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Title: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Lise @ Work on Aug 12 08 07:24
Wow, the stuff they don't show you. Kinda funny in a sad, sad way. I just say, 'stop dissecting everything and enjoy the game for goodness sake!'

   [DIV class=storyheader] [H2]Fakery at the Olympic Games[/H2] [H4]Opening Ceremony singer lip-synched song because actual singer wasn't pretty enough while CGI fireworks added to telecast[/H4]

[DIV class=feed_details] [H4]Cam Cole, Vancouver Sun[/H4][SPAN]Published: Tuesday, August 12, 2008[/SPAN]

The skies may be clearing up over Beijing, but the face China tried to paint on the 2008 Olympic Games is breaking out in blemishes.

 Main Street of Happyville turns out to be a collection of expensively-built facades, with nothing behind them. Or worse, something awful behind them: a series of very large lies - and the worst of it is that the Chinese hosts don't even appear to realize how bad they may end up looking to the rest of the world.

 The Opening Ceremony we all gushed over was not what it seemed. Those blazing footprints of fireworks that "walked" in the sky from Tiananmen Square to the Bird's Nest stadium? Pre-recorded and digitally inserted into the telecast.

 [A href="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=3175db58-0f2c-489c-9cf6-01591d35588c"]Read More[/A]

Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 08:59
     
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Van on Aug 12 08 09:01
They should just have got Pixar to do the whole darn thing then!!
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 09:09
     

 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 09:50
         
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 12 08 09:57
I watch what I watch, purely for entertainment.  It wouldn't bother me to learn the whole thing is digitally mastered.  The parts I don't enjoy, I don't watch.  I don't care what the political undertones are, or what country is winning the most or who is singing or not singing.  I enjoyed the opening ceremonies one hundred percent.  I was totally entertained.  If it was supposed to change or alter my opinions on anything, I missed it. I'm ok with that.  

  I have watched and enjoyed the gymnastics.  I don't care which country did the best.....I just like watching these talented people.  I wince for them when they err and feel joyful for them when they succeed.

  I will not watch any events, that under any other circumstances would bore me to tears, just because it is the Olympics.  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/konfus/n020.gif" border=0]    
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: ShyT on Aug 12 08 11:20
The girl who sang at the opening wasn't the one we saw. They only used her voice, the real singer was replaced because it was thought that she wasn't pretty enough.  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: ShyT on Aug 12 08 12:09
Sorry, I've repeated what was already written in the first message.
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: 49er on Aug 12 08 02:10
 [DIV class=storyheader] [H4]Opening Ceremony singer lip-synched song because actual singer wasn't pretty enough while CGI fireworks added to telecast[/H4] Wouldn't surprise me that the little girl who appeared on TV is the illigimate child of a high official and his mistress

 



The Opening Ceremony we all gushed over was not what it seemed. Those blazing footprints of fireworks that "walked" in the sky from Tiananmen Square to the Bird's Nest stadium? Pre-recorded and digitally inserted into the telecast.

 Its called propaganda, targeting their own........lets hope NBC did not participate in this with their delayed broadcast of the ceremonies to us.

 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 12 08 02:25
I remember those fireworks, they talked about how beautiful they were. So I think they played along.  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 02:33
   
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 12 08 02:45
I don't know why, but none of this is a big deal to me.  We see distortions of the truth on our own 6 o'clock news about issues of far greater concern, than a show of glitzy entertainment.  Lip sinc-ing ?  Oh well.  Seat fillers ?  Common practise at all kinds of events. (wasn't Kramer a seat filler at the Academy Awards once ? (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)    

  We have become a nation of nit-pickers and have destroyed our own ability to enjoy anything.  One has to wonder why anyone would attempt to do anything, knowing it will be ripped to shreds by the growing masses of cynics.  My opinion of the show that I enjoyed so much, hasn't changed a bit. (am I displaying blatant signs of Pollyanna-ism ?  Oh well, to that too )  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: purelife on Aug 12 08 02:49
I don't find this a big deal either, PC.   It was an excellent performance and it doesn't change my mind.    
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 12 08 02:52
[img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/a056.GIF" border=0]  Cheers Lady purelife.  May we continue to enjoy the world in our rose tinted glasses.
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 02:54
     
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: purelife on Aug 12 08 03:05
P.C. wrote:
[img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/a056.GIF" border=0]  Cheers Lady purelife.  May we continue to enjoy the world in our rose tinted glasses.



