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So, I'm watching the opening ceremonies, waiting to be a teary-eyed, proud Canadian and instead I'm holding my head in shame.

The big, magical moment of the lighting of the cauldron, resulting in embarassing technical problems? FAIL.

Corny, Quebecois guy singing cheezy song? FAIL

Extremely awkward, fat beatnik scatting about what is Canada? FAIL

Weird squares of weat? FAIL

Celebration of every part of Canada except Ontario? FAIL

Subliminal anti-war, peace message song putting me to sleep by K.D.Lang? FAIL

CHANGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM? FAIL

Dangerous, too fast luge course? FAIL

Putting the winter Olympics in the warmest city in Canada, resulting in no snow and all rain? FAIL
 
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I only care if we get the gold metal in hockey..this will get us an A+ olympics...this is not an easy event to pull off without any hicups..so chill off bro..
 
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It was fail but the best part was watching Wayne sweat like a pig and holding on for dear life on the truck. ROFL great job Vancouver!
 
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tarkovsky said:
So, I'm watching the opening ceremonies, waiting to be a teary-eyed, proud Canadian and instead I'm holding my head in shame.

The big, magical moment of the lighting of the cauldron, resulting in embarassing technical problems? FAIL.

Corny, Quebecois guy singing cheezy song? FAIL

Extremely awkward, fat beatnik scatting about what is Canada? FAIL

Weird squares of weat? FAIL

Celebration of every part of Canada except Ontario? FAIL

Subliminal anti-war, peace message song putting me to sleep by K.D.Lang? FAIL

CHANGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM? FAIL

Dangerous, too fast luge course? FAIL

Putting the winter Olympics in the warmest city in Canada, resulting in no snow and all rain? FAIL
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tarkovsky said:
So, I'm watching the opening ceremonies, waiting to be a teary-eyed, proud Canadian and instead I'm holding my head in shame.

The big, magical moment of the lighting of the cauldron, resulting in embarassing technical problems? FAIL.

Corny, Quebecois guy singing cheezy song? FAIL

Extremely awkward, fat beatnik scatting about what is Canada? FAIL

Weird squares of weat? FAIL

Celebration of every part of Canada except Ontario? FAIL

Subliminal anti-war, peace message song putting me to sleep by K.D.Lang? FAIL

CHANGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM? FAIL

Dangerous, too fast luge course? FAIL

Putting the winter Olympics in the warmest city in Canada, resulting in no snow and all rain? FAIL
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The only one I agree with is the weather one. But that could happen anywhere. Summer Games could conceivably be rained out.
Otherwise, go soak your head.
 
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I was also disappointed with the event. Granted $30 mil to spend versus $300 mil in Beijing is a huge difference, but I don't get some of the loser acts they rolled out. KD Lang is all kinds of uncool, the fat dude, and all those panhandlers they recruited from downtown Toronto to fiddle and dance. And of course the cauldron lighting malfunction...Someone needs to get fired over that one.

I was mostly watching the NBC telecast and they were complimentary, but totally underwhelmed.
 
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Ok, I'll just say Ontario.
Some observations

Best part was those 4 giant ice cocks. Seriously, I was waiting for them to shoot fireworks!

That production was entirely run by committee - from all parts of Canada and they communicated their ideas in very long, complicated emails, in both official languages, sent to huge contact lists with everyone making comments, reply to all. It was entirely the most random thing I have ever seen. There was no continuity - it didn't make sense. Some really good parts though, especially the urban poet. Should have hired Cirque de Soleil to run it.

kd Lang - well the rest of the world is going to be confused by her. Is that a dude? Did Wayne Newton get too much plastic surgery? WTF is going on? Oh well, she sounded great.

Michelle Jean looked awesome. The soprano singing the Olympic theme was fantastic.

At least it looked like they had snow in Vancouver.
 
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Iconic One said:
That production was entirely run by committee - from all parts of Canada and they communicated their ideas in very long, complicated emails, in both official languages, sent to huge contact lists with everyone making comments, reply to all. It was entirely the most random thing I have ever seen. There was no continuity - it didn't make sense. Some really good parts though, especially the urban poet. .
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No it was run by an Australian production company http://www.davidatkinsenterprises.com/daemenu.html and your tax dollars paid for him and his company to be drinking screech on George street in St John's that's where they got the idea for the fiddlers and tap dancers. The annoucers on NBC let us in on that bit of info. Ya see if we had Cirque doing the production, they wouldn't have to fly all over this country to get ideas of what Canada is about because they might have some idea since they probably lived here most of their lives or knew someone who did.
Funny how they tried to represent Canada's regions and cultures.......didn't see anything that represented Ontario but then the rest of Canada would prefer us not being part any way.
 
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Each person seems to have their own interpretation of 'Hallelujah', but I've never heard it refered to as a subtle anti-war song.
 
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The only one I agree with is the weather one. But that could happen anywhere. Summer Games could conceivably be rained out.
Otherwise, go soak your head.
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Yeah but with Vancouver, you are practically asking for trouble. It's not like you have the games in Norway in winter and somehow get an unusual warm patch. Vancouver has the most mild weather in Canada.
 
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