London 2012 Olympics

I was a 100/200/(400) person, and was aiming high until I got a debilitating hip/lower back injury at 15.

ah, that explains the massive cadence!

i represented my state on the track and in cross country as a junior, and spent a few years as a decent A grand athlete for my club (best club in Australia, mind you). claim to fame is nearly getting sent home from the national all-schools cross country championships for going out drinking the night before the relays with Craig Mottram (I was underage). they didn't send us home because he was too good an athlete to drop from the relay team!

even so boys, you don't have to be quite such cunts about it! i think he may have got the point...

Oh wait a minute - was it us that were speaking in defense of the PRC?

Systemic abuse of human rights, extra-judicial killings, breach of international law etc?

Did we then shift the argument to oh, you guys (meaning you British people representing your governement) did it too?

And actually did we continue presenting absurd debating points even when it was clearly nonsense?

No, actually we didn't. Sorry for getting it right, and not being nice to someone that was getting it wrong.

Whatever.

Hmmm, I am descended from alcohol-thieving foreigners (Scots) on my mother's side, my father was a dirty copper-fraternising mason, and his father was a cyclist-killing bus driver (8 Routemaster).

Cyclists these days are such a bunch of fucking clones.

I knew there was something dodgy about you.

I knew there was something dodgy about you.

That's probably just you picking up some of my micro-tics - the last vestages of Tourette's Syndrome that went almost entirely into remittance at the onset of puberty.

I've never received a porcine facial though, so let's call it quits.

Sorry for getting it right, and not being nice to someone that was getting it wrong.

everything thinks they're right. that's no excuse for playing the man. if his argument was absurd, then it fails on its merits.

Whatever.

indeed.

everything thinks they're right.

yes but only some of us can be.

everything thinks they're right.

My family is the biggest bunch of smart-alecks and know-it-alls that I know. Including my 12 year old nephew. Anyway, after a disagreement over a bottle of wine or 5, my sister sent me a card entitled:

EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO MY OPINION

My family is the biggest bunch of smart-alecks and know-it-alls that I know. Including my 12 year old nephew. Anyway, after a disagreement over a bottle of wine or 5, my sister sent me a card entitled:

EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO MY OPINION

Did you send one back saying 'DEEPEST CONDOLANCES FOR YOUR LOSS'?

i hate to dredge this thread back up, but i have one on-topic!
The Aussie PM, Kevin Rudd, is in China, and publicly criticised China's actions in Tibet. The Chinese government promptly told him to butt out, and the Chinese press didn't report his comments. It's worth pointing out that Rudd speaks fluent Mandarin and is a former diplomat.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/butt-out-china-tells-rudd/2008/04/10/1207420582659.html

Jeez, I was he was ours.

After Howard, I have to say he is a revelation.

Jeez, I was he was ours.

After Howard, I have to say he is a revelation.

I watched an interview with him on the Andrew Mars politics show on Saturday morning. He did seem like a reasonable and up front man. The suspicious man in my head though says the he is still a politician and therefore must be hiding something / up to something.

loving the random tags on this thread. i'm pretty sure dandy livingstone has f'all to do with the olympics. fine rocksteady artist though.

Half the people can be part right all of the time, an' some of the people can be all right part of the time, but all the people can't be all right all of the time.

Jeez, I was he was ours.

After Howard, I have to say he is a revelation.

not hard, howard was a complete cunt.

I watched an interview with him on the Andrew Mars politics show on Saturday morning. He did seem like a reasonable and up front man. The suspicious man in my head though says the he is still a politician and therefore must be hiding something / up to something.

Rudd is the uber-politician. he's ruthless, slick, ALWAYS on-message and a complete control freak.
Not my ideal leader, but he is far better than the cunt he replaced.

how about fuck the olympics because it meantloads of people were forced out of their homes, live/work spaces, loads of amazing old industrial building that people loved and lived in. living in a cultural vacuum as i do i appreciate that perhaps my views arent so well rounded but i just picture the final outcome as big businesses getting bigger and benifiting from it but the normal everyday folk getting pushed about to the side and marginalised and embittered even more. hooray we got it because the olympics is amazing in terms of top international competition and inspiring peolple to live active fulfilled lives but my goodness i dread to think about the sheer scale of destruction of homes lives and the like for the sake of it. its good and bad. hmmm fuck the fact that there are far to many people in this world to live in harmony without shafting other countries and civilisations. fuck the fact that we are all guilty by association cos we are alive and this race of ours is raping the earth its resources and each other all the time. fuck the bad stuff and hooray to the good stuff instead.

how about fuck the olympics because it meantloads of people were forced out of their homes, live/work spaces, loads of amazing old industrial building that people loved and lived in. living in a cultural vacuum as i do i appreciate that perhaps my views arent so well rounded but i just picture the final outcome as big businesses getting bigger and benifiting from it but the normal everyday folk getting pushed about to the side and marginalised and embittered even more. hooray we got it because the olympics is amazing in terms of top international competition and inspiring peolple to live active fulfilled lives but my goodness i dread to think about the sheer scale of destruction of homes lives and the like for the sake of it. its good and bad. hmmm fuck the fact that there are far to many people in this world to live in harmony without shafting other countries and civilisations. fuck the fact that we are all guilty by association cos we are alive and this race of ours is raping the earth its resources and each other all the time. fuck the bad stuff and hooray to the good stuff instead.

How about 'fuck the world cos bad shit happens from time to time to some people in some places sometimes maybe perhaps and we're all, like, kinda responsible by association'?

Or how about fuck the fucking it. Live well, do right by others, do your bit and htfu.

Gah.

not hard, howard was a complete cunt.

+1

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How about 'fuck the world cos bad shit happens from time to time to some people in some places sometimes maybe perhaps and we're all, like, kinda responsible by association'?

Or how about fuck the fucking it. Live well, do right by others, do your bit and htfu.

Gah.

point taken. i was ranting.

Half the people can be part right all of the time, an' some of the people can be all right part of the time, but all the people can't be all right all of the time.

...I think Abraham Lincoln said that...

Wasn't it Bob Marley?

;)

Final verse of Talkin' World War III Blues, by Bob Dylan:

Well, now time passed and now it seems
Everybody's having them dreams
Everybody sees themselves walkin' around with no one else
Half of the people can be part right all of the time
Some of the people can be all right part of the time
But all of the people can't be all right all of the time
I think Abraham Lincoln said that
"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours"
I said that.

Marley probably said it too tho ;)

Flew straight over my head, dude.

Not surprised ;) Had that album on continuous loop a few years back, and most of the lyrics are still embedded in my brain.
Free Tibet!
Ahem.

all i can say is YES!, this is possibly one of the best pchops on the fourm.

Is it just me, or is the piggy at the front holding a gun out?