 Yes.  In our world, we don't fake anything.  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 03:10
   
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: purelife on Aug 12 08 03:14
Are you sure she pointed in the right direction?
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 12 08 03:15
Fake fake....fake fake

  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c008.gif" border=0]

  A classic !  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 03:16
     
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Van on Aug 12 08 03:20
LOL!

I think the only real thing we see on TV is the weather...

Wait a minute! They are fake too!! Darnit!!
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 12 08 07:42
OK.  Hub mentioned, that he thought he remembered the commentary on the opening ceremony being quite clear, that the 'footsteps' light show was NOT real.  He said he was never under the impression that this segment WAS real.

  We just rewound the clip......and this is a quote.....'Some aspects of the ceremony are almost like cinema in real time.....but THIS is quite literally cinematic'.

  So....umm....where's the deception ?      
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 08:03
     
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 12 08 08:06
Exactly Michel.  

  So who's coming up with all this negative 'propaganda' around this ?  Hmmmmm ?
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: purelife on Aug 12 08 08:20
I think they are people who didn't watch the ceremony. ;-)  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 08:22
     
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 12 08 08:25
CBC isn't that big on the totem pole to NBC, because I remember then saying that it wasn't fake.

 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 12 08 08:29
 butt buttt butt I want to see it, it's the only part actually I wanted to see.

  Well see ?  That's the thing......it doesn't make it any less beautiful.  It's entertainment.....remember ?[/DIV]
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 08:34
     
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 12 08 08:38
I gotcha Michel.   [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c014.gif" border=0]
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 12 08 08:40
CBC isn't that big on the totem pole to NBC, because I remember then saying that it wasn't fake.


 

That quote was from Bob Costas from NBC.  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 12 08 08:43
Hmm I have bad hearing I guess, wait that's the night springfield had the 1L mug of beer for 3 bucks at this mexican place.... lol


 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 08:43
   

 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 12 08 08:47
Hmm I have bad hearing I guess, wait that's the night springfield had the 1L mug of beer for 3 bucks at this mexican place.... lol

  As does, apparently, the idiot who wrote the article as well as the idiot editor that approved it.
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 12 08 08:50
lol Everybody was drunk! cool! glad I wasn't the only one.

Lots of people are going to complain about something small at these games, those are the folks with an agenda of some kind.

Still want to know how VANOC is going to light the torch which will be outside, from inside a dome. lol
Now that calls for some David Copperfield.
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 08:55
     
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 12 08 08:57
Well SD,  before you make another comment about Vancouver being sure to suck......let's not compare Vancouver to Beijing......or winter Olympics to summer Olympics for that matter.  It's like comparing apples to oranges.    
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 08:59
   
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 12 08 09:07
The budget for winter Olympics is far less than that of the summer Olympics....everywhere.
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 12 08 09:08
 I'm pessimistic/worried we're the Olympics right after Beijing which has set the new standard for everything. It's the first Olympic ceremony to be done completely inside. I'm just worrying too much about it being bad, because it doesn't sound all that exciting at the moment. Then again, I remember Batman fan boys complaining that Heath Ledger's Joker was going to be horrible. lol

   
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 09:08
     

 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 09:10
     
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 12 08 09:13
Well that's a typical SD real life conversation, I find the strangest analogies off the top of my head, it comes out of nowhere, out of left field usually. lol  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 12 08 09:14
I'm pessimistic/worried we're the Olympics right after Beijing which has set the new standard for everything. It's the first Olympic ceremony to be done completely inside. I'm just worrying too much about it being bad, because it doesn't sound all that exciting at the moment. Then again, I remember Batman fan boys complaining that Heath Ledger's Joker was going to be horrible. lol


  Well, again.....we have to remember that the opening ceremonies are entertainment.....they are NOT  the competition.  

  Nobody will be trying to 'match' the Beijing's ceremony.  Everyone recognizes its greatness.....and recognizes that it will be a long time for it to be matched. (if in fact that is the goal)  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 12 08 09:19
 I disagree. National pride is on the line with these ceremonies, each country wants to top the last and make it bigger and better. It's to stir up national pride, so everything gets bigger and more flashier every Olympics. Especially since Sydney it seems. They seemed to have started it.  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 09:22
   
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 12 08 09:25
(http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/8.gif) .....36,  36,  36....

