I went to the Opening Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. This is nothing on the parochial rubbish in Victoria!
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Too many speeches. Horrible entertainment. What a waste of an evening... I hope Schifty has been having fun with it on Twitter though.
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Victorian parachoialness (?word) is not something that you want to measure yourself against.
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It's like a bad weddinggreeneyed wrote:Too many speeches. Horrible entertainment. What a waste of an evening... I hope Schifty has been having fun with it on Twitter though.
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How is Birmingham a "young" city? It looks like an industrial dump. I like how their iconic image is of a massive highway interchange getting you out of there.
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What is with all this rapping poetry?!
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Birmingham's "entertainment" doesn't fill me with confidence that it will deliver a better opening/closing ceremony.
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Now that would be entertaining
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They really are doing their best to make a grey, dirty city look like there are people who wear yellow and pink shirts. And that they even have gay people. I wonder what the Church of England thinks of that?
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They are really bringing out every Australian Idol contestant now!
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They must have invited Birmingham along to make the GC look good. That was really bad.
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Sadly no Vanessa Amarossi or Savage Garden.
Useless.
Useless.
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Are the Commonwealth games just going to bounce between the UK and Australia now?Dr Zaius wrote:They must have invited Birmingham along to make the GC look good. That was really bad.
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Kate Ceberano has been pretty good. But is she really the biggest headline act the Games could get?
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It would appear so. The 2026 games are up for grabs.
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They are singing Kylie Minogue... but there's no Kylie. This is really low rent.
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Clear difference here between the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games.
Olympics: Kylie Minogue singing a Kylie Minogue song
Com Games: Two reality TV show runners ups singing a Kylie Minogue song
Olympics: Kylie Minogue singing a Kylie Minogue song
Com Games: Two reality TV show runners ups singing a Kylie Minogue song
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Now they are singing Olivia... no Olivia!
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The Olympics had Olivia Newton John singing.
The Com Games have someone, I have no idea who, singing Olivia Newton John
The Com Games have someone, I have no idea who, singing Olivia Newton John
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It's like a cover band at the pub
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They booked Kate Cebrano but didn't book Frenté??
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They could have at least got Daryl Braithwaite and James Reyne. Surely Daryl could have sung Horses.
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Realistically, I suspect that there is just isn't the budget for it
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I'm very very surprised Daryl didn't get a guernsey.greeneyed wrote:They could have at least got Daryl Braithwaite and James Reyne. Surely Daryl could have sung Horses.
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Lots of fireworks going off in broadbeach
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Daryl is 69 (yes that's hard to believe), but he still stand up!
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James Reyne is only 60... tragedy.
Channel 7 now apologising for the closing ceremony.
Channel 7 now apologising for the closing ceremony.
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Wow Channel 7 slamming it. Unprecedented.