# 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremonies \[live commentary on British time\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 27, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600 "2012-07-27T20:04:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ctnguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@ctnguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ctnguy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/21 "2012-07-27T20:42:40Z")
> [@Lantern](#): > > The NHS? Seriously? What with Mitt Romney’s comments about the Olympics in the last few days, a paean to public health care almost comes off as a dig at him. (I realise of course that it isn’t, having certainly been planned months ago.) ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/22 "2012-07-27T20:43:30Z")
ZOMBIE NURSES! UNHOLY DARK MONSTERS TOWERING OVER YOU! MARY POPPINS PARACHUTE CORPS! HOLY shit, this is beyond fucked up! ---
**Author:** ![PrettyVacant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/49beb7/32.png) [@PrettyVacant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PrettyVacant)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/23 "2012-07-27T20:44:07Z")
This is a proper trip! ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/24 "2012-07-27T20:44:09Z")
I’m in California, so the NBC broadcast doesn’t start for another 6 hours or so, but after reading the comments here there’s no way I’m going to miss this (not that I was likely to miss it anyway…) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/25 "2012-07-27T20:45:24Z")
I chose the wrong day to quit sniffing glue. ---
**Author:** ![Lantern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lantern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/26 "2012-07-27T20:46:29Z")
Congratulations Danny Boyle ! You have created something that is going to be ridiculed for decades!! ---
**Author:** ![PrettyVacant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/49beb7/32.png) [@PrettyVacant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PrettyVacant)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/27 "2012-07-27T20:47:41Z")
Basically: fuck the military precision of Beijing - this is kind of the Pink Floyd of Opening Ceremonies. Great tribute to the NHS. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/28 "2012-07-27T20:48:20Z")
Rowan Atkinson! Hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![MJinks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@MJinks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MJinks)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/29 "2012-07-27T20:48:29Z")
> [@Lantern](#): > > Congratulations Danny Boyle ! You have created something that is going to be ridiculed for decades!! Oh come on, this is nowhere near as bad as a lot had feared (or hoped…). ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/30 "2012-07-27T20:48:32Z")
Rowan atkinson playing synthesizer!!! For chariots of fire!! OK, he is worth watching, at least. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/31 "2012-07-27T20:48:44Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I’m in California, so the NBC broadcast doesn’t start for another 6 hours or so, but after reading the comments here there’s no way I’m going to miss this (not that I was likely to miss it anyway…) Yeah, this sounds promising! ---
**Author:** ![PrettyVacant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/49beb7/32.png) [@PrettyVacant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PrettyVacant)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/32 "2012-07-27T20:49:23Z")
> [@Lantern](#): > > Congratulations Danny Boyle ! You have created something that is going to be ridiculed for decades!! What are you talking about? I domn’t want to leave the room! ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/33 "2012-07-27T20:52:08Z")
I don’t want to leave the room either, because I cannot believe what I am seeing. I want to see if it can get more bizarre, weirder, stranger, more fucked-up. This is history in the making. Never before has such a glorious collection of WTF-ularity been put together for the whole world to see. I think I want another beer. Or twelve. In other news, whatever Danny Boyle was smoking when he was designing the opening ceremony, I WANT SOME. ---
**Author:** ![Lantern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lantern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/34 "2012-07-27T20:57:02Z")
I am not leaving the room either. I haven’t laughed so hard in a while… And someone is going to have to explain the latest one to me. Is this based on some kind of TV show ? ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/35 "2012-07-27T20:58:34Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Rowan Atkinson! Hilarious! I 'spose if you’re a Brit, Rowan Atkinson is funny…But there are a couple billion people watching this right now, who’ve never heard of the guy. They turned on the TV expecting to see, well, …not this !! (and as I type this, they’re playing a Beatles classic (“She loves you”)–which is fine…So why the f… did the camera cut to a video of a falcon (hawk?) ? Huh??? ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/36 "2012-07-27T20:59:02Z")
So which phone manufacturer managed to get their product in two parts of the show in a row? Mr Bean, then the teenage swarm. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/37 "2012-07-27T20:59:03Z")
> [@JoseB](#): > > I want to see if it can get more bizarre, weirder, stranger… You say that as if it’s a _bad_ thing! I’m finding it quite entertaining. The Queen jumping out of the helicopter and Rowan Atkinson playing the synth especially had me rolling. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/38 "2012-07-27T21:00:17Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > I 'spose if you’re a Brit, Rowan Atkinson is funny…But there are a couple billion people watching this right now, who’ve never heard of the guy. Lots of _Blackadder_ fans right here on the Dope. And a lot of people like _Mr. Bean_. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/39 "2012-07-27T21:01:31Z")
Would spoilers, or at least warnings, be too much to ask for? I can’t see it for a few hours yet. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-olympics-opening-ceremonies-live-commentary-on-british-time/629600/40 "2012-07-27T21:01:36Z")
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