Olympic Opening Ceremony

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Silly people. The entire Olympics are GCI.

What's GCI?

[Alex]

CGI in French.

[Kevy Baby]

Gemini Cricket Interpretation

[Not Afraid]

Or CGI in dyslexic.

[Nephythys]

Link

Another "fake"

[scaeagles]

I read that and I'm not sure if I was saddened or disgusted.

For those not opening the link, apparently the little girl who sang in the opening ceremony was lip syncing and the real singer was a 7 year old girl. The 7 year old girl won the contest to sing, but apparently wasn't cute enough to be in the ceremony because of buck teeth.

Edited to add:
I have no problem with lipsyncing in performances such as these. Performing in arenas with noise and echos is incredibly difficult, and I would assume even more so for a young girl.

[LashStoat]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Silly people. The entire Olympics are GCI.

Dear Dsylexcis Not Afraid,

There is more to this simple statement than meets the eye in one's head.

If it's OK for China to do CGI segments (and infer that others were not computer assisted - but I won't go there again -yet) then the gloves will be off for the future in terms of "reality".

GCI [sic] costs a bomb, but doing this kind of $hit in real-time with the whole world watching is even more costly.

Now that the precedent has been set, I'm predicting freaky $hit like alien craft appearing and beaming down stuff. At this rate we'll have Homer Simpson as MC.

At least the 'stuff' won't include The Resident Shrub and The First Lady (aka The Huge Bruise), so it's all good.

Not long now, 7 and a bit months worth of swimming.

Love and hugs,

The Stoat XXX.

[LashStoat]

On the issue of "Faking" stuff.

I want to make it really clear that I don't care if fake stuff happened to give us all a great show. Now (or even past 'shows').

That has never been a prolbem [sic] for me.

The prolbem [sic] happens when I'm told something is A when in fact it is B.

That is, do anything, but don't lie to me about it...and yet this simple ask is so often dishonoured...and most often by those seeking honour. China wanted to impress the World, but now they are finding that cheats never prosper.

Though in this case they probably will break even.

Go figure.

Love and hugs,

The Stoat XXX.

[LashStoat]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I read that and I'm not sure if I was saddened or disgusted.

For those not opening the link, apparently the little girl who sang in the opening ceremony was lip syncing and the real singer was a 7 year old girl. The 7 year old girl won the contest to sing, but apparently wasn't cute enough to be in the ceremony because of buck teeth.

I couldn't agree more.

If you've ever read/seen George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' in which everyone is born equal in a communist society, but others are more equal, the side-lining of the buck tooth youngster absolutely describes the mindset, even in 2008 when the "C" word is just an echo of the past.

What's more worrying is the notion that folks are told stuff and the majority don't stop to think "but wait on-that can't be right".

...and London to a brick, after spending a gaffillionty dollars on the ceremony, they won't spend a square-plugged dime on the little girl's teeth, which makes my cheese unhappy.



Hugs,

The Stoat.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by LashStoat

If you've ever read/seen George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' in which everyone is born equal in a communist society, but others are more equal

I've read it....just ask Scrooge McSam.

It is actually my favorite novel.