Funniest thing to come out the olympics so far?

[Psychosplodge]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18983558

is this the funniest thing to come out the olympics so far? I'm loving the bit about public transport...

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

What. The. Hell?

There are so many stereotypes I don't know where to start!

[Psychosplodge]

That's probably the point lol

[DrLove42]

Thing is it might be stereotypy, but it is for the large part true.

We have such a different culture to everyone, be they our closest culture across the pond or our closest neighbours, them damn dirty frogs.

There should have been ond on old british predjudices and racism :-P

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Good thing that they suggested that other people should buy us drinks, I'm quids in!

[Psychosplodge]

But when did curry displace the sunday roast, or fish and chips?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Or a full ENGLISH breakfast?

[DrLove42]

Curry came top in a poll of favourite foods a few years back

It may not be the "quintissential" brit food but it won most popular.

And lets face it is there anything worse than random person talking to you on the bus?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

There is nothing worse, I usually glare at someone that tries to talk to me, or disengage from the conversation immediately.

[Psychosplodge]

Oh I think they're spot on with that one,

[eldargal]

Curry became part of the British diet nearly two centuries ago in some form or another, the reverse is also true. Traditional British Raj dishes are a mark of sophistication in some areas of India.

The bit about class system was quite right, we are as obsessed with it even though it is largely irrelevent.

[Psychosplodge]

Oh I know it's there, I just can't see how it's replaced the Sunday roast , or possibly fish and chips, as the national dish, I mean don't most people only ever eat them when they're drunk?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I can eat with chopsticks, WHAT UP. :D

[Wolfshade]

And lets face it is there anything worse than random person talking to you on the bus?
You use a bus :eek:

[Wolfshade]

Front of BBC website...

Breaking News There have been some major changes made to the Olympic badminton schedule, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) has announced. Team GB medal hopefuls Chris Adcock and Imogen Bankier were drawn in the same group as the Chinese world champions in the mixed badminton doubles, but this has now been changed due to regulations

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

??

[DrLove42]

Basically we don't want the hosts knocked out round one, so we;re swapping groups :P

Also this;

https://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/12/7/26/eIYUwquNUUeHkkHW1QSZnA2.jpg

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

HAHAHAHA! I might watch it now just to play that.

Thanks for clearing that up. :)

[Wolfshade]

Does this count for the Javelin injury?
http://www.belch.com/img/javelinjudge.jpg

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

OUCH! That's gotta hurt. :p

"I used to be an Olympian like you, then I took a javelin to the foot"

[DrLove42]

I pretty sure you wouldn't walk away happy from that...so yes

[eldargal]

I used to be an athlete like you, til I took a javelin to the foot.

I have trouble taking the Olympics seriously, and I don't just mean the London Olympics. I mean the Olympics in general. It is a farcial mass of contradictions. It started as an elitist competition for gentlemen (and woman) amateurs, coming together to compete in a mythical concept of fellowship based on an ancient Greek precedent which never existed. As the Olympics have become increasiingly professional and increasingly commercialised it has come closer to the spirit of the ancient games than it has ever been in the past. Yet it is often criticised for exactly that purpose.
One of the most popular elements of the Olympics are a fiction invented by the National Socialists, one of the central myths of universal truce for the Olympics was primarily propagated by the Soviets and cheating in the ancient games was endemic but performance enhancing drugs were perfectly acceptable if extremely crude.

It also has table tennis. What's next? Starcraft tournaments?

I just can't take it seriously.:rolleyes:

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

OUCH! That's gotta hurt. :p

"I used to be an Olympian like you, then I took a javelin to the foot"

eldargal! YOU THIEF!

[Psychosplodge]

What's next? Starcraft tournaments?

I just can't take it seriously.:rolleyes:

Whatever next? (http://www.youtube.com/user/HuskyStarcraft/videos?view=1)

[eldargal]

That's what I get for taking fifteen minutes to write a short, stupid post about the olympics and forgetting to hit submit for another twenty minutes.:rolleyes:

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I'm watching you. *squinty eyes*

[eldargal]

Hey, eyes up here thank you.

[DrLove42]

Hey, eyes up here thank you.

Have you ever had to actually say that in real day to day life?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Lolwat? I wasn't being a perv. *looks left to right trying to find an exit*

[Psychosplodge]

Have you ever had to actually say that in real day to day life?
I have to say that all the time, you'd think no one had ever seen moobs before.....or maybe it's the corset...

