Posted on 08/05/2016 9:11:18 PM PDT by Swordmaker
NBC is interrupting the coverage of the opening ceremonies ever few minutes for at least three minutes of really BAD advertisements. But then the opening ceremonies are pretty bad themselves. . . among the worst of the modern era.
How many of our Fellow Freepers are finding this as off-putting as I am?
Then the Brazilians used it for a huge propaganda push for the dire consequences of Global Warming, not even "Climate Change!" Good Grief. . .
Comments?
I’m not watching but here’s Matt Drudge’s review:
MATT DRUDGE @DRUDGE 8 hours ago
5 commercial breaks in in first 30 minutes??!! Send some mosquitoes into the NBC booth! #OpeningCeremony
I feel bad for the athletes who worked hard to be there then have to deal with third rate video and freaking mosquitoes that can make their babies messed up.
I watched about half an hour of it this morning. I didn’t see the global warming crap and thought the opening I did see was in good taste, the last few Olympics were overdone in my opinion.
In a country where three teaspoons of water might kill you, it will be interesting to see if this effects the games or the coverage. You could get infected with lord knows what just taking a shower.
I got the revenge in Mexico at a 4 star resort. In the end, it is very hard to avoid. Salads, ice, even the “bottle water” is mostly tap filled.
Nice to “see” you again, R. Scott.
You have the best tagline I think I’ve ever seen. Very real and very compassionate.
I turned it off when obama came on.
Then turned it back on. Turned it off permanently when I saw the global warming BS. Cannot believe that made it to the Opening Ceremonies.
My mistake, edh. I forgot that these days belief trumps reality. But still, with “posthumous” the best the corpse could hope for is a silver...
I’ll watch the Olympics, once bob costas is dead, and the Olympics are back on ABC.
Saw the global warming bit and turned it off.
From the very little of it that I watched it was indeed dreadful.
I only watched bits of the athletes entering the stadium, something I usually enjoy. But, first of all they kept cutting (for no reason at all and over and over again) to team USA, who seemed to be doing nothing but posing for selfies and the cameras. Hey, I support our Olympians as much as anyone, but you know, enough is enough, I don’t need to see them every 10 seconds.
And secondly, what was the deal with the people riding in on the little tricyles? Is that a Brazilian thing, riding on trikes? I mean they all looked cute and sweet, but you know it was odd. And what was the little potted plant thing all about? It was like each country had it’s own 12 year old with a bean plant.
Awful, just awful. I lasted about 20 minutes and I think I saw Team USA about 40 times.
Good luck to the competitors, I like the Summer Olympics I might give it another try, but I’m fairly underwhelmed so far.
And....these people will probably spread Zika world wide, so that’s also very bad.
“The U.S. delegation (over 550 strong) made sure to put a hijab-wearing athlete right up front with Michael Phelps.”
Yes, i noticed her. She’s probably a swimmer, my daughter did a little swimming in HS and a lot of the gals were Muslims. Which surprised me.
There already is one.. It’s called torrenting ;)
(Usually the encoders are kind enough to go through to horrid process of cutting all of the jibberish out for us ;^)
Btw Bullish.. I don’t watch TV ;^D (but I download to watch on laptop) Don’t think you would want to watch TV over here either with all of the loony crud they have on this side of the pond :p
Put me right to sleep. NBCs going to get creamed!
I was at a tavern when this mess came on. Was it an acid trip? Sabato Gigante? A 70’s ear laser show on steroids? Nobody could agree. I ordered another two fingers of Black Label and marveled at the Brazilian mind.
Ah man... I miss CowPokes (Ace Reid R.I.P)
I was flipping through the channels last night and paused on the opening ceremonies. Ugh. Rap, flashing lights, everyone jerking. I turned it. Now the rowers are on and I am only watching to see if they have to push through some floating trash.
My stupid PCs with the dumb Windows 10, just upgraded last week, have some issues with the flash player that the CBC is using to stream the Olympics so using a VPN I tried to see the Canadian Broadcast and it was so choppy the video that I spent the next 5 hours trying to fix it to no avail. Totally unhappy about the situation. My Desktop was even bad with Youtube videos in HD, but my Laptop was fine with them. They aren’t using the same drivers for video. The Desktop is on AT Mobility Raedeon and the Desktop is on NIVIDA graphics which the PC renamed Microsoft Basic Graphic Drivers in the Device Manager. I’m to the point of having to waste the time to post my issues on a forum for computer repair and if that is not enough then calling Microsoft or heading to either a Windows Store, MircoCenter, or calling a repairman over. I only now have read up on various audio and video issues people have had since upgrading. It is virtually the only issue I have with Wind 10. Streaming is choppy and using a digital Tv tuner I bought in 2014 to see TV, it is also choppier with extensive movement on the screen. So I couldn’t get thru the coverage of the Opening Ceremonies. It’s at the site on replay. I myself avoid NBC.
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