[C19fan]

All the world is going to see the once great British people engage in a massive exercise of self-hatred. How far down into the sewer has England gone. It has only taken 161 years for Britain to go from the self-confident nation that showed the world what it achieved at the Great Exposition of 1851 to now going to broadcast to the world it is ashamed of its history and achievements.

[theDentist]

They'll enhance the PC crap by their Athlete Profiles "Up Close and Personal" where they revel that the athlete overcame some massive dramatic familial tragedy like a pet kitten being run down by a truck on Christmas Eve, by great grandma of 103 years passing away just 7 months ago... Blah blah blah....

[Berlin_Freeper]

Torch bearer's tattoo misspells "Olympic"

[EyeGuy]

From the same people that give you unending “uplifting” personal vignettes, double standard fawning over ANY black athlete, “triumphs over adversity”, and the Chinese as some sort of gods for their “miraculous” open ceremony.

I’ll be watching Gilligan’s Island reruns rather than the ChickFlick Pussylmpics.

[Peter Libra]

Danny was born to an Irish mother right from the Irish Republic. His father was from Ireland and Danny was born in Northern England. Nothing against the Irish, my grandfather was born in County Cork, but to English parents. He may as well hang us for our role in the great famine of the 1840's, while he is at it.

I Like Billy Joel of America, singing "We didn't start the fire". Naming historic and iconic figures in America's history. Billy seems to be saying please do not blame his generation. A good idea, Danny seems to miss this obvious fact. As in "Don't blame me governor, I wasn't even born then" (Chuckle).

[GSWarrior]

I will probably watch the boxing competition and that’s about it.

[Ohioan]

This is disgusting. In an earlier age, those responsible would have been sent to the Tower. Perhaps it will disgust enough of the British people to reawaken something of their lost pride in their truly impressive achievements.

It is very obvious that we are not the only people afflicted with Myth Makers In "Higher" Education. But the false teaching that led to Obama here & the shame described in Great Britain, is no more credible than the new Clothes that Hans Christian Andersen described in his little fable about the Emperor & his wonderful tailors.

William Flax

[mjp]

director Danny Boyle, will pay careful attention to Britain’s shame, with tableaux devoted to the denial of voting rights to women, Industrial Revolution pollution, the Great Depression and exploitation of the workers.

Anti-capitalist propaganda is an important way that libtards can promote socialist and statist agenda.

[RichInOC]

If the Olympic organizing committee gives you the commission to produce their opening ceremony and you put on something like this...you are a goatse. I would hate to have paid good money to fly over to London and watch that...especially because it’s my birthday.

[the scotsman]

This article is a complete crock.

Firstly, no one, even here in the UK, knows what the show is going to be. So the idea that the NY Times has the inside scoop, when the Sun, Times, Guardian et al dont, even now as I post at 10pm BST on the 25th, is a crock.

There has been a highly securitised preview last night, and only today have any vague and I mean very vague snippets of news filtered out to the British media, let alone the NY Times. And all we know is that those who attended the last preview have said it was and will be ‘incredible’, ‘spectacular’ etc. But still even tonight as I post, no concrete facts have slipped out.

I actually think the writer has written a sarcastic piece on what the ceremony might be, as a satire on PC-ism. But I can pretty much assure you, as a Brit, who is following the Olympics, that what is in his article is conjecture, hype and speculation.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

So, did it resemble this at all?