The Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony

[TheOstrich]

Ton, BBC iPlayer, and if you play it from the 21:05 mark .........

They won't let me do it
Being in furrin parts, y'know - apparently

Ton, currently on the home page of the Daily Mail .....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

[Lozzles]

Just had to look on iplayer...Oh cringe, cringe, cringe!

[JoM]

Ton, BBC iPlayer, and if you play it from the 21:05 mark .........

They won't let me do it
Being in furrin parts, y'know - apparently

Ton, currently on the home page of the Daily Mail .....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

The Irn Bru bridge too

[miasmum]

The little scottie dogs were cute though

[shazsha]

I have no words

I still can't quite believe that someone actually okayed dancing tea cakes

[Rodo]

Oh dear Shaz...........never mind eh.
I didn't know teacakes were Scottish anyway.

[saundra]

Oh dear Shaz...........never mind eh.
I didn't know teacakes were Scottish anyway.

i loved those tea cakes and i buy them sometimes
the rest was truly cringe worthy
and im sorry scotland but very tacky
john barrowman in a purple suit and that kiss
did the queen text a fiver i wonder
why do places like australia send all those people and canada in tartan trousers
i can only hope the sport might be better

[Weka]

I thought I was watching the gay pride parade.
The kids loved it though, they got bored with all the teams walking in, but I loved how they did it in geographical regions, made it heaps easier for me to show sasha on the map where those people came from.

dancing tea cakes, is that what they were.

thanks to the opening ceremony, my kids now know about racism and apartheid, that guys kiss each other, that guys wear skirts, that some teams wore goo on their heads, that Malaysia is a sad country, about war, poverty, and preventable diseases.

And I thought we were just going to be watching light hearted entertainment. I'm not knocking it, non of these themes normally come up in conversation in our house.

oh, and bless, when Rod Stewart came on, I mentioned how he use to be married to a NZ model called rachael hunter, and sasha says, what's a model? The one question of the night I didn't want to answer. I love that she's made it to 5 without any concept of the fashion/diet/commercialism industry.

[Diflower]

Weka I'm very tired, it's late for me to reply properly, but all of your post made me smile
Good on you and Sasha

Actually the (brief) highlights made it look quite good

[Rodo]

Weka - like Di says it was a really good post of yours. I loved it too.