Why I'll Never Cheer for a British Team

[richtea]

What are the benefits of putting caffiene up your a$$?

I've heard rumours that doing the same with MDMA helps you reach your destination quicker. Can anyone confirm?

 

[Marva32]

To the OP, other than your fellow Brit-bashers in the Clinic, do you think anyone cares?

This isn't becaue I'm a 'Brit-basher' I would have said the same thing about any team that would have laid it down to protect a placing.

 

[taiwan]

I've heard rumours that doing the same with MDMA helps you reach your destination quicker. Can anyone confirm?

You'd have to take a look at yourself once you started incorporating suppositories in your Saturday nights IMHO.

 

[Marva32]

Well, you appear to.

To the OP - your title begs the question, did you ever cheer for a British Team?

While I won't say that I've cheered for the British team, I have cheered for a number of British riders, Sir Chris Hoy is one of them. The comments about him being involved with the planning of this option has certainly tainted him as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Benotti69]

You pop into Dublin and ask the locals if you're in "West Britain". I'm sure they'll say yes and maybe even buy you a pint.

Crack on, it'll be worth a go.

Missed the point entirely yet again.

If I go into a city centre pub in Sheriff St, the tenters, Lord Edward st, Parnell St, Bolton St, Dolphins Barn(Dublin FYI)etc and ask the patrons what kind of folk play rugby in Ireland and they'll tell me amongst the many Bradley Wiggins tone of answer, West Brits.

But if I go into Donnybrook, Foxrock, DunLaoghaire or Killiney(Dublin FYI) i willl be told the opposite, Irishmen.

Depends where one asks.

 

[Benotti69]

According to Wikipedia (sorry), the term `Great Britain' was first used in 1474, however Geofrey of Monmouth used the term Britannia Major (Great Britain) to differentiate it from Britannia Minor which was Brittany. I'm mainly Celtic, a mixture of Welsh, Irish, Cornish, with smaller amounts of English and Scottish in me, I prefer to be British, and not English, but that's just my romantic notions.

That is fine with me. The Celts are a fantastic race.

Some fine romantic notions on display in here lately

 

[richtea]

You'd have to take a look at yourself once you started incorporating suppositories in your Saturday nights IMHO.

Still, something to keep the teenagers occupied no doubt.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

I saw the thread title and thought it was going to be Daryl doing his little self-hating jew impression, but no, it was just a yank.

Yawn.

 

[taiwan]

Man my ignore list is getting long these days...

 

[BroDeal]

I saw the thread title and thought it was going to be Daryl doing his little self-hating jew impression, but no, it was just a yank.

Yawn.

Great. It's not just a American conspiracy to hate on the British. The Jews are in on it too. I bet it is only a matter of time before the French and Aussies join the effort.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Great. It's not just a American conspiracy to hate on the British. The Jews are in on it too. I bet it is only a matter of time before the French and Aussies join the effort.

I'm going to assume that is trolling, because it would be an insult to your intelligence to explain the many ways you have deliberately misinterpretted what was said.

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

This thread will change course immediately, or suspensions will be mercilessly handed out.

Susan

 

[Darryl Webster]

Sort of, I saw a map of early (may have been 5th c) population movements around the British Isles, it was like looking at clothes in a washing machine. Celtic people moved from the West Country to Brittany and founded many of its churches. Native British/Celtic peoples were pushed to western and northern margins first by the Romans and then by the Anglo-Saxons. DNA tests have shown there is still an east/west split in the UK with those living in the East having more Anglo-Saxon genes. Then of course we have our Royal family....The lions of England flag that is flown for many sporting events, was originally the standard of the French House of Anjou!

My ancestry , apparently, has Irish, Spanish, Scot and Romany..but ultimately if we go back far enough anthropology and mitochondrial DNA suggests were all from Africa, my passport sais GB

 

[Armchair cyclist]

They compete for a team that represents the UK, but happens to be mis-named "Team GB".

I do sometimes wonder how the N Irish feel about that: that they've simply been left out of the name for no logical reason. (Why can't the team be called "Team UK"?)

What's next? Just call it "Team England"?

(Didn't a couple of BBC reporters do that already this year?)

The team actually represents GB, NI and the crown dependencies (Jersey, Guernsey, Man), and those overseas territories that do not have their own NOC ( Anguilla, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and Turks and Caicos Islands)

So neither GB nor GB&NI fully describes the remit of the BOA's team. It is the IOC that has given the GBR designation.

 

[7_7_7_7]

The thing i will cheer for is the day when great britain gets out of northern ireland.

 

[Hawkwood]

My ancestry , apparently, has Irish, Spanish, Scot and Romany..but ultimately if we go back far enough anthropology and mitochondrial DNA suggests were all from Africa, my passport sais GB

And you inherited some pretty fast genes!

 

[autologous]

Have to laugh at the Aussie spin on this. Female reporter talking about the UK's one eyed fans.
Clearly, she wasn't present at the Melbourne World Championships, where the home fans raised the roof for the Oz team pursuit but you could hear a pin drop in the Velodrome for GB's run.

Fact is, although they would like to think they are different, GB amd Oz share exactly the same mentality.

Yeah, EXACTLY the same mentality.

The mother and step-father of Australian Olympic debutant Kaarle McCulloch were subjected to a barrage of verbal abuse and taunts that led to police and security intervention at London's velodrome on the drama-filled opening day of track competition.

 

[JimmyFingers]

Appalling, appalling thread and very insulting to the British

But then that was the point, wasn't it

 

[Machu Picchu]

Appalling, appalling thread and very insulting to the British

But then that was the point, wasn't it

No it isn't & no it wasn't, but then I'm British, not paranoid.

 

[JimmyFingers]

Well then its a shame we share the same passport

 

[piemonster]

Yeah, EXACTLY the same mentality.

That's pretty appalling, quite ashamed of them to be honest.

 

[mastersracer]

...because the true Olympic spirit is captured much better by USA basketball going Harlem Globetrotter on Nigeria...

 

[Machu Picchu]

Well then its a shame we share the same passport

^o^ and what were you saying about being insulting?

whilst it's probably good that you toughen up you don't want to turn out like those in the link above

 

[Mellow Velo]

Yeah, EXACTLY the same mentality.

Can't get into your link, but that's disgraceful.
This link works:
http://www.smh.com.au/olympics/cycl...-verbally-abused-by-brits-20120803-23kut.html
At least they arrest the b*stards.

Kaarle is quite good friends with a member of my family.


One a side note, the article also brings up the one eyed fans again.

That's pretty appalling, quite ashamed of them to be honest.

I hope this is something we can all agree upon.
Shameful.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

...because the true Olympic spirit is captured much better by USA basketball going Harlem Globetrotter on Nigeria...

Come on, this is weak.