Things you just don't get

[HRoi]

I feel like you need to be on LSD to properly view this Olympic closing ceremony

 

[Numbernine]

Sorry I missed it.

 

[Omega Male]

I feel like you need to be on LSD to properly view this Olympic closing ceremony

It's French and "cultural" -- so pretentious, bombastic and nonsensical could be safely assumed well ahead of time.

 

[double00]

i've noticed at certain events ( weddings , funerals etc ) they'll have a slideshow that ends up showing pics from the event itself and I find myself wondering : do people really enjoy looking at photos of themselves from 20 minutes ago ? it's not even a memory yet !

 

[beargonefishing]

The chorizos weren't big and juicy enough for you?

I need it ticker and juicier I guess.

 

[Cause Moe]

Mexican chorizo, including New Mexico and Arizona, can include the entire animal of any local meat-bearing animal. Pork is prime, but I've had beef and venison chorizo in Aztlan. A real treat was chorizo made of javelina (a local wild piggy-thing, [Greggery Peccary, an upcoming swine] the size and shape of an American football). Homemade from a javelina killed and ground that same morning, with local Hatch chilis, a local sheep-gut skin, and a vat-sized shitload of Aztlan home-brewed beer from a gigantic plastic vat. What a memorable feast (and hangover)! I should really post this as "thing that are making me happy," although it was years ago. I really wished that night that I could speak Spanish. "Madera."

 

[venividivicibj]

Chorizo. I've tried hundreds probably, and don't like any of them.

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This is an all time bad take.

 

[Texasmade]

This is an all time bad take.

As a Texan, that’s just as bad as John Cornyn’s brisket

 

[beargonefishing]

This is an all time bad take.

Not as bad as chorizo, amirite.

 

[Omega Male]

This is an all time bad take.

 

[Michigan Planner]

I feel like you need to be on LSD to properly view this Olympic closing ceremony

It's French and "cultural" -- so pretentious, bombastic and nonsensical could be safely assumed well ahead of time.

I only saw about 20 seconds of the closing ceremony but all I could think about was that I enjoyed it better when it was on the Simpsons as Cirque de Purée:

 

[Cause Moe]

I only saw about 20 seconds of the closing ceremony but all I could think about was that I enjoyed it better when it was on the Simpsons as Cirque de Purée:

I enjoyed some of the Opening Ceremony spectacle. The parkour torchbearer running across the rooftops of Paris was cool. I liked the "silver surfer" horse galloping down the Seine. But by the time it came to the Closing Ceremony, I had definitely tired of all the high-tech GCI eyewash shіt. It began to remind me of some of the interminable CGI scenes in the Star Wars prequels or The Hobbit; the scenes that didn't do anything to advance the plot, and were completely boring circle-jerking of CGI for CGI's sake.

It was, mostly, all canned and pre-recorded. For a lot of it, the fans in the arena were watching the exact same TV show I was watching. It was very clear that almost all of the musicians were lip-synching and miming.

Blowing out the lantern at the end was nice.

 

[Texasmade]

I enjoyed some of the Opening Ceremony spectacle. The parkour torchbearer running across the rooftops of Paris was cool. I liked the "silver surfer" horse galloping down the Seine. But by the time it came to the Closing Ceremony, I had definitely tired of all the high-tech GCI eyewash shіt. It began to remind me of some of the interminable CGI scenes in the Star Wars prequel or The Hobbit; the scenes that didn't do anything to advance the plot, and were completely boring circle-jerking of CGI for CGI's sake.

It was, mostly, all canned and pre-recorded. For a lot of it, the fans in the arena were watching the exact same TV show I was watching. It was very clear that almost all of the musicians were lip-synching and miming.

Blowing out the lantern at the end was nice.

The US and GB closing ceremony uniforms made them look like a bunch of tacky tourists. The US one was by far the worst. Not too sure wtf RL designers were thinking.

 

[Cause Moe]

The US and GB closing ceremony uniforms made them look like a bunch of tacky tourists. The US one was by far the worst. Not too sure wtf RL designers were thinking.

It seems to be a long-standing tradition that team USA dresses like tacky tourists. I guess it's part of the national identity.

 

[beargonefishing]

The cheesesteak sandwich. The fact that cheese whiz tells you on the can that there's no need to refrigerate is dispositive.