"Jonbhoy"
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news:hNCdnT0w7p-mpADVnZ2dnUVZ8rOdnZ2d@giganews.com...>> "Jonbhoy"
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>> news:C4GdnccvLf8nEQHVnZ2dnUVZ8gydnZ2d@giganews.com...>>> Have to say apart from the usual way to long team entries into the
>>> stadium that opening ceremony was pretty amazing . The stadium looks
>>> superb too .
>>
>> I could see those wires...;) Seriously looked amazing. Ang Lee, Crouching
>> Tiger, Hidden Dragon, was involved at some point but I'm not sure if he
>> dropped out over Sudan.
>
> Ok ill give you that,the wires were a bit of a give away! lol . But even
> the way the old guy went up and ran around the top looked pretty
> amazing.Never saw the crouching tiger film so dont know who the guy was.
>> Also, I'm not surprised that during the opening ceremony they
>> concentrated on Confucius rather than the Cultural Revolution when
>> telling the China Narrative. They communists were a bad lot.
>
> Yeah they mentioned on BBC that they would probably skip the revolution
> bit....which they did.
Not sure how the Chinese view Mao as a consequence of him being ignored in
the opening ceremony. Wonder if he is still perceived as a great national
leader.
>>> Must be one of the greatest ever opening ceremonies and makes me wonder
>>> how poor Londons is going to look in comparison (Ok its a bit
>>> pessimistic but just get the feeling it will be the usual London thing
>>> of the seats still being put in during the opening event while a local
>>> chav lights the flame with a butt end!).
>>
>> Gwad it's gonna be awful by comparison. It's be a wee East End knees up,
>> they'll probably hire cockney sparrows Chaz and Dave to sing "Roll Out
>> The Barrel"...or some pearly king and queen....
>
> Its fairly ironic because Beijing got the olympics but their ceremony was
> all about China as a whole , yet a number of times as the atheletes
> entered you could see and hear scotland the brave and a pipe band from
> aberdeen! Yet i bet the London one will be purely about London and dont
> doubt it will all be jellied eels and cor blimeys!
Wonder how the openning cermony will playout the history of our Isles or
will in only concentrate on the history of London? Maybe the Celts will get
a mention about being some of the first cockneys and the first to eat
jellied eels.. ;).
>>> On a political note though i did find it a bit strange how they are
>>> talking about olympic unity etc when the Russian team walked in and VP
>>> stood up as russian tanks moved into Georgia .
>>
>> I don't know my South Ossetia from my elbow when it comes to Caucasas
>> politics...but politics closer to home that I've been thinking about
>> is...are Northern Ireland in Team GB or Ireland?
>
> I heard somewhere a couple of weeks ago about the troop build up in that
> area but wasnt sure as to what was happening.But when i heard that Georgia
> were usually backed by Bush i just thought with the tension over the
> deployment of the military stuff the USA want to install in eastern europe
> that this could blow up into another cold war (of which it seems Bush has
> been trying hard to build back up again!).But as a reporter said,Bush just
> doesnt have the means right now to deploy american troops there . Its
> going to be one to watch!
Didn't really notice anything recently in the press about Georgia but I
think Georgia was endeavouring to join NATO and this must have had some
implications for Russian-Georgian relations. Not sure what initially ignited
this conflagration, but Putin's claims of genocide would appear to be wide
of the mark. Also interestingly a BBC story was claiming that Putin would
appear to still be in charge of Russia. In contrast, Bush's days are
numbered. And the US is not in a financial state to enter into another Cold
War.
