| July 28th, 2012 |
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Sooo, we're watching the Olympic opening ceremony.
It can best, I think, be described as a combination of the following elements:
"... This is bullshit."
"What the fuck? That's kind of inappropriate."
"Yes, that does represent that aspect of that era. If by that era, you mean a different era, about fifty years later.
"My, how cheery we are about the annihilation of the lives of millions of people. It's impressive how much they've managed to pull that off while entirely ignoring colonialism."
And all that comes after featuring a display of choral unity that showed the United Kingdoms united-ness via:
- Flower of Scotland, a song that is, in fact, entirely on the topic of kicking the English the fuck out of Scotland
- Jerusalem
REALLY ENGLAND. AT A TIME WHEN RELATIONSHIPS WITH ISLAMIC WORLD ARE KIND OF STRAINED, YOU FEATURE JERUSALEM TO OPEN THE OLYMPICS.
Oh well. This is the country which has taken the Olympic Games, international symbol of peace and goodwill, and surrounded the stadium with possibly the most heavily militarised border in history, and added the truly charming touch of installing surface to air missiles on residential buildings and the greatest militarisation of the city of London generally since the fucking Blitz.
ETA, after they showed Her Majesty the Queen parachuting into the stadium with a fictional character:
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is the titular head of state of a number of countries, not just those of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
As such, I would like to request that the people of Britain show my monarch some fucking respect.
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