Brilliant! Pre-emptively disputing moderation.
Oh, don’t worry, our esteemed Pit mod Miller is quite lenient, he allows everybody to make a fool of themself. His catch phrase is “No warning issued”.
Miller is the Pit’s whipping horse!
Then shut up.
Whipped horse is good when spread on a thinly-sliced baguette, I’ve been told.
Production number of a tribute to the NHS. Chariots of Fire performed by Mr. Bean. Hey fuckin’ Jude.
(Queen E2 would have had to be there anyway to open the Games but she was a good sport with taking part in the James Bond skit.)
Quite so, and I sort of caught on to what was up early in the sequence and watched along to see where they would take it.
And in general, to put it bluntly, I am a bit weary of the expectation of living in a child-proofed media world. As someone else said, people shaken by a genderfluid bacchanale or by an implied threesome… but no prob with poor Marie A. losing her head?
And really by their standards, this was all perfectly cool beans.
Yeah, I noticed that within seconds. Then again I was seeing what was in front of me in the screen, not what I wanted to see, as a lot of the complainers were.
But really, everyone needs to just ride this one out being comforted by the knowledge that in four years the Summer Games will be in Los Angeles, USA, and you can bet your bottom dollar everything about the ceremony will be 100% middle-class-family-safe and corporate-market-friendly. Y’all are going to be wishing for something “controversial” to distract from people yelling as to how come this being in America they say the names in more than one language.
Yes, I did read that. Well, it’s all different now. Now I see why they thought she was Jesus. The turntable should have been a dead giveaway. 
Cartoonish adults flirting, and then retreating to privacy, strikes me as PG at most, and honestly, probably G rated. My kids saw at least that much in real life when they were young, because i brought them to social events that included college kids and recent grads who were pairing off. I mean, maybe you didn’t ever find yourself at a picnic with your little kids where the young adults were talking about how to come out to their parents as polyamorous, but i did. 
Next up, the Buddhists?
You know, I’m to the build a bridge and get the hell over it point. Just because they believe in mythology doesn’t mean we all have to tip toe around their beliefs. If their god(s) are so great why be so easily triggered by something that wasn’t even what they decided it was.
One more time with feeling: It wasn’t a depiction or mockery of the Last Supper, and if it was I think Jesus wouldn’t give a shit so why do they?
Same here! Even if it was a parody of “The Last Supper,” those are the type of people Jesus would have sought out, to break bread with.
Now, the Dutch beach volleyball player who is a convicted child molester? THAT’S something to get your panties in a wad about - that he’s out free and on the world stage, more or less.
Ugh! I hadn’t heard about that. They get all in a twit about a mockery of something that wasn’t, yet don’t send out big showy statements about a convicted child molester? These people suck. I think this guy didn’t want the christians to get all the attention.
We talked about it over here:
And yeah, it’s pretty fucked up.
I think when you’re expected to apologise for something that literally never happened, the temptation to be sarcastic is quite strong and that came through a bit here. Like ‘We’re sorry to learn that you are idiots’
This is a question I see a lot, and I think it seldom has a satisfying answer; why did someone who is not me, do a thing in a way that I wouldn’t? Often there is a tacit underlying assumption that there is an obvious or singular better or right thing to do, but the real world isn’t like that; people think about the things they want to do, and come to different decisions from each other on their final choices.
They’re fuckwits. That’s the reason. No really. They got offended over something they simply failed to properly comprehend, and didn’t make any effort to comprehend, but assumed they did comprehend. You don’t have to like everything you see, but it’s really stupid to hate it for some completely mistaken reason.
TV Tropes calls that a Social Semi-Circle.
Sometimes you get the apology you deserve.
But a lot of the people who were offended didn’t see it. They were told by others what it was and that it was offensive. Offense has a capacity to go viral.
i also think that people who believe fantasies and base their lives around it tend to be very sensitive, knowing (deep down) that their whole belief system is based on a fraud. The fragility of the whole thing makes them hyper-vigilant.
There’s more than a little inferiority complex as well. They’re all worried that somebody, anybody anywhere in the whole wide world looks down on them in any way. A very common reaction to even potential ridicule is to go on the offensive.