Nominee: Bearded, seated, red-flag-holding man.
Where to find him: Women's trap shooting final.
Job requirements: Wave a red flag whenever a trap shooter fails to hit the clay target. Sit without fidgeting for long periods of time. Look good in a hat.
Why this might be the best job at the Olympics: You have a very important role. You are the official arbiter of success or failure in trap shooting. There would be no trap-shooting events without you, the guy with the red flag. When a shooter misses the clay target, it's up to you to raise your red flag in a confident yet nonjudgmental manner. Your flag may not be bright red, but it's red enough.
As the guy with the red flag, you will get a lot of screen time. Your friends and family will have ample opportunity to see you on NBC's online trap-shooting livestream. “Look,” they will exclaim, “there he is, my good friend and/or relative, the guy with the red flag who's indicating that the woman with the gun just missed!”
Unlike other Olympic functionaries, the red flag guy is occasionally allowed to show some flair. Here, for example, he gives a slight nod of his head as he lowers his red flag. That's so red flag guy.
If you are lucky enough to be the red flag guy, you get to sit very close to the action, in your own chair, and don't have to worry about whether or not the person sitting next to you smells bad, because there is no one sitting next to you. Look at you, red flag guy, sitting there in the back-right of this clip, your red flag between your legs. You are the boss of trap shooting, in your own chill way.
Also, you get to wear a hat.
Why this might not be the best job at the Olympics: The job is sort of a downer, given that red flag guy springs into action to call out an athlete's failures. It's also fairly repetitive—flag up, flag down; flag up, flag down. Also, you have a lot of responsibility. You can't ever lose focus, or get up to get a Coke, lest you fail to raise your red flag at the appropriate moment. You also have to remember to bring the red flag every morning, and it seems like it would be easy to leave it at home if you are in a rush.
How this could be a better job at the Olympics: The red flag guy should have two flags: the standard red flag to indicate a missed shot, and one that says “good job” that he can wave to indicate a hit. Also, instead of a folding chair, the red flag guy should sit in a recliner.
Verdict: I'll give the job of “red flag guy” 3 out of 3 points for exposure, because it's hard to be more visible than the red flag guy at a trap-shooting competition. 2 out of 3 for enjoyment, because every day is a good day when your job entails sitting in a chair, wearing a cool hat, and waving a colorful flag. 1.5 out of 3 for enviability, because while he's cock of the walk today, at some point in the future the red flag guy will probably be replaced by a red flag robot. And 1 out of 1 in the category of “having a really good view.” 7.5 out of 10 for red flag guy. This is currently the best job at the Olympics.
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Funny bikes, little plants, Dame Judi Dench and some insanely scary spiders - the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympic opening ceremony was certainly eventful.
Not that you'd have known it from the rather subdued start...
It's going to be a long night. #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/tsQ9TtbULD
— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) August 5, 2016
It began with the beginnings of life itself.
#OpeningCeremony gets going with a recreation of a Russian athlete's urine sample under the microscope. pic.twitter.com/iF85LLeLTG
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) August 5, 2016
And when evolution kicked in people across the world got a little bit scared.
ah lá os zika vírus #OpeningCeremony #CerimoniaDeAbertura #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/04YpWlUXNf
— pedro rafhael (@falarafha) August 5, 2016
Who else was thinking the same thing? #OpeningCeremony #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/eE1TJ2cJ4o
— NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) August 6, 2016
Just turned on the Olympics, saw giant robot spiders, and NOPE'd back out.
— Matt Silverman (@Matt_Silverman) August 6, 2016
Soon, humanity made an appearance.
#OpeningCeremony THE WHITES HAVE ARRIVED
— blige (@THECAROLDANVERS) August 5, 2016
Here come the Europeans in a dance section called “the arrival of death and syphilis”. #OpeningCeremony
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) August 5, 2016
All of a sudden suburbia sprang from the ground.
Am I the only one who seeing the similarity? #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/GJTKo26bRI
— Tommy McFLY (@TommyMcFLY) August 6, 2016
There were high hopes of who could make a guest appearance.
When Pitbull parachutes out of a helicopter all will be fine #OpeningCeremony
— Chris Stark (@Chris_Stark) August 5, 2016
He must have been disappointed because this happened.
