Switzerland celebrated the opening of the world’s longest train tunnel, a 17-year project that cuts through the Alps and cost €11 billion to construct – but all anyone’s talking about is its ridiculous opening ceremony.
Efforts to highlight the incredible engineering accomplishment of the 2,300 meter-deep tunnel resulted in an utterly strange opening ceremony that reported cost €8 million.
Ceremony commemorates Gotthard Base Tunnel opening in Erstfeld
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Co-ordinated by German director Volker Hesse, the performances were supposed to represent various aspects of Swiss culture, but, at times, ended up resembling a Kanye West fashion show.
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More than 600 actors reportedly took part in the show, which at one point, included a topless creepy-looking bird that hung over nine performers, representing the nine miners that lost their lives during the tunnel’s construction.
Soon after the elaborate performance began, viewers took to Twitter to ask the question on viewers’ lips: what is actually going on here?
While it may live on as the opening ceremony of all ceremonies (here’s looking at you, Rio Olympics organizers)…
…the Swiss project also managed to deliver the world’s longest and deepest train tunnel on time and within budget, so they were probably entitled to let off some steam.
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WTF…
CHILDREN OF BA AL…………
Whiskey tango Foxtrot!!!!!!!!!!!!!? What kind of freak show was that?
Did I just see a porno?
Theater production in a tunnel…i hope
They did the same thing when they opened the CERN project.
Yes, one of mankind’s greatest achievements celebrated with the “Dance of the Lesbians”. How appropriate! Sick, sick, sick these rich bastards are. They say that so-called performance is “art”? I say it’s nothing short of devil-worship. I mean, come on, horned beasts and lesbo love on full display, “could it be, could it be, SATAN?
In your face, up the whaz-zoo, splashed on the screen for the whole world to see, SATAN had great TV ratings, she always does. Tell me that wasn’t a SATANIC ceremony! The symbolism alone was a cold slap in the face.
What has our world devolved to? Great technological discoveries continue as our souls swirl down the $hitter. Idol worship on steroids!
Yes, I’m glad I’m in the “Twilight” of my life and don’t personally have to be concerned with such matters although the future of my children’s children’s, children, at this point, doesn’t look possible.
People will go on attending to their trivial matters as civilization implodes. I guess they’ll figure it out when the gas stations don’t have gas to sell and the food mart shelves are empty.
They still won’t figure it out Millard…
Eyes Wide Shut.
Good call. It definitely brings that movie to mind.
They murdered Kubrick for refusing to cut 4 mins. of damning footage from that movie, BMF.
He grossly underestimated the true extent of the evil he was dealing with.