The Gold, Silver and Bronze pro-Olympics Thread

[Anna]

This comes under the heading of multi-tasking, which is beyond most men. Getting the left-right-left-right thing going is enough for us.

mangerton, that nearly resulted in a keyboard splattering incident here!!

As to further medals, women got bronze in hockey, the men are struggling against Oz. Tom Daley says he'll be ok with bronze, will Mo Farah do it? I doubt it, the 10,000m evidently takes 2 weeks to recover. Possibly a medal in boxing? Whatever, I am at least Happy and Glorious with Team GB and interestingly, The Guardian did breakdown of regions where medals have, so far, come from, and, Och Aye you Brave Wee Laddies are just below Yorkshire!! (They class Scotland as a region, what will Alex Salmond say to that?)

[amateur51]

Another interesting piece from the Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/10/women-olympic-legacy-sexism

[amateur51]

mangerton, that nearly resulted in a keyboard splattering incident here!!

As to further medals, women got bronze in hockey, the men are struggling against Oz. Tom Daley says he'll be ok with bronze, will Mo Farah do it? I doubt it, the 10,000m evidently takes 2 weeks to recover. Possibly a medal in boxing? Whatever, I am at least Happy and Glorious with Team GB and interestingly, The Guardian did breakdown of regions where medals have, so far, come from, and, Och Aye you Brave Wee Laddies are just below Yorkshire!! (They class Scotland as a region, what will Alex Salmond say to that?)

Hmmm those of us who've paid for the whole bang-shoot through our London Council Tax and lottery tickets may well be justified in being a tad jaundiced about that

[Anna]

Another interesting piece from the Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/10/women-olympic-legacy-sexism

Wooah Ams, you are an Honorary Sister from now on for that link!
And, to quote from it:
NBC, the US network, aired a slow motion montage of female athletes jumping, sprinting and bouncing to the kind of music you hear in 1970s porn films, with close-ups of their pants

Boxing is a sport where women were told to wear skirts in the ring as recently as March (to differentiate them from men, you see) and where former world champion Amir Khan warned female boxers: "When you get hit it can be very painful." Really? Who knew?

[mangerton]

Another interesting piece from the Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/10/women-olympic-legacy-sexism

Indeed. Shocking. I'll let Anna's "Brave Wee Laddies" pass. I posted my thoughts on Scotland as a region a week or so ago, and have nothing to add.

On to more important matters. We were discussing miniseries and semifinal recently. I heard the word taekwondo on radio today for the first time. Until then, I'd always imagined it was pronounced "take one do", as one might say at a tea party.

On a related note...... "Coworker". How does one ork a cow? Answers on one of Anna's postcards, please.

[amateur51]

Indeed. Shocking. I'll let Anna's "Brave Wee Laddies" pass. I posted my thoughts on Scotland as a region a week or so ago, and have nothing to add.

On to more important matters. We were discussing miniseries and semifinal recently. I heard the word taekwondo on radio today for the first time. Until then, I'd always imagined it was pronounced "take one do", as one might say at a tea party.

On a related note...... "Coworker". How does one ork a cow? Answers on one of Anna's postcards, please.

A puzzling world, I agree

[vinteuil]

On to more important matters. We were discussing miniseries and semifinal recently. I heard the word taekwondo on radio today for the first time. Until then, I'd always imagined it was pronounced "take one do", as one might say at a tea party.

On a related note...... "Coworker". How does one ork a cow? Answers on one of Anna's postcards, please.

... and I've been verra worried about these weeknights too - I just hope they have some wee lassies to keep them warm...

[Flosshilde]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...sse-match.html

I'm sure she will be Boris's heroine

[Anna]

... and I've been verra worried about these weeknights too - I just hope they have some wee lassies to keep them warm...

Oh they will, they will!! We all love a Ginger And now, I am off line until the forseeable. Which could mean anything.
Actually, I have discovered a wonderful Scottish snack. Tunnocks. Never heard of them before, but they do a Tea Cake in dark chocolate and bite into it and be transported into a world of white glucose which is supremely gooey and will, no doubt, hasten the onset of diabetes. And, the wee foil wrappers, you can make into various shapes having spread them out and play games with them!

[Flosshilde]

Hmmm those of us who've paid for the whole bang-shoot through our London Council Tax and lottery tickets may well be justified in being a tad jaundiced about that

Why? You're the ones who get the super-duper buildings & facilities, improved transport, new housing & so on as your legacy. All we got in Glasgow were a few pot-holes filled in (which the Cooncil should have done anyway & no doubt paid for)

& how much Lottery funding will be diverted from London to pay for the Commonwealth Games?

So less of the whingeing, please.

[amateur51]

Oh they will, they will!! We all love a Ginger And now, I am off line until the forseeable. Which could mean anything.
Actually, I have discovered a wonderful Scottish snack. Tunnocks. Never heard of them before, but they do a Tea Cake in dark chocolate and bite into it and be transported into a world of white glucose which is supremely gooey and will, no doubt, hasten the onset of diabetes. And, the wee foil wrappers, you can make into various shapes having spread them out and play games with them!

There's tribute painting to the Tunnock's Tea Cake (milk chocolate model I think) at this year's Summer Show at the Royal Academy of Arts, London

[amateur51]

Why? You're the ones who get the super-duper buildings & facilities, improved transport, new housing & so on as your legacy. All we got in Glasgow were a few pot-holes filled in (which the Cooncil should have done anyway & no doubt paid for)

& how much Lottery funding will be diverted from London to pay for the Commonwealth Games?

So less of the whingeing, please.

You believe all that legacy guff, Flossie? - I'm amazed. It'll all be gone in a flash - remember the Dome?

[Flosshilde]

Actually, I have discovered a wonderful Scottish snack. Tunnocks. Never heard of them before, but they do a Tea Cake in dark chocolate and bite into it and be transported into a world of white glucose which is supremely gooey

Anna, you can now die a happy girl, oops, woman - & probably will if you eat too many of them. Imagine your tomb-stone - "She died of a surfeit of tea-cakes". Beats lampreys any day.

You might also like to try Tunnock's Caramel Wafers. You can learn more about Tunnock at their tasteful web-site - http://www.tunnock.co.uk/

[Anna]

There's tribute painting to the Tunnock's Tea Cake (milk chocolate model I think) at this year's Summer Show at the Royal Academy of Arts, London

I have two Tunnocks left, I will resist devouring until after the closing ceremony!! To bite into dark chocolate and then that ........ OMG, white whatisname sugary stuff ....... Oh!!
I am obviously on the road to perdition! As the Rev. Eli Jenkins would say.
Flossie: Do not tempt me with caramel wafers. (Do they do them covered in dark chocolate..... in which case ........... )

[Flosshilde]

Flossie: Do not tempt me with caramel wafers. (Do they do them covered in dark chocolate..... in which case ........... )

Anna - I'm afraid they do - in nice blue & silver wrapping