Frank Turner's on. OK, now he's finished, back to Minder on ITV (summat). I can now say that I enjoyed the Olympics. Now it's finished I wish I'd watched more!!!!
I've seen Frank Turner live in Newcastle. Though I much preferred him when he fronted Million Dead. A great band. Saw them at Welly.
I believe the proper term would be B-Boying or breakin'. Break dancing is frowned upon. "An important thing to clarify is that the term 'Break dancing' is wrong, I read that in many magazines but that is a media term. The correct term is 'Breakin', people who do it are B-Boys and B-Girls. The term 'Break dancing' has to be thrown out of the dance vocabulary." -Timothy "Popin' Pete" Solomon. Electric Boogaloos "B-boy... thatâs what it is, thatâs why when the public changed it to âbreak-dancingâ they were just giving a professional name to it, but b-boy was the original name for it and whoever wants to keep it real would keep calling it b-boy." - Santiago "Jo Jo" Torres. The Rock Steady Crew "Break dancing is a term created by the media! Once hip-hop dancers gained the mediaâs attention, some journalists and reporters produced inaccurate terminology in an effort to present these urban dance forms to the masses. The term break dancing is a prime example of this misnomer. Most pioneers and architects of dance forms associated with hip-hop reject this term and hold fast to the original vernacular created in their places of origin. In the case of break dancing, it was initially called b-boying or b-girling." - Jorge "Popmaster Fabel" Pabon
for those of a similar same age to me, this is really really crying out for commentary by Eddie Waring and Stuart Hall. Oh, and someone needs a huge sad papier-machee wrestler as a flag bearer! Now that would be a knock-out!!!!
That was ****ing mental! He was a diplomat of some sort I think. Crazy guy. I thought the ceremony was ace, miles better than I expected. Mind you, I didn't expect anything at all frankly. I've heard that some of the foreign critics have described it as "too British", which I think was entirely the point. It was slightly abstract and nodded heavily to popular culture at times, so I think far more relevant than if they'd just got a load of people to dress up as Beefeaters or something.
I watched it through to the end, mesmerising it was. I think they should have had Mr Bean in the speedboat and Beckham doing the Kenneth Branagh role though. That guy doing the Nazi salute, wonder what the story was behind that.
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I thought that at first, but watched it again and it's the wrong hand to be the Nazi salute. Not that i'm a goose stepping, jack boot wearing facist or anything. I enjoyed the ceremony.