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I have to say that all the time, you'd think no one had ever seen moobs before.....or maybe it's the corset...

Hmmmmmm....

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/uploads/1326173745/gallery_70524_7_9239.jpg

[eldargal]

All the time, except I usually say something along the line of 'Would you mind not staring at my chest?' I don't even wear low necked dresses to avoid looking, to quote a classic of British comedy, like two bald headed convicts trying to break out of gaol.

Have you ever had to actually say that in real day to day life?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Girl 1 - "Don't look at my chest"
Me - "How am I supposed to read the cheeky slogan on your t-shirt?"
Girl 1 - *looks at me dumbfounded whilst her friends laugh at her*
Me - "I'll just be over here"

Yep, that happened.

[Wolfshade]

I think that there should be an olympic games for people who have recieved performance enhancing drugs, how else will this line of research develop quickly?
Since you can use other enhancements like those special swimming suits, almost every aid on the modern recurve bow and air rifle, run faster shoes, better designed cycles, why no see what an enhanced person can do.

[Psychosplodge]

Exactly, why not bring it out in the open, I want to see the sub five second 100m. Lets see what we can do to the human body in the search for performance!

[Wolfshade]

And the winner of the Men's +105kg weightlifiting is Dr. Bannister, sorry I mean the Hulk

"Hulk SMASH!"

[SotonShades]

Can we call it the Unlympics? Haqve it every other year cus the athletes won't need so long to recover (or they'll be dead and we get a new crop :P)

Love the idea of the drinking game, though it's obviously aimed at our cousins across the pond. Think we need to adapt it for the UK?

[Psychosplodge]

It obviously needs tweaking

[SotonShades]

I think we have a new winner! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgW6wQQ3lY4)

Politicians and crowds are never a good mix :P

[Psychosplodge]

They've been playing that on radio all day...

[Psychosplodge]

And they've extended the original article/followed it up here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19093328)

[DrLove42]

Frankly this is the best thing, not just from the Limpics, but in like ever

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19079733

[Wolfshade]

Bah! There is nothing wrong with Cricket, If you do not know the difference between a silly mid on and a long off then you should be ashamed

[Wildeybeast]

Frankly this is the best thing, not just from the Limpics, but in like ever

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19079733

Good old Boris. Only Britain could have a man like him as Mayor of their capital city.

[Wolfshade]

The truely worrying thing is that Boris is the most popular conservative out there and could one day be the next PM.

[Psychosplodge]

I would think he's probably one of the most popular politicians regardless of party, And his really quite intelligent under that bumbling exterior or he wouldn't have survived the various tory purges...

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

To be fair, he is a brilliant guy.

[DrLove42]

Problem is that most of his policies are things than Ken Livingstone set up beofre he lost the election. Most of Boris' great achievementas have been done by someone else. And I worry if he ends up running for leader, cos hes popular cos hes an idiot so would get people voting for him regardless of policy

[Wolfshade]

See I don't think that he is, I believe him to be a very shrewd individual otherwise he wouldn't have been able to get to where he is in his career

[Denzark]

Any time we beat the French is funny. But I heard Christian O'Connell on Absolute Radio berating the French along the lines of: 'Oh sorry, aren't you happy with Silver Mes Amis?' which made oi laff out loud.

[eldargal]

Britain beating the French is the natural order of things, it is what God put Britain on this earth to do. There are the odd aberrations but we can ignore those...

[SotonShades]

Hear, Hear!

It's also why they have a huge chunk of white on their flag, where as we only have little strips!

[Denzark]

Here's a new one, courtesy of Jessica Ennis:

She told BBC Sport: "I'm so pleased to end the day with that. I knew it was a fast track from the hurdles but I'm made up to have run a PB.

"I'm still in shock about the hurdles but it was a bit up and down.


Fancy hurdles being a bit up and down eh? Mind you I think of up and down when I see JE so fair enough I suppose.

[eldargal]

Not the funniest thing to come out of the Olympics, but one of the best. I love the hoensty of their 'uniforms':
http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/y4lF_2tmdTzoiHdPNXJ1sQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/blogs/londonspy-uk/sandmad1.jpg
:rolleyes:

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Hah. Boobs. Awesome. :p

[eldargal]

Yes, breasts are awesome. But in this case I like the fact that their tops have BRA written on them.:p This is amusing to me.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I wasn't looking at what was written on them, I must be frank. :p
But yes, amusing. :D

[DrLove42]

I wasn't looking at what was written on them

Its not Monday so why would you?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

True!

