Would you route for me?
Aug 14th 2016 | 11:38 pm
#16
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Re: Would you route for me?
Not really sure it matter what country they represent. The olympics is about personal achievement.
I find the females without a complete set of female organs, internal testes and testosterone levels matching some of the men much more unfathomable.
I find the females without a complete set of female organs, internal testes and testosterone levels matching some of the men much more unfathomable.
Aug 14th 2016 | 11:41 pm
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Re: Would you route for me?
I am not watching but every athlete has to be linked to a country and there are medal tables for country. I thought much of it was nationalistic pride?
Are there transgender athletes? Or are you referring to "East German" types?
Are there transgender athletes? Or are you referring to "East German" types?
Aug 14th 2016 | 11:42 pm
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Re: Would you route for me?
Knots, iggle, knots.
you are are tying yourself up mate.
(Probably cheaper after all you spunked last week)
Slow down mate
you are are tying yourself up mate.
(Probably cheaper after all you spunked last week)
Slow down mate
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Aug 15th 2016 | 12:34 am
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Re: Would you route for me?
One is effectively Transgender. She/He was forced to take testosterone reducing drugs to compete as a woman. During that time she/he was an also ran. The rules setting a maximum testosterone level were then jilted and she/he came back to her/his old winning ways.
Aug 15th 2016 | 12:40 am
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Re: Would you route for me?
Aug 15th 2016 | 1:03 am
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Re: Would you route for me?
British by ethnicity. - No, he's not
British by culture. - No, he's not.
He's as British as the EU.
Aug 15th 2016 | 1:12 am
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Re: Would you route for me?
There are a couple of hermaphroditis this year in amongst the female runners. Even the most lefty of the lefts must recognize that this isn't quite fair.
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Aug 15th 2016 | 1:20 am
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Re: Would you route for me?
Aug 15th 2016 | 1:24 am
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Aug 15th 2016 | 1:26 am
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Re: Would you route for me?
This is complicated and I have no idea what the answer is. Life is rough enough if a person is born hermaphrodite though.
Aug 15th 2016 | 1:32 am
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Re: Would you route for me?
He's a British citizen by descent. He is not ethnically British by descent obviously.
This fact does seem to make some people very uncomfortable - acknowledging there are ethnic Britons (English, Irish, Scots, Welsh etc) who are descendents of people who have been in the Isles since the end of the last Ice Age.
It's not racist to simply acknowledge this fact of biology. No more than it's racist to say ethnic Emiratis are Arabs.
However the British government does not grant citizenship on the basis of ethnicity, which is a separate thing to being ethnically or culturally British.
It's all very confusing but let's not rush to accuse people of racism or 'islamophobia' (Islam isn't a race it's a religion, not limited to any race) because some people are clearly not rooting for non-ethnic/non-cultural Britons.
Some people simply don't accept any and all as fellow Britons just because they hold citizenship. As long as there are no calls for violence, hatred or maltreatment they can, in what is barely still a free society express that view even if we don't like it.
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This fact does seem to make some people very uncomfortable - acknowledging there are ethnic Britons (English, Irish, Scots, Welsh etc) who are descendents of people who have been in the Isles since the end of the last Ice Age.
It's not racist to simply acknowledge this fact of biology. No more than it's racist to say ethnic Emiratis are Arabs.
However the British government does not grant citizenship on the basis of ethnicity, which is a separate thing to being ethnically or culturally British.
It's all very confusing but let's not rush to accuse people of racism or 'islamophobia' (Islam isn't a race it's a religion, not limited to any race) because some people are clearly not rooting for non-ethnic/non-cultural Britons.
Some people simply don't accept any and all as fellow Britons just because they hold citizenship. As long as there are no calls for violence, hatred or maltreatment they can, in what is barely still a free society express that view even if we don't like it.
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Aug 15th 2016 | 1:34 am
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Re: Would you route for me?
As you and I both know what makes the difference is how such enquiries are framed. It is possible to express thoughts in a rational way and others all but froth at the mouth. You are in the former category but I am sure we have all seen examples of the latter. I rally don't know why such types get so het up though.
