What a ripoff.

[Mister Roboto]

I keep seeing all these ads for the XXX Olympiad.

So I tune it tonight, all excited and shit.


XXX my ass.


There was ZERO porn. No sex. Nobody even took their clothes off.

I am sorely disappointed.

But feel free to discuss the Olympic games in this topic.

[RoIIo Tomassi]

The scene with Daniel Craig as James Bond and the Queen was sweet.

[Ran]

Can't say I care much about the summer Olympics.

But that video of the track chick dancing wasn't bad.

[jjreason]

Pound for pound, I do believe Australia has the sexiest women.

[Diabolical]

Women's beach volleyball is the only part of the Olympics worth watching.

[Ran]

Last night I hear my kids laughing hysterically. I go to see what they are doing. They were laughing at Mr. Bean during the opening ceremony.

[jjreason]

It was priceless.

[Zero]

There was ZERO porn.

EXCUSE ME??!

WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEA--
OHHH. OK.

[Diabolical]

Mr Bean was there? Holy crap!

[Jargo]

The opening ceremony was the weirdest mish-mash of confusing nonsense. I would have cut most of it. the beginning was good and the industrial age into forging the rings was great. Then it kind of just meandered all over the place. Pretty pointless stuff. I would have just cut to the light up cyclists with some angelic choir and then done the athletes parade and finished with the lighting of the cauldron. short and sweet. Definitely no out of tune arctic monkeys or that old grandma singing hey dude. None of that NHS or children's literature or pop music crap. Or that weird interpretive dance by some bloke in yellow. The Bean and Queen segments didn't fit and probably should have started the whole thing off or ended it.
£27 million GBP it cost to stage that. And nigh on all the participants were volunteers. Pure rip off. That money would have been better spent training our athletes how not to lose dismally.

[anarky]

They should have just had all the Bonds, Mr. Bean, and the entire surviving casts of Monty Python, Harry Potter, and Dr. Who perform the opening ceremony. Then all the actors, in character, could've replaced the English athletes. Mr. Bean could have all sorts of fun swimming. Oh, and one condition of your country competing: if you're up against one of the Bond athletes, you have to shoot for second, at best, or you will be thrown into the Tower of London.

[RoIIo Tomassi]

I think Beijing set the bar too high for all the following Olympic ceremonies. China had no problem bankrupting their country twice over to pay for their games, and now everybody else feels they have to do the same or they'll be considered "cheap". Ridiculous.

I was thinking, considering the average age of Olympic competitors, it was strange to have Dame Paul McCartney as the final performer. Olympians are all like 3 or 4 generations removed from when the Beatles were hot shit back in the 1800s or whatever. He should've been singing during the Industrial Revolution part of the ceremony, when his music was toppin' the charts.

[Tom Foolery]

I wouldn't mind seeing more of Turkey's first Olympic gymnast, Goksu Uctas. (Yes, that's a 'Who do you want nekked' joke. Relax, she's 21)


I am getting sick of all the Olympic commercials. You know the ones I'm talking about. The announcer is speaking incredibly slow as if to sound profound, set to slo-mo images of athletes training. Saying something like "Before they competed...(incredibly long pause)..they pooped. Huggies is proud to sponsor the Olympics." and bullshit like that.
They're almost making me sick of hearing Morgan Freeman doing those Visa commercials. And you realllly gotta try to make Morgan Freeman annoying, boy.

[Ran]

Samuel L Jackson tweeting about the Olympics. Some good stuff there.

https://twitter.com/SamuelLJackson

[Ran]

Pound for pound, I do believe Australia has the sexiest women.

You may have a point. This is supposed to be their synchronized swim team.