The opening ceremonies are on.

[89th]

I’ve watched a bit of it so far. I liked the boating entrance for the athletes, and enjoy NOT having a stadium with a massive digital display on the floor like the last few games. Always felt like a lazy production approach.

[George K]

I thought, "Nah. Photoshop."

Here's the video. Go to 0:55 to 0:58

I suppose it could be something else, but what?

[Mik]

I am kind of surprised at the reaction to the runway bridge thing as parodying The Last Supper. I don’t believe there was any intention to portray The Last Supper, it was just the camera angle and Mike Tirico made a comment that it looked like that painting. It was a runway, not a table and there were people on both sides of it just like a runway fashion show.

I also find it difficult to believe that Paris, a city shot up several times for images of Mohammed, would deliberately try to offend Christianity.

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in The opening ceremonies are on.:

I am kind of surprised at the reaction to the runway bridge thing as parodying The Last Supper. I don’t believe there was any intention to portray The Last Supper, it was just the camera angle and Mike Tirico made a comment that it looked like that painting. It was a runway, not a table and there were people on both sides of it just like a runway fashion show.

I also find it difficult to believe that Paris, a city shot up several times for images of Mohammed, would deliberately try to offend Christianity.

Supposedly, the program for the ceremony titled the scene “The Last Supper”.

Multiple media (and regular media, not conservative) have referred to the scene as reportedly “deliberately evocative” of the painting.

https://sports.yahoo.com/2024-olympics-opening-ceremonys-last-supper-tribute-draws-criticism-from-harrison-butker-others-130734205.html

I can see your point, Mik, but I think it’s quite probable that the scene was meant to do both.

[Mik]

I'll believe that when I see the program. The organizers denied it. That's good enough for me. There were drag queens on both sides of the runway vamping.

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in The opening ceremonies are on.:

I'll believe that when I see the program. The organizers denied it. That's good enough for me. There were drag queens on both sides of the runway vamping.

I get that, too. I didn’t see it that way until @Renauda pointed it out. I saw it as crass and vulgar, and I didn’t think the Olympics an appropriate venue, but I honestly didn’t see the connection until others mentioned it. But again, there are reports that the program referred to the scene as The Last Sipper, and I could certainly see the director having a double entendre.

[Mik]

I could see the participants trying to slip it in without the knowledge of the organizers.

And yes, it was crass and vulgar, but that's where we are as a society now.

[Copper]

Perverts and the various religions have been throwing this stuff at each other for many long centuries.

We have several here that enthusiastically post this kind of stuff.

This is nothing new.

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in The opening ceremonies are on.:

I could see the participants trying to slip it in without the knowledge of the organizers.

And yes, it was crass and vulgar, but that's where we are as a society now.

I’ve gone to drag shows, hell, I played Brad for 2 years in The Rocky Horror Picture Show that had me running around in a neglige. Fine, whatever. Not at the frigging Olympics.

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in The opening ceremonies are on.:

I’ve gone to drag shows, hell, I played Brad for 2 years in The Rocky Horror Picture Show that had me running around in a neglige.

Pictures or it didn't happen.

Fine, whatever. Not at the frigging Olympics.

And not with kids.

[Mik]

@LuFins-Dad said in The opening ceremonies are on.:

I’ve gone to drag shows, hell, I played Brad for 2 years in The Rocky Horror Picture Show that had me running around in a neglige. Fine, whatever. Not at the frigging Olympics.

AND YOU BUSTED MY BALLS ABOUT A PEDICURE?!?!?!?

I'm gonna have to beat yer ass. In a hunting and fishing kinda way, of course.

[George K]

Thou shalt not mock.

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K I think that the Olympics goes after anybody who uses the name or symbols with out permission. They are "equal opportunity" when it comes to that. LOL

For example

Tom Waddell, the former Olympian who helped found the games, intended them to be called the "Gay Olympics", but a lawsuit filed less than three weeks before 1982's inaugural Gay Olympics forced the name change. This forced volunteers to suspend the sales of buttons and t-shirts in order to remove the terms "Olympic" and "Olympiad" from medals, souvenirs, t-shirts, signs, and programs, which would cost the organization an estimated loss between $15,000 and $30,000.

Event organizers were sued by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) under the U.S. Amateur Sports Act of 1978, which gave the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) exclusive rights to the word Olympic in the United States. Defendants of the lawsuit contended that the law was capriciously applied and that if the Special Olympics were not similarly prohibited, the Gay Olympics should not be either.

Others, like Daniel Bell, cite the IOC's long history of protecting the Olympics brand as evidence that the lawsuit against the "Gay Olympics" was not motivated by discrimination against gays. Since 1910 the IOC has taken action, including lawsuits and expulsion from the IOC, to stop certain organizations from using the word "Olympics." Annual "California Police Olympics" were held for 22 years, from 1967 through 1989, after which, the word Olympics was no longer used for the event. The Supreme Court ruled for the USOC in San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee.

[George K]

[Mik]

Well, just shoot up a few brasseries and they'll get the message. Allahu akhbar.

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in The opening ceremonies are on.:

@LuFins-Dad said in The opening ceremonies are on.:

I’ve gone to drag shows, hell, I played Brad for 2 years in The Rocky Horror Picture Show that had me running around in a neglige. Fine, whatever. Not at the frigging Olympics.

AND YOU BUSTED MY BALLS ABOUT A PEDICURE?!?!?!?

I'm gonna have to beat yer ass. In a hunting and fishing kinda way, of course.

Dude, it was a mostly female cast, including 2 really hot girls that were theater majors at my school playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Janet. The girl playing Frank-N-Furter and I dated off and on, and she went by the name Trillian. Yes, from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The hot blond playing Janet was a total hippy, so dating wasn’t really a thing for her. So yes, I dealt with a fucking wedgie from hell for 2 hours one weekend a month for two years, and it was worth it.

That does not compare with getting your nails done because it feels good and relaxes you…

[Mik]

Keep dancing, Nightie Boy.

[George K]

[LuFins Dad]

This has a real Streisand Effect feel to it.

[Renauda]

An outrage I tell you. A mockery of the cult of Dionysius and the French Romantics. A spit in the eyes of Berlioz, Saint-Saens, Balzac, Hugo, Delacroix, Ingres and Dumas!

Harrumpf!