Not the biggest fan of the Olympics ever, I will watch a few finals here and there.
However, that ceremony was one of the very best I had ever seen. Yes, China rolled deep, but guess what? They have cool slavery and cool shit loads of money and cool Communism. Britain is a pokey little place and we're gettin hit hard by the reccession right now, Danny Boyle fucking killed it, nailed so many aspects of British life, little nods to all kinds of amazing thing. The fact that NBC cut stuff the 7/7 memorial and the lesbian kiss is fucking shameful (and I've never used those words ever in my entire life). Fucking. Shameful.
You start off with Kenneth Branagh (a great actor) as Isambard Kingdom Brunel (the world's greatest engineer during the 1800s), reading from Shakespeare's (the greatest playwright of all time) The Tempest, going all the way up to showing Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the World Wide Web, one of the greatest inventions in all of human history, and one that he gave away to everyone for free). Reppin stuff like the Windrush, the NHS, the suffragettes, James Bond and Mr. Bean and Pink Floyd all in the same show? Fucking brilliant.
@PenguinDust: That was a tribute. Please, please learn what the NHS and Great Ormond Street Hospital and Peter Pan are. Please.
@cap123: That's Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, not the Internet. It's so sad that people do not know who this man is ESPECIALLY ON THE FUCKING WEB. Unless you did know and you're just phrasing it in a weird way.
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