nuttall1991
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did anyone else see this middle finger salute by Channel 4 to Russia last night?
Good on them!
Good on them!
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vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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Nope.
winjim
Smash the cistern
Well someone else must've. Or are you saying that Channel 4 last night had an audience of only one?
GrumpyGregry
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The snowflakes that turned into Olympic Rings in the opening ceremony were nice. Shame one failed to open. Hang on though, the Russian domestic TV coverage used pre-recorded footage so it looked perfect to the Russian audience.
Whilst I admire C4's rhetoric it is, i feel, much more about making folk in the UK feel better about watching the Olympics than it is about effecting a change in Russian attitudes and mores.
Whilst I admire C4's rhetoric it is, i feel, much more about making folk in the UK feel better about watching the Olympics than it is about effecting a change in Russian attitudes and mores.
nuttall1991
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Didn't know about the pre-recorded images, although I'm not surprised.
And yes I agree, I thought the little scene after the song saying "Channel 4, Born Risky" was more of a "check out how good we are" rather than them wanting to change any kind of homophobic discrimination in Russia.
Bobby Mhor
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The Games are the event...
Activists are using their own agendas to overshadow it..
If I visit another country, I live by its laws...I don't try and change their thinking.
Activists are using their own agendas to overshadow it..
If I visit another country, I live by its laws...I don't try and change their thinking.
ScotiaLass
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Just seen it!
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
Fair enough. That's a coherent pov. I hope you'll agree so is mine
The Games are the event...
The Russian government, and Putin in particular, are using their own agenda to overshadow it.
If I don't like the laws of a country I won't visit it.. and I do what I can to try to change their thinking.
nuttall1991
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Very true.
Although the modern Olympic Games have been used as political platforms many many times before like during the cold war for example.
Bobby Mhor
Wasn't born to follow
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Yeah, with you..
Funnily the last games in Russia were 'agendified' as well although the lasting memories of Allan Wells's missus screeching her man home in the 100 metres was the highlight........................not.
Silver Fox
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I didn't see that but I did see and hear GB snowboarder Billy Morgan come out with "F**k it" live on the BBC this morning. Naughty but amusing.
nuttall1991
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Love it!
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
sure it wasn't "Huck it" cos he's a gnarrly dude.
Silver Fox
Guru
sure it wasn't "Huck it" cos he's a gnarrly dude.
Nope, definitely the F word, but i suppose it was a slip of the tongue being stoked after all those half pipe triple backside melon grabbers he'd been performing, or something like that.
