Comments on: 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony

2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony

pharm — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:15:18 -0800

I just wanted to say to all US mefites: the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony is a must watch. Danny Boyle has done us proud.

I gather it's on in the evening US time? No spoilers then, but it's completely bonkers. In a good way. You should all watch it :)

By: laconic skeuomorph

laconic skeuomorph — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:17:04 -0800

Yeah, no thanks to NBC, it's not on in the USA right now. Joke on twitter is the 2 countries not showing live is USA and North Korea.

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:17:58 -0800

6:30pm CST on NBC, y'all.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:18:16 -0800

When will it be available in the greatest country in the world?

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:18:19 -0800

GIANT VOLDEMORT

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:18:25 -0800

I CHOOSE YOU

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:19:54 -0800

When will it be available in the greatest country in the world?

I dunno, it's really hard to find information like that about North Korea.

By: pharm

pharm — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:22:49 -0800

The whole thing is a £27million love song to the UK. You should all watch in order to truly discover how awesome we are. Or weird. Possibly both.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:24:33 -0800

It should be a 60-foot tall Voldemort battling a 60-foot tall chip butty then.

By: kmz

kmz — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:25:49 -0800

There better be some Morris dancing involved.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:26:39 -0800

Huh? I thought Danny Boyle was British.

By: zarq

zarq — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:27:00 -0800

laconic skeuomorph: "Yeah, no thanks to NBC, it's not on in the USA right now. Joke on twitter is the 2 countries not showing live is USA and North Korea."

Normally this is the sort of thing that I find infuriating, but I'm going to keep my kids up late so they can watch it with my wife and I this evening. Wouldn't have been able to do that if it had aired this afternoon, so you know... I'm actually kinda happy about the delay.

By: Jehan

Jehan — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:30:45 -0800

Huh? I thought Danny Boyle was British.

Yeah, he's English, so's Pharm. Pharm was just making it clear to US folk that the opening ceremony comes with a seal of approval.

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:32:12 -0800

Yeah, I'm with Zarq on this one. The tape delay of sporting events is crap -- though pretty easy to get around with online coverage. But I'm actually looking forward to sitting down and watching the NBC coverage of the opening ceremony, Bob Costas and all.

(Also, simulcasting from my laptop with downloaded BBC coverage as well, which was really fun to do 4 years ago as a compare/contrast)

By: zarq

zarq — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:33:40 -0800

elizardbits: "It should be a 60-foot tall Voldemort battling a 60-foot tall chip butty then."

I am eagerly awaiting the Rowling / Davies Olympic crossover matchup Voldemort vs. The Doctor.

It's a wand, Pond. Wands are cool.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:34:42 -0800

YOU'RE A TIMELORD, HARRY!

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:34:43 -0800

I thought dobbs was, as you might say, taking the piss out of people -- making the assumption that 'us' always meant U.S. -- but I realized re-reading pharm's phrasing that might not be the case.

("pharm's phrasing" is a phery phun phrase)

By: notyou

notyou — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:36:00 -0800

Don't tell me what to do.

I was gonna skip it because I always skip it. But now I'm gonna skip it just to spite you.

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:36:04 -0800

This really isn't metafilter related in any significant sense, and we have at least one olympics thread open on the blue. I'm going to close this.