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Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Olympic Countryside Opening ceremony
« on: June 12, 2012, 10:39:34 am »
Just found this on BBC news website
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18392025
 
 
Wot no pigs???  >:(   What do you think!? £27million quid well spent?
 
Mandy  :pig:
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Victorian Farmer

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Re: Olympic Countryside Opening ceremony
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2012, 11:46:06 am »
very good we saw the torch last night
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
    • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Olympic Countryside Opening ceremony
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2012, 06:08:47 pm »
Quote from: Fowgill Farm on June 12, 2012, 10:39:34 am
Just found this on BBC news website
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18392025
 
 
Wot no pigs???  >:(   What do you think!? £27million quid well spent?
 
Mandy  :pig:

Numbers like 27 million just go right over my head as it's something I am never going to hold in my hands, nor would I want to.   I had no idea the opening ceremony was going to be about the countryside - you have to admit that will be totally different to all the glitz and bangs of previous opening ceremonies, with which we could never compete.  I won't commit myself to an opinion until I have seen the opening ceremony, but I am now quite looking forward to it  8)
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deepinthewoods

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Re: Olympic Countryside Opening ceremony
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2012, 06:49:08 pm »
glitz and bang? sod that, their gonna seed a cloud!! ;)
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suziequeue

  • Joined Feb 2010
    • Llanidloes; Powys
Re: Olympic Countryside Opening ceremony
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2012, 06:53:15 pm »
you have to admit that will be totally different to all the glitz and bangs of previous opening ceremonies, with which we could never compete.
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
    • South Lanarkshire
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Re: Olympic Countryside Opening ceremony
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2012, 07:06:08 pm »
 I just heard Danny Boyle (artistic director of the opening ceremony) being interviewed on PM about it and that is his angle too:
 

I've dicovered over my life that I've never had an original thought - someone always gets there first  ;D ::) :dunce:
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There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

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MikeM

  • Joined Jul 2011
    • NW Devon
Re: Olympic Countryside Opening ceremony
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2012, 07:07:58 pm »
as an idea I quite like it, it'll certainly be a unique opening ceremony. How good it will actually be I don't know, it's certainly ambitious.
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jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
    • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Olympic Countryside Opening ceremony
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2012, 07:35:52 pm »
I'm quite pleased that 'we' Brits see ourselves as so pastoral still  :thumbsup:
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Ina

  • Joined Feb 2012
    • South Aberdeenshire
Re: Olympic Countryside Opening ceremony
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2012, 08:09:33 pm »
Quote from: jaykay on June 12, 2012, 07:35:52 pm
I'm quite pleased that 'we' Brits see ourselves as so pastoral still  :thumbsup:

Except that I fear that a lot of viewers won't make the connection between the livestock they see on screen and the pies on their plate... ::)
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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
    • Cornwall
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Re: Olympic Countryside Opening ceremony
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2012, 08:19:40 pm »
Quote from: Fleecewife on June 12, 2012, 07:06:08 pm
I just heard Danny Boyle (artistic director of the opening ceremony) being interviewed on PM about it and that is his angle too:
 

I've dicovered over my life that I've never had an original thought - someone always gets there first  ;D ::) :dunce:

Ahhh - but are you gaining on them?   ;) :D
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
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Re: Olympic Countryside Opening ceremony
« Reply #10 on: June 13, 2012, 12:17:43 am »
Not any more  :( ;D    and the folk I'm trying to catch are no longer so bright  :eyelashes: :D :D   Soon I'll be struggling to out-think the dog  :dog: :&>
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HelenVF

  • Joined Apr 2012
Re: Olympic Countryside Opening ceremony
« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2012, 11:33:13 am »
I have to say, I'm not impressed with it.  The whole setup looks like it's from the 50s. Surely Great Britain is more than that. As for the humour that Danny Boyle has talked about, no one else in the world get our humour anyway!

Helen
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doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
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Re: Olympic Countryside Opening ceremony
« Reply #12 on: June 13, 2012, 12:05:35 pm »
Will they need /remember to get a CPH and movement licences? ;)
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robert waddell

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Re: Olympic Countryside Opening ceremony
« Reply #13 on: June 13, 2012, 01:31:48 pm »
if there is livestock there even artificial ones they will need everything in place  ;) :farmer:
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chrismahon

  • Joined Dec 2011
    • Gascony, France
Re: Olympic Countryside Opening ceremony
« Reply #14 on: June 14, 2012, 08:50:46 pm »
I think it represents the image the rest of the world has of us so quite appropriate really. Quaint England. Of course us residents know differently, but best keep it a secret or we'll scare the visitors away! Met quite a few people on holidays who have been to England once and vowed never again -not at all what they were expecting. Probably needs Shakespear's house in the middle and a few castles and black and white houses round the outside to complete the picture.
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