Originally posted by Riven
hahaha:devilidea yor all british anyway, especially aussie land, heck yor all the rouges we chuked out. Yor probably cheatin. Any how yor still STEALING the games. And TAKING all the medals but then im probably just jealous bcos british athletes are an absolute pile of ****.
I'm gonna take that as tongue in cheek, but I really dislike people calling Australia just the rubbish from Bitain. Admittedly, Australia as a nation was founded by Britain, but british rule ceased in 1901, and sending convicts here...well that ceased over 150 years ago, and in that time we've advanced amazingly further than the British have in practically every field. Also, half or more of Australias population is entirely undescended from Britain, and have immigrated here. We have Australian citizens from all but a handful of the worlds nations, and this ethnic diversity and multiculturalism was the major contributing factor to Australia's growth. My own paternal Grandfather was German, our neighbours are Maltese, there're some singaporeans up the road a little at least a third of the people at my school have european names, etc. etc, and that's just in my little rural town. I's a lot more prevalent in the cities. Even Setekh is Chinese Australian (I think - sorry if I got that one wrong).
And as for us stealing the medals, it's nothing more that the direct result of our superior sporting program. The AIS is less than 30 years old, and yet it's one of the most highly respected sporting institutions the world over. That combined with the active, outdoorsy, sporting lifestyle which is the norm in Australia, and it's not hard to see why we produce so many fine athletes.
You just wait for the next Commonwealth Games - when we're the home team it'll be Australian Clean sweeps in every event
. Unfortunately, I'll be thousands of Kilometers away...again
. Come to Perth!!!
