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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 5981083" data-attributes="member: 8863">Wait, wait, there's stuff in <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BritainIsOnlyLondon" target="_blank">Britain that's not part of London?!</a>*  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I watched Opening Ceremonies, once again at the mercy of NBC and their horrid coverage.  Now, I don't mind much that they did a tape delay with the ceremony itself because London *is* 4 hours ahead of the US East Coast, so if it was broadcast live, it would have been 3 or 4 on a Friday afternoon (and even earlier in the day for the West Coast).  Bad for watcing.  The smart thing to do is just not read anything on the internet about the ceremony until I actually get around to watching it.   Even with the usual banal blather of Bob Costas et al, it was still better than the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/4419675-post5.html" target="_blank">job they did in 2008.  </a>  Though that was pretty close to the bottom, so they could only go up.  But NBC is getting slammed on the internet repeatedly for their wretched coverage, just go over to something like Yahoo! Sports and you'll be able to read about a half dozen topics of how bad it is.  I can only hope ABC or FOX or somebody can outbid them when their rights to broadcast the games are up.*Yes, I do know better.</blockquote>

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