team GB. I support my local team. In some instances that means my home town, Middlesbrough. In some instances it means my country, England. In the Olympics it means the whole of Great Britain.
Of course I'm going to support all of the home nations in the Olympics. What a silly statement, Kieron.
As for the argument about a perceived lack of passion, commitment, and national pride in England footballers, feel free to substitute JT for whichever player(s) you want. There's surely players in the England squad that you think that describes perfectly.
You perhaps don't include Terry there because you support Chelsea. I include Terry because I don't like Chelsea.
(Mainly resentment about the cup finals in '97 and '98, but that's by the by...)
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It's possible and perfectly reasonable to support someone one week and not another.
You don't cheer if Steven Gerard, Jermain Defoe, or Theo Walcott scores for England?
Quite true I do cheer for those players, only when they play for england though, Murray plays for GB in wimbledon and he plays for GB in the olympics, what possible reason could someone have to only support a player in one competition and not another when they are playing for the same team/nation.... I thought it was quite a reasonable question to be honest.
As for the argument about a perceived lack of passion, commitment, and national pride in England footballers, feel free to substitute JT for whichever player(s) you want. There's surely players in the England squad that you think that describes perfectly.
If a player in the england squad showed any lack of pride or commitment, he would be castrated and chucked out of the squad.. if a player in the england squad was picked but he didnt want to play for england.. I'd call for his head definitely... I've called for rooney to be dropped.. he always underperforms playing for england. However, I do feel every single englishman showed passion and pride during the recent Euros.. there were some players that didnt play very well, but none of them showed a lack of commitment. Take a look at Gareth Bale if you want a lack of passion and national pride in a footballer... he didnt think team GB could win a medal so didnt want to play for them!
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Murray plays for GB in wimbledon and he plays for GB in the olympics, what possible reason could someone have to only support a player in one competition and not another when they are playing for the same team/nation
He plays as an individual in Wimbledon, and he plays for Great Britain in the Olympics (and the Davis Cup). If you asked him who he represents in Wimbledon he'll no doubt say Scotland - not Britain. And rightly so - I applaud his national pride. He's even gone so far as to say he supports anyone who's playing against England - and I'm lead to believe he wore a Croatia shirt when England were playing the Croats. Again, I have no problem with that - he's supporting Scotland as he should, and whilst I personally feel differently toward the home nations (I generally want them to do well, but of course I want England to beat them) that's personal preference and I've no problem with people who want to see the other home nations perform poorly.
If we had an English tennis player ranked in the top ten I'd be cheering him on at Wimbledon, and hoping he beat the Scotsman - because I'm English and I support my country.
This isn't the Grand Slam though. This is the Olympics - and he's playing for my team.
If a player in the england squad showed any lack of pride or commitment, he would be castrated and chucked out of the squad.. if a player in the england squad was picked but he didnt want to play for england.. I'd call for his head definitely... I've called for rooney to be dropped.. he always underperforms playing for england. However, I do feel every single englishman showed passion and pride during the recent Euros.. there were some players that didnt play very well, but none of them showed a lack of commitment. Take a look at Gareth Bale if you want a lack of passion and national pride in a footballer... he didnt think team GB could win a medal so didnt want to play for them!
Very few England players performed as well as they should have in the Euros. They often went minutes without touching the ball, match after match after match. There's having bad matches, and then there's being rubbish. If a bunch of top players are rubbish game after game then they're going to look like they're not really trying.
Or perhaps they're just not used to playing together, and need more practice. If they bothered to show up for friendlies that might help. But half the time they back out of them, usually citing medical reasons, when you know they'd be perfectly fit to play for their club and/or nation in an important competitive match.
If you're called up to play for your nation be proud and try your hardest.
Olympians don't need to be told that. Most footballers do, after they've got a few caps and established themselves in the first team...
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I used to get behind sweaty sock clubs and their sportsmen years ago because we are all British after all. But a load of sweaty sock scum cheering on Germany against England put a stop to that. It actually saddens me how things have changed during the last 30 years or so, we're nations divided these days at a time when we should really stick together.
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Very few England players performed as well as they should have in the Euros. They often went minutes without touching the ball, match after match after match. There's having bad matches, and then there's being rubbish.
You're confusing a lack of ability with a lack of passion.
A prime example of an Olympian exactly the same, Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards. Nowhere near the standard required but still had a go and showed passion. YOu could argue that any other Olympian who fails to make the top three is the same, not as good as the other competitors, therefore must have lacked the required passion.
