[Snail]

He insults everyone though.

[captain-custard]

Jeremy Clarkson seems to do that a lot too.

jeremy clarkson would be god if he wasnt a tory




but then again maybe god is a tory

[Kie99]

Certainly from me it's not Anti-Americanism, I just noticed something ridiculous and commented on it, spawning this discussion.  The fact it's America is incidental.

[karajorma]

Certainly from me it's not Anti-Americanism, I just noticed something ridiculous and commented on it, spawning this discussion.  The fact it's America is incidental.

That's basically how most of us feel. But some Americans are rather thin-skinned. I'll quite happily take the mickey out of any country* including my own.



*Except Belgium. There is absolutely nothing funny about Belgium.

[Al Tarket]

hehe, 1. belgians have a knack for being more or less invisible to europe or anything really.
2. (usa) americans are very prideful about their country and a few that take it too far and make something out of nothing, generally very nice people however i hate the government which the americans have to live under.
3. Great Britain, putting too much blind love and failth into a monach of germans and greeks who stole their land in the 1200's consequently i hate their national anthem.
4. japanese crack me up laughing everytime they do a game show, everytime its completely different. probably one of the best people in the world.


i have opinions on every country including israel.

that said. Russia isn't as strong as i would of predicted, i would of expected them to of taking it to china and the United States, strange thing though seeing Great Britain and south korea so high up that list.

[BlackDove]

wat

watwatwat

watwat



****ty shoop from 4chan is ****ty but true.

Well, I didn't really count em myself, nor do I care, but it looks damn good to me.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

A pun on those inspirational posters again?

[Al Tarket]

??? i dont get what you are saying.

[Kie99]

If the BBC did that, it'd be an equivalent to what ESPN et al are doing.

[Mongoose]

So don't get defensive then. We're all friends here. Mongoose reignited this discussion to propose a better system and then went back to defending the current American one after I pointed out that his better system still wouldn't put America at the top.

To be perfectly honest, I did have the numbers switched around when I did the math for the points-based system initially, but I've already iterated and reiterated that I'd gladly take that system over either of the alternatives, no matter if we're in the lead or not.  What gets me from a mathematical and OCD standpoint is seeing a table labeled "Medals Count" on the official Olympics website that has its final, summation column out-of-order numerically.  The perfectionist side of my brain pulls something like, "But...gah...*broken*"  Now, if they were to label that same table "Gold Medal Count," I wouldn't have any problem with it whatsoever, and this whole split need not have happened in the beginning.  I'll fully agree that a silver or bronze medal doesn't equal a gold, but even so, at least the table we label "Medal Count" delivers what it promises, even if that statistic is rather non-informing.

(Ooh, can I throw in random asides about typical European inferiority complexes or something else nonsensically off-topic too? )

[Akalabeth Angel]

     Does Great Britain usually do that well? Or are they throwing money at their athletes in preparation for 2012?

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Where?

The investigation hasn't finished yet, so there's no possible way we know beyond rumors right now.

It was on the Olympic coverage last night.  I was posting as one of those briefs in between events popped up. 

[karajorma]

Does Great Britain usually do that well? Or are they throwing money at their athletes in preparation for 2012?

They're throwing money at it. We were 10th last time IIRC.

[Al Tarket]

as i recalled a handful of gold medals Great Britain got in Athens compared to Beijing.

[blackhole]

I don't care if someone hates America. I do care if they hate me because I'm from America.

Although, I do want to point out that I've been told that my country is stupid quite a lot, and I kind of get the point now. While complaining about anti-americanism is not particularly meaningful in-of-itself, complaining about having anti-american stuff being shoved in your face every other time someone mentions the name "america" has some merit in it. It doesn't matter that it *is* anti-americanism, or anti-semantism, or anti-nazis, or anti-everything.

Things.
Get.
Old.

[WMCoolmon]

I guess people want to talk **** about America more than they want to click "Gold" on the ESPN website to rank the medals that way.

[Ford Prefect]

anti-semantism

I make no apologies for this; those conniving semantics can take their wily sophistry elsewhere.

[Nuclear1]

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Well, the Olympics is over. Amazing how little attention I pay to sports...

[tinfoil]

I didn't even watch

Why you probably don't ask

well 1 because i don't care
and 2 because where i was i had no TV

and well i'm on the topic of the olympics Vancouver 2010 is gonna be awesome although i predict a serious lack of ass kickery by the Canadians (remember calgary?)