[Annoying-Mouse]

****ing hell, that's more than half of the world's population. Don't fact like these just blow your mind. This is going to be the most uniting event for the human species so far. If only I was a top hacker so I could sneak this video in:

[Dr00n]

realistically there won't be 4billion viewers

[SirMasterKey]

Rubbish. It will be 7 billion or noone.

[Snagprophet]

European countries including the USA, Australia, Canada and NZ, China, India, and various people across Africa, the Middle East, South America and the rest of Asia. It sounds plausible.

[A level Az]

So there will be 4 billion people laughing when we follow up this:







With this:

[Phantom Lord]

We better not mess it up then

[ForensicShoe]

And they'll witness a load of pigs, cows and chickens stumbling across an artistic interpretation the English countryside

I really hope, for the sake of this country's reputation, Danny Boyle has done a good job with it.

[Jack93o]

Probably pluck that figure out of the air


I mean, how is 4 billion even possible?

isn't half the world supposedly living in poverty? There are only 7 billion people in the world.

[Annoying-Mouse]

(Original post by Dr00n)
realistically there won't be 4billion viewers

Er, why the freak not? You do realize more than 4 billion people have TV, right? In 2008, around 2 Billion+ tuned in for the ceremony and over all 4 billion between the whole game.

[UPPSY]

Orwell said sport is war sans guns

[Palatial Veranda]

Yeah. Bang on that is.

What a load of s**t.

[Snagprophet]

I still don't understand what showing people having picnics in a countryside showcased by various public sector workers doing some West End musical jig characterises English and British culture. I'd say our greatest cultural assets are food and music, perhaps shove a few fantasy dragon/battle scenarios with an epic rock n roll concert and that's what we should've done. Perhaps perform several orchestral pieces originally performed by British Orchestras, such as Doctor who, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, the Planets Suite.

[Annoying-Mouse]

(Original post by The_Male_Melons)
When it comes to the Rio Olympics, more people will watch it. Something about Brazil that makes the world happy. 4 Billion is not realistic.

London is going to be embaressing. We spend billions, cancel eldery care so they can freeze to death cos we can't "afford" it, kill cancer patients cos we can't "afford them", closed down hospitals, hospices cos we can't afford to run them, close down schools cos we can't afford them, made poor kids homeless cos "we can't afford them", to afford a pathetic stadium that will hold the opening ceremony. It doesn't matter how many Indian Kids in Mumbai sowing towels so we can sell it at £74.50 a pop, it won't make ease our deficit and debt caused by these olympics.
Don't worry, old people, cancer patients, homeless kids, and dying people who are in need of going to hospital or hospice, we must be proud cos we have the olympics that is going to make us so much better.

Beijing was amazing! Rio will be amazing! London will that horrible embaressment.

What idiotic tripe. China and Brazil have 10x more poverty than UK yet you pathetically praise them for spending billion yet criticize us when our spending of billions wouldn't even save many lives whereas for China and Brazil it could save thousands. Save lives vs improving lives? Which is more important?

[Dalek1099]

(Original post by Annoying-Mouse)
Er, why the freak not? You do realize more than 4 billion people have TV, right? In 2008, around 2 Billion+ tuned in for the ceremony and over all 4 billion between the whole game.

and you think everyone is going to watch it?-it isn't realistically possible fro an audience of much higher than 30 million in the UK and almost all 60 million in the UK,own TVs and that means factor that in with the rest of the world and because 8 billion people don't even exist we won't get 4 billion.People will always have other things to do/watch on TV.

[EonBlueApocalypse]

Nowhere near that amount is going to actually watch the Olympics.

[Foghorn Leghorn]

Lol just like 1 billion people watched wills and kate get married.

I don't even know if 4 billion people have access to a tv!

[Fahim711]

i just hope the olympics is the biggest fail that GBR has had. it would allow me to say yes, THAT will never happen in my lifetime.
England is sh*t and the most corrupt country in the world along with America.
hopin al qaeeda get rid of this country once and for all, G4S or no G4S america and britain can't stop a few men who have made homemade bombs

[Left Hand Drive]

Looks like I'll be in the minority then!

[MagicNMedicine]

This sounds like an epic opportunity for one of the organisers to arrange a flash mob to propose to his girlfriend

[NuckingFut]

So half the worlds population have never made a phone call, and suddenly four billion of them not only have access to a tv or internet, but also want to watch the Olympics?