mikelincs

You'll be OK in 4 years as they are 'down under', Gold Coast to be precise, so no problmes there see them, or at a decent time. for you.
Still England are uncatchable at the top of the medal table of golds won.

Dennis The Menace

Your right mate that's a more appropriate name for him

Beoz

I think most aussies stopped watching the games before it began. It was barely on TV.

Grayling

You haven't made a post on here for a few hours telling us how Australians aren't really interested.

Perhaps people will start to think that they really do care

Beoz

Isn't that what I just said ...... Did an Aussie destroy you in the past? ..... You've got lots of issues around it.

Grayling

You really are rattled aren't you?

It is just sport.....get over it.....the Australian government can simply increase the usual subsidies to sport and thing might get better in time

Beoz

Hey we agree on that. Wouldn't waste my time on the Comm games though.

So who did that job on you?

Grayling

That is a bit of a desperate ploy isn't it

You are not very good at this are you

Beoz

Deflection ...... you laid all your bitterness out then closed up shop ..... Come on let it pour out.

Grayling

Seems like you are the one who needs catharsis

What did the Brits do to you?....or is it simply Aussie touchiness?

ozzieeagle

Do you reckon England will do it next time around as well, or is this one of those one in 30 year phenomenon.

Grayling

Not once in 30 years.....look at the last Olympic results

If the Scottish medals had been added to the English in these games then the differences would have been even greater.......a pointer to the next Olympics

Beoz

I am British. I just don't support them when it comes to sport. I guess it started with football supporters, that unsavory, shallow bunch. I just couldn't understand the aggressive, nastiness of it all and the bandwagon approach to winning and losing - you know how it works, you were there and very quiet during the Ashes, then proceed to jump up and down over the Comm games. Fair play - if the Comm Games mean a lot to you then your call. Now that I've been honest as to why I support Australia, do the decent thing and tell us why Australia dented you so badly?

Grayling

Sport does not mean much to me at all....never really has since I left England ( apart from my enthusiasm for horse racing)?...I like to wind Aussies up over it though

Australia has not dented me but I dislike the myopia and the childishness over things such as sport.

The toys seem to come out of the pram as soon as any criticism is made or perceived

There was a discussion on the radio this morning about the first world war....one of the participants ( an Australian writer and hstorian and ex military) made the suggestion that the Australian contribution to WW1 was not as great as made out.....the presenter and other 'experts' were gobsmacked that someone could have that point of view.

I find the attitude of 'Uncle Poms' even worse.

BadgeIsBack

This revisionism of WW1 is all over the place. In fact revisionism has been a hot topic for years. There have been great articles about it in the broadsheet Australian press. I don't seem to see these articles referenced on BE - in general the broadsheet press is ignored on this forum - I have never worked out why. In time, people realise there is another point of view over established history. There was a lot of revisionism in the 60s for example. We don't need to be childish about it. Plenty of Brits like to throw the first insults and fall back on cliches. I'm more over that than the tabloid media.

The gobsmacked is just a mainstream view. Brits also forget that the Western front in WW2 was nothing compared to the E front...we can all pick our history and take usual themes from them. Arguably, the Brits were not as important as the Yanks in both WWs. I think Australians will get this history - they can still elect to attach importance to it. There is a difference between importance/contribution and what it meant to the average person at the time.