To have allowed my dc watch the Olympic opening ceremony?

@TheRakesTale always one who objects to a convicted paedophile being allowed to compete in an international sporting competition, where he could win and be applauded on a podium.

You're okay with this?

I'm the only person who's not?

Always one?!!

I still think that was the best lighting of the flame I can recall.

I did wonder about all those people who had paid a fortune for tickets to the Opening Ceremony, did they just have to sit around for four hours, only seeing the bits in their location? They would have been better off watching on TV, they would have been dry, plenty of eats and drink, seen it all and kept money in their bank account. Apparently some of the big screens failed due to the weather.

So what you are saying is that he's a petty, easily swayed person, with no back bone.

I saw many parts of it, it was on as I was doing some jobs and I have to say I was confused too. I saw someone in drag, took no notice then later saw someone else in drag, I watched for a few minutes and saw the library scene. My daughter genuinely asked what's the connection between gay men or drag and Olympics. Very inappropriate for an international sports event. I'm all for inclusion and that includes transgender but this was different, it didn't seem inclusive it seemed pushing an agenda.

What is "people like you" supposed to mean?

Yep, unless you think misogyny is sexy.

Stereotyping much? Perhaps it's because of people like you that we need more events like last night?

Do you mean transphobia? Homophobia is VERY different.

What's wrong with the word Transvestites?

When a publisher of Maths text books used beautiful examples of Islamic art on the covers all hell broke loose, we had a couple of parents demand that we covered all the text books! I said I would cover a couple for their sensitive children but that wasn't good enough, naturally I covered none of them in the end.

He wanted the French equivalent of James Bond and the Queen
So did I but I accept that the world has evolved and the 'equivalent' would have been very boring from an artistic point of view.

Every country has their own artistic style and this was 'very French' in an Avant guarde style. Surely your French husband can appreciate this, even if he doesn't like it.

Sneering at women is always acceptable, especially by other women because it makes you look like one of the cool girls. Misogyny, the gift that goes on giving ….

I wouldn't worry, just ask her this week's correct term, they'll make another one up next week!

Joking apart, I have gone through half a loo roll during the night sneezing and nose-blowing yet I only watched the last hour! Couldn't understand why, maybe I do now.

Charlie Hebdo is the reason they will only mock Christianity, they know the consequences of mocking 'other' religions whose followers will resort to violence for the slightest reason.

The many Americans we met in the States immediately after London 2012 thought it had been wonderful, their only complaints were about their own woeful coverage of events.

What's in this week's Thesaurus acceptable list of words?

I wonder if all the PPs referring to others as "pearl clutchers" realise how sexist that phrase is.

😂😂

‘Going to the library is to borrow books,’
I know right? How vanilla and prudish! Everyone knows libraries almost always lead to threesomes whilst dressed as harlequins 🤣

An assortment of responses:
@Happyhoppy15 Far bigger things to worry about your children seeing such as the huge riots we had recently in Leeds?
Does the phrase "false equivalence" mean anything to you? No? Ok, let's try a different way: Why are you moaning bout a few. rioters. in Leeds when there's homeless people in Luton? Why are you so bothered about the UK when the entire middle east is permanently at war? What about the inhuman suffering the dinosaurs went through? The diplodocuses had it worse than you, so what's the harm in your kids watching some extreme goat-on-goat por.... hmm.
Did you spot the problem yet?

@scottishheather86 Have you ever been to France?
Quite a few times actually, over the years, business and pleasure. Fags are cheaper, the brazieries sell grown-up lager rather than the pish water sold in the UK for the last 10 years, but only in thimble sized glasses. Fishing for Well's catfish, pike, and perch is good in some private chateau lakes. Some of the older people in Bénouville are the kindest people you'll ever meet, and the very best speakers.
What's your question got to do with exposing young children to pornography though.. is that something you do regularly perhaps?

@Willmafrockfit i would say it was nothing! its french, what do you expect
See also:
It's not important, he's a foreign! They get get their heads caved in all the time, what did you expect?
I don't give two hoots, they're ethnics! Of course it was them who stole your purse, what do you expect from them?
You're not important and you don't matter! Fcuk your siht and what you think, I'm [insert group/class/category/whatever pigeonhole here] so I can say whatever I like without fear of repercussion or consequence!

@Peaceandquietandacuppa The library scene was weird but it was obviously inspired by the movie “Jules and Jim” and the nouvelle vague (really famous French era of movie making in the 50s)
Oh piss off Methuselah. If your idea of justification for sexualising children is based on one single black and white "moving picture" that middle aged people's parents are too young to remember, then it's not really a valid point, is it?

@MessinaBloom OP seems to be quite annoyed about what she saw as an ingrained agenda in the Opening Ceremony. This implies she saw traces of it throughout, so she could have simply turned it off. I know I do that if a programme irritates me enough.
So let's have this right.. What you're saying is that a "hypothetical person" can make a tv program to be broadcast to every country on Earth that serves as an intro to a global event which several billion people will watch live, and just show whatever they like in it? You'll stand and fight for "person's" right to show live, uncensored, unregulated acts of zoophilia, coprophilia, torture, human vivisection, rang gape, chilled prawnography, shit that Serbian... did when they encountered humans for the first time at Srebrenica, "forced" this that and the other... You wholeheartedly support a "hypothetical person's right" to put that in front of families and children all across the world and justify it with a simple "pshh, aint my problem bruv, you let em watch it, that's on you" quip.
That's correct, isn't it?

Thank you. The part I watched named the others but not her

I am still not convinced that the drag/dance tableaux was mocking the Last Supper as such. But even of it was, satire aimed the very powerful and oppressive Catholic church is a deep part of French culture.