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Originally Posted by fishsandwich
I don't know if you got the BBC commentary or something else, Costello, but the BBC commentary on the Athlete's Parade was horrific. I think they managed to mention every single genocide in the last 100 years except those directly perpetrated by white people.
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lol... No, mine was an American station. Yours sounds worse than mine. Most of it was just fluff. And they kept complaining about how fast the countries were going by. They didn't have time to share all their interesting info.
The South African team, for example, has an athlete who had to prove her gender (if I understood them correctly) and another with prosthetic limbs which were officially ruled to not give him an advantage over other athletes.
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There was a twenty-minute bit in the entertainment part that was all about the National Health Service, though. I liked that, because it was a big "***** you, David Cameron", and also because I think Mitt Romney was in the audience.
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lol... I heard about that on the radio this morning. A bunch of nurses on a bed?