Shall we have a Commonwealth Games thread?

[Champ]

I see no-one's started a Commonwealth Games thread.

 

I've been slow to this one but I've got it on now.

 

And what happened to the Brownlees?

[Trumo]

The one that always wins didn't win, and the one who usually wheezes over the finish line finished further back than usual.

[Champ]

The one that always wins didn't win, and the one who usually wheezes over the finish line finished further back than usual.

Oh, I know all that. What I don't know is why

 

Too much wining and dining?

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Commonwealth Games reminds me of School Sports Day where all the shit athletes get a chance of a medal.

[Tony Moanero]

I see no-one's started a Commonwealth Games thread.

 

I've been slow to this one but I've got it on now.

 

And what happened to the Brownlees?

Are they those whoppers off that Aldi/Lidl advert?

[Champ]

Are they those whoppers off that Aldi/Lidl advert?

You've gotta love the Brownlees

[Tony Moanero]

You've gotta love the Brownlees

Why?

 

Their surname sort of rhymes which Rowntrees. I quite like that, as I like Kit Kats and Rolos.

[Champ]

Why?

Their surname sort of rhymes which Rowntrees. I quite like that, as I like Kit Kats and Rolos.

They're just so odd

[sir roger]

The younger lad Jonny has had a bad leg injury and barely done any running training this year ( he ended up 7th ) no idea what happened with the elder ( usually better ) one Alistair as he ended up 10th.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Worth watching the wrestling as there's a Scottish lad who does Professional Wrestling competing. He took it up and won the UK championship.

 

Hope he wins and cuts a promo

[General Dryness]

Worth watching the wrestling as there's a Scottish lad who does Professional Wrestling competing. He took it up and won the UK championship.

 

Hope he wins and cuts a promo

Hold on, so he does WWE style wrestling but he's in the commonwealth games?

 

Hell of a crossover, that. The other lads will be just hanging around in their leotards and he'll make his entrance down a zipline with flame effects firing out of his arse and run around clotheslining everyone.

[TheHowieLama]

he'll make his entrance down a zipline with flame effects firing out of his arse and run around clotheslining everyone.

 

Yep - so at least watchable

[Champ]

Commonwealth Games reminds me of School Sports Day where all the shit athletes get a chance of a medal.

Did you say that last time round?

[s(k)aturation]

Commonwealth Games reminds me of School Sports Day where all the shit athletes get a chance of a medal.

 

 

Try telling that to Roger Bannister (and John Landy) at the Empire Games in 1954, at the purpose-built Empire Stadium, Vancouver, British Columbia.

 

I mean for fuck sake, Skids, be reasonable.  You only have to go back 64 years for the last wonderful Commonwealth Games moment.

 

The Gold Coast in Australia is merely a forerunner of where the Games can go from here.  

 

I'd love to see a special dispensation given by Her Majesty to allow the next ones to be staged in Las Vegas, Nevada.

 

Albeit with tight security, obviously...

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

[Guest]

I don't even know what Commonwealth Games are. Can you play them on PlayStation?

[Anny Road]

Is this when fat blokes from Fiji take 1/2 hour to do 2 lengths in swimming?

[s(k)aturation]

Is this when fat blokes from Fiji take 1/2 hour to do 2 lengths in swimming?

 

 

A slick 1/4 hr, for your information, you fat-old-white-male-ist racist.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Did you say that last time round?

I’ve always thought that about it to be fair. It’s like the “Celebration Games” or “An excuse to Milk London 2012 for as much as we can Games” or whatever they are called. I just see the point of them as some sort of link back to the good old British Empire. Except the British countries don’t dominate.

 

May have toed the party line in the past to keep the peace. But I’m defo breaking free this year.

[Champ]

I’ve always thought that about it to be fair. It’s like the “Celebration Games” or “An excuse to Milk London 2012 for as much as we can Games” or whatever they are called. I just see the point of them as some sort of link back to the good old British Empire. Except the British countries don’t dominate.

 

May have toed the party line in the past to keep the peace. But I’m defo breaking free this year.

You are absolutely right about the origins of the Games and why independent countries would wish to remain associated with them is a bit mystifying but I love an athletics plus other events competition so I’m still in until they say stop. I think

[Bobby Hundreds]

I love athletics. I don't give a shit about imperialism. Even the presenter with the babies foot for a hand doesn't arse me.

[Strontium]

Second rate games or not, if there's a better athlete competing for Britain than Adam Peaty, now that Farah has retired from the team, I've yet to see him.

[General Dryness]

I’ve always thought that about it to be fair. It’s like the “Celebration Games” or “An excuse to Milk London 2012 for as much as we can Games” or whatever they are called. I just see the point of them as some sort of link back to the good old British Empire. Except the British countries don’t dominate.

 

May have toed the party line in the past to keep the peace. But I’m defo breaking free this year.

 

As long as its never going to be called "The Buy Everton a New Stadium Games", I've got no problem with it.

[easytoslip]

Commonwealth Games reminds me of School Sports Day where all the shit athletes get a chance of a medal.

I'm quite proud me Dad was a bronze medallist and he wasn't a shit athlete, like many others who take part.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

I'm quite proud me Dad was a bronze medallist and he wasn't a shit athlete, like many others who take part.

Well done your Dad.

 

Bronze is shit though.