Anyone who isn't proud to be British after our performance in Rio

[Mo Britain less Europe]

is either a foreigner or a c unt.

[Burney]

is either a foreigner or a c unt.

Would you care to explain exactly what it is about people you don't know successfully playing obscure sports that people only watch every four years that makes you 'proud'? Do you not feel you might be devaluing the concept of national pride ever so slightly by attaching it to something so meaningless and frivolous?

[Mo Britain less Europe]

Would you care to explain exactly what it is about people you don't know successfully playing obscure sports that people only watch every four years that makes you 'proud'? Do you not feel you might be devaluing the concept of national pride ever so slightly by attaching it to something so meaningless and frivolous?

Easy. It proves if we set our minds to it and invest time and money we can do things better than other countries even when they are doing the same or more. Ergo: one is right to feel proud.

Meaningless? Everything in life is meaningless apart from eating, drinking, ****tind and ****ing. And yet we soldier on every day and give meaning to all sorts of things.

[Burney]

Easy. It proves if we set our minds to it and invest time and money we can do things better than other countries even when they are doing the same or more. Ergo: one is right to feel proud.

Meaningless? Everything in life is meaningless apart from eating, drinking, ****tind and ****ing. And yet we soldier on every day and give meaning to all sorts of things.

Well so could anyone else if they bothered spending the same amounts of time and money on it. That's not a source for national pride, it's a question of priorities. Personally, I would question the logic of spending these quantities on what amounts to a national vanity project, but there you go.
If you choose to invest this vanity project with some personal meaning that's up to you, but the fact that they mean fùck all to me doesn't make me a foreigner or a ****.

[Sir C]

Well so could anyone else if they bothered spending the same amounts of time and money on it. That's not a source for national pride, it's a question of priorities. Personally, I would question the logic of spending these quantities on what amounts to a national vanity project, but there you go.
If you choose to invest this vanity project with some personal meaning that's up to you, but the fact that they mean fùck all to me doesn't make me a foreigner or a ****.

If that is so, (and it may well be), what you have proven is that any and all concepts of 'national pride' are essentially meaningless, for we are not, as you have pointed out, unique.

Is this why you refuse to defend the colours?

[Burney]

If that is so, (and it may well be), what you have proven is that any and all concepts of 'national pride' are essentially meaningless, for we are not, as you have pointed out, unique.

Is this why you refuse to defend the colours?

We are unique in some things - as are other nations - but the ability to chuck money at sporting endeavour and thus improve results is not one of those things. Chelsea and Man City have been doing it for yonks and we don't see that as admirable.

I simply think that if you want to feel national pride, then there are better and more valid sources for it than our Olympics performances.

[C&B]

Would you care to explain exactly what it is about people you don't know successfully playing obscure sports that people only watch every four years that makes you 'proud'? Do you not feel you might be devaluing the concept of national pride ever so slightly by attaching it to something so meaningless and frivolous?

I think the thing to remember here is the pain and misery it appears to be causing the French and Aussies. Worth every penny imo.

[Ash]

is either a foreigner or a c unt.

It's jolly good fun, but I can't help being a little bit persuaded by the argument but we are, Olympicistically, like the Soviet Union used to be. Our atheletes are civil servants, paid by the state with money raised from taxing the poor, to compete and succeed to make us feel good to distract from our somewhat mediocre and rather backward economy.

[Sir C]

It's jolly good fun, but I can't help being a little bit persuaded by the argument but we are, Olympicistically, like the Soviet Union used to be. Our atheletes are civil servants, paid by the state with money raised from taxing the poor, to compete and succeed to make us feel good to distract from our somewhat mediocre and rather backward economy.

I am intrigued by this Olympic tax on the poor, a. Pray expand upon your theme.

[Ash]

I am intrigued by this Olympic tax on the poor, a. Pray expand upon your theme.

Lottery money. It is the poorer elements that mostly do the lottery, is it not? They with no other hope of getting a few bob together. It looks like it while I am queueing behind them in the local shop.