Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Whoops! I suppose it had to happen sooner or later (and let's be honest, this is why most of us watch Countdown!) .........
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"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
More medals than won in London, great performance to finish 2nd ahead of China.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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USA population is estimated at 321.6 million people in 2015, UK population 64,596,800
If you make a population comparison then surely we are morally the best in the world.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Lets not forget the ones who trained very hard like the rest but did not win a medal well done also to them .
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Thank you for saying that,but it is true it is great to see the winners, but as a old person who trained very hard and some times I did not win but the lead up was the same as the times when I did win, when you win the public support you but at times when you do not they turn on you and say things which are not very nice.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,922
Thinking about the earlier comment about the cost of the medals, I do not begrudge one bit my £1.09p that I contributed to those medals.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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howard mcsweeney1 likes this"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".