Sometimes it's just the case that there are better teams. We place too much stock in how good we think some of our players are individually, some are good but few are genuine world class. As a team, collectively we are nowhere near good enough. That falls as much to management and coaching.
It is not the players fault they lack the same level of ability of other teams (and not necessarily as individuals but as a team). It doesn't mean they don;t show passion or give 100% though. The same as when a lower division side plays a Premier League side and loses, it can be purely down to a gulf in calss, not a lack of passion or commitment.
Your claims that JT lacked passion or commitment at the Euros is ridiculous. Ashley Cole also had a pretty good tournament. It wasn't our defence that was the problem, it was a lack of talent in front of them.
There is also a big problem with coaching in this country. As much as I am loathe to say it, we could learn a thing or two about coaching skill into youngsters from Arsene Wenger, I certainly wouldn't object to him having some kind of role in youth development in football at a national level.
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So who do you guys reckon will get gold in the men's football..? Brazil are obvious favourites but I reckon Mexico will get it in normal time. 8)
Looks like a good call from me, Mexico are 1 up already :o
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Brazil = great skill + crap defence + greedy players.
Should have started with Hulk.
Neymar, sublime skills but not a team player at all.
Deservedly beaten.
I've changed my mind about whether or not Hulk would be a good addition to the Chelsea team, very poweful striker, works for the team, scores and creates goals.
Sadly it looks like he'll sign for Zenit St Petersburg ( ??? ) as we won't pay Porto's asking price. Shame we can't swap Torres for him.
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Had a free bet of £30 at 6.0 on them to win so I'm £180 richer lol. Have to back 8 times that £30 at 1.5 or greater odds before I can bung it in the bank though. Easily done and should get myself some more profit in the meantime. 8)
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Well done Mo Farah. Legend
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Well done Mo Farah. Legend
Totally, he went to my boys senior school, and has gone back year after year to inspire the boys.........
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Bolt got 3 golds again. Would love to know what drugs he's on lol. Amazing achievement.
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Is that your Carl Lewis impression Harv lol.
I like the way Bolt has suggested he might do the long jum at the next Olympics, which I think was a dig at Lewis, suggesting he is going to beat his best in that as well.
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Im looking forward to the final day and closing ceremony. I think the games have been brilliant, really wasn't fussed about them but have been blown away by it all.
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Im looking forward to the final day and closing ceremony. I think the games have been brilliant, really wasn't fussed about them but have been blown away by it all.
I'm not looking forward to some of the music acts they have chosen. The Spice Girls for Pete's sake. If that's the best of British, we'd better give up music over here.
They should put them on last, it's one way of making sure the stadium emptys quickly.
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Bad humbug
Its not like they are doing a concert, they'll be on for 5 minutes max, don't get your thong all twisted about it
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Bad humbug
No, bad autotuned music.
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Most of the music in the Opening Ceremony was awful too. A huge contrast between the stuff from the 60s, 70s and early 80s and the more modern stuff. Not just over here but in the States and the rest of the world too. The mid 80s and electronic music starting was the beginning of the end. I mentioned it a while back. :(
I'm still working through my Absolutely Understand Guitar DVDs and it's quite disturbing that you can release a piece of recorded music without having a clue about how to play an instrument of any kind. I personally think that we should encourage kids that listen and enjoy rap, hip hop, the ridiculous shite that's known as R & B without having anything to do with Rhythm & Blues and rave music to take as much Ecstasy as possible. If we kill enough of the little ingrates then we'll do the music industry a great deal of good.
We're not going to see another Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zep, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, The Who, The Police, AC/DC, Guns 'n' Roses, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Fleetwood Mac, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Queen, Rush, Pink Floyd...christ on a fucking bike the list goes on and on!!! :o :'(
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Would be a bigger benefit to the country to kill off all the benefit scroungers!
Loved the opening ceremony. It was an amazing feeling to go and see two events, especially the badminton final between Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei. Probably the two greatest badminton players of all time. The amount of Malaysian fans there and the noise they created was incredible. We've done a great job hosting these games, I hope the closing ceremony is a nice send-off.
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I agree, although that's not going to do the music industry any good lol.
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Well, most of them probably download their music illegally, not being able to afford to pay for it. Kill two birds with one stone.
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Don't mention downloading, you'll start drags off again :o :P
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Let's face it, it wouldn't help the music industry because if they download it because they can't afford to buy it, then if they don't download it they still won't buy it. ;) :P
But just think of the negative effect on such brands as Burberry, breeders of Staffordshire Bull Terriers, baggy jogging bottoms etc. It would ruin our economy.
