It would be pretty cool if we used all the Royal pomp, as you say. Horsies and soldiers marching, and ooh, the Queen! In her carriage!
Why can't we do thaaat? *whine*
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They should totally do a changing of the guards type affair. And that fancy gymnastics group who won Britain's Got Talent. And Boris Johnson just cycling around, rescuing maidens.
It's going to be amazing.
Quote: Nat Wicks @ September 16 2010, 11:04 AM BSTThey should totally do a changing of the guards type affair. And that fancy gymnastics group who won Britain's Got Talent. And Boris Johnson just cycling around, rescuing maidens.
It's going to be amazing.
Then drop an anthrax bomb on the rotten lot before machine gunning the survivors.
I think they should just do nothing. At all. It would accurately reflect the feelings of much of the country toward the event, and save thousands of pounds.
Maybe equip the stadium with automated death rays though; cleanse all the sporty foreign tossers whilst we have a chance.
Quote: Aaron @ September 16 2010, 11:31 AM BSTI think they should just do nothing. At all. It would accurately reflect the feelings of much of the country toward the event, and save thousands of pounds.
They could do it with just volunteers, and then it would cost nothing. Nothing, I tells you! They're already expecting 70,000 volunteers for up to 10 days each, which is in the order of millions of manhours. Totally free! Our population will be expending millions of extra manhours directing traffic and stuff, and (somehow) that doesn't count as a cost.
Quote: Aaron @ September 16 2010, 11:31 AM BSTI think they should just do nothing. At all. It would accurately reflect the feelings of much of the country toward the event, and save thousands of pounds.
Not the worst idea put forward, by any means.
I suspect there will be very little that's British about it, and a lot of emphasis about how multi-cultural we are.
Heh, yes, probably. 
I wonder who will get to 'script' it?
Probably a 15 year old from an estate in South London.
I was there at the Euro96 opening ceremony. Considerably lower key - a few horses with knights, a giant replica of the trophy and Emlyn Hughes.
And you Tuumble and you.
Quote: sootyj @ September 16 2010, 9:39 PM BSTAnd you Tuumble and you.
You are indeed a gent...and a cheeky arse!
They could have syncronised scaffold dismantling,followed by the councils very own street sweeping display team, and the lighting of the used chip shop oil fired olympic flame by the president of the swan vesta match company, accompanied by the sweet music of Yorkshires combined colliery brass bands conducted by the great Arnold Thistlethwaite.............Stunning 
Quote: bulletdisco @ September 16 2010, 9:45 PM BSTfollowed by the councils very own street sweeping display team
I hope not- I'm seriously afraid of street sweepers. 