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Is anyone going to watch the Olympic opening ceremony live?

Old Jul 28th 2012, 12:07 am
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I just caught the end which is usually the more boring bit but I thought even that was well done (my wife said she enjoyed the main ceremony). I think they just made it fun and atmospheric to be there which came through the telly really well. Jolly good show Britain
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Old Jul 28th 2012, 12:08 am
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Originally Posted by Alfresco
Sir Paul can still rock!
Not looking to bad indeed......
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Originally Posted by commonwealth
the best cauldron flaming ever!
Definitely. That was quite beautiful. I loved how they had future (hopefully) Olympians light it too.
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Originally Posted by Dreamy
Definitely. That was quite beautiful. I loved how they had future (hopefully) Olympians light it too.
It was great and I really liked the symbolism of each country bringing their piece of the cauldron and it coming together just for the games and then each country bringing their piece back home to all ends of the earth.

I reckon you Brits all owe that Danny Boyle a pint

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I really did want to see the opening ceremony but managed to miss the entire thing.

Does anyone please know of a definate repeat time and channel in Australia? (Pay or commercial tv?)
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Old Jul 28th 2012, 12:24 am
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Originally Posted by brissybee
I really did want to see the opening ceremony but managed to miss the entire thing.

Does anyone please know of a definate repeat time and channel in Australia? (Pay or commercial tv?)
Channel Nine has it listed at 12:30pm WA time. I might be able to catch the parts I missed when I slept in.
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Originally Posted by commonwealth
the best cauldron flaming ever!
Better than our last foray and the famous cauldron malfunction...or is that cauldron dysfunction

My daughter got a kick out of the glow in the dark doves on bikes.
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Old Jul 28th 2012, 12:37 am
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Amazing what a bit of hair restoration surgery and botox can do to a 70 year old. He's going to end up looking like the walking embalmed you see in Southern California if he's not careful.
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Originally Posted by Japonica
Channel Nine has it listed at 12:30pm WA time. I might be able to catch the parts I missed when I slept in.
We recorded 5 hours of Foxtel crap, but obviously the wrong channel! Fingers crossed we can see it 12.30
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When the Parade of Nations started, there was a music played..I think it is the song Galvanize by Chemical Brothers.. There is a melody I recognize in their song. Actually, this group "sampled" the original song( kedba bayna) of the Moroccan Singer Najat Aatabou in their song Galvanize..There were some talks that they did not pay her when they did it...

The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu3FTEmN-eg

The original song(kedba bayna) of the Moroccan Singer Najat Aatabou:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSDFVcqrOMs

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Old Jul 28th 2012, 1:06 am
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Originally Posted by Family of 3
We recorded 5 hours of Foxtel crap, but obviously the wrong channel! Fingers crossed we can see it 12.30
Yeah, we have Foxtel anyway (and they're giving us those extra channels free as part of our regular package) but I didn't see the Opening Ceremony on any of them. Weird. Have Foxtel but have to watch regular TV for the big show.
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Originally Posted by Family of 3
We recorded 5 hours of Foxtel crap, but obviously the wrong channel! Fingers crossed we can see it 12.30
It's on in 3D at the moment - its a different 'cut' of the ceremony, since only some of the cameras were 3D.
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someone said yesterday its repeated on 9 at 2 pm.

Missed a lot of it after C in the olympic parade.

Pretty impressive what I saw, loved the way the set changes were part of the show, and the Corgis for some reason, they looked so normal And the industrial revolution - wow
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Shows how much I've been paying attention… But I only just noticed this is the XXX games. Wonder how that will get the imaginations of the pornographers going… Maybe with all the news about olympic village orgies lately someone will produce a series called athletes gone wild… Maybe I should copywrite that title now before anyone else does.

I wonder if they're going to have olympic commemorative condoms… A box set with five condoms in the olympic colours

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Old Jul 28th 2012, 5:32 am
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I have the body of an Olympian ...

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