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“Meadows, fields, rivers, farmers tilling the soil and people playing cricket on the village green. It’s the British countryside the Olympics opening ceremony will beam around the world. But is this rural idyll a realistic representation of the UK?
On 27 July the Olympic Stadium is to be transformed into country scenes as part of artistic director Danny Boyle’s vision of a “Green and Pleasant” land.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18424058
Am I the only one who thinks this is a load of b*llocks?
To me it is not representative of Britain at all! Who are they trying to kid?
I can’t emphasize with it.
I have lived in villages just like that so yes, I can identify with it. I have also lived in cities and I can see how a city dweller might think wtf? But then I would guess that the people of most host countries have a similar reaction when seeing how the powers that be have decided to depict their country.
Wonders…will the farmers tilling their soil have guns and take it in turns to wave them in the air shouting “gerroff my laaaaaaand”?
@panda12 wrote:
“Meadows, fields, rivers, farmers tilling the soil and people playing cricket on the village green. It’s the British countryside the Olympics opening ceremony will beam around the world. But is this rural idyll a realistic representation of the UK?
On 27 July the Olympic Stadium is to be transformed into country scenes as part of artistic director Danny Boyle’s vision of a “Green and Pleasant” land.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18424058
Am I the only one who thinks this is a load of b*llocks?
To me it is not representative of Britain at all! Who are they trying to kid?
I can’t emphasize with it.
Oi! If I’m paying for this b*ll*cks from my council tax you could at least have the good manners to enjoy it, ‘cos I’ve already had enough flack for saying there’s too much money spent on it!
Repeat after me . . . . . This is our shop window on the world! Everyone’s going to see how great Britain is! Tourism will increase! People stuck in the traffic will throw tenners out of bus windows which will magically pay back the deficit! The Beatles will Re-Form! Pigs will fly! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
yes i heard about this on the radio,cant wait to see this one, should be a right laugh.
most villages are pretty wrecked as rural communities now…commuter villages for the rich, paranoid abut outsiders, criss-crossed by roads and expensive pubs, sky-high rates and house prices at the cor-blimey level so that locals can’t afford to live there.
Mind you..I was driving through some pretty villages in northern Norfolk today. Passed by the village of Stiffkey, near Cockthorpe. Apparently the vicar of Stiffkey was defrocked in the war for regular attendance of nude revues in Soho *true.
Ah, the rustic life..so placid, so calming. England, my England, a Patriot For Me…
I think our athletes will be competing for GB and Northern Ireland and to me, the village is typically that of an English village (although it’s nothing like the Suffolk village I used to live in where the kids were usually stoned on the village green.)
There’s four nations that make up GB and Northern Ireland so why can’t the ceremony be representative of the cultures of each?
Moreover, it is not going to appeal to large sections of our multi cultural and multi class society.
As my work collague said, it looks like they got their inspiration from the Early Learning Centre.
I myself checked the date to make sure it wasn’t before midday on April 1st. :?
maybe its my mind,but those 2 villages in norfolk, STIFFken and COCKthorpe :D
I’m just looking forward to the synchronised swimming :P
Oh and btw will there be beach volleyball again this time? :)
@Sgt Pepper wrote:
. . . Oh and btw will there be beach volleyball again this time? [/color] :) [/b]
Hell yeah!
Now if we can get the synchronised swimmers to do the beach volley ball . . . . . Man that game could do with some curves . . . .
@wordsworth60 wrote:
@Sgt Pepper wrote:
. . . Oh and btw will there be beach volleyball again this time? [/color] :) [/b]
Hell yeah!
Now if we can get the synchronised swimmers to do the beach volley ball . . . . . Man that game could do with some curves . . . .
You’re living in Cloud Cuckoo Land. No female athletes have curves. :D
However, I heard Clarrisa Dickson Wright will be appearing as the quintessential farmer’s wife in the opening ceremony:
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