Paris Olympics 2024

[Jokester]

You have all fell asleep lets be honest

It is pretty dire.

 

[Mr Jack]

This is all very lovely but what do a botanist, a lawyer or whatever have to do with the Olympics?

What am I missing?

No more than Isambard Kingdom Brunel or Tim Berners-Lee did. These opening ceremonies are always partly about the history of the nation they're in.

 

[Buckster]

It's definitely different but I think I prefer when each of the teams come into the stadium

 

[hyperseven]

Did they order this opening ceremony from Temu?

 

[mithrandir]

I'm presuming this guy is in costume because they've been swapping runners. No-one has been running rooftops over this kind of distance, right?

Yup this or it's been pre filmed and added as a show reel.

 

[Jokester]

It's descended into just a mass french mime act now. Has the rain blown the sound?

 

[adidan]

No more than Isambard Kingdom Brunel or Tim Berners-Lee did. These opening ceremonies are always partly about the history of the nation they're in.

I did have a horror thought that didn't we have Mr Blobby at ours?

 

[Mr Jack]

Yup this or it's been pre filmed and added as a show reel.

You've been able to see someone in the background of some of the live shots. Obviously, the stuff on a obviously sunny day isn't live

 

[mithrandir]

You'd wonder how many of the athletes will catch a cold out in the rain and wind and not on their best form in the coming days.

 

[Mr Jack]

I did have a horror thought that didn't we have Mr Blobby at ours?

I like to imagine I dreamt that too.

 

[Mr Jack]

You'd wonder how many of the athletes will catch a cold out in the rain and wind and not on their best form in the coming days.

This isn't a thing. Colds are viruses, you don't get a cold from being wet.

 

[mithrandir]

You've been able to see someone in the background of some of the live shots. Obviously, the stuff on a obviously sunny day isn't live

Ah I see. I've been watching bits and switching so far been boring

 

[Feek]

When is the actual ceremony starting? I mean, this is all the athletes and some cut scenes.

I’m quite sure the 2012 opening ceremony was incomprehensible to anyone outside the UK but this is just dire.

 

[mithrandir]

This isn't a thing. Colds are viruses, you don't get a cold from being wet.

Getting ill then

Still it will affect some due to low immunity or decreasing their immunity which then leads to them catching a virus.

 

[adidan]

This isn't a thing. Colds are viruses, you don't get a cold from being wet.

Quite, I imagine if any colds are caught it will be from the Olympic village.

Not just colds either.

 

[Psycho Ned]

Well they've tried something different......

Just feels like a Royal parade as part of the Jubilee celebrations.

If I was the home nation team I'd want to come in last to a cauldron of a stadium cheering for you (with Heroes playing like we did ), not trundling down a river with a few fans cheering on the sidelines like it's the boat race.

 

[ci_newman]

I did have a horror thought that didn't we have Mr Blobby at ours?

Wasn't his name Boris?

 

[adidan]

Is Eric Cantona going to do some poetry or give us a song?

 

[adidan]

Wasn't his name Boris?

I would like to block both from my memory

 

[Buckster]

The weather must be so frustrating for them - it's a beautiful evening here in the SE UK