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hornetrider
Original Poster
40,803 posts
74 months
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 Farmyard animals "with a menagerie of 30 sheep, 12 horses, three cows, two goats, 10 chickens, 10 ducks, nine geese and three sheepdogs" WTF!! Goats and chickens? Where are we, Khazakhstan?
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cay
148 posts
25 months
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That model looks like something kids would make for a primary school project.
It sounds like the opening ceremony will be quite entertaining.
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UF
7,018 posts
52 months
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Got a link to.a story/article?
I think I designed that as kid aged 5
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Soovy
31,997 posts
140 months
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hornetrider said: Farmyard animals "with a menagerie of 30 sheep, 12 horses, three cows, two goats, 10 chickens, 10 ducks, nine geese and three sheepdogs" WTF!! Goats and chickens? Where are we, Khazakhstan? A sure fire embarrassment. Perfect.
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hornetrider
Original Poster
40,803 posts
74 months
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Pesty
25,857 posts
125 months
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andmarks like Glastonbury Tor ahhh the country wide famous glastonbury tor. Know it well. Anyway chickens  I'm embarrassed already
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Carfiend
3,186 posts
78 months
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Have everyone talk in a west country accent and it will be perfect.
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nelly1
4,922 posts
100 months
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Beeb said: The opening scene of the £27m ceremony will be called "Green and Pleasant", artistic director Danny Boyle revealed.
He added the show would create "a picture of ourselves as a nation."
The set will feature meadows, fields and rivers, with families taking picnics, people playing sports on the village green and farmers tilling the soil. Maybe he's going to add the other half of "who we are" - with a £5m scene involving beer throwing, broken furniture and wall-to-wall vomiting...
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UF
7,018 posts
52 months
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Blackpuddin
4,803 posts
74 months
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If the idea is to present a truly accurate microcosmic vision of the UK, rather than this risible halcyon idyll plucked from a Darling Buds Of May script, I feel sure that PHers could come up with some worthy suggestions.
My own would be a council estate, artistically rendered with Banksy-style graffiti, and populated by a procession of pram-pushing Vicky Pollard lookalikes. The tickertape from the compulsory fireworks climax would be made up of torn-up ASBOs and lottery tickets.
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paulrockliffe
2,692 posts
96 months
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I heard this on the radio, what stood out for me was that they thought 4 billion people would be watching. Will they f  k!
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Blackpuddin
4,803 posts
74 months
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And the cost? A scant £27 million, reality-adjusted to £50m.
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Soovy
31,997 posts
140 months
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paulrockliffe said: I heard this on the radio, what stood out for me was that they thought 4 billion people would be watching. Will they f k! No, they'll be laughing.
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Carfiend
3,186 posts
78 months
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Soovy said: No, they'll be laughing. So we just have to spin it like it was all a joke? I guessssss that could work.
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mattviatura
2,996 posts
69 months
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I'd like to be able to post something cynically witty about this but I'm somewhat lost for words.
What a load of crap.
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Soovy
31,997 posts
140 months
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UF said: Eh-oh............!!!!
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AshVX220
1,806 posts
59 months
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What did we all expect?
You just knew it was going to be a total load of in-offensive (to anyone) load of PC rubbish.
We just cannot risk up-setting anyone, and the sheep, horses and chickens etc, don't have a voice in the media with which to air their offence.
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Blackpuddin
4,803 posts
74 months
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'The set will feature real grass, an oak tree and "clouds" suspended from wires above the stadium - one of which will produce rain, provided the British weather does not provide its own on the night.'
10,000 volunteers tramping (and presumably dancing) across real grass while rain falls. I predict mud.
This has Millennium Dome all over it.
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mattviatura
2,996 posts
69 months
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rover 623gsi
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30 months
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