Today

Taking Sohpie to the Olympic concert in Hyde Park

Friday

Dinner with my significent other

Saturday

GLOBAL GATHERING!! Get the fuck in

Sunday

Crying.

Humbug!

They certainly glossed over large chunks of our history! I thought it was well done they got the boring bits out the way quickly and then focused on the fun bits, when you run through all the music that they played including the little rave bit and work through the artists you realise for such a small island we've given a lot to the world in terms of music, theatre etc. probably more than any other country.

They also got the creator of the internet on their at the end, the man that invented "www." that is surely something to be proud of!

Beckham looked the nuts.

Yeah Beckham on the speed boat was amazing it looked pre-recorded but was actually live, the olympic opening ceremony is the biggest production of that kind in the world apparently, the next time you see a performance as time consuming, expensive and long as that will be the next olympics and it probably won't be that good.

We created the world!

There was some amusing tweets while it was going on....

# We created the world....so the rest of you could play games.....

Despite glossing over our imperialism we came across pretty well they even had a little NHS part!

Yeah loved that too!

Oh and of course the flame itself, I thought that was well cool!

Someone told me the flame never goes out and is transported in a special enclosed capsule on airplanes and everthing, surely that's not true? Must have gone out at some point, can't still be the original flame!

The bog flame coming together at the end was immense.

big*

haha ;-) (sorry, I'm being really childish!)

It's true, they have 3 lit at all times in case some fucker pours a bucket of water of it. Been the same flame since the first Olympics.

Wiki

The Olympic Torch today is ignited several months before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games at the site of the ancient Olympic in Olympia, Greece. Eleven women, representing the Vestal Virgins,[notes 1] perform a ceremony in which the torch is kindled by the light of the Sun, its rays concentrated by a parabolic mirror. The torch briefly travels around Greece via short relay, and is then transferred to the host city at a ceremony in the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens.[3] The Olympic Torch Relay ends on the day of the opening ceremony in the central stadium of the Games. The final carrier is often kept unannounced until the last moment, and is usually a sports celebrity of the host country. The final bearer of the torch runs towards the cauldron, often placed at the top of a grand staircase, and then uses the torch to start the flame in the stadium. It is considered a great honor to be asked to light the Olympic Flame. After being lit, the flame continues to burn throughout the Games, and is put out on the day of the closing celebration.

So it's the ancient site in Greece's flame that never goes out and the other is lit and run across from Greece to the host country or something?

No, they use the sun to light a flame months in advance in Greece then relay it to the host country.

If I was a torch bearer I would have turned the gas off and relit it using a clipper.

Because it's the same flame months* later. Obviously.

*Or "fractions of a second"

well, yes, but not