HOLY SHIT GISELE!!!! #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/1UiwGrqi8w
— Purpose Tour Pics (@PurposeTPics) August 5, 2016
Gisele at #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/9tg2PXsTRA
— Declan Cashin (@Tweet_Dec) August 5, 2016
Out of shot, Gisele is still walking. Nobody's told her to stop. She's half way up Sugarloaf mountain. It's all she knows #OpeningCeremony
— innocent drinks (@innocent) August 5, 2016
But then the dancing started!
Shite. #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/lTqajrOanu
— Limmy Live: England (@DaftLimmy) August 5, 2016
Why am I still awake?#Rio2016 #OpeningCeremony
— The Media Blog (@TheMediaTweets) August 5, 2016
But at least the sound quality was good.
Get the same sound quality as the #OpeningCeremony by listening to an iPod through a tin can from a great distance.
— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) August 5, 2016
Sound engineer's getting sacked in the morning #OpeningCeremony
— General Boles (@GeneralBoles) August 5, 2016
The sound is shite. It's like what it must sound like living next to Hampden. #OpeningCeremony
— Limmy Live: England (@DaftLimmy) August 5, 2016
In fact Limmy appeared to be even more pissed off than usual at the whole thing.
Shut your eyes and just listen to that shite. #OpeningCeremony
— Limmy Live: England (@DaftLimmy) August 5, 2016
ECHOEY FUCKING SHITE. #OpeningCeremony
— Limmy Live: England (@DaftLimmy) August 5, 2016
But someone seemed to be enjoying it.
'yaaaaas I love this one' #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/gEQj6SlCYc
— General Boles (@GeneralBoles) August 5, 2016
Then there was a touching section on pollution and the climate narrated by none other than Dame Judi Dench.
In my head, Judi Dench narrates every moment of my life #OpeningCeremony
— Declan Cashin (@Tweet_Dec) August 5, 2016
Global warming #OpeningCeremony thought this was about sport #moodkiller
— Dave Readle (@DaveReadle) August 5, 2016
Oh God, we're getting a tedious bilingual lecture on Global Warming at the #OpeningCeremony of the #RioOlympics ...Please, stop it.
— Tunku Varadarajan (@tunkuv) August 5, 2016
look at the dancing and music OH BY THE WAY THE TREES ARE FUCKED AND WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE and now more dancing #OpeningCeremony
— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) August 5, 2016
We were only an hour in and it was already proving divisive.
That was one of the best #OpeningCeremony's ever. #posttruthpolitics
— Pokemom (@lilyallen) August 5, 2016
That was the SHITTEST opening ceremony ever #OpeningCeremony
— AR (@aroueno) August 5, 2016
And there was the small matter of when teams would appear in the arena considering Portuguese spelling mixed things up a bit.
Guessing which alphabetical team will come out next is certainly testing my non-existent Portuguese #OpeningCeremony #Rio2016
— Claire Phipps (@Claire_Phipps) August 5, 2016
And in the UK it was already getting late.
Question: are they classing the UK as UK or Great Britain? Just this ceremony is in alphabetical order....and it's 1am... #OpeningCeremony
— Robert Midgley (@RobertMidgley07) August 6, 2016
AND THEN THE TEAMS ARRIVED!!!
Here come Australia #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/blwf7dvYTX
— innocent drinks (@innocent) August 6, 2016
Australia rocking the Thomas Cook holiday rep look #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/x7ZOYYhm40
— General Boles (@GeneralBoles) August 6, 2016
It soon became apparent the commentators were engaged in some kind of fact-off competition with each other.
*doing olympics commentary*
— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) August 6, 2016
"Ah Bulgaria, A fun fact about Bulgaria"
*checks wikipedia*
"He was the head womble... dammit"#OpeningCeremony
#OpeningCeremony #Rio2016 Factoids, tripping off the tongue like lead weights....
— Alastair Stewart (@alstewitn) August 6, 2016
Five fun facts about Andorra. It is bedtime isn't it? #OpeningCeremony
— Jane Merrick (@janemerrick23) August 6, 2016
"Finland. Not land-locked. Thought by many people to be home to Santa Claus, up in the North."#Rio2016 #OpeningCeremony
— The Media Blog (@TheMediaTweets) August 6, 2016
If Wikipedia pulled its website for just ten minutes, this commentary could get quite exciting #OpeningCeremony
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) August 6, 2016
There were a few unexpected entrances.
