Olympic Games Paris 2024

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I’ve got Australia totally dominating the USA in the pool. Your women are ugly.
 

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where are you guys watching these events because i have youtube tv and don't see anything on any of the NBC family networks
 

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Is the Peacock app not working for anyone else? Thank goodness this isn’t an ND game
 

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France, a nominally Catholic country, chose this display to welcome viewers around the world.

Popped all my enthusiasm for the games like a balloon.


Mocking the last supper. That's always nice.
 

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I say we call their bluff and tell them it was their last supper. Fat They/Them Jesus wouldn’t be happy.

Can you imagine the conversions at that dinner table…. “want to nail me after dinner and see if I res-erect”…

I love that we have not only normalized the behavior but normalized mocking Jesus on the world stage. And if Christians try to defend themselves they hate gays. Things are sort backward these days, pun intended.
 

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It’s a waste of time anymore. You had a basketball team that hates the county it is representing on the court. They should end the Olympics after those is year.
 

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Flag football will be in the next Summer Olympics in LA.

Side note... I wish the Olympic athletes at least for some of the smaller sports would be supported by the government. The US seems to be getting less medals each Olympics by tougher competition.
 

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Thought the opening ceremonies were largely cool. Like the idea of having the parade of nations on vehicles. Made it drag much less. I thought the visual of the painting characters leaving their frames to watch the procession from the Louvre windows were really cool.

I don't have much of an issue with the Last Supper thing but can understand why it might rankle some. The iconography used isn't from the literal last supper attended by Christ, but from a popular painting in the 1500s painted by what was reportedly a very gay man. It's not a holy relic.

Excited for the games and that people are talking about this as the controversy and not some human rights abuses being committed by the host country.

Also think having the flame hovering is neat.
 

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Thought the opening ceremonies were largely cool. Like the idea of having the parade of nations on vehicles. Made it drag much less. I thought the visual of the painting characters leaving their frames to watch the procession from the Louvre windows were really cool.
I agree, I assume the LA Olympics will have a very tame Opening Ceremony after this one.
 

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Thought the opening ceremonies were largely cool. Like the idea of having the parade of nations on vehicles. Made it drag much less. I thought the visual of the painting characters leaving their frames to watch the procession from the Louvre windows were really cool.

I don't have much of an issue with the Last Supper thing but can understand why it might rankle some. The iconography used isn't from the literal last supper attended by Christ, but from a popular painting in the 1500s painted by what was reportedly a very gay man. It's not a holy relic.

Excited for the games and that people are talking about this as the controversy and not some human rights abuses being committed by the host country.
Bro, you couldn’t just leave it be incredibly divisive? Did you really have to bring logic and history to this conversation. Boring. And how dare you say da Vinci was….
 
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