Olympic opening ceremonies

amateursurgeon said:
Only watched part of it before becoming overwhelmingly annoyed that my tax money was being spent on bread and circuses. I have no problem with enormous jingoistic extravangazas, just being forced to pay for them.

The NHS bit was lul-worthy. WTF was that about? Two people in each bed? That about sums the NHS up these days.

Also I enjoyed this MP destroying his career on twitter by calling the ceremony "multi-cultural crap"
Olympics opening ceremony was 'multicultural crap', Tory MP tweets | Politics | The Guardian

It was particularly sweet as he went to the same school I did, and he was an arrogant little prick then too.
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Thought the NHS part was a slight dig at the Conservative government, which is why they played the exorcist theme during it.
 


Trojan2012 said:
Atleast we know America didn't invent WWW.. Lulz they butthurt and mad..
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Well they invented the underlying network of the internet, Berners Lee just invented the world wide web part of it.

He invented it whilst at CERN, a European Union (plus norway and switzerland) funded institution so you could say a British employee of the EU invented the WWW.
 
pixelo said:
Well they invented the underlying network of the internet, Berners Lee just invented the world wide web part of it.

He invented it whilst at CERN, a European Union (plus norway and switzerland) funded institution so you could say a British employee of the EU invented the WWW.
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I believe the 'TCP' part of TCP/IP was a British invention too. The UK government didn't see the point of it so no funding given and it was taken-up elsewhere.

Also the first industrial use of a computer was in England, which is fitting as the UK was the first industrialised nation.
 
wezcountry said:
I believe the 'TCP' part of TCP/IP was a British invention too. The UK government didn't see the point of it so no funding given and it was taken-up elsewhere.

Also the first industrial use of a computer was in England, which is fitting as the UK was the first industrialised nation.
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And we British invented Colossus which was the world's first programmable computer :food-smiley-010:
 
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