2012 Olympics
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- mikotondria30
I actually enjoyed the end, my snarky sense left me and it was great to see Annie Lennox, and Eric Idle and even fucking Russell Brand looking totally in the moment and everyone really enjoying themselves, it was a great show. It's big and clever to hate on everything and I'm as big and clever as anyone, but sometimes it's worthwhile to just be able to put that aside and sit with your kid and explain who these people are and what their cultural significance is. Spice Girls, really ? Ah but they looked good for people who were at their zenith 15 years ago, it was an almost impossibly lavish and complex thing to pull off and they managed it. No one was a massive prick and tried to blow up anyone else, all the athletes' camaraderie with other teams was excellent and a perfect example of what an anachronism nation states are; in sport, technology, culture, music, science, etc, the nation state is a pointless layer of awkwardness and abstraction to be negotiated around. Only in politics do people act as if the national barriers that cut through humanity have any reality. Any other discipline or field of endevour ignores them, save for the added impetus it gives to competitive games - even then it's just a flag - they are competing for the whole country against another country, they're competing to be the best, for their team, for everyone that's supported them. Countries are a stupid idea, get rid of them - let's just do sport and music and science and everything else we do, but with less paperwork. That's what I took away from the Olympics.
- *not ACTUALLY as clever as anyone, obviously. Clever for me, though. Sometimes.mikotondria3
- Excellent postPeter
- Imagine...Chimp
- Well said. I enjoyed it with my son also. They got rid of the typical theatrical bullshit and decided to jam the entire night. Well Done.OSFA
- utopian0
thank god it is finally over!
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- CanHasQBN0
I can't believe this Olympics is already over. That was quick. It feels like it JUST started. And it feels like I barely got to see anything. Thanks NBC?
- I got to see a lot due to NBC streaming every event online.CygnusZero4
- Along with the all day/night coverage across 4 channels. >_>CygnusZero4
- I tried to set up online, but it would not allow me to, even though I have Dish network and all the NBC channels on my TV.CanHasQBN
- randommail0
i haven't watched a single event yet.
Only youtube clips posted here of women.
- BusterBoy0
Why the hell did they have Kate Moss and a bunch of vacuous stick figure, coke sniffing coat hangers strutting around at the closing ceremony?
- space filler.zenmasterfoo
- They said it was to reflect the UKs fashion sense. Whatever, that was the reason.CygnusZero4
- It would take a million Kate Mosses to fill enough space. Skinny little mingerAmicus
- lowimpakt0
it's good to know that women can't be taken seriously as athletes because men are distracted from the women's hard work and talent by their own semi-limp dicks.
- why can't we appreciate both? Is that so bad?capn_ron
- who castrated you?sublocked
- gay chickens!sine
- you see it as semi-limp, others see it as semi-erect. you are such a pessimist!locustsloth
- lol.lowimpakt
- you ever watch sport with women? they are just as bad with male athletes.flashbender
- goldieboy0
Womens football:
USA Vs Canada semi-final: 2-2
Good game so far.
USA... USA... USA!
- Ambushstudio0
Guatemala won it´s first olympic medal ever, silver.
I had tears in my eyes....
Best olympic games ever!
- +1bogue
- guate... what?
What is that?VectorMasked - Ah, some Americans. Hopefully you were joking, but here's a map:
http://maps.google.c…ETM - ohh... guatepeor.VectorMasked
- Hahaha typical gringos! Well done to the chapines!numero1
- Thanks Numero!
Vector... don´t.Ambushstudio
- agraphiclife0
london and new york have the best logos (i think)
- lowimpakt0
this is cool. venezuelan gold medalist travelling on the Tube and getting cheered by the carriage..
- MrT0
Australia's Channel 9 hid New Zealand's superior medal count from their broadcasts. Poor losers, HA!
Best Olympics ever!
- Chip0
paris, then london.
Not london for the logo, but they integrated the brand in some of the images which is nice.
- CALLES0
someone find it
- OSFA0
- pang0
Now it's time for the media to shift it's attention from the Olympic hype back to the state of the economy and if the Olympics actually had a positive impact, short term, etc
- omg0
"the US isn't using the London 2012 Logo on their television broadcasts. Any insight?"