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POMS think their superior, step into my class for a history lesson
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why aren't people talking about japan, 127 million population 2 gold medals
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like ive always said, "anything worst than 3rd by the host nation with total medals won will be looked upon as a failure".
russia's breathing down their necks and coming home fast. |
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why aren't people talking about japan, 127 million population 2 gold medals
They won't be talking about Oz in a few years; the memory of the good old days will have faded. Oz culture has changed. The "can do" outback thing has gone. Your health and safety makes Britain look like a bunch of wreckless suicide bombers - and our system is bad enough. No. Your days of running through brick walls and showing the world your remarkable spirit (and it was remarkable) has gone. Clip boards and water wings have won the day. |
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Your health and safety makes Britain look like a bunch of wreckless suicide bombers - and our system is bad enough.
 No mention of India btw ,1 billion give or take a couple of train carriages - shocking scenes |
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I read an interesting article the other day.
The guts of the arguement is that countries that are riding on the crest of economic prosperity based on natural resources, tend to slip back in education, (Aust has slipped in the last decade compared to other nations of a similar socio economic standing). Countries that have no resource industry, invest in their other natural resource -YOUTH. perhaps this also translates to the sporting Areana, Has economic wealth robbed our youth of incentive?? Several Middle eastern countries , with enormous oil reserves, rely on people from the sub-continent to do all their work. They are breeding generations of people who don't know how to work, struggle strive , achive and fail. They can barely change a light bulb (I can change a light bulb, but at work am not allowed too, OH&s!!) serious discussion plz |
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yep sunhats and sunglasses with carefully supervised nature walks have replaced the barnstorming footy games and punch ups that we all loved during school breaks. We even had organised fist fights with attendants and pay for admissions to the hedged in alcoves at our school. This creativity and spirit of adventure no longer exists in oz.
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I blame our turn coat coachs that have been
bought by our competitors... Treason! |
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Russia breathing down our necks? They've got four golds FFs. They're almost as bad as the convicts.
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By the way I like the Aussies, they're generally a good crack. My bro in law is an Aussie And he sent me a letter after the 2002/3 ashes with some ashes in it saying Steve Waugh thought you might want these. Obviously I gave a bit back following our rwc win later in the year and our subsequent ashes wins . We both take it on the chin. Sometimes however you get one of these nutter types (second coming im looking at you) who simply cannot cope with failure. These people are of course hilarious and it is our duty to point and laugh at these types in the hope they will eventually grow up, but I don't believe they are indicative of all Aussies. Just to reiterate.... Second coming you are a clown..it is people like you that make All the baiting worthwhile.
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what you think I don't get enjoyment out of it too?
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By: This user is offline. rob_dylan
Date Joined: 26 Nov 11 Add contact | Send message When: 06 Aug 12 06:20 Joined: Date Joined: 26 Nov 11 | Topic/replies: 3,179 | Blogger: rob_dylan's blog Russia breathing down our necks? They've got four golds FFs. They're almost as bad as the convicts. total medal tally clown  |
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rob_dylan, you say others need to grow up, but referring to Australians as "as knuckle dragging convicts" does not show much maturity. There are quite few English posters on here that have the same village mentality, so you should feel comforted by that.
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ike ive always said, "anything worst than 3rd by the host nation with total medals won will be looked upon as a failure".
Yes but you do consistently talk absolute tosh don't you? Megsy having 2 or 3 sets of goalposts - has this happened before? So the olmypics are a failure if we get less than 48 medals or is it less than 60 or 70 medals, hang on it's now if we finish less than 3rd? Few i'm glad that's sorted. |
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spyker....SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETHE
just for you, can you read ?? quote. 31 july Team GB officials urge public and media not to panic over lack of gold medals, but executives lower maximum target to around 60 from 70 Team GB officials 'not panicked' by Olympic gold medal drought London 2012 target of 48 medals – ahead of the total Beijing haul – is still very much in sight, promise Team GB chiefs Owen Gibson, Olympics editor guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 31 July Team GB officials have urged the public and the media not to panic over their lack of gold medals by suggesting things will change on Wednesday. But the executives responsible for funding British Olympic sport, UK Sport, have also admitted they are considering reducing by 10 their maximum medal target of 70. talk about being cocky ****s before the games poms to be bigger failures if they dont get to 60-70 now as the host nation what an embarrassement if you cant at least match Australia's 58 medals as the host nation in 2000 |
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You mean when Australia got 16 gold medals? LOSERS.
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Me seethe - good god you really are a fool aren't you? You are so boring and follow the same pattern with all your posts - type (without enagaging brain), then find some story from the internet to back you up as fact - and the worse thing is that you actually think these quotes of yours really do back you up! The clue is 'maximum target' - not the target but the highest that the team bigwigs thought they could acheive - is that really so hard for you to fathom?
