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The 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies
I joined the Olympics opening ceremony watching a bit late. About when the Queen showed up.
I later heard she'd parachuted with James Bond (I mean Daniel Craig) into the stadium. I was like :O
Then I read that they were stunt doubles. I was like 
Still, though, nice prank.
I think I prefer British humor over U.S.-American humor.
Overall, very nicely done ceremony. As I said, I missed the first half.
The Queen seemed a bit...either under-the-weather or slightly pissed off at something. My mom pointed this out a couple times. Oh well.
Still, very nice opening ceremony. I was quite impressed with the second-half performances. I missed the first half but from the bits I saw later I think I'd have been pretty impressed too.
I can't help but wonder if the whole thing celebrating the National Health Service was in small part a stealth insult about how damn backwards the U.S. has been about healthcare re the recent "controversy" over it.
And I gotta say I'm quite surprised that they made an entire show segment celebrating internet-based modernity. From a kid walking out of a car with his eyes glued to his DS to IMs/texts/tweets showing up on screen on the two main characters of that segment...yeah, I was not expecting this to be featured, let alone celebrated.
Awesome audience-location-based pixel art was awesome. Awesome fireworks were also awesome. Meaningful torch--formed from combining those "shells" brought in one by each country--is meaningful.
Oh, and another cool thing about watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics? You get to see a bunch of very attractive young men and/or women (depending on which way you swing).
Comments
Oh my GOSH.
The video I _JUST_ watched--showing the segment of James Bond going to get the Queen--just now got blocked by the IOC on copyright grounds.
Hey, fuck you, copyright goons!
In other news, this is why I am making a repository.
I shouldn't have doubted the people who said Mary Poppins was going to fight Voldemort.
Good to see that Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia fielded delegations.
Well, at one point during the presentation they lifted up that house in the middle of the stadium and inside was this guy working at his desk.
I should really get to watching this (Got it DVR-ed), seems like it was awesome.
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SOLD!
I would have thought you swung the other way.
You thought I was straight?
Given the fact that you're male and you use a bunch of female animé characters as avatars, yes.
Obviously, I was wrong.