Olympic Ceremony 4 Tony and Papa Smurf flew off in a balloon

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The tower looks very pretty. I'm still sad they didn't set it on fire.

They. Hung. The. Flag. Upside. Down.

The Brits can dine off this for YEARS in Anglo-French rivalries.

Somebody tipped Becky off about how long it was going to be.

I must admit the balloon was good. A middle finger salute to global warming, but good.

Comments like that'll get you on a list somewhere (taps nose).

Only you care.

I hope they put Papa Smurf on the news, I don’t want to have to watch it all, the last 40 mins was quite enough!

With hindsight, I rather wish I'd watched Gardener's World

Someone in part trois has just posted that the Olympic cauldron is not lit with fire but it's lights and smoke generators! Sacre bleu!!!

It’s over.

Clare Balding et all have already stopped talking about the opening ceremony and are talking about the sport.

Oh yeah!! Shit!!!

This made me laugh

The BBC montage actually makes it look quite good.

But we were there.

And there was me at the start thinking Lady Gaga would be the weirdest part of the night

Oh, I think not..!

The montage showing the only 30 seconds worth viewing.

Send the person responsible for this to the guillotine!

This is memeworthy

4 hours...... 4 hours we have all lost of our lives on a pile of shite.

Night all. Its been draining but fun.

Hmm. Twitter and other posts would appear to differ from that opinion.

Isn't an upside down flag a sign of distress?

They watched the same ceremony as us - all im saying is, I totally get it.

Honestly that was one of the funniest threads I've read.on MN for ages, I'd had a bit of a shit day and I laughed SO MUCH!

It was total shit. But you were all marvellous and I laughed so hard I woke the cat.

Where is the balloon off to? Why the smurf? Is the elderly cyclist ok? Why Europop? How many athletes will get ill? So many questions.

It was inSeine

I think a lot of people care actually.

You can't be hanging flags upside down.