Australia - hilarious

[Sarisbury Seagull]

The one Aussie that has impressed me this Olympics is Ian Thorpe, he's been excellent on the box.

So its not all lost, with him and Shane Warne the Aussies are dominating the field of entertaining camp punditry.

 

[Czechmate]

I'm just going by what I saw and what he said.



Not suggesting it's cheating or anything of the sort, just a tad disappointing for a great sport.

Do you just come here for the Olympics , commonwealth games , rugby , ashes ? oh shit i would give up now mate !!!!

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Do you just come here for the Olympics , commonwealth games , rugby , ashes ? oh shit i would give up now mate !!!!

I come here to have robust discussions.

In answer to your question, don't follow cricket, rugby of any sort.

I've been here sitting up all hours of the night following the Albion on NSC as best I can far longer than most of the people on here who abuse me have been. It's water off a ducks back maaaate

 

[Tooting Gull]

I come here to have robust discussions.

In answer to your question, don't follow cricket, rugby of any sort.

I've been here sitting up all hours of the night following the Albion on NSC as best I can far longer than most of the people on here who abuse me have been. It's water off a ducks back maaaate

It's a shame some of the Aussie swimmers haven't got your staying power...

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

It's a shame some of the Aussie swimmers haven't got your staying power...

Well just goes to show how the worlds changing. One of them blamed her addiction to social media on her coming second. it used to be physical things holding them back, now it's the internet!

Then again back in the day the Chinese couldn't swim to save themselves. Now look at em fly.

 

[Czechmate]

I come here to have robust discussions.

In answer to your question, don't follow cricket, rugby of any sort.

I've been here sitting up all hours of the night following the Albion on NSC as best I can far longer than most of the people on here who abuse me have been. It's water off a ducks back maaaate

No fair do's if your an Ailbion fan i am the same , if you support Albion i am with you 100 % mate , don't worry all we want is success neaxt year . but it's good to have banter now and again. Keep up the support out there , as i do in Czech Republic I only joined NSC in October last year when i had to come to Czech , but always had season ticket at withdean and Falmer . Keep in touch mate ! Nick

 

[Everest]

Jack Bobridge - "To walk away with a medal at the Olympic games is fantastic. We couldn't be any happier. A little bit disappointed we didn't get the gold"

So which is it then? Twat

 

[Brovion]

Jeez Tyrone, give it a rest. You do come over as a particularly thin-skinned, humourless Aussie always quick to take offence and unable to take even the mildest joke. The bloke wrote a vaguely amusing article which, like a lot of humour, was funny at the time but now the joke's backfired. Fair play to him for sticking his head above the parapet when he must have had an inkling that it would backfire. And anyway surely he's a in a tiny, tiny minority at wanting to poke fun at the Brits given that (according to other posts by you on the subject) no one in Australia cares about cricket, swimming, rugby, athletics, sailing, cycling, rowing, gymnastics, basketball, judo, etc etc. And also that beating us means nothing to the average Aussie as you see the USA as your main sporting rivals anyway.

Just suck it up and move on.

 

[grummitts gloves]

"The people's of Kazakhstan getting more medals than Aussies is niiiiccee!!"

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

The one Aussie that has impressed me this Olympics is Ian Thorpe, he's been excellent on the box.

So its not all lost, with him and Shane Warne the Aussies are dominating the field of entertaining camp punditry.

That, my friend, is very amusing.

 

[Frutos]

Only arm chair morons consider medals the only measure of success at the Olympics.

Very easy to say when you don't have many of them.

 

[Woodchip]

Australia 22,689,714
United Kingdom 62,262,000
New Zealand 4,434,310

So, is the UK really such a "small" nation? Area wise, yes. Population wise, no.

Well done Team GB on some excellent medals wins, but there is one thing worse than a bad loser. That's a bad winner.

 

[severnside gull]

Dullard.

a word all too rarely used but wonderfully aposite

 

[severnside gull]

I doubt it, we sent a pole vaulter who now seems afraid of heights!

Do they have Irish heritage?

You guys must be just loving these olympics

With so much English blood in your veins as a nation I always wonder that you never acquired the self-deprecating humour that has helped us to handle defeat so successfully over the years. Then again, perhaps it was the original breeding stock?

 

[melias shoes]

Australia 22,689,714
United Kingdom 62,262,000
New Zealand 4,434,310

So, is the UK really such a "small" nation? Area wise, yes. Population wise, no.

Well done Team GB on some excellent medals wins, but there is one thing worse than a bad loser. That's a bad winner.

Who's feeling bad about it?

 

[Triggaaar]

I'm just going by what I saw and what he said.

"We were saying if we have a bad start we need to crash to get a restart," Hindes said.

"I just crashed, I did it on purpose to get a restart, just to have the fastest ride. I did it. So it was all planned, really."

Not suggesting it's cheating or anything of the sort, just a tad disappointing for a great sport.

I heard them being interviewed and he said something like he let himself fall when it was going wrong, but I ddn't know he said it as you've quoted - have you got a link to that?

Either way I can understand you being disappointed that was the way it went, but you say he was stupid because 'They didn't have to do something silly like that to achieve what they did' - let's be clear, no matter what he said, they didn't plan for him to fall before the start. He was all over the place by accident, and then he had no choice but to fall or lose.

Well done Team GB on some excellent medals wins, but there is one thing worse than a bad loser. That's a bad winner.

We're not being bad winners, we're not doing that well anyway, we're just having a laugh at the Aussies because of what their press said.

 

[Smirko]

http://www.news.com.au/sport/london-olympics/australian-swimming-boss-leigh-nugent-blames-easy-life-blamed-for-medal-dive/story-fndpu6dv-1226442766416

Aussie reasons for poor performance!

 

[Questions]

http://www.news.com.au/sport/london-olympics/australian-swimming-boss-leigh-nugent-blames-easy-life-blamed-for-medal-dive/story-fndpu6dv-1226442766416

Aussie reasons for poor performance!

"most of our girls are carrying too much weight" Hmmm.

 

[Questions]

Australia 22,689,714
United Kingdom 62,262,000
New Zealand 4,434,310

So, is the UK really such a "small" nation? Area wise, yes. Population wise, no.

Well done Team GB on some excellent medals wins, but there is one thing worse than a bad loser. That's a bad winner.

So if our population is about 5% of China, we are doing ok aren,t we ?

As if it works like that.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

So if our population is about 5% of China, we are doing ok aren,t we ?

As if it works like that.

well i guess population is often a good indicator of how a country should perform in sport....but it fails to take into account things like funding/access to sports facilities etc.

india are hardly pulling off a massive medal HAUL are they? whereas we're outperforming loads of countries that have bigger populations