i think this is a bad troll
you should be ashamed of yourself
you should be ashamed of yourself
LINK"The Lebanese judo team forced International Olympic Committee officials to erect a barrier between themselves and the Israeli judo squad, Friday afternoon in London, just hours before the Games’ opening ceremony, reports Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot. Both teams were scheduled to train inside London’s ExCeL center but Lebanon’s team did not want to be seen by the Israeli one, and IOC officials heeded to the Lebanese’s demand after the team’s coach demanded separation."
I also cannot understand why Danny Boyle didn't reference The Smiths or Morrissey. I listened intently, maybe I missed it on a 'comfort break', but I can't recall any reference whatsover. I was expecting the tremolo ecstasy of 'How Soon Is Now' to honour Johnny Marr and also expected 'Every Day Is Like Sunday' to link Betjeman, Blackpool and our unofficial poet-laureate.
Morrissey and Marr have a legitimate grievance over this and I'm sure that grievance will be aired in Manchester tonight. I expect Moz will be incandescent at the James Bond / Her Majesty helicopter sketch and he will surely have noted that 'U2' were allowed a full length song in the soundtrack. Whilst the Irish in Britain are tremendously important in the story of modern Britain: surely The Pogues / The Smiths would have complimented Rotten / Lydon better than U2. U2 come from Ireland and do not represent the Irish In Britain. McDonalds couldn't get a 'product placement' in the opening ceremony but the 'U2 Corporation' managed it.
As the riffs of 'Save The Queen' and 'Pretty Vacant' echoed out in the stadium, I imagine the Monarch allowed herself a wry smile at her almost complete rehabilitation since 77 and Diana-gate. Perhaps she engineered this snub in retaliation for 'The Queen Is Dead' lyrics and the 'We Hate William & Kate' meme. Or perhaps the lingering toxicity of the NME 'racist' meme lingers on and Danny Boyle was prevented from referencing Morrissey because Morrissey's entirely legitimate querying of recent immigration policies jarred with the overall multicultural 'London as centre of Human history' storyboard?
McDonalds couldn't get a 'product placement' in the opening ceremony
McDonald's...unveiled its biggest ever restaurant here at the Olympic Park which is expected to serve around 50,000 Big Macs, 100,000 portions of fries and 30,000 milkshakes during the London Olympics. The 3,000 square-metre restaurant, which will be one of four McDonald's restaurants in the Olympic Park, stretches over two floors, has 1,500 seats and will employ around 500 staff for the Games.
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This is just silly. I think Moz/Smiths fans in general tend to have a massively over-inflated sense of Morrissey's importance and this is a prime example. The likelihood is that the Queen has never given a passing thought to Moz and his attention-seeking antics, and neither have a vast majority of the crowd there last night, most of whom won't even know who he is. Do you really think the Smiths are comparable to U2 on the world stage? Expecting them to be honoured on a night where the Queen is present is like complaining that Moz didn't perform at the Jubilee or doesn't yet have a knighthood. He hates the Monarchy as an institution and everything endorsed by it - why should he clamour for recognition from it? It's laughable to think that Morrissey or Johnny Marr would give a shit about this stuff, let alone "raise hell" because they weren't included. I wonder if fans of Echo & the Bunnymen are moaning because their favourite band weren't included on the soundtrack? Seriously ridiculous.
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This is just silly. I think Moz/Smiths fans in general tend to have a massively over-inflated sense of Morrissey's importance and this is a prime example. The likelihood is that the Queen has never given a passing thought to Moz and his attention-seeking antics, and neither have a vast majority of the crowd there last night, most of whom won't even know who he is. Do you really think the Smiths are comparable to U2 on the world stage? Expecting them to be honoured on a night where the Queen is present is like complaining that Moz didn't perform at the Jubilee or doesn't yet have a knighthood. He hates the Monarchy as an institution and everything endorsed by it - why should he clamour for recognition from it? It's laughable to think that Morrissey or Johnny Marr would give a shit about this stuff, let alone "raise hell" because they weren't included. I wonder if fans of Echo & the Bunnymen are moaning because their favourite band weren't included on the soundtrack? Seriously ridiculous.
