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Olympic Opening Ceremony
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I thought it was great. £27m in the context of advertising our country in a positive light is a bargain.
Tim Berners Lee put there to remind the world that it wasn't Bill Gates or Steve Jobs that invented the www.
Shame Paul McCartney couldn't here his own backing track though! Time he gave up bless him.
Tim Berners Lee put there to remind the world that it wasn't Bill Gates or Steve Jobs that invented the www.
Shame Paul McCartney couldn't here his own backing track though! Time he gave up bless him.
There is actually an Olympic salute that is very similar to the Nazi one but it has fallen into disuse because it can be mistaken for a nazi one - it may be that he was actually doing that - being an old git.
Mind you - he's old enough to remember both salutes
Mind you - he's old enough to remember both salutes
That guy is Walther Tröger, an honorary member of the International Olympic Committee and the wave was with the opposite hand sorry to be boring and factual
Also, for those that said "OOOOOOMG I soooo cannot believe they spoke in french first"...it was a french guy that founded modern olympic games, hence the announcements in french, then english, then the host.
Turned out great I reckon though, especially the queen picking her nails as team GB walked out..
sorry to be boring and factual Also, for those that said "OOOOOOMG I soooo cannot believe they spoke in french first"...it was a french guy that founded modern olympic games, hence the announcements in french, then english, then the host.
Turned out great I reckon though, especially the queen picking her nails as team GB walked out..
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I thought the modern Olympics were invented/founded by Wenlock :S not that it matters since everyone else thinks it was the Greeks
Also I thought the reason French is spoken first is because its the official Olympic language due to the IOC been located in Lausanne in Switzerland
As for the German Trodger bloke, read an interview today saying that he gets a stiff arm due to tendon damage which means he can't wave properly
haha I only did a quick google search. But apparently, it's him here:
http://history1800s.about.com/od/sports/a/Coubertin.htm
I read that about the bloke too, still funny though
http://history1800s.about.com/od/sports/a/Coubertin.htm
I read that about the bloke too, still funny though
As Sam has pointed out, a Nazi salute would be given with the right arm, not the left as in this case. Don't worry about being boring and factual sam, I've turned it into an art form.
The earliest Olympics I can remember was the 1964 Tokyo games. The only time I've watched an opening ceremony was the Los Angeles with the bloke on the jet pack, so if anyone thought I'd have watched this load of old bo****ks they would have been seriously delusional.
But, determined to be Mr. Angry I watched it in order to write angrily to my MP. However, I've got to say I watched the whole thing from start to finish and thought that of all the ways to spend £27,000,000.....this was a bl**dy good one.
I'm sure everybody's worked it out by now, but it was an attempt to tell the story of modern Britain and the effect it's had on the world, from Cricket to Rugby, from agriculture to industry, from The Beatles to the Arctic Monkeys and ending up with the World Wide Web.
Perhaps it also served to correct some impressions the world may have had about this country bearing in mind the U.S.-centric history of the world that seems to have developed in the last 20 years. As for £27 million, well that's only Manchester City's wage budget for the year and personally I've got to say that Danny Boyle's effort was magnificent and, so far, everybody I've spoken to also thought it was great.
If it cheers people up here and at the same time puts Britain in a positive light then it's £27 million well spent
The earliest Olympics I can remember was the 1964 Tokyo games. The only time I've watched an opening ceremony was the Los Angeles with the bloke on the jet pack, so if anyone thought I'd have watched this load of old bo****ks they would have been seriously delusional.
But, determined to be Mr. Angry I watched it in order to write angrily to my MP. However, I've got to say I watched the whole thing from start to finish and thought that of all the ways to spend £27,000,000.....this was a bl**dy good one.
I'm sure everybody's worked it out by now, but it was an attempt to tell the story of modern Britain and the effect it's had on the world, from Cricket to Rugby, from agriculture to industry, from The Beatles to the Arctic Monkeys and ending up with the World Wide Web.
Perhaps it also served to correct some impressions the world may have had about this country bearing in mind the U.S.-centric history of the world that seems to have developed in the last 20 years. As for £27 million, well that's only Manchester City's wage budget for the year and personally I've got to say that Danny Boyle's effort was magnificent and, so far, everybody I've spoken to also thought it was great.
If it cheers people up here and at the same time puts Britain in a positive light then it's £27 million well spent
when is the womens beach volley ball on?
I watched the doubles yesterday and we won.
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Tim B Lee invented the public internet. The first internet connections were made by APRANET of which CERN were one of the largest nodes. Oh and Paul was crap. Would sooner have heard the Telletubbies singing than that screech he put out.
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This. A lot of people make out that there was nothing there and TBL just woke up one day and though 'I know...I'll create the internet today lol!'
I felt there should have been a tribute to Turing, not sure how it could have been fitted in though.
As Turing was a genuine home-grown genius, and gay as well before it was acceptable, I am surprised they didn't make a big fetaure of him.
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If you read his personal website he notes that a lot of it was thought out and invented when he was working at CERN and trying to communicate with other universities and establishments across the world. Not only that but with other systems in the same location!. He basically got sick of coding programs to do the same job over and over on the multitude of different systems.
Just watched the whole thing, mostly to see Mr Bean.
I think that you should be proud of it, considering that the budget you had was far less than Beijing, and the result was just as impressive.
One of the problems of including Alan Turing is that Generals and politicians made the history in the Second World War not scientists, otherwise Barnes Wallis, Werner von Braun, Alan Turing, Reginald Mitchell, Sidney Camm, Frank Whittle, Willi Messerschmidt and others would have been the real "stars" of conflict not Montgomery, Eisenhower, Rommel, Slim, Patton, Kesselring, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin and Hitler.
A side effect, and probably the longest lasting effect of Turing's work was the digital computer, the first example of which was built at Manchester University before the U.S. had one. An offshoot of research into radar was a form of the magnetron that gave us the microwave oven.
There have been many inventions made in this country, or at least those where we have been in the forefront of their development such as radar, the jet engine, sonar, steam engine, television and so on. The development of stationary steam engines allowed industrialisation on a grand scale with the building of the "dark satanic mills" and this trend brought us ships like the Great Western and Great Eastern, railways and allowed us to maintain an empire (like it or not) and post-empire meant we could keep pace with technology despite us being a fraction of the size and resources of rivals such as the U.S.
At school we were taught the internet was invented by the US Army, for the army. When I tried to correct them, the reply was "who is CERN"
As for the olympics, did anyone see how long they kept the british guy on for? They were just waiting for him to cry when he lost! good to watch though and good effort
no one watching tonights then?