I use it as an excuse to stare at their boobs! (re the chat up line thread)

[DrLove42]

Can I just say neither of those girls look that attractive....I'd rather not have a ladyfriend with bigger biceps and a better six pack than me.....

[eldargal]

I'd like muscle tone like that, I look toned but I don't look particularly muscular which is odd because I'm extremely strong. I'd like to look more like that sometimes, if it would put boys off.:p

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

My honour is sworn. Neither of those girls are attractive to me.

I should stop being so damned honourable, it's clearly the brown-haired curse. (Eddard Stark found out about that!)

[DrLove42]

See I have no problem with a girl with a bit of tone. I'm not a beer bellied slouch, but i'm not a workout nut either.

Also someone being that tanned wierds me out and puts me off as well

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Heh, you're a bit like me Doc.

I'm sure that I'd be attracted to them if I wasn't trying to be a gentleman, but I am, so boo on me.

[DrLove42]

I'm engaged, and getting married in 51 days....i'm not allowed to be attracted to anything :P

[eldargal]

I hate tans. I've never had a tan. Nor has my grandmother an mother and they look half their age whereas older women who have tanned a lot tend to look like prunes sculpted out of leather. English Rose complexion ftw.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I'm not married, in a relationship, or even kind of in one. But I'm being loyal to what I'm trying to do and have NO desire to f it up. So no, I'm not being attracted to anything.

Also, looks like I'm a Lone Wolf today.

[DrLove42]

Can bestow temporary wolfpack status on people?

I'm as white as the driven snow. I spent all my holiday in Factor 50 and i still went bright red. And when it fades it jsut fades to white again. The most tanned i ever get, is me just looking slightly dirty

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I have no idea what colour my skin is, there is colour, I'm not ghost white.

You've been a Wolf for a long time, you've just never changed your sig. :p

[DrLove42]

Hooray!

Also jsut seen this on the beeb

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19180983

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I may be stressed as hell, but I have weirdly high standards. :/

I suppose it's because I've done the party animal/forget things/sex with everything stage of my life. I'm like an Eldar, I've got that out of my system, time to do other things.

[DrLove42]

I can proudly (from a gentlemanly) point of view sya i've nevr had a one night stand

Well...I had something that started as one, but i'm marrying her now, so not sure it countd....

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I have had MANY. My youth was very exciting.

Rock concerts and house parties.

NOSTALGIA!

[Wolfshade]

It would have been more ironic if it was on the bottoms

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Oh my gods, OTHER PEOPLE.

YEY! I'M NOT ALONE!

[DrLove42]

You're never alone.....the voices will never leave

I'm trying to do something resembling work today

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Lies.

I'm too efficient, I've done all of my work.

[SotonShades]

Can I just say neither of those girls look that attractive....I'd rather not have a ladyfriend with bigger biceps and a better six pack than me.....

I think every woman we both know has bigger biceps than you DrLove... You are a lanky stick figure!

So am I, I'll admit, but I'm not lanky...

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

We at Shrewsbury all know what kind of body you have Soton. :p

(for reference, we all saw you at Games Day in your Assassin outfit)

[SotonShades]

Indeed. A friend of mine and DrLove said I has a nice *** because he thought I might have been a woman. Worst part was he knew I was going as a Culexus assasin but didn't realise it was me... Shame the girls were more concerned about not looking at what was on the othersde!

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

That's something you never want to admit dude. :p
Also.........

WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE YEAH!

[SotonShades]

I am justifiably proud of my lovely arse. Several female friends, ex's and random strangers at drunken parties have said it was one of my best features!

[DrLove42]

No...what they said was your arse was nicer than your face....

There is a difference :P

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

And here I though you were social anathema. :p
Hahahahah!

[Psychosplodge]

Can I just say neither of those girls look that attractive....I'd rather not have a ladyfriend with bigger biceps and a better six pack than me.....

Sensible position to take....


I have had MANY. My youth was very exciting.

Rock concerts and house parties.

NOSTALGIA!


It would have been more ironic if it was on the bottoms

:D

[SotonShades]

May I nominate the Fatboy Slim giant bus octopus?

Don't think there have been many people in hostory who have said that sentance without being under the influence of something a lot stronger than coffee.

[Psychosplodge]

So glad I missed the closing ceremony...

Alice Cooper was epic BTW.

[Kyban]

May I nominate the Fatboy Slim giant bus octopus?

