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Re: A warning to anyone attending "The Games"
Posted: 28 Jul 2012, 08:32
by Dev One
"This might help, if it's not geoblocked:"
Or palped even?
Keith
Re: A warning to anyone attending "The Games"
Posted: 28 Jul 2012, 08:49
by VEGAS
I was genuinely stunned when the cameras showed this fella doing this when the German team walked out.

Re: A warning to anyone attending "The Games"
Posted: 28 Jul 2012, 08:53
by JohnWillimas
VEGAS wrote:I was genuinely stunned when the cameras showed this fella doing this when the German team walked out.

Yepp, Boris's expression is priceless too.
Still at least it was his left arm!

Re: A warning to anyone attending "The Games"
Posted: 28 Jul 2012, 09:45
by Vancouver
VEGAS wrote:I was genuinely stunned when the cameras showed this fella doing this when the German team walked out.

Boris seems amused, but then isn't he always. No I think you are being dragged along by Daily Mail hysteria, it was palpably a wave.

Re: A warning to anyone attending "The Games"
Posted: 28 Jul 2012, 10:00
by VEGAS
Vancouver wrote:No I think you are being dragged along by Daily Mail hysterial
I've not seen any papers today.
I watched this last night on the BBC.
Re: A warning to anyone attending "The Games"
Posted: 28 Jul 2012, 10:12
by DaveB
I don't think our Boris would know his @rse from his elbow

We're that chap doing a 'salute'.. he'd have used the right arm, not the left. One
never salutes with the left arm
Up to this morning.. I'd successfully navigated around any Olympic coverage but when I got downstairs, the wife had come off nights and had it on the box

She's gone to bed now thank goodness
ATB
DaveB

Re: A warning to anyone attending "The Games"
Posted: 28 Jul 2012, 11:20
by VEGAS
Hi Dave.
Obviously correct about the arm/salutes.
I've done enough of them in my time. Long way up short way down.
It was more the motion of his arm.
Slice to the chest then out to the final position as you see in the pic.
There are many ways to wave.
I'd have thought this chap would have used a more traditional means.
Re: A warning to anyone attending "The Games"
Posted: 28 Jul 2012, 17:55
by airboatr
I heard a lot of French being spoken over the PA system.
I'm curious of y'alls feelings on that.
Tic toc tic toc tic toc

Re: A warning to anyone attending "The Games"
Posted: 28 Jul 2012, 18:57
by DarrenL
airboatr wrote:I heard a lot of French being spoken over the PA system.
I'm curious of y'alls feelings on that.
Tic toc tic toc tic toc

Because they won't le it lie. I myself was expecting some nice historical recreations during the opening, Crecy, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo. Instead we got one bit celebrating an enormous failure, the NHS. Apart from that and Paul McCartney singing out of tune it was actually very good. Although I'm not sure how the Japanese took the playing of Enola Gay.
Seriously though, as I understand it French and English are the two languages of the IOC, French for Baron de Coubertin who started the modern Olympic movement and English because of the English Much Wenlock Olympian games from which the modern games are based.
Re: A warning to anyone attending "The Games"
Posted: 28 Jul 2012, 20:43
by DaveB
Slice to the chest then out to the final position as you see in the pic.
I didn't see that mate. Perhaps it really was a case of old habits die hard
ATB
DaveB
