Paralympic Opening Ceremony

[Jaded]

Just on a train for a meeting in London before going on to the opening ceremony.

I'm getting excited 

[Jaded]

Some umbrellas and a moon here 

the big umbrella has books underneath it

[Jaded]

Bubbles full of smoke 

[spindrift]

Paralympics shows that, despite every disadvantage, people can achieve great things. Cameron' speech shows the opposite is also possible.

Martine Wright is truly amazing, 7 years ago caught in the London bombs, now a paralympian.

[red marley]

Prize for the smallest team yet to enter the opening ceremony - Benin. One person including the flag bearer. Does he get a room in the Olympic village to himself?

[Kathy]

Hi Jaded! Me an' Tim an' Mr & Ms Weasel are on stage in a bit over an hour. We'll wave!

[Ewan Houzami]

Put your camera/phones away competitors! Nominate a team cameraperson or something and allow yourselves to soak up the blinkin'experience FFS! (Could have been a problem with Djibouti, El Salvador etc mind, as those teams comprised just one bloke, the flagbearer and the brollywallah)

[Jaded]

Hi Jaded! Me an' Tim an' Mr & Ms Weasel are on stage in a bit over an hour. We'll wave!

Yay!!

[Jaded]

Mexico get the prize for the best outfits so far.

Most of the Japanese have left already.

[Ewan Houzami]

Mexico get the prize for the best outfits so far.

Most of the Japanese have left already.

I don't think they could match the Iranians (I think it was them) for bonkers balloon hats though.

Ch4 Commentator1: "The Dutch have such a great history in these games"
Ch4 Commentator2: "What are they good at?"
Ch4 Commentator1: "Just about everything."

 

[andygates]

Which of you was the Higgs Boson?

[red marley]

Bloody adverts! The games haven't even started yet and they're pissing me off.

[Ewan Houzami]

Spasticus Autisticus! Fucking Brilliant. Well done organisers!

[lou boutin]

Hurrah for the green tandems. 

[red marley]

Spasticus Autisticus! Fucking Brilliant. Well done organisers!

Was just about to post the same. At last it feels like its woken up.

[lou boutin]

Spasticus Autisticus! Fucking Brilliant. Well done organisers!

 

[Jaded]

Ihought the tandems might be them.

Alison lapper, I think? A Plinther before geraldc and I 

[lou boutin]

The cauldron is lite on the stroke of midnight.

[andygates]

Stephen Hawking wearing those Orbital light-up specs.  F---ing legend.

[Ewan Houzami]

I have a habit of turning the sound off the telly immediately after televised London fireworks so that I can hear the whizzbangery a couple of seconds later thundering through my living room. I certainly know how to live.

[Kathy]

The cauldron is lite on the stroke of midnight.

Yeah, we were an hour behind schedule. 

[Jaded]

We got back to the house we are staying in about half an hour ago, and ten minutes later had the police banging on the door! The owner had forgotten we were coming and called the police, burglary in progress 
We had been over in the afternoon and left sleeping bags and everything!

4 police arrived and didn't like the look of us so one kept an eye on us the others rushed upstairs. "how old is the owner? Is he a confused sort of person?"

I had visions of seeing the night out in Hackney clink.

[lou boutin]

The cauldron is lite on the stroke of midnight.

Yeah, we were an hour behind schedule. 

Even so, it was quite nice because the flame went out in the cauldron for the Olympics on the strike of midnight. Serendipity is sweet at times.

[Ewan Houzami]

We got back to the house we are staying in about half an hour ago, and ten minutes later had the police banging on the door! The owner had forgotten we were coming and called the police, burglary in progress 
We had been over in the afternoon and left sleeping bags and everything!

4 police arrived and didn't like the look of us so one kept an eye on us the others rushed upstairs. "how old is the owner? Is he a confused sort of person?"

I had visions of seeing the night out in Hackney clink.

That's hilarious!

[LEE]

Put your camera/phones away competitors! Nominate a team cameraperson or something and allow yourselves to soak up the blinkin'experience FFS! (Could have been a problem with Djibouti, El Salvador etc mind, as those teams comprised just one bloke, the flagbearer and the brollywallah)

This drives me crazy also.

Too many people at spectacular AND TELEVISED live events watch the spectacle on their phone's 3" LCD.

Set your Video recorder then watch it live via your eyes, the TV company will do a perfectly decent job of filming it on your behalf..