The Commonwealth Games

are the Proclaimers playing in either the opening or closing ceremonies?

Nath wrote:are the Proclaimers playing in either the opening or closing ceremonies?

I hear they are oiling up Rod Stewarts wheelchair.

That has to be one of the worst opening ceremonies of all time. John Barrowman, Iron Bru, people dressed up in Tunnocks teacakes and women tapping chairs?   

krikri wrote:That has to be one of the worst opening ceremonies of all time. John Barrowman, Iron Bru, people dressed up in Tunnocks teacakes and women tapping chairs?   

Worse than the winking Kangaroo from Brisbane?

Big Dog wrote:

krikri wrote:That has to be one of the worst opening ceremonies of all time. John Barrowman, Iron Bru, people dressed up in Tunnocks teacakes and women tapping chairs?   

Worse than the winking Kangaroo from Brisbane?

BD is still bitter that they left Tasmania off the map of Oz in that opening ceremony.

I don't like the typical convention of big sporting opening ceremonies, full stop. It now seems a rule to be overlong, overblown and full of buttock-clenching humour and bad (insufficient) cutting. I applaud the attempts of those who staged Barrowman to take the piss out of the lamentable Danny Boyle endlessly self-indulgent story-of-my,-the-great-Danny-Boyle's-life utter farrago of 2012 - but I fear Barrowman's cavortings were not intended entirely as a comical rubbishing of that inflated rubbish of London.

But it was all waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long. The mayor of Glasgow, his voice getting faster, more excited and higher pitched by the sentence, sounded as if he was demanding if the crowd wanted total war.

That said, there were some good bits this time. The spirit of the Games stuff. Some of the (colourful, entertaining) kits and smiles. (But NOT the Scottish gear. Terrible terrible fake-style washed-out kilts and Malvolio stockings.) The retrospective highlights of previous Games and achievements. The Scotty dogs, crazily irrelevant as that was. Daley and Tanni Grey Thompson, The Thorpedo, Allan Wells, Becky Adlington, etc ... some of the blasts from the past generally making eloquent little inputs. Not sure aboot the Great Galoot, Chris Hoy though - overexposed.

Oh well, maybe some of the events will be interesting.

JGK wrote:

Big Dog wrote:

krikri wrote:That has to be one of the worst opening ceremonies of all time. John Barrowman, Iron Bru, people dressed up in Tunnocks teacakes and women tapping chairs?   

Worse than the winking Kangaroo from Brisbane?

BD is still bitter that they left Tasmania off the map of Oz in that opening ceremony.

Don't look now but they've left us off the swimming cossie pattern this time as well.

The mighty little state looks like its been deforested.

Australia cannot afford tasmania under the current Lib regime....they are to be excised from the federation

 

horace wrote:Australia cannot afford tasmania under the current Lib regime....they are to be excised from the federation

It might give Victoria a chance at winning the Shield at least.

skully wrote:The mighty little state looks like its been deforested.

Of course there will always be a map of Tassie under some of the cossies.   

I thought after the 1982 Brisvegas Comm Games "No Tassie" debacle, this mistake would never be made again.

skully wrote:I thought after the 1982 Brisvegas Comm Games "No Tassie" debacle, this mistake would never be made again.

I was living in Darwin at the time. We weren't thrilled with the melding of the Top End into FNQ either.

"Territorial Decapitation"??

From similar memories of the time, I seem to recall 3 or 4 vollies forming a little triangle under the Brisvegas Aus when the "oops, no Tassie" error was realised.

JGK wrote:

skully wrote:I thought after the 1982 Brisvegas Comm Games "No Tassie" debacle, this mistake would never be made again.

I was living in Darwin at the time. We weren't thrilled with the melding of the Top End into FNQ either.

Never noticed that. Not that I was anywhere near Brisbane at the time. I may have even forgotten it was on. Wouldn't have been to hard to get that map to include the Gulf, an area considerably larget than Tassie.

I mainly remember the naff winking kangaroo and barracking against de Castella

What's wrong with Deek?

I remember Rob Parella in the lawn bowls.

he is an old DLP supporter

Big Dog wrote:

Nath wrote:are the Proclaimers playing in either the opening or closing ceremonies?

I hear they are oiling up Rod Stewarts wheelchair.

They should have oiled his voice as well

horace wrote:meh seems to be the response of Oz...the fact it is on Charnel 10 would seem to suggest it will not be a big ratings winner..

On the contrary, Horald. This thread has been seized and colonised by Oz adventurers!

1st Gold to England in Triathlon.

Is it my imagination or isn't this something that usually no one gives a fark about? Seems to be getting far more coverage than I can ever remember.

vilkrang wrote:Is it my imagination or isn't this something that usually no one gives a fark about? Seems to be getting far more coverage than I can ever remember.

Well, it's because it's in Britain... Manchester '02 got plenty of coverage, the ones in between much less so over here.

It's a case of Norfolk & Good for South Africa, as Norfolk Island beat the Yarps at bowls.

beamer wrote:

vilkrang wrote:Is it my imagination or isn't this something that usually no one gives a fark about? Seems to be getting far more coverage than I can ever remember.

Well, it's because it's in Britain... Manchester '02 got plenty of coverage, the ones in between much less so over here.

Not for much longer...