t3knomanser: How do you say "whargarrbl" with a British accent?

"I say, what frightful jibberish."

Whatever

t3knomanser: How do you say "whargarrbl" with a British accent?

It sounds the same, but one removes one's monocle first.

/Oh, and where's todays iPhone thread. It should be here by now.

Grigor_Chuk: t3knomanser: How do you say "whargarrbl" with a British accent?

"I say, what frightful jibberish."

"what yonabaaaaaht?"

headstone: gormlessly ?

some swedish girl: Innit?

codswallop!

RubberFootMan: Grigor_Chuk: t3knomanser: How do you say "whargarrbl" with a British accent?

"I say, what frightful jibberish."

"what yonabaaaaaht?"

Ah dinnae ken yon daft gate oh bletherin

YorkshireFark: we British excel at rowing (for obvious reasons)

From trying to escape? Petrol prices? Avoiding the ubiquitous surveillance cameras? Horrible weather? Hideous pasty chav slags? Brain numbingly boring television? Woeful public transport? The most neanderthal accent ever?

I surely can't think of a reason to leave the worst county in the sceptered isle.

belhade: Perhaps this research was carried out on behalf of the Government, which has been blathering recently about creating a national day to trumpet Britishness.

Yeah, great, give em another holiday to slack off on.


heh heh

t3knomanser: How do you say "whargarrbl" with a British accent?

whorgarrbl

YorkshireFark: Population has nothing to do with it, not in Great Britain's case. We're just Great! It's certainly all to do with economics though... Kenyans are good at the sports that require the least amount of equipment/training eg middle/long distance running whereas we British excel at rowing (for obvious reasons), cycling and sailing.

Actually, you've only excelled in those things at this Olympics - but not really so much in the last few. You guys were always beaten out by the Aussies in those sports in the last several summer Olympics, and overall in the medal tally. Now that you've dedicated a whole lot more money to your sports training, you're seeing a far better result. It's all about the money, really (and the related ability to pay better coaches with that money).

"I resent that!"


Stereotypes are fun...

t3knomanser: RubberFootMan: /Oh, and where's todays iPhone thread. It should be here by now.

Well, it's such a piece of garbage, plagued by failures. I hear it gets up in the middle of the night and rapes people's dogs.

I noticed mine had pissed on the carpet again this morning, and then bought me a subscription for gay porn.

Day_Old_Dutchie: "I resent that!"


Stereotypes are fun...

Nooo! they be stealing my bucket.

jamspoon: Current Olympics medal tables says some Brits are have other interests

1 China 46 15 22 83
2 USA 30 35 34 99
3 Great Britain 18 12 11 41
4 Russia 16 16 20 52

/Yes, that is the correct order - golds come first

You forgot

5 Australia 11 14 16 41

t3knomanser: RubberFootMan: Oh, and where's todays iPhone thread. It should be here by now.

Ask and you shall receive.

Ah, a stealth iPhone thread. See you there.

Staying at home because the farking roads are jammed solid on Bank Holidays and I've got stuff to do, not because I'm lazy. Or not just because I'm lazy.

As someone who is too lazy to RTFA or these replies...

/this thread is useless.

Can't believe I'm the Weeners these two.

Who really likes spending time with family? Social interaction is the suck.

/had a life once. it is overated.

As a TV-watching, internet-surfing, sofa-nesting, family-avoiding, culture-swerving layabouts who lacks spontaneity and get-up-and-go im getting a kick out of these replies

What do you expect? After all, hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

FTA:
What a feeble bunch we are. A nation of TV-watching, internet-surfing, sofa-nesting, family-avoiding, culture-swerving layabouts who lack spontaneity and get-up-and-go.

USA! USA! USA!

RealFarknMcCoy2: YorkshireFark: Population has nothing to do with it, not in Great Britain's case. We're just Great! It's certainly all to do with economics though... Kenyans are good at the sports that require the least amount of equipment/training eg middle/long distance running whereas we British excel at rowing (for obvious reasons), cycling and sailing.

Actually, you've only excelled in those things at this Olympics - but not really so much in the last few. You guys were always beaten out by the Aussies in those sports in the last several summer Olympics, and overall in the medal tally. Now that you've dedicated a whole lot more money to your sports training, you're seeing a far better result. It's all about the money, really (and the related ability to pay better coaches with that money).

It's not entirely just about money for training, it's also about civilization grown to the point to being willing to compete at completely pointless things on a world stage.

I look at it this way. Given some material means, and kids sitting around, eventually those kids will challenge each other to a race. If they play sports, they'll compete against each other at those sports. Those are "natural" Olympic events and poor countries often do alright in Track and Field and some of the sports. However, for a kid who is potentially the worlds fastest swimmer, or best archer, or best skuller to even find out he's got an interest in it, he's got to have the apparatus nearby. Ditto for gymnastics, and darn near all the Winter Games (Country has to be cold enough to even have snow for most of the events in the first place).

Just generating that natural interest in the athletes themselves requires some measure of location, disposable income* for the kids to even discover they may have some talent in a field. That's why poorer countries tend to have maybe five athletes competing in ten or so events. They LOSE because they don't have the training. They COMPETE because the athletes can discover their interest in Track and Field all by themselves, and then seek out the training.



