Was that the lamest Opening Ceremony EVER?

[Queequeg]

Why Danny Boyle? The Chinese bring out Zhang Yimou and Spielberg, and the Brits bring ojt the guy who did The Beach.

[Martinus]

Why Danny Boyle? The Chinese bring out Zhang Yimou and Spielberg, and the Brits bring ojt the guy who did The Beach.

You are a retard.

[Syt]

Syria got no cheer from what I heard.

How'd the Saudi team--the only one prohibiting females from competition--go over?

They have women athletes there this time.

[Sheilbh]

Syria got no cheer from what I heard.

How'd the Saudi team--the only one prohibiting females from competition--go over?

They have women athletes there this time.

Yeah, the Saudis got a big cheer. It was for the women.

[Admiral Yi]

Isn't that a conceit, it assumes the act of slightly dipping a flag is implicitly disrespectful to the said flag.

It's the same conceit that the Royal Navy used to force on foreign ships sailing through the Channel.  It's the same conceit the first British ambassador to China refused to honor.

Like I said earlier, the US has not been dipping the flag during the parade since the early 20th century, and most people around the world seem to have accepted it as a quirky anomoly.  The fact that you and Neil are getting worked up about it probably says more about you than the act.

[Brazen]

From The Sunday Times:

The Americans have got off to a rather mean-spirited start at these Olympics. After Mitt Romney's doubts over whether Britain was ready for the Games, NBC edited out the "memorial wall" section of the ceremony and also censored Anna Friels' lesbian kiss from Brookside. Saudi Arabia was far more liberal and left the broadcast untouched.

China, through its state news agency Xinhua, damned with faint praise saying the whole world "appreciates a sumptuous banquet of British culture". But it also reported that two of its journalists believed the London Games were "the most mean and stingy Olympics in history".

[garbon]

Saudi Arabia was far more liberal and left the broadcast untouched.

OK?

[The Brain]

In Saudi Arabia only untouched broadcasts are permitted.

[Ed Anger]

Man, NBC's soccer people are boring. :

[Neil]

But it also reported that two of its journalists believed the London Games were "the most mean and stingy Olympics in history".

They must have been talking about the 1948 Olympics.  Either that or Chinese people are stupid, journalists are stupid and chink journalists are doubly so.

[CountDeMoney]

Saudi Arabia was far more liberal and left the broadcast untouched.

OK?

How else are you going to show how morally bankrupt and godless the infidels are?

[CountDeMoney]

Syria got no cheer from what I heard.

How'd the Saudi team--the only one prohibiting females from competition--go over?

They have women athletes there this time.

Yeah, the Saudis got a big cheer. It was for the women.

Surprising.  Good for the Saudis, finally joining the 11th century.

[garbon]

Saudi Arabia was far more liberal and left the broadcast untouched.

OK?

How else are you going to show how morally bankrupt and godless the infidels are?

I don't understand what point the article was trying to make.  OMG, USA is worse than ISLAM?!

[Admiral Yi]

It's a valid point.  NBC thought the American audience would get freaked out by lebiang mouth sex.  The towelheads let it go.

Though I do wonder if the folks at Saudi TV were oblivious, sort of like Queen Victoria.

[Queequeg]

Why Danny Boyle? The Chinese bring out Zhang Yimou and Spielberg, and the Brits bring ojt the guy who did The Beach.

You are a retard.

You're a bigger idiot than I thought if you think Raise the Red Lantern and 28 Days Later are in the same zip code.
Besides that, Zhang's eye is up there with Malick or Lean. Boyle is fanous for his visual incpherence.