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[blonde222]

Just got back from the 2012 party in the Mall, whose atmosphere suffered from a complete lack of alcohol and the fact that at least one third of the audience were bemused foreigners who've never seen Blue Peter and don't know or care who Will Young is.   Best bits were the Red Arrows and the choirs from Last Choir Standing singing Shine by Take

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[jen_c_w]

I thought our segment was bang on actually - all it needed was to be a bit bigger. I thoguht Leona and Jimmy sounded good together - and Led Zep as one of the classic British Rock Bands, updated by a singer from one of the Olympic Boroughs worked really well - I loved the fact she was in a dress designed by London fashion students as well - seemed to really fit.
As for the dancers - the rain, nice touch of humour, and of course, differently able, and ethnically diverse - as befits one oif the most diverse cities in the world.
I thought that humour was also evident in the bus, turning into the green area - for the green olympics. I found it quintessentially british - and all to the good for it.
That buffoon, otoh, let the entire country, let alone city down, by that idiot someone elected for Mayor. He looked such a mess, with his jacket open, messy hair, and hands jammed into pockets.

[blonde222]

We shall have to agree to disagree.

I can forgive BoJo for the pockets incident because he and his entourage flew to Beijing and back in cattle class, thus saving me the taxpayer about 100,000 pounds.

[blonde222]

forgot to add

green olympics... so much then for the dancers who screwed up their newspapers and chucked them into the street...

differently abled... there was me thinking all credit to them for finding a wheelchair dancer (even though it is painfully PC), when right at the end the person leaped out of the wheelchair like Lazarus and started flinging themselves at the back of the bus.

overall - the problem was that while the British might get whatever humour/irony/eccentricity there was, in much the same way as the Han Chinese might appreciate the warbling Taiwanese pop singers at the end, 99.9% of the world's population won't. Sadly, the only cultural reference they would have understood was David Beckham, a slightly past it footballer who has never played in the Olympics and doesn't live in the UK.