“Jerusalem”
The hill of Glastonbury where Joseph of Aramethea built a church - with all the flags of the world planted on it.
“Abide With Me”
And that majestic sequence with Isembard Kingdom Brunel, and the Industrial Revolution that changed the whole world, ending with the five rings of molten steel.
Even the brief homage to the NHS was hidden in a perfectly laudable piece about the Great Ormonds Street Hospital.
But where would FR be without its resident pack of “I refuse to watch this” know-nothing haters?
Clearly a British ceremony for a British olympics which will host the entire world should have simply pandered to purely one nation whose knowledge of the UK dosent seem to extend beyond beefeaters, The Beatles, ‘Montee Pythonnnnn’, and Benny Hill.
Silly us.
Imagine the audacity to remind the planet that we basically built the modern world.
At least they weren’t afraid to say the word “Jerusalem”, like our administration.
But I was disappointed that they made fun of one of my favorite movies, about one of the most compelling stories of a british olympic athlete.
I also found it interesting that NBC wouldn’t tell us what “Tim” was known for.
Guilty as charged. Absolutely.
I have never nor will I ever watch the Olympics. The sports comprising the event have little interest to me because of the nature of the participants, a bunch of third-world internationalist types and unrepentant commies.
That's just one man's opinion but it's also shared by radio host and Townhall author Mike Gallagher. In jest during a segment with Fox's Chris Wallace, Gallagher commented he'd rather watch the Lifetime channel than the Olympics. Until I heard it mentioned this morning on his radio program, I was blissfully (if not ignorantly) unaware that the 2012 games started today.
As for me, I'm a hugh NASCAR fan and, for my tastes, even a mediocre NASCAR event trumps the Olympics. I just wonder how much of an overlap there is between all-American NASCAR partisans and those who also enjoy the Olympics?