As for your '3rd or it's a failure' well i can't begin to be bothered to point out all the holes in that little theory - even those on this forum are obv a bit embarrased by you now. At least the other posters sometimes post stuff worth reading but you just type nonsense every single time! |
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A bit of a selective history in the op. all time gb golds -207. All time medals. 715. 4 th overall
Australia 131 golds 432 medals. Tenth overall. He seems to have just chosen a few Olympics where they did better than us and Extrapolated from there. |
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AUSSIES SEETHING!!!
They now have the same number of Gold medals as the mighty Ethiopia - a nation of flies and starving kids!!! I Can't stop laughing! |
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those few were the last 3, if that's how it is then that's how it is
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Btw YOU are a sick pom that needs help.........like they all do.hth
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Last four including both our home games we have more golds than you.
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Haha even the very sober bbc breakfast news is taking he p1ss out of the Aussie gold medal count now. Thing is gb may get four gold medals today, so even if the Aussies do very well with Sally and the sailors theyll probably not gain on us at all.
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And the boxing finals haven't even started yet... Have your lot got any boxers? Thought not.
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We have plenty of boxes here
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Great sense of humour from the Aussies.....
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-02/sharing-the-olympic-blame-with-clarke-and-dawe/4173114 Shame secondcoming and megsy can't laugh at himself in the same way. |
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Sense of humour? They are just saying what the most of us think
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think we need to make this australian forum redundant and have a new zealand one instead
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Why?
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rob_dylan
Date Joined: 26 Nov 11 Add contact | Send message When: 07 Aug 12 06:20 Joined: Date Joined: 26 Nov 11 | Topic/replies: 3,203 | Blogger: rob_dylan's blog Last four including both our home games we have more golds than you. fcuk you sound like a little kid |
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rob_dylan psssst if you havent noticed, we aint over on your pissy racing forum, you sure look a fcukin goose like the other unwashed coming over here talking and squawking like galahs
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do galahs squawk?..thanks smeg breath..didnt know that.
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Sport Australia Downgrade Medal Target and Medal Table Placing
http://www.tntmagazine.com/news/sport/london-2012-australia-downgrades-olympic-medals-prediction Australia has downgraded its London 2012 Olympics medal target from 46 to 36 after the country failed to live up to expectations in sports such as swimming. Australian officials are no longer expecting a top five finish. It has been a galling Olympics for Australia, which prides itself on being a sporting nation, and as the Games roll on it has become unrealistic for Aussies to expect the medal haul they originally set out to win. According to the president of Australia's Olympic Committee, John Coates, the country’s lacklustre performance in this year’s Games is down to cuts in funding and poor sports education in schools. Aussies were left particularly disappointed after star athletes like the originally-cocky swimmer James Magnussen failed in bring in a haul of gold medals. It’s the country's lowest glod medal count in swimming since Barcelona 1992 and the first time since 1972 that Aussies have failed to win an individual medal in the sport. At present, Australia is 24th on the London 2012 Olympics medals table, with one gold medal, 12 silver and seven bronze. Particularly wounding to the Aussie ego is the fact that tiny New Zealand has outstripped its neighbour and is 14th on the medal table with three Olympic golds. Now Coates has decided to bite the bullet and lower the official medal target from 46 to between 30 and 36. "If you analyse it, it is only in swimming that we are disappointed in the number of medals," Coates the Australian Broadcasting Corp radio. "In Beijing we got 46 medals of which 20 were in swimming. We have 10 here, so realistically we are not going to get 46 medals – 30 to 36 is more likely." Coates slammed the Australian government, suggesting its education policy was damaging sport. "Perhaps the area that needs a lot of attention […] is getting sport back into the school curricula," he said. "The British are making a big thing of that being one of the legacies they're looking towards and they've been achieving that, a greater emphasis on sport in schools. We need that because we've got to make sure we have a talent pool." Former Olympian and senior Olympic committee member Kevan Gosper backed up the calls for more funding to be given to Aussie athletes. "We've been down on the sort of financial support that we were accustomed to when compared with the financial support that's coming through from other countries, particularly here in Europe," he told ABC radio from London. "The fact is you do need more money in international sports and preparing if you're going to compete with the world." |
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After throwing eight badminton players out of the Olympics for not trying, the IOC have been accused of double standards after allowing the entire Australian team to stay.
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After throwing eight badminton players out of the Olympics for not trying, the IOC have been accused of double standards after allowing the entire Australian team to stay.
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I think the return of black death is overdue.
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