    Ahh no.....no bells. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 09:26
   
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sawdust on Aug 12 08 09:27
Compare winter to winter and summer to summer  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 12 08 09:28
Again.....it was quoted on the same airing......'It will be a long time, if ever, that anyone will ever top or match this performance'.  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 12 08 09:31
Yeah but 1936 wasn't a big laser show.
The big thing about Atlanta was Ali coming out of nowhere, that was the 'special effects'
Barcelona an archer shot at the torch. Which I thought was the coolest thing ever.  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 12 08 09:35
(http://fabulousfinancials.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/glass-half-full.jpg)

. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)    
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 12 08 09:37
Oh please, lol. If you saw me right now I can't keep a straight face. hehe lol

This is more like it:

[img style="width: 308px; height: 326px;" src="http://bildbevis.se/images/20060112000555_overflow.jpg"]
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 09:38
     
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 12 08 09:43
LOL
Who was watching? lol
I don't know if it's true but I heard somewhere that the first over the air satelite signal was a Hitler speech. So, technically the aliens will first hear Adolf if they get the wave out in space. That's what they said in that movie Contact, don't know if its true.

(in earth science class we'd chide the teacher about Dante's Peak being scientific. She'd laugh and say its hollywood, talked to a volcanogist and he said, we were right, so we watched the film. ha!)
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 12 08 09:47
     
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 12 08 09:48
LOL

oh dear.... I didn't see that one. lol
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 12 08 11:27
BBC journalist's blog:
[a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/2008/08/not_quite_what_we_thought.html"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/2008/08/not_quite_what_we_thought.html[/a]
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 13 08 06:33
Amazing how fast the masses will jump on the negativity bandwagon, regardless of the facts.  It has the icky air of a linching.
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Van on Aug 13 08 06:36
Sportsdude wrote:
I'm pessimistic/worried we're the Olympics right after Beijing which has set the new standard for everything. It's the first Olympic ceremony to be done completely inside. I'm just worrying too much about it being bad, because it doesn't sound all that exciting at the moment. Then again, I remember Batman fan boys complaining that Heath Ledger's Joker was going to be horrible. lol

 
 haha. Heath Ledger....I haven't seen that movie yet.

  I never knew people were actually worried about things like this, with the way the world is deteriorating at the rate it is? If it is the crappiest ceremony in the universe, at the end of the day, Vancouver will still be Vancouver. If people judge Vancouver by the ceremonies, then they can get a life. I know I could care less either way.  I just hope our snowboarders can even keep up with everyone else.

  You know, our overcrowded roach infested hospitals, crumbling schools, drug problems, and exploding homelessness issue will still be there before and after the olympics. Heaven forbid Vancouver has a crappy opening ceremony! GASP!

  How many countries actually care about the Winter Olympics anyways?  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 13 08 07:39
   
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Van on Aug 13 08 07:42
Yeah, true. There won't be much in between the two will there?
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 13 08 07:49
     
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 13 08 08:56
Well I'm going to BE there.....handing out THESE for ALL !  (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)

  [img style="WIDTH: 370px; HEIGHT: 334px" height=545 src="http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/20125.jpg" width=545]
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 13 08 09:01
   
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Van on Aug 13 08 09:09
I would go if I get groovy glasses like those!
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 13 08 10:05
 Olympics are all about infrastructure and or fixing it. In '04 the Prime Minister and media was talking about how Greece 'modernized' itself. Atlanta put itself on the world map, Sydney did the same, London is using their olympics to 'transform' the East End. Russia's Olympic slogan might as well be "We're back bitches, booya!". lol

Vancouver's legacy will be world recognition, the building boom we saw leading up to the olympics, sea to sky, canada line, and maybe a future street car system (they're going to have a prototype running around, last time they did that was in Expo with the skytrain).
   
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: purelife on Aug 13 08 10:14
Do those glasses come in black, PC?
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 13 08 10:35
 Michel wrote (in another thread):  3 front pages today the province, national post and globe and mail (so far for the one I have seen) denounced the fakery of the ceremonies. Sore losers in action. Lots of distorded articles too about Russia and Georgia. It smell war.

  I see the Vancouver Sun wasn't one of them.

  That fool Cam Cole has the journalistic integrity of a National Enquirer hack.  I'm disappointed to see him persist with his garbage for yet another day.....and for it to once again be okayed by the editors.

  He refers to people who objected to his report as 'China defenders'.  What the ?  Aren't they just people who objected to his ill-informed article ?  Are journalists no longer interested in the accuracy of their reports?  He's going on and on about the unethical behaviour of others,  when in fact what he is doing is so far beyond unethical....(regardless of the fact that it has been brought to his attention that his report was incorrect)  grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

  Pardon my rant.....I'm fuming.

