Olympic Opening Ceremony

Amp34 said:
Ahhhh... The peace symbol that represents the 60's even for someone in their 20's. I agree totally. It was an obvious representation of the 60's.
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It is an overt political statement....it is not a simply a peace symbol even if people think it is, it is the logo of a very specific political campaign which is still campaigning today or The 3rd Panzer Division which was responsible for the deaths of so many Polish and Hungarian and Russian people in the 1940s (not to mention it's use by the Saracens as an anti-Christian symbol). It is totally political and as such something that has no place in a supposedly apolitical Olympics, particularly given that the CND organisation is still campaigning and was and is an integral part of the ongoing TUC political campaign against cuts to public services. No Politics in the Olympics.

There are far better ways to symbolise the 1960s (The CND is more associated with the 1980s resurgence anyway) and peace symbolism than the CND logo. No doubt, like much of the ceremony, it fits into the political bias of the director which is why it was chosen.

http://www.teachpeace.com/peacesymbolhistory.htm
 
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I thought the flying pig was a reference to the low expectations that most other countries had that the UK would have won the Games.
 
Amp34 said:
Ahhhh... The peace symbol that represents the 60's even for someone in their 20's. I agree totally. It was an obvious representation of the 60's.
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"The internationally recognized symbol for peace (☮) was originally designed for the British nuclear disarmament movement by Gerald Holtom in 1958." from wikipedia.

Personally, the only thing that bothers me about the symbol is it reminds me of hippies. And I hate hippies.
 
I watched it & thought it was all a waste of money. Lights on a few intros then wheel the athletes in job done & costs about a grand.
All that rubbish last night with all those wasted human hours hanging about in a stadium, Just all the waste bothers me when we are s'posed to be skint & they are closing hospitals & taking coppers off the streets.
Just my opinion & those Police & Soldiers they will be sacking give me the right to have that opinion & voice it.

I am up for watching the athletes from all over the World compete but all the waste is not needed for me or anybody else to enjoy the competition.
 
4T5 said:
I watched it & thought it was all a waste of money. Lights on a few intros then wheel the athletes in job done & costs about a grand.
All that rubbish last night with all those wasted human hours hanging about in a stadium, Just all the waste bothers me when we are s'posed to be skint & they are closing hospitals & taking coppers off the streets.
Just my opinion & those Police & Soldiers they will be sacking give me the right to have that opinion & voice it.

I am up for watching the athletes from all over the World compete but all the waste is not needed for me or anybody else to enjoy the competition.
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In the grand scheme of the cost of the games though, that ceremony was a relatively minor cost wasn't it?
 
Moses said:
I took it as being a symbol from the age, rather than being a political statement in the now. The idea that it's strictly a CND symbol is false,



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_symbols#The_peace_sign
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It was also an anti Christian symbol, the symbol of Hitler's 3rd Panzer Brigade and in modern parlance it is associated entirely with the campaign for nuclear disarmament and therefore the anti-war movement.......a political campaign.

I am not arguing whether it is a worthy campaign or not, only that Political Campaigns and associated Symbolism should have any place in the Olympics, particularly with the other associations that this particular symbols has to other nations outside of the Western World.

http://www.teachpeace.com/peacesymbolhistory.htm
 
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4T5 said:
I watched it & thought it was all a waste of money. Lights on a few intros then wheel the athletes in job done & costs about a grand.
All that rubbish last night with all those wasted human hours hanging about in a stadium, Just all the waste bothers me when we are s'posed to be skint & they are closing hospitals & taking coppers off the streets.
Just my opinion & those Police & Soldiers they will be sacking give me the right to have that opinion & voice it.

I am up for watching the athletes from all over the World compete but all the waste is not needed for me or anybody else to enjoy the competition.
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Oh please, perhaps think a little further into the future than 5 seconds.

What about all the business deals that will happen over the nex two weeks / years to come, how about all the additional tourism this is going to generate now and in the future?????
 
Castiel said:
It was also an anti Christian symbol, the symbol of Hitler's 3rd Panzer Brigade and in modern parlance it is associated entirely with the campaign for nuclear disarmament and therefore the anti-war movement.......a political campaign.

I am not arguing whether it is a worthy campaign or not, only that Political Campaigns and associated Symbolism should have any place in the Olympics, particularly with the other associations that this particular symbols has to other nations outside of the Western World.

http://www.teachpeace.com/peacesymbolhistory.htm
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I think you'll find the majority of people do not associate it as such, and so any theoretical use of the symbol for political purposes would be mostly void.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Oh please, perhaps think a little further into the future than 5 seconds.

What about all the business deals that will happen over the nex two weeks / years to come, how about all the additional tourism this is going to generate now and in the future?????
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No former Olympics has turned any significant profit or long term financial benefits.......why would the London one be any different?
 
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