Cheating American TW*TS

[Buzzer]

Ahh, yes Simster BUT...I'd forgotten about the Scotland factor. This obviously acts as a hindrance to GB's chances and not only do we carry the Tartan messes but it ties up valuable English resource which could be out training for medals.

Hence: a revised table with this built in:

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Re the 3, 2, 1 points ranking per medal - this is clearly ridiculous because winning 2 Gold Medals is clearly more of an achievement for a nation than having 3 2nd Place silvers.

5, 3, 1 is nearer the mark although, again, I'd have thought a gold and a bronze were worth more than 2 silvers.

I think if you ask Kath Grainger, she'd swap her 3 rowing silvers for single gold any day.

 

[Juan Albion]

The way the rest of the world do it is fine. Number of golds won, if a tie, the number of silvers won, if still a tie number of bronze won, if still a tie alphbetically.

Bit arrogant to assume that the British way is "the way the rest of the world do it". It isn't. Over here in Canada they tend to do it by total number of medals as well, even though we didn't have a single one in the first week so it certainly wasn't to make things look better. And the official Olympic website has both.

Anyway, the whole nationalistic medals table rather misses the point of the Olympics anyway in my book. How about just celebrating the best sporting performances instead of trying to make it some kind of jingoistic peacock display?

 

[Juan Albion]

Fairly typical and an indicator of how fragile the average American's ego must be.

Funny, because I would have said this whole thread suggests the average UK ego is rather fragile too.

 

[Robot Chicken]

Pure Yank bashing in my book!

 

[bhaexpress]

Funny, because I would have said this whole thread suggests the average UK ego is rather fragile too.

Come off it, even you know how much Americans sneer at Canada which is quite ridiculous. The fact is most Americans (and I have met quite a few) seem oblivious to anything outside of their city limits.

 

[Zesh Rehman]

twats, cant stand them when they do things like this

 

[NMH]

American; "USA is the greatest country in the WORLD

Johnny Foreigner; "Have you visited many countries to compare?"

A; "why WOULD I? America is the greatest nation in the WORLD"

JF; "Great - so you don't want to ever leave America, to see this World you keep ruling over?"

A; "I don't need to, I have seen Northern Mexico with it's cacti and desert, I got blind drunk and arrested and bought some crap pottery and furniture just so I could say I been there - and USA is TGCITW !!"

JF; "er....yeah, and the biggest eh?"

A; "tha's RIGHT, USA are the BIGGEST"

JF; "same size, roughly as Australia"

A; "no WAY dude, that's just a small island country"

jf; "howabout Canada, way bigger than the US"

A; "are you out of your MIND limey, gahdamn, Alaska is bigger than Canada"

JF; "just as well Russia was so far away"

A; "or else we woulda flown over there and kicked AAASSS of those darn commie reds"

JF; "why not swim over mate, only 50 miles from the US"

A; "whaaat, geddaaadahere bucko, you limeys know SHIT about the World, USSR is past Africa and China, nowhere NEAR the US of A"

JF; "yeah, right mate, I'm so used to just walking over the English border to France, I FORGOT how well you knew the World"

A; "too right there, and just as well we gave you guys the English language, or you'd still be speaking Dutch or whatever it was"

JF; "thanks mister, you sure put me on the right track again there"

A; "damn straight, the US are educating the WORLD, and George W Bush is leading the way"

 

[John Bumlick]

Pure Yank bashing in my book!

so, you're either loving this thread or you're a complete hypocrite.

 

[Questions]

According to official figures 82% of Americans dont own a passport.

Also 45% of American men would like to try anal sex.

So when a Yank comes home from work and says to his wife,

''Honey I want to go somewhere I`ve never been before''

You can bet your life he isn`t talking about world travel.

 

[Robot Chicken]

According to official figures 82% of Americans dont own a passport.

Also 45% of American men would like to try anal sex.

So when a Yank comes home from work and says to his wife,

''Honey I want to go somewhere I`ve never been before''

You can bet your life he isn`t talking about world travel.

I've seen Stephen Grant too...

 

[Lord Bracknell]

We can always take comfort in this Medals Table:-

1908 Historical Medal Tracker - 2008 Olympics - SI.com

Those were the days! When Australia and New Zealand were in the same team.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

I hate them more than the Aussies.

You hate your own brother?

 

[Lord Cornwallis]

Doesn't matter really how you work the medal tables, as the yanks have a very smug habbit of putting other nations down [especially if they are not represented in a particular event] by mentioning that they are a "product" of this or that American university. In other words, they would be nothing if we haden't trained em up.

 

[Man of Harveys]

You hate your own brother?

Top entertainment, as ever, from NSC's own brothers GRIM

 

[Nemesis]

Funny, because I would have said this whole thread suggests the average UK ego is rather fragile too.

Possibly more so-never an opportunity missed to have a pop at the US.

 

[Nemesis]

Come off it, even you know how much Americans sneer at Canada which is quite ridiculous.

Of course Brits NEVER sneer at the US do they?

 

[bhaexpress]

Of course Brits NEVER sneer at the US do they?

Ah well yes, some do but believe me I have seen the insular attitude of Americans first hand too many times.

 

[Nemesis]

Ah well yes, some do but believe me I have seen the insular attitude of Americans first hand too many times.

I've seen it first hand too-living in Canada as long as I did. If NSC is representative of the UK population then it is a hell of a lot more than 'some'.

 

[bhaexpress]

I've seen it first hand too-living in Canada as long as I did. If NSC is representative of the UK population then it is a hell of a lot more than 'some'.

Agreed, I don't hate Americans but I do find their views very narrow at times. The thing is despite the fact that they have the best communications facilities of any country in the world few of them are inclined to travel too far.