You misunderstand and misrepresent my views. U2 are nothing to do with British culture and should not have been featured in the soundtrack to the opening ceremony. The Arctic Monkeys are hardly a world-known band were given a disproportinate platform. I am absolutely sure the Queen is aware of Morrissey and John Lydon's republican protests during her reign.
I am not a 'fan' (derivative of 'fanatic'): I am a member of his Audience. I do not 'massively overstate' Morrissey's importance to British culture, I merely reflect popular opinion, of which you seem to be remarkably ignorant:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/livingicons/vote/
#1 David Attenborough
#2 Morrissey
#3 Paul McCartney
David Attenborough's absence was also a serious error of judgement as he is a world cultural figure. Paul McCartney's prominence was entirely disproportionate. I do not see 'Echo & the Bunneymen' on this list of voted British icons.
Don't expect me to indulge you with further responses when you clearly have cognitive issues with my writing. Your failure to actually read what I wrote ridicules yourself: not me.
regards
I'm amazed anyone stayed awake through those whole ceremonies to know whether or not they played a tidbit of The Smiths.
London should be embarrassed.
"no oppressive corporate brand intrusion"
I don't recall any opening ceremonies featuring the intrusion of corporate brands. I mean, outside of the commercial breaks every 15 minutes or so. But I found putting a sour old Queen in a James Bond skit to be more annoying than any corporate logo could ever be. And at some point before I completely nodded off I saw some propaganda for socialist health care going on. Though the whole thing was all pretty incoherent and extremely dull. When I woke up again, during the parade of countries, the commentators on NBC were noting that these ceremonies refused to have any moment of silence for the 40th anniversary of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes.
I guess we know why that was:
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i enjoyed the ceremony and I enjoyed amusing myself with tin-foil hat conspiracy theories as to why Marr and Morrissey were glaringly absent.
You misunderstand and misrepresent my views. U2 are nothing to do with British culture and should not have been featured in the soundtrack to the opening ceremony. The Arctic Monkeys are hardly a world-known band were given a disproportinate platform. I am absolutely sure the Queen is aware of Morrissey and John Lydon's republican protests during her reign.
I am not a 'fan' (derivative of 'fanatic'): I am a member of his Audience. I do not 'massively overstate' Morrissey's importance to British culture, I merely reflect popular opinion, of which you seem to be remarkably ignorant:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/livingicons/vote/
#1 David Attenborough
#2 Morrissey
#3 Paul McCartney
David Attenborough's absence was also a serious error of judgement as he is a world cultural figure. Paul McCartney's prominence was entirely disproportionate. I do not see 'Echo & the Bunneymen' on this list of voted British icons.
Don't expect me to indulge you with further responses when you clearly have cognitive issues with my writing. Your failure to actually read what I wrote ridicules yourself: not me.
regards
Perhaps you need to post this on a discussion forum about the politics of American healthcare.
There were no corporate advertising breaks throughout the BBC coverage. Never has been in any Olympics. This may be an alien concept to you as an American.
American, however, should be deeply embarassed by the inane and fatuous comments of Mitt Romney's face-time attention whoring.
That opinion poll was rigged by Morrissey obsessives (like the ones on this very site), voting for him again and again and again and thus rendering the whole thing completely invalid. I'd love to know how Paul McCartney's presence in the poll - a former Beatle with more money and fame than any other British musician in existence -was disproportionate but Morrissey's wasn't. "General opinion" of Morrissey is that he was a cult figure for disaffected youth some 25 years ago, and now he's just a loudmouth twat with racist tendencies who keeps his face in the papers by comparing factory farming to the Holocaust. Look at the comments section of any Morrissey-related article in the national newspapers and you'll soon pick that up - or even better, go to a pub tonight and start a discussion about him. The world beyond Morrissey-Solo is not particularly kind to our man.
Also, you are on this website, therefore you are a "fan" like everyone else. Please don't pretend that playing with semantics and parroting Morrissey by calling yourself simply "a member of his audience" makes you any different.