Fuck NBC for fucking with the 2012 London Olympics

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86. The way I see it...

These cities go to great lengths, sometimes ridiculously great lengths, to attract the Olympics. When a city actually lands the Olympics, the opening and closing ceremonies are not just a tribute to the athletes who participated, but also a way of reaching out to the rest of the world in a spirit of civic pride and the commonality of humankind. It's their way of saying "Hello, World."

And it's big and flashy and sometimes goofy and occasionally the rest of the world scratches their heads at what they're seeing in the main stadium, but it's the host city's gift to us, the ones who couldn't compete, the ones who are cheering on our friends and neighbors from afar.

True, we can do without a lot of the narration, but at least let us watch the spectacle the way the hosts wanted us to see it - uncut, unabridged, and uncensored.