  [A href="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=85690542-fcd2-49e7-8b71-a30c80f5a939&p=2"]http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=85690542-fcd2-49e7-8b71-a30c80f5a939&p=2[/A][/DIV]
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 13 08 10:41
Well he works for CanWest, not the greatest media chain.  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 13 08 10:47
I'm not sure what difference that makes.  My point is, he's still writing crap and the Vancouver Sun is printing it.  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 13 08 10:50
Maybe they want him to write crap. Newspapers love writers who are shit disturbers, they sell papers.  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: 49er on Aug 13 08 10:51
BREAKING NEWS.......those little children representing all the ethnic groups in China were Han chinese and not from the ethnic group each was dressed in  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 13 08 10:55
not surprised there.  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 13 08 10:57
You're joking, right ? Ummm....that's what 'representing' IS.   They didn't say these are 56 children from each of the 56 ethnic groups.  They said.....56 children wearing the costumes representing the 56 ethnic groups.

 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 13 08 11:02
They did? I thought they said 56 kids of each ethnic group, then again 1L of Miller Light and 2 bottles of Löwenbräu... lol hilarious night

 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 13 08 11:03
Yes.....they did.
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 13 08 11:10
Ah, I knew something was up, didn't seem right. cute kids though, oh wait I must be defending China now with there each kid has to look good. lol
 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 14 08 07:40
I think it has become clear, that we'd better come clean right now before our reputation is irreparably tarnished.  

  THIS is not a man.  THIS is a representation of a man.  This representation of a man is representative of only a small portion of Canadians.  

  (http://www.crosscountrybc.ca/dbimages/816.jpg)      
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 14 08 07:45
     
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 14 08 07:48
I feel better already for exposing the truth.  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 14 08 07:51
I keep hoping and hoping that we are not put in the position of having to use snow machines to properly dress our snow clad mountains.  That would just be wrong.

  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c022.gif" border=0]
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 14 08 07:58
     
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 14 08 08:01
Pure fakery.  We are frauds.  

  I feel shame.  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/traurig/a010.gif" border=0]
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Van on Aug 14 08 09:30
Darnit! All this time I thought this thread was about a bakery at the olympics...I could really use a bagel right now.
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Van on Aug 14 08 09:32
Michel wrote:
I doubt, there's snow even in summer in some mountains here. Maybe add more snow, just another fraud lol  
  Whistler is weird. Some years it snows too much. Other years it rains all winter.

  Oh please ph please let there be snow....the world won't respect us if there is not!!

*drops to knees in prayer*
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 14 08 09:34
     
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Van on Aug 14 08 09:36
Michel wrote:
lol I didn't knew it could have year without snow in Whistler.  
  Or snow...then rain...snow...then rain....

Most years are pretty awesome though.
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 14 08 10:02
 Darnit! All this time I thought this thread was about a bakery at the olympics...I could really use a bagel right now.

  LOL.  I wonder if the newspaper could get away with retracting their story, with an apology for their careless typo and any misunderstanding it may have caused.

  [img style="WIDTH: 536px; HEIGHT: 351px" height=545 src="http://www.westfieldsfarm.com/images/files/Opening%20WHague%20inside%20shop1.jpg" width=812][/DIV]
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 14 08 10:27
Ah well it didn't snow in Tofino either, all the snow was fake. I don't remember journalists complaining about that. lol  
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Van on Aug 14 08 10:29
Sportsdude wrote:
Ah well it didn't snow in Tofino either, all the snow was fake. I don't remember journalists complaining about that. lol
 
   Did a paper report there was snow in Tofino?
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 14 08 10:31
Nope, NBC just said "Tofino hasn't had any snow this year, too warm, so it's all human made."

 
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Van on Aug 14 08 10:32
Sportsdude wrote:
Nope, NBC just said "Tofino hasn't had any snow this year, too warm, so it's all human made."

 
 COO COO!!
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 14 08 10:52
Could they have said Torino ?
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 14 08 10:53
I can't see anyone giving a rats petooti if it snows in Tofino.
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Van on Aug 14 08 10:56
LOL! I am surprised that Tofino was even mentioned on NBC? Snow or otherwise??
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 14 08 10:58
I'm thinking SD had beer in his ears again.
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 14 08 10:59
     
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: P.C. on Aug 14 08 11:02
Yes.....it's right next to Athens.
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Michel on Aug 14 08 11:04
     
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Van on Aug 14 08 11:24
Maybe they were talking about a cocaine problem in Tofino? snow??
Title: Re: Fakery at the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 14 08 12:04
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS

ROTFL

oh dear. Torino/Turin, Tofino. gosh that's embarassing.
bah I keep thinking about the beach.