They'd be replaced as benefits scroungers by all those in the benefits office who are made redundant as a result and who know the rules and how to cheat the system equally as well.
:D
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It's gonna be funny in 10 years time when our snivelling government is finding ways to rip taxpayers off in order to pay off this gargantuan debt the Olympics has landed us in.
Makes ya wonder where the feel good "Proud to be British" mantra will be then!
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I'm glad The Who showed up and rescued that ceremony! It was really beginning to drag once Tinie Tempah showed up. What on earth were they thinking pairing up Jessie J with Brian May? She's got a decent voice but seems to need to shriek every few seconds to be "original". Emeli Sande was brilliant though, excellent tribute.
Liam Gallagher was dire tbh, sang the whole song through his nose. Had high hopes after they started with Kate Bush (even if she wasn't actually there :() Had more sense just like Noel, I suppose.
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Freddie Mercury was the highlight
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Holy fuck knuckles, Jessie J was absolute shit...if thats the best of british, im bleedin emigrating!!
The show was topsy turvy.. I actually thought Madness, Emeli Sande and The Who were the best parts... was suprised at just how many were lip synching though..
Edit : Oh.. and I really enjoyed Elbow as well.. great band!
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What on earth were they thinking pairing up Jessie J with Brian May?
Well one of the jokes doing the rounds is "what is the difference between Jessie J and the IRA?" - Jessie J did in 3 minutes what the IRA have been trying to do for 40 years, murdered queen.
Liam Gallagher was dire tbh, sang the whole song through his nose.
Exactly what I said while I was watching it. Singing badly through his nose. He managed to decimate what is a superb song.
I was also disappointed that one act used the event to promote a new song, Geoerge Michael, using the show to self promote, not what it was about.
Although supposedly he only showed up because he heard there would be 5 giant rings on display.
Muse, what a dirge.
Thought the Kaiser Chiefs weren't bad and it wasn't a bad cover version of Pinball Wizard to be honest, but then I've seen them live and they are pretty good.
The Who, as ever, totally professional and totally rocked the place.
I was also appalled at the amount of acts lip synching. Absolute disgrace. Did they really think people wouldn't notice, or wouldn't care. A symptom of some of the acts they chose.
One final point, was it just me or was the sound quality of the concert on TV as poor for everyone? I hope it wasn't that bad in the stadium, the balance between music and vocals was dreadful but both seemed really low in terms of volume. Maybe it was just the BBC production.
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Freddie Mercury was the highlight
You've changed your tune. You accused me of being a bah humbug for suggesting that the choice of music was poor, but I was not only right about some of the acts but also the quality of the production.
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Liam Gallagher, Russell Brand, George Michael, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell...
Christ, it's a good job they don't do drug tests for the closing ceremony.
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Freddie Mercury was the highlight
You've changed your tune. You accused me of being a bah humbug for suggesting that the choice of music was poor, but I was not only right about some of the acts but also the quality of the production.
Not changed tune, that is just my opinion of what the highlight was. I enjoyed the closing ceremony but agree that the sound was way out for the opening acts. Like everyone else i thought George Michael shouldn't have sung a new song, elbow were brilliant one direction dire. The spices were ok. The Jesse j, taio Cruz and tinnie temper bit was great especially their bee gees song.
I am a massive queen fan and had he lived Freddie would have lit up that closing ceremony. The montage of him from the wembley 85 concert showed what a loss he is.
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I am a massive queen fan and had he lived Freddie would have lit up that closing ceremony. The montage of him from the wembley 85 concert showed what a loss he is.
You won't get any argument about that from me. I was at Wembley in 85 and Knebworth the same year. Saw them quite a few times but that was the only year I saw them twice. Fantastic live act.
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I soo wish Harv had made that post.
I am a massive queen...
Queen fan here, too. I was just starting to go to gigs around 1990/91, so never got to see him live, unfortunately. Have watched the Wembley 85 gig a few times.
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Armed police did the security for the Olympics, unarmed police are doing the security for the Paralympics :P ;D :-[ ;D
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Oh dear
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Well bollocks, I thought it was good lol ;D
Got sent to me in a text from a red scouse git mate of mine. Quite funny because when he first moved to London from Liverpool he was REALLY politically correct and now he's the polar opposite lol. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing ;D
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Well at least any of the athletes who abscond from these games should be relatively easy to catch.