Nice opening ceremonies for the Olympics!
 

Am watching the opening right now!

I likey!

I don't care what they say about canuks... your all ok in my book after these ceremonies! :thumbsup

Just got back from the sushi place and it was playing on the TV. Pretty fucking stupid really, seemed pretty lame. Everybody sitting in my vicinity was getting a laugh out of it. Not as good a laugh as Uzbekistan's entrance, but it was still pretty laughable the part I saw with the fluorescent indians and the people wandering around in white coats. Seemed like a bad winter themed rave party.

I was watching the scottish tap dancer when I posted this...

it was good... I think the show is good mang

I missed it, will have to catch it on Youtube

This is horrible compared to Beijing. I've laughed out loud a bunch of times at how bad/cheesy this is so far.

i dunno - Olympic ceremonies feel obliged to get way too symbolic and into the cultural stuff that people in their own country don't know about, no need to educate us, just entertain and inspire us

some parts i've enjoyed - i really feel bad that it's not a snowy setting - Winter Olympics should be held in smaller cities where snow is on the ground - like Lake Placid, Squaw Valley, Lillihammer, Calgary etc Vancouver is too big a city for a Winter Olympics in my opinion - it takes away from the charm the Winter Olympics have always had.

I agree but the problem lays with the logistics involved in hosting the games now, the smaller settings are not going to build a stadium that holds 60k+ people for opening and closing ceremonies. Especially since those facilities will probably never be used for anything else after the game are over

Who was the guy who died today?

I thought it was a good opening! When I typed this was the tap dancing dude... I liked it

Ya, we had a few good outbursts of laughter during the bit that i saw. Pretty damn cheesy.

Agreed, I just saw the Beijing opening again on youtube... nothing will top that!

yeah the Beijing olympics show was the best I've ever seen...even if they used some computer generation to display fireworks throught the city for the tv audiance...the fireworks were really only over the birds next stadium.

mogul skiing is what i used to do... can't wait to see the latest

This is Canada people we will find a way to make the olympics a fucking joke.

Canadians and their fake national pride for a few weeks. LOLZ
the only times canadians give a fuck about being canadian is when it involves american bashing.

and you have to love the bullshit aboriginal theme. seriously Canadians name one thing people in this country dislike more then the Indians? NO ONE LIKES THEM! but you have this bullshit theme?

LOLZ so canada, and the mounties come trotting out. omg talk about playing into the worlds stereo types of us. all we are missing is Celine Dion.

i have no idea what you just said

And can you imagine the Chinese teams face when they get into Vancouver? they will never think they left home!

wtf part didnt you get?

Canada is a fucking joke.

ohhh...

There's more to Canada than Calgary.Opening ceremonies have always been kinda cheesy.Let the games do the talking

huh? calgary is a joke to!

seriously they come out with natives and mounties? :1orglaugh
wait until the international media finds themselves on hastings.

what a disaster!
i can see the headlines now "City spends billions on Olympics while rampant drug and homeless population is out of control"

PR nightmare if you ask me.

drigs are cool...

i wonder who will win the mogul skiing? ever skiid down a bumpy hill?

The Indians own everything and the government gives them more.we pay to supply them with new housing etc.
I still feel proud to be Canadian though
Hilarious Gretzky had to ride in the back of a truck in the pouring rain for 10 minutes to light the external flame

can u explain how that is?

do indians own everything?

Basically the government recognizes they are the original owners of the land and the taxpayers pay for the right to live on it via taxes.they get tax breaks because of it

I think its cool, never had the chance to watch it. :D

sounds like a town i live in during summers straight south of asbury park...

buy the house, lease the land... good times there!

i thought it was really well done, kinda wish i had gone but i think seeing it on tv let you see everything. i remember going to the opening of expo 86 and it was not nearly as good as this

that was the part where people were laughing the most. the flourescent fucking indians. :1orglaugh

i can't believe how much tax money we wasted on this bullshit, fuck the olympics...

i liked it

Which is fucking bullshit. i don't give a fuck if they were here first. pay your taxes like everyone else for fucks sakes. this "you took our land" bullshit rom indians is almost as tiring as the "you enslaved our people" from blacks. fuck off, get in the boat with the rest of us and pay your dues like everyone else. i love the this whole ucking event was paid for out of taxpayer pockets, for a native themed disgrace, that they didn't even have to pay taxes towards. Fucking indians....

it was great i must say. plain, simple, full of energy. who dont like that is just an ass addicted to fucking shitty us televisions with excelent pimpin glamour graphic. loosers

i thought kd lang was excellent ...

I was actually disappointed when I first heard it was going to be her singing, and wished it was Cohen himself. However she did do a very good job I thought, surprised me.

got it recorded.
will watch it later today.

Didn't Beijing spend like $100 million though? I think that's over 3x what was spent on the Canadian one...

I thought the opening was cheesy but that's what I expected. The tap dancers were a bit much though.

I agree Shemp. She was the best part of the whole thing.

O CANADAAAAAAA lol :1orglaugh
i heard they are using moose's to transport athletes between events.

lol.... kinda funny

I loved it the best opening ceremony ever imo

Whats with Olympic fire fuck up?