Opening ceremony seems to be going to be a bizarre misrepresentation of modern Britain: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18392025 Good idea or what? I suspect it's an attempt to say to the visitors from abroad that Britain is not really like this sh**hole (East London). Yet, if they were to get out and about to visit the the people of our country in their natural habitat in places like B'ham, Manchester, Leeds, Hull, Bradford, Glasgow, Newcastle, Bristol, Liverpool, Belfast, Cardiff, etc, etc they would soon see that it is like the immediate environs of the stadium! A joke.

Opening ceremony seems to be going to be a bizarre misrepresentation of modern Britain: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18392025 Good idea or what? I suspect it's an attempt to say to the visitors from abroad that Britain is not really like this sh**hole (East London). Yet, if they were to get out and about to visit the the people of our country in their natural habitat in places like B'ham, Manchester, Leeds, Hull, Bradford, Glasgow, Newcastle, Bristol, Liverpool, Belfast, Cardiff, etc, etc they would soon see that it is like the immediate environs of the stadium! A joke.

It looks like the place I live.

90% of Britain is undeveloped - you only have to fly over it to realise how green and pleasant it actually is.

You could say, does East London gang culture actually represent the majority of British life or is it really a tiny farction of what goes on and just used to scare middle class people to sell newspapers?

You really are a complete f*****g misery aren't you.

Has Danny Boyle actually read [iThe Tempest[/i?
Sounds like he's taken one line out of context and applied it to mean our green and pleasant land.

As the previous poster says, it is mostly green and pleasant, so I don't mind that representation of the country that much but it's not representative of where people live as 90% live in cities/towns.

But, then again, where is it written that opening ceremonies have to be representative?

It could have been worse.
It could have involved morris dancing.

Yes.

Jessica Ennis wrestling in jelly against the brazillian womens beach volley ball team

Boyle has been very clever, nobody was ever going to match what Beijing did, going for something more inclusive and "understated" is a good idea, I do wonder how much of the £28m the ceremony has cost is in Boyel's bank account though.

So it's just me that keeps thinking "Teletubbyland" when they see the model then?

The problem is whatever they do it's a colossal waste of money.

And whatever they do, there would always be people queuing up to bag it.

Given that we have the Olympics, and so must put on SOMETHING for the opening ceremony, the theme of "green and pleasant land" is to me as fitting as anything, since that's just what we live in. And even the roughest gangster from the worst parts of the inner city is within a short trip to the green and pleasant land if they were interested in visiting it - and it's free. Certainly for most visitors who see it, even from a plane, it is the lush green nature of the English landscape that makes the biggest overall impression.

No, that was the newspaper headline.

The big Olympic fantasy is spinning the fact that it's [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18421211four times over the initial budget as coming in half a billion under[/url.

Sounds good to me Hutchie.

Damn, thought it was an original thought.. Which paper was it?




And thank you for actually replying to something on a thread you've started.

Was it you who wrote a column in the daily mirror dally?

A columinst was whinging and saying how far away from "modern london" this "green and pleasant land" was. Not sure if he wanted a set with a block of offices and some posh tw@@ts racking up thousands of pounds on a wine bill, whilst working for a company recording huge losses on the stock market.

He kept going on about how this was such a misrepresentation of London. He never actually offered an alternative though. You only have to fly over England to realise this is a green and pleasant land that we live in (and I live next to the M1). As usual, people whinge, but there isn't any better suggestions. I look forward to what this great country can offer. I am sure it will not disappoint.

[url=http://www.frontpagestoday.co.uk/He's telling porkies again[/url

Why don't tey just have the massed bands of the Army playing for a bit, bring the Queen out for a bit, then light the cauldron. It's what people would actually want to see from an opening ceremony and it would be a hell of a lot cheaper.

Mail, I believe.

[url=http://www.frontpagestoday.co.uk/2012/06/13/archive.cfmNo it wasn't[/url

Cheers Coddy.

come one, the headline clearly reads "Online Porn turning Children into Sex Attackers" easily confused with "Tleleytubbyland"

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ening.html www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lo ... ils-878845

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ening.html www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lo ... ils-878845

Quote ="Dally"www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2158062/Hundreds-farm-animals-cricket-pitch-maypoles-fake-clouds-rain--vision-Britain-world-27m-Olympic-opening.html www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lo ... ils-878845'" online pictures are not headlines, try harder.

Quote ="Dally"www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2158062/Hundreds-farm-animals-cricket-pitch-maypoles-fake-clouds-rain--vision-Britain-world-27m-Olympic-opening.html www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lo ... ils-878845'" online pictures are not headlines, try harder.

See Mirror.

[url=http://www.frontpagestoday.co.uk/uk/daily-mirror/newspaper.cfm?frontpage=16971This one?[/url

The one from yesterday with not a mention of any tellytubbies site or even an Olympic dream anywhere close to the front page?

That Mirror?

I did not refer to the front page but a "headline" - conventionally taken as the caption at the top of a newspaper article (rather than just the front page).

Cheers Dally...