Don't think there have been many people in hostory who have said that sentance without being under the influence of something a lot stronger than coffee.

It looked like the person inside the octopus was suffocating...:(

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Muse were awesome.

[Psychosplodge]

It looked like the person inside the octopus was suffocating...:(
that would've been inconvenient

Did you hear about Danny Boyle updating his cv today? He put the word opening <==like that

Also to make the translations easier a policy for europe wide language was unveiled, anyone else see the press release?


As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Hahahahaha!

[Wildeybeast]

Ok, perhaps not the funniest thing to come out of the Olympics (certainly not for the poor athletes), but one has to laugh at how utterly pathetic the guys escape attempt is. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-19260859

[Psychosplodge]

That's actually quite scary, especially the bit with the standing over the sleeping student, he clearly isn't going to reform and poses a potential danger to society, why is he still walking the streets?

[Wildeybeast]

Because putting people in prison costs money, does very little to rehabilitate people and the prisons are full?

[Psychosplodge]

So you have to wait till he scars someone worse than he has already(potentially to a life changing level) or kills before proper action is taken?

Why not just leave him on a wing with some cat A prisoners and the problem will sort itself out...

[SotonShades]

Well he obviously has some infiltration skills. Maybe put him in the army and make use of them. Maybe teach him some discipline in the process.

[Psychosplodge]

Well he obviously has some infiltration skills. Maybe put him in the army and make use of them. Maybe teach him some discipline in the process.
but not a mixed base?

[eldargal]

Clearly he failed his cover save.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Apparently Shrewsbury Prison is full of class A criminals, which is a little bit daunting, seeing as I'm just down the road...

[Wolfshade]

Rather than rehabilitate, if we burn them then they will not commit any further crimes and we save prison space, plus we can power buildings, save money on prison guards, victim support, and all manner of other things

[Kyban]

Send him to America where we have for profit prisons and they try to keep people in to meet the bottom line.:(


Apparently Shrewsbury Prison is full of class A criminals, which is a little bit daunting, seeing as I'm just down the road...

On the positive side, if they escape they'll probably want to get as far away as possible.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

On the positive side, if they escape they'll probably want to get as far away as possible.

Hopefully.
Unless it's a Bane style resistance. :p

[Wildeybeast]

So you have to wait till he scars someone worse than he has already(potentially to a life changing level) or kills before proper action is taken?

Why not just leave him on a wing with some cat A prisoners and the problem will sort itself out...

Oh no, I was thinking more along the lines of castration and possibly a lobotomy, should fix those troublesome urges right up and then he can be re-introduced as a productive member of society.

[Up The Walls!]

My, this thread has taken a morbid turn. Group hug, everyone.

[The AKH]

On the positive side, if they escape they'll probably want to get as far away as possible.

That's what I tell myself every time I walk past the maximum-security prison in the town where my uni is.

[Psychosplodge]

Oh no, I was thinking more along the lines of castration and possibly a lobotomy, should fix those troublesome urges right up and then he can be re-introduced as a productive member of society.

Would probably make them more productive than many in society...


My, this thread has taken a morbid turn. Group hug, everyone.

You're new here, this happens all the time...

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Oh no, I was thinking more along the lines of castration and possibly a lobotomy, should fix those troublesome urges right up and then he can be re-introduced as a productive member of society.

Hold the phone!

You're suggesting that we turn criminals into Servitors? :D

[The AKH]

Could solve labour problems worldwide in one fell swoop.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

True.

If only we could solve the materials crisis. We could do with expanding... Maybe by making huge ships and some kind of interdimensional travel...

[Wildeybeast]

Hold the phone!

You're suggesting that we turn criminals into Servitors? :D

That, or stick them in an anaerobic digestion machine thing. Cheap, clean energy for all. I would suggest Soylent Green, but people are fussy about where their food comes from. They have no such qualms about where their power comes from, so long as the TV works.

[Psychosplodge]

What is it they say, We're only three meals from anarchy?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Soylent Green is people too.

[Psychosplodge]

Shhh, It's a secret...
Also, tastes like chicken

[The AKH]

Shhh, It's a secret...
Also, tastes like chicken

Chicken tastes of human, doncha know.

[Psychosplodge]

I thought their taste was affected by what you feed them... :eek:

[Wolfshade]

Pork, it tastes of pork!

[Psychosplodge]

That's what I'd heard, and smells like it...

[Wolfshade]

Yup, maternity units smell like bacon!

[Psychosplodge]

Not antiseptic?