I hate

Years back, a mate had one at her 21st - yep pretty weird. Great moment was had, however, when he asked a group of us for a bank note to do a trick with. My pal, consistent supplier of amusement, pulled out a £50. Magicians face dropped, “it won’t work with that”, moment lost. Hilarious.

(Apparently he would turn a fiver into a tenner, etc)

I used to be in a wedding band, table magicians were not uncommon

Pictures of medalists (particularly Olympians) biting their medals.

Oh yeah, big time. I always thought, what a shit metal, if you can dent it with your teeth.

Also, the heart-fingers they're all constantly busting out.

… boomers complaining about their state pension. They’ve had the easiest run of all the generations.

Looking for things in dusty cupboards.

Nowadays it massively triggers my asthma and kicks off my hay-fever(?) meaning my nose is dripping like a leaky tap and I'm grumpy.

Middle aged men complaining on the internet about people enjoying some of the best moments of their life.

Being directed by pushy photographers for an overused photo style hardly feels like "enjoyment" to me. I love to see the raw and spontaneous emotion of the proper celebrations. The picture of biting on the medal is now the equivalent of a Live Laugh Love poster in the kitchen to me.

Add in the Games organiser passing a (edit: presumably organiser owned sponsored by Samsung) phone over to the podium for one of the medalists to compose and take a selfie with the others to go on the organisers Socials. Such a contrived, probably contractual, pretty depressing homogenisation of the whole experience turning it into a set of obligation boxes to be ticked.

There's probably a Choose Life poster quote rewrite to be done about the whole thing...

We found our wedding magician guys

The GB team kit.
Why keep changing it every games?
Just stick with something instantly recognisable so we can pick out our athletes at a glance, pleeeeeeease!

The golf club thread?

I’ll rep that.

This country

Not everyone bought a house for 50p and sold it for a couple of million.

I think I've probably been to more weddings that have had magicians than not. We had one at ours that had recently been on BGT and happened to be local so we thought he'd be good and to be fair his little act was quite good but after he'd finished he was caught hitting the chang in the toilet and was asked to leave then was hovering around out front after that trying to chat up one of our guests that had popped out for a cigarette so was told he NEEDED to FUCK OFF!! I'll see if my wife can remember the little druggy sexpests name.

Daisy Mae Cooper?
Heathen.

UK?
Agreed.

Mostly the bloody rioters at the moment

Daisy Mae Cooper

Was pretty bummed over that witch hunter show :(

Yeah they are creepy fuckers

Plenty somewhere in between though.

“Expats” (as opposed to migrants). That kind. Just listened to two of them discussing the far right riots. Both agreed it was labours fault for not doing enough about borders and one of them added a full-stop for the conversation with “… the problem is Starmer sucks Muslim cock”.

Anti migrant British people sitting in a bar in a reasonably wealthy small town in Luxembourg owned by a Portuguese couple being served Portuguese lager by a Polish woman. The mind fucking boggles.

My mate was the Covid Coordinator for that. He went a bit power mad with it all. I don't suppose that type of role exists anymore.

reasonably wealthy

Come now, with Luxembourg's advantageous tax rates for transnational corporations?

Most of that has gone away. But there’s a lot of 90s versions of finance bros kicking around.

There was some "expert" opinion maker on Radio 5 live (i normally only listen for the sport) who was trying to partly blame the riots on EDI policies. I mean ffs.