[Saturday] Olympics, it is.

**GiDiYi** · July 27 2012, 11:00:11 PM

Stuff seems to be going without bigger blurps so far.

So, it is a day with telly and food for me. What do you intend to do today?

**Daneel Trevize** · July 27 2012, 11:12:36 PM

Play Eve & do other things while everyone's distracted by the Olympics. Utterly flawless plan.

**super7** · July 27 2012, 11:14:05 PM

Is this opening ceremony ever going to end?!

**Traxio Nacho** · July 27 2012, 11:15:18 PM

Originally Posted by super7

Is this opening ceremony ever going to end?!

Should be glad it was shortened by 30 minutes, should only have 15 minutes left now.

**RoemySchneider** · July 27 2012, 11:23:18 PM

i shall read up on the kingdom of bhutan which i - until today - did not know officially existed *slight shame*

**Rans** · July 27 2012, 11:28:54 PM

Originally Posted by RoemySchneider

i shall read up on the kingdom of bhutan which i - until today - did not know officially existed *slight shame*

Comoros Islands for me

**Jolin** · July 27 2012, 11:32:00 PM

Originally Posted by RoemySchneider

i shall read up on the kingdom of bhutan which i - until today - did not know officially existed *slight shame*

I didn't know until today it's officially called "kingdom" of Bhutan. I always knew it as just Bhutan. Nice enough place to visit, cheap liquor (or used to be, dunno now)

**Paradox** · July 27 2012, 11:54:02 PM

Bhutan was the only country in the world to possess no telephones until 1980. That's the only thing I know about it, not even sure if it's true.

**walrus** · July 28 2012, 12:03:10 AM

Originally Posted by Paradox

Bhutan was the only country in the world to possess no telephones until 1980. That's the only thing I know about it, not even sure if it's true.

I think they measure Bhutans success as a nation in gross domestic happiness or something, insteaad of GDP.

**Fachiri** · July 28 2012, 12:06:24 AM

Replaced my Droid 2 with a Galaxy S3. Feels good, man.

**Lancehot** · July 28 2012, 12:11:28 AM

That ceremony left me even more confused about what it is to be British than I was before. Somewhere between the dancing Victorians summoning chimneys, sick children being saved from blackface minstrels by Mary Poppins & Emeli Sande singing a funeral hymn while people danced under a ball, I lost the plot. The torch bit was cool, though.

**Aurora148** · July 28 2012, 12:14:03 AM

**Dirk Magnum** · July 28 2012, 01:15:04 AM

Lol Rowan Atkinson in the Chariots of Fire bit.

**Leviathan** · July 28 2012, 01:25:25 AM

the olympics needs a mum and dads race.

**Rans** · July 28 2012, 01:51:42 AM

Originally Posted by Lancehot

That ceremony left me even more confused about what it is to be British than I was before. Somewhere between the dancing Victorians summoning chimneys, sick children being saved from blackface minstrels by Mary Poppins & Emeli Sande singing a funeral hymn while people danced under a ball, I lost the plot. The torch bit was cool, though.

Mr Bean

**indeterminacy** · July 28 2012, 02:16:10 AM

Originally Posted by walrus

Originally Posted by Paradox

Bhutan was the only country in the world to possess no telephones until 1980. That's the only thing I know about it, not even sure if it's true.

I think they measure Bhutans success as a nation in gross domestic happiness or something, insteaad of GDP.

prez bhutan?

**Jason Marshall** · July 28 2012, 02:47:07 AM

"We split the hemispheres and set our watches by an imaginary line."

Lovely writing for the opening video.

Also wtf is up with those sheep in the Olympic Stadium? Are those your athletes from wales?

**Sparq** · July 28 2012, 06:09:52 AM

Originally Posted by Jason Marshall

"We split the hemispheres and set our watches by an imaginary line."

Lovely writing for the opening video.

Also wtf is up with those sheep in the Olympic Stadium? Are those your athletes from wales?

No, that's their entertainment if they win. It's a form of encouragement.