*China and Russia, of course, being notorious for spending government finances on the sports even though their people may otherwise have no where near the economic levels that would let them discover this interest on their own.

Kerr Avon: What do we want ?
Procrastination!
When do we want it ?
*shrug* Dunno, maybe next week or so ?

LOLOLOlollolo.....zzzzzz.....

This must be why they don't brush their teeth.

/Just going to get dirty again anyhow

RubberFootMan: Sort of - though it is to celebrate the status quo, rather than a revolution.

So very British.

"Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us. Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world.
Was Rorschach. "

Lord Summerisle: Staying at home because the farking roads are jammed solid on Bank Holidays and I've got stuff to do, not because I'm lazy. Or not just because I'm lazy.

And the fact that the roads are at a virtual standstill goes a long way to explaining why we'd rather sit at home relaxing. It also goes to show that this mug doesn't have a scooby what he's talking about.

RealFarknMcCoy2: Actually, you've only excelled in those things at this Olympics - but not really so much in the last few. You guys were always beaten out by the Aussies in those sports in the last several summer Olympics, and overall in the medal tally. Now that you've dedicated a whole lot more money to your sports training, you're seeing a far better result. It's all about the money, really (and the related ability to pay better coaches with that money).

And we only win sports where we're sitting down!

You have the American dream! The American dream is to be born in the gutter and have nothing. Then to raise up and have all the money in the world, and stick it in your ears and go PLBTLBTLBLTLBTLBLT! That's a pretty good dream.

Britain has nothing like that, apparently. Perhaps we should've let them keep India.

global wombats: headstone: gormlessly ?

some swedish girl: Innit?

codswallop!

Oh, bollocks.

Lord Summerisle: Staying at home because the farking roads are jammed solid on Bank Holidays and I've got stuff to do, not because I'm lazy. Or not just because I'm lazy.

Heh. Making sure no one frightens the horses. Or is it a matter of apples?

/has Wicker Man

as oppossed to the goddamned xtian pretards who PRETEND they have a purpose and run around farking up everything and threatening and abusing and destroying other peoples' lives.

seems like an OBVIOUS choice to me. ANYTHING to avoid the goddamned xtian pretards. maybe then, they'll starve or implode or something. one can only hope.

CrimsonMirage: jamspoon: /Yes, that is the correct order - golds come first

Why do you hate America?

It's not personal. In the "alternative" order Russia would be above Britain as well as the USA above China.

/British
//Enjoying the current success
///Roll on London 2012

global wombats: jamspoon: Current Olympics medal tables says some Brits are have other interests

1 China 46 15 22 83
2 USA 30 35 34 99
3 Great Britain 18 12 11 41
4 Russia 16 16 20 52

/Yes, that is the correct order - golds come first

You forgot

5 Australia 11 14 16 41

Gold, Silver, Bronze...What the hell is the last column, "certificate of participation" ?

/yes, I know it's the total...

slackist: YorkshireFark: we British excel at rowing (for obvious reasons)

From trying to escape? Petrol prices? Avoiding the ubiquitous surveillance cameras? Horrible weather? Hideous pasty chav slags? Brain numbingly boring television? Woeful public transport? The most neanderthal accent ever?

I surely can't think of a reason to leave the worst county in the sceptered isle.

No, you're right, Cardiff and Phuket, Thailand are much nicer places.

Twice now, people have tried to make this into a Pink Floyd thread.... get with the program peoples.....

/the time is right....
//the song is over.....
///thought I'd something more to say...
///lots of slashies

My shower's seen me naked: Twice now, people have tried to make this into a Pink Floyd thread.... get with the program peoples.....

/the time is right....
//the song is over.....
///thought I'd something more to say...
///lots of slashies

FTFY

/subtle, like a metaphor

He can't be British. He took the initiative to write that article.

Actually, I'm impressed with that article. It's well-written and shows the author as someone who can take a meaningless study from their government and present the essentially boring information in a humorous, concise, readable manner. No mean feat, I say.

Otto? Fish Called Wanda? Anyone?

Just, counting the seconds to the weekends so they can all dress up like ballerinas and whip themselves into a frenzy at the flat at 4. 2B St...To be honest I hate them. I mean pretending they're so farking lawyer.

TheJowens: TheJowens: "player two has joined"
Ed: "Don't you have to go to work?"
"player two has left the game.

Sorry got that wrong.

'Player two has entered the game.'

Haven't you got work?

'Player two has left the game.'


That's a slice of fried gold!

I am staring gormlessly at my monitor, so I am half-enjoying this thread.

My shower's seen me naked:

/the time is right.... gone


FTFY

/almost didn't

BattleFrenchie28: My shower's seen me naked: Twice now, people have tried to make this into a Pink Floyd thread.... get with the program peoples.....

/the time is right....
//the song is over.....
///thought I'd something more to say...
///lots of slashies

FTFY

/subtle, like a metaphor

Excellent. Now I have the stupid whistling in my head, though.

If this is a clever ploy to make me read the article, you have failed.

After losing an empire, that's the point?