The Gold, Silver and Bronze pro-Olympics Thread

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  • Anna

    #16
    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    No and yes!
    I take it that's a Yes then? And I see scotty agrees
    Originally posted by Caliban View Post

    I am finding the mania for instant interviews very irritating. :
    Yes indeed. Give the girl a chance to get off her bike, have a fag and get her breath back before asking what her Granny in Selkirk thought of it!

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    • Don Petter

      #17
      Originally posted by Anna View Post
      Yes indeed. Give the girl a chance to get off her bike, have a fag and get her breath back before asking what her Granny in Selkirk thought of it!
      ITYM 'What was going through Granny's mind?'

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      • Pegleg
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        • Apr 2012
        • 389

        #18
        Originally posted by Anna View Post
        Oh, good! I have no wish to be blinded by science!
        Well, silver for GB from Lizzie Armistead in cycling. Now, am I showing my militant feminist side or was that far more exciting than the mens road race yesterday?

        Terrific race, plenty of drama and good crowds despite the downpours. Those riders might cut a diminutive figure off their bikes, but they are real lionhearts. I feel quite proud that a cyclist should get team GB's first medal and my impression was that Lizzie Armistead was genuinely delighted to have won silver rather than being crest fallen to have been beaten by a mere two bike lengths. I felt sorry that after so much good work for the team Emma Pooley should puncture in the last 6Km and had no chance to contest fourth place. Wednesday's TTs won't generate so much excitement, but there could be more medals.
        Last edited by Pegleg; 29-07-12, 15:34. Reason: correction

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26527

          #19
          Originally posted by Anna View Post
          I take it that's a Yes then? And I see scotty agrees
          Yes indeed. Give the girl a chance to get off her bike, have a fag and get her breath back before asking what her Granny in Selkirk thought of it!
          Exactly!
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • Anna

            #20
            Originally posted by Pegleg View Post
            Those riders might cut a diminutive figure off their bikes, but they are real lionhearts.
            Aha! Women. Small but Deadly! A Monstrous Regiment!

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            • mangerton
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              • Nov 2010
              • 3346

              #21
              Originally posted by Anna View Post
              Aha! Women. Small but Deadly! A Monstrous Regiment!
              Nah. Knox was a miserable old git. Where would we be without them?

              Walter said it all:

              O, Woman! in our hours of ease,
              Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
              And variable as the shade
              By the light quivering aspen made;
              When pain and anguish wring the brow,
              A ministering angel thou!

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              • Nick Armstrong
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                • Nov 2010
                • 26527

                #22
                You old smoothieboots, mangerton!!
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • mangerton
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 3346

                  #23
                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  You old smoothieboots, mangerton!!
                  What do you mean, old?

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26527

                    #24
                    Originally posted by mangerton View Post
                    What do you mean, old?
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                    • Anna

                      #25
                      Sometimes, I wonder, being diminutive and female why I bluddy bother with you blokes!!

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26527

                        #26
                        Originally posted by Anna View Post
                        Sometimes, I wonder, being diminutive and female why I bluddy bother with you blokes!!
                        Because we are so charming?

                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • scottycelt

                          #27
                          Originally posted by mangerton View Post
                          Nah. Knox was a miserable old git. Where would we be without them?

                          Walter said it all:

                          O, Woman! in our hours of ease,
                          Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
                          And variable as the shade
                          By the light quivering aspen made;
                          When pain and anguish wring the brow,
                          A ministering angel thou!

                          Knox was so much of a 'miserable old git' that even the cousin-slaying Good Queen Bess considered him to be quite beyond the pale ...

                          As for Scott ... well, he almost got it spot on ... just substitute 'impossible' for 'hard', and ...

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                          • Anna

                            #28
                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            Because we are so charming?
                            HA! Team GB, just two medals. Won by just two diminutive wimmen!!

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26527

                              #29
                              Originally posted by Anna View Post
                              HA! Team GB, just two medals. Won by just two diminutive wimmen!!


                              French are doing rather well in the pool...
                              "...the isle is full of noises,
                              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                              • antongould
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8782

                                #30
                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post


                                French are doing rather well in the pool...
                                Awesome win in the sprint relay Cali

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