The Fucking 2024 Olympics

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,548]

Why start another utterly pointless thread? No idea, other than that I haven’t started one in ages, and to ponder on how best to avoid accidentally seeing or hearing ‘national treasure’ Easter Island statue-headed BBC presenter Clare Balding for two weeks.

 

The over-under on this thread I’d put at 1.5 pages, assuming the wise yet tyrannical Paul ‘flag’ Bearer doesn’t smother it at birth.

 

Ooh, there’s the Bhutan team tootling down the Seine in a pedalo. Not really, but I’m sure the USA will enter the opening ceremony on board an aircraft carrier equipped with nuclear warheads. No sign of the Albanian dinghy yet, but likely to be sinking off the Kent coast with several children aboard.
 

You can bung anything in here, from inevitable terrorist atrocities to Paula Radcliffe shitting in a roadside gutter.

[En Passant 3,418]

Just now, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:

how best to avoid accidentally seeing or hearing ‘national treasure’ Easter Island statue-headed BBC presenter Clare Balding for two weeks.

 

3.99 of your uk squids to subscribe to discovery+. Watch the Olympics, (all events in theory, not just the ones the BBC shows) can the subscription. It's a pint (not even that if your in that Lahndan)

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,548]

2 minutes ago, En Passant said:

 

3.99 of your uk squids to subscribe to discovery+. Watch the Olympics, (all events in theory, not just the ones the BBC shows) can the subscription. It's a pint (not even that if your in that Lahndan)

Oh yes, I forgot I have illegal firestick. I can watch it on crazy yet unbiased Eurosport. I’ve been institutionalised by Auntie.

[YoungWillz 20,226]

Il pleut, Rodney, il pleut.

[Dying Probably 566]

The Fucking 2024 Olympics? Have they added a new sport since I last watched?

[En Passant 3,418]

3 minutes ago, Dying Probably said:

The Fucking 2024 Olympics? Have they added a new sport since I last watched?

 

There's video's out there of them testing the 'cardboard' beds. But more as a generic jump on test than an entirely accurate one, at least so far.

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,548]

10 minutes ago, Dying Probably said:

The Fucking 2024 Olympics? Have they added a new sport since I last watched?

You’re getting it confused with the 2024 Fucking Olympics, taking place simultaneously in Amsterdam.

[Master Obit 594]

35 minutes ago, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:

You’re getting it confused with the 2024 Fucking Olympics, taking place simultaneously in Amsterdam.

I expect that would run rather like the tennis: men's doubles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles.

[YoungWillz 20,226]

No tribute as yet for Jean Daniel Cadinot, I live in hope.

[prussianblue 885]

Finding the opening ceremony distinctly underwhelming, with a side order of cringe.

[Charlotte's Controller 194]

I now have respect for the French, what better way to discourage illegal immigrants than displaying how they hate all of the other nations by drowning them in the opening ceremony. We await to see how many finish up catching chills.

[YoungWillz 20,226]

Just realised this the fifteenth Olympics in my lifetime.

 

Bon anniversaire!

[An Fear Beag 1,440]

1 hour ago, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:

You’re getting it confused with the 2024 Fucking Olympics, taking place simultaneously in Amsterdam.

 

Oh I am up for that!

 

Is it hard to enter?

[Sleepiestpeep 131]

6 minutes ago, An Fear Beag said:

 

Oh I am up for that!

 

Is it hard to enter?

Well, ideally...

[Charlotte's Controller 194]

32 minutes ago, An Fear Beag said:

 

Oh I am up for that!

 

Is it hard to enter?

No but I hear the competition is stiff.

[Sod's Law 344]

How embarrassing it would be if that burning balloon ended up floating into Notre Dame and burning it down again.

[RoverAndOut 4,295]

11 minutes ago, Sod's Law said:

How embarrassing it would be if that burning balloon ended up floating into Notre Dame and burning it down again.

 

I'm glad it seems to be tethered, it's the biggest Chinese Lantern in the world! 

[An Fear Beag 1,440]

47 minutes ago, Charlotte's Controller said:

No but I hear the competition is stiff.

 

I have put in many long hours of practice over the years.

 

Mostly in the men's singles event 

[The Old Crem 3,388]

They have made Grindr into a bubble this time around. They didn’t in Tokyo. I used explore and could chat to a Brazilian Volleyball coach. 

[Toast 15,582]

Nothing can ever outdo the Queen parachuting out of a helicopter with James Bond.

[RoverAndOut 4,295]

4 minutes ago, Toast said:

Nothing can ever outdo the Queen parachuting out of a helicopter with James Bond.

 

Yeah, Macron just "turned up". Amateur. 

[Sod's Law 344]

6 minutes ago, RoverAndOut said:

 

Yeah, Macron just "turned up". Amateur. 

He should have called in Ed Davey to show him how it's done.

[YoungWillz 20,226]

Ok, overall thoughts on the opening ceremony.

 

Loved Celine Dion. Actually, how is any of the sport going to top that?

That horse going down the Seine. Incredible (say it in French).

The Eiffel Tower light show. Fantastique!

The flame! The balloon! 

 

Things that were less so. Parkour? Went on a bit really and obviously pre-recorded. Those dying handovers of the Torch - yikes, here's a grasp worth three seconds, now pass it to someone else.

 

The overall presentation was as if a bedraggled Sunak, fresh from his election call in the rain, went into Number 10, called Macron and said "Now outdo that! But make it like a gay pride march. On the river. Disco the blazes out of it!".

 

I know, I know - but I rather enjoyed it. I really did. 

[Brad252 672]

Every Olympic Opening ceremony Ireland is tasked with the difficult job of being a UN Buffer zone, as the sequence of countries includes: "Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel".

[Brad252 672]

5 hours ago, Dying Probably said:

The Fucking 2024 Olympics? Have they added a new sport since I last watched?

 

This must be part of Macron's plan to deal with low birth rates in France:

 

https://x.com/itvnews/status/1788877115296710910?lang=en