I'm on my way to the Opening Ceremony #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/I9ff7CIKpB
— Darth Vader (@DepressedDarth) August 6, 2016
The Empire better win gold or someone is getting force choked #OpeningCeremony #Rio2016
— Darth Vader (@DepressedDarth) August 6, 2016
Delegação da Nova Zelandia #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/nuj7NTOTjK
— Mordomo Olímpico (@mordomoeugenio) August 6, 2016
By now people were tired and realising waiting for all those teams to make an entrance was going to take a long time.
Me waiting for my country's team to make their entrance #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/C3nMJXUCvv
— 9GAG (@9GAG) August 6, 2016
Then we got to “M”.
México? not today #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/3hJpdUWo7T
— hir∆m (@estadohiramico) August 6, 2016
Meanwhile in London...
In case you're wondering, this is what the London 2012 stadium looks like during the Rio 2016 #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/Mu3dYDgPPG
— Francis Whittaker (@frittaker) August 6, 2016
But at least we had things like this to keep us entertained.
NOW THIS IS HOW YOU FLAG BEAR #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/66a5U3i24K
— innocent drinks (@innocent) August 6, 2016
Oh, and those bikes...
So the #OpeningCeremony went with the Saw angle & used the bikes. Still dk what I'm watching. pic.twitter.com/BmIK9oU6iq
— Nick Short (@PoliticalShort) August 6, 2016
As a gay man, I can comfortably say that these bikes are very gay. #OpeningCeremony #Olympics2016 pic.twitter.com/k1OR8bXAgx
— #NeverHillary (@ScottPresler) August 6, 2016
I don't get the bikes. #OpeningCeremony
— Rosemary Barton (@RosieBarton) August 6, 2016
Then for some reason - can't think why - everyone went a bit la la over the Tongan flag bearer.
Current flights been booked by females around the world ✈️ #OpeningCeremony #Olympics2016 #tonga pic.twitter.com/vkfH61Io40
— δεmγ (@Demidinho) August 6, 2016
Me trying to find flights to #Tonga. #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/zQhMT4fVeu
— Jesse (@ncfac) August 6, 2016
Then things took a turn for the weird when it transpired the actual CIA were getting involved.
The best thing about the #OpeningCeremony is that the @CIA has turned it into a massive quiz https://t.co/LgrMEKsm6n
— Chris York (@ChrisDYork) August 6, 2016
Celebrating #Rio2016 #Olympics #OpeningCeremony? We'll be asking poll questions for you to test your world knowledge.
— CIA (@CIA) August 5, 2016
Hint: #WorldFactBook
Of corse what we were all waiting for was the entry of Team GB and whether or not flag bearer Andy Murray was going to carry on with Brit tradition and carry it one-handed, because apparently that's a thing.
Andy Murray looking stoked to be Great Britain's flag-bearer...#OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/XdVbbBSRdS
— Sportsbet.com.au (@sportsbetcomau) August 6, 2016
Then it was time for the unveiling of the rings.
And finally, the Olympics rings are revealed... https://t.co/VU4WHfqJNT #OpeningCeremony #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/cFCNOfvUQ1
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) August 6, 2016
Is it just me or do the rings look like they are made of marijuana? #OpeningCeremony
— Sonja Nikcevic (@sonjanik13) August 6, 2016
The honour of lighting the Olympic flame went to...
BREAKING: Brazilian marathoner Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima lights the Olympic cauldron for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 6, 2016
@AP literally who
— inquiett (@inquiett) August 6, 2016
@AP who?
— Bradley Headrick (@HeadrickBradley) August 6, 2016
But at least it looked pretty.
"Give them back their flame."
— The Simpsons (@Simpsons_tweets) August 5, 2016
"No! The Olympics have preempted my favorite shows for the last time" #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/PMVGaD6Us3
Imagine the scenes if Barry Manilow does a live version of Copacabana as the Olympic flame is lit. Stuff of dreams. #OpeningCeremony
— Ollie Heptinstall (@OliHepy) August 5, 2016
Anyway, that was about it.
Wasn't as good as London 2012 though...
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