Olympics Opening Ceremony

[Maydup]

Is anyone watching the "ceremony" on TV? 

[naomi24]

I've turned it off.  Dire.

[Maydup]

I've stayed with it only in the hope that things might improve after dark. So far it's been the worse ever. 
Speeches now. Zzzzzz....

[pastafreak]

I saw 2 minutes...does that count?

[jourdain2]

We saw a bit of it until about 7.30 when the Test match took over.  Rather boring, boats tripping down the Seine. 

We reckoned it could only get worse.  Then we witnessed England's batting collapse!!!!!!

[jourdain2]

^^^^It's French.  They get long-winded and overdo things. Some performances I've been to ---- you wouldn't believe, honestly.

[mushroom25]

perhaps the best moment was provided by the BBC commentator who said about the torch bearer: "parcours - that's French for jumping around a bit" 😂

[Maydup]

🤣🤣🤣

[gingejbee]

Four hours for an opening ceremony...quite inSeine!

[Cloverjo]

I love the Olympics, but the opening ceremonies are always a bit tedious. I watched a couple of boats go down the river and didn't bother with any more. 
 

Looking forward to the actual sport. 

[dave50]

Absolute garbage. Women with beards? Full of benders. Disgusting. 

[Khandro]

Terrible fiasco ! Lots of queers flapping around, pretending to be happy. Those in pink were ... omg! & what about him (?) in a skirt dancing faux ballet next to flagpole in the sky ? 

A black woman on the roof top singing the La Marseillaise badly and repetitively, very few white people and lots of gold statues (not bad really though) of obscure historic French women.

All in all, a disaster !

So before anyone else says it,  I'm  a racist, sexist, and a Francophobe.

Pity about the rain, it must have been an act of God. 🙂   

[choux]

I am ambivalent about these opening ceremonies.

They all look la Seine to me...

[Paul22118]

Loved the ending with Celine Dion, the rest was well intentioned but so tedious.

[Mozz71]

As soon as I saw the drag queens and the catwalk I knew it was going to rattle a whole lot of cages on AB.

[Mozz71]

Khandro: //So before anyone else says it,  I'm a racist, sexist, and a Francophobe.//

There's a much shorter word for that mate, but it probably wouldn't get past the AB censors.

[Maydup]

That's an evening I will never get back. I'm feeling sorry for the spectators who probably paid an fortune to sit for 4 hours in the rain and saw very little.

I'm looking forward to the games though and willing it to be a safe Olympics for everyone involved.

 

[douglas9401]

Not enough black cabs or 'ot pots.

[Togo]

Tried to watch it but found it somehow sinister, satanic even, what with the rain passing judgement and the weird masked figure sliding into view every so often. I though perhaps he/she/it was going to set fire to a pile of car tyres, organise a street blockade with overturned police cars, rip up the pavements and throw the lumps at the massed ranks with riot shields and smash all the shop windows in a show of typical French "culture"   ...   alas no such fun was provided. And still the heavens cry for the shame of it all.   

[Khandro]

Do the French not know that the Mona Lisa is actually Italian? and from the Delacroix, Raft , which is French, they removed the victims. Not to mention (among a hundred other embarrassments) those swivel-eyed portraits, and all the general wokery. 

 

Well if that's France, it's not my France and there are weeks to go. I await in trepidation. 

[Khandro]

'The scattergun array of the offering was bewildering. For some reason we were served forgotten noughties American pop star Lady Gaga – shocking if you’re 14 in 2008, but that makes you 30 now. There was a headless Marie Antoinette, a piano inexplicably set alight, and – inevitably – a bevy of slaying and sashaying drag queens and ‘non-binaries’, performing a sassy vogue parody of The Last Supper. This is the kind of phoney rebellion that was already embarrassing on stage at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern in 1994, but at least was confined safely to bad gay pubs.'  

Gareth Roberts: The Spectator