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Imagine: 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
« on: July 17, 2020, 04:47:58 PM »
Just watched this on BBC2. Missed it when it was first  shown. Excellent - will pop link up when it is on iPlayer. The opening ceremony itself being shown later and it has made me want to watch it again.


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Re: Imagine: 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2020, 10:18:36 PM »
Pardon me for a bit of jingoism, but our Olympics and Paralympics in 2012 were one of the best ever, and certainly the best for many decades. The opening ceremony was bloody brilliant!
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Re: Imagine: 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2020, 10:42:49 AM »
Quote from: Wilkins Micawber on July 17, 2020, 10:18:36 PM
Pardon me for a bit of jingoism, but our Olympics and Paralympics in 2012 were one of the best ever, and certainly the best for many decades. The opening ceremony was bloody brilliant!

Indeed.   And for a woman in her eighties to parachute our of a helicopter over the Olympic Stadium ...
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Re: Imagine: 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2020, 11:19:33 AM »
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Re: Imagine: 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2020, 11:36:40 AM »
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Re: Imagine: 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2020, 11:48:36 AM »
After the evening when the UK got three gold medals in the stadium, from Jessica Ennis, Mo Farrah, and Greg Rutherford, the joke was that a mixed-race woman, a former asylum seeker, and a ginger walked into a pub - and got a standing ovation.
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Re: Imagine: 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2020, 12:06:21 PM »
Quote from: Wilkins Micawber on July 18, 2020, 11:48:36 AM
After the evening when the UK got three gold medals in the stadium, from Jessica Ennis, Mo Farrah, and Greg Rutherford, the joke was that a mixed-race woman, a former asylum seeker, and a ginger walked into a pub - and got a standing ovation.

Is it accurate to portray Mo Farah as an asylum seeker?  His father was a London-born British citizen, hence Mo was British by descent.
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Re: Imagine: 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2020, 01:05:38 PM »
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