@lollajames: awesome pic

shiitake! it's starting :O!

@Canvas: The closing ceremony!
#Voldesport

Is anyone else watching the opening ceremony? It's so bad :/ I feel bad for the English ppls.

@Anonymous: I thought the whole music medley part was pretty awesome.

I liked the industrial transformation thing too but imo it shouldn't have stopped in the industrial era.

@Harbltron: you miserable git :P

@Anonymous: As a German this was my "WTF?!" moment of the week.

@stormcloud: Reminded me of this. When they left Mishka the Bear fly off in the closing ceremony of 1980 Moscow Olympics, I was concerned where it would land.

It was quite puzzling to me. That's one huge balloon. Obviously it would land somewhere, wouldn't it? Would some innocent person get suffocated by the flat rubber thing? Or maybe it flew to space? I never got any answers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6DAzM5vtqo

@bhudapop: She was a cavalcade of boredom the whole evening.

@Anonymous: Wait India is still a British territory?
I... I have to spend some time with the wikipedia apparently.

The independent athletes looked like they were having the times of their lives.

The parade of nations is the closest thing most americans get to geography

I only want to watch voldemort duking it out with a bunch of mary poppins and sick kids.