Well this really irritates me .It isn’t exactly logical I know ,but I gather from Mr. Eugenides that at the home coming parade for the Scots Olympians, along Princes Street, there was not a Union Jack to be seen, least of all around the athletes for whose training we have been paying South of the border.
I know his Thighness (his Hoyness? ) is Scottish, as well as British, but he competed for Britain .If he wants British funding he can damn well show he appreciates the rest of us as much as the Pictish horde .
In any case lets face it the cycling is a con .There are plenty of better cyclists around but they are professionals and compete on the road race circuit . Our pedal pepes get funding from the tax payer and the lottery .They specialise in a boutique version of what is already a weeny little sport.
Those mean thin lipped sheep stealing ginga Mac Bastards have got to learn they cannot have it both ways . That goes for democratic rights Barnett formula freebies and access to English goodwill.
I know his Thighness (his Hoyness? ) is Scottish, as well as British, but he competed for Britain .If he wants British funding he can damn well show he appreciates the rest of us as much as the Pictish horde .
In any case lets face it the cycling is a con .There are plenty of better cyclists around but they are professionals and compete on the road race circuit . Our pedal pepes get funding from the tax payer and the lottery .They specialise in a boutique version of what is already a weeny little sport.
Those mean thin lipped sheep stealing ginga Mac Bastards have got to learn they cannot have it both ways . That goes for democratic rights Barnett formula freebies and access to English goodwill.
Get with the programme Hoy or 'pick a windy ye'are leavin''
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The simpler thing would be for Boris to arrange a similar parade for the English team!
Titter titter , yes good idea
Hope the bastard gets saddle-sore.
I do think it's time we English started getting petty about such things.
Petty is my middle name EK New -petty-mania ..( shouldn't have started that)
I think of your name being sung as in the lyrics to "Notorious" by Duran Duran.
New. New. Newmania!
I have proposed tricycling for the 2012 olympics... actually I quite enjoyed those weird men with the cone heads cycling round and round that wooden thing. Very odd.. kept expecting Spike Milligan to edge on saying "What are we going to do next?"
DCF - I am not much of a Duran Duran fan, know the song though.
Oo have not listend to the goons for ages , think I will , I have some CDs. Thnaks Mut
Blue eyes' idea is great. Come on, Boz, festoon London with the the English flag!
Its the sort of thing he might have mentioned in the old days Flo ...not now methinks
Careful, you'll incur the wrath of the Ginger Liberation Army.
The MaCakeneatits should be cut adrift.
Independence for England.
Independance for England my arse.
"If he wants British funding he can damn well show he appreciates the rest of us as much as the Pictish horde."
He did - he waved the Union Flag when he won his medals - he carried the Union Jack at the closing ceremony etc.etc.
And since when did being proud of the UK stop you being proud of your home town, county or country as well - they are not mutually exclusive.
As for your comments about road cyclists being the only real cyclists - they are just plain silly - like saying that the only runners are cross country runners. Your view of track cycling is not shared by the French - who I can ensure you, from first hand knowledge, were feeling a lot of pain during the last few weeks - and had to resort to glorifying a BMX cyclist because of our pretend cyclists.
Anyway isn't Dave Scottish - don't you normally take nationality from your father in Tory circles?
Ha T Boy ! I`ve missed you ,and still trying to be the perpetual fly in the ointment . Its going to suit us both so much better when I am chums with MPs and you are sucking your sorry thumb chatting about the 9th way.
On your remarks re UK you know perfectly well what I am getting at and what you say about the French is , I assume, based on one or two French people you know . Let me explain something to you .In the UK sport is something you do . On the continent it is something you watch on Telly . They do not understand and neither does anyone left of centre here .
You may wish to debate whether some jaded derivation of Marxism or the loyalties men are born to should govern our lives but if it was decided by who was best at any sport then you might as well give up.
I have just watched England bash South Africa at the Oval and rest assurred none of them were socialists and nor was anyone in the crowd.
Thus it shall always be (and I may have had a few glasses of wine )
Independance for England my arse.
And a very shapely arse it is !
Thanks wonk and Mr. Gash I will look into your links
toryboy"And since when did being proud of the UK stop you being proud of your home town, county or country " when you are English thats when you can't. the bbc ethnically cleansed English athletes from the games. the ban on Home nation flags in China is still partially applies in the uk when it comes to England.
"Its going to suit us both so much better when I am chums with MPs and you are sucking your sorry thumb chatting about the 9th way"
Oh ah? What kind of position would you take to take between being loyal to the government, being critical, being an outright oppositionist if Camoron won?
It would be interesting on the blogosphere, as people like The Devil would be still opposition bloggers, the Iain Dales would be cheering Camoron on... I envisaged you being somewhere in between.
Time will tell... or not, if he doesn't win ;)
I shall be cheering Asquith ..I hope
Hoy is (naturally) already living the Scotch dream, lving and working in the promised land, £ngland.
£ngland rid of the Scotch EU Region ASAP!
same in Wales ...
http://www.british-nats-watch.blogspot.com/
God save us from the willfully stupid...
Hoy HAS said far more than was strictly required- he has strongly spoken out against the SNP (Salmond were you listening...).
Apparently the only thing you would actually be satisfied with would be if there were no Scots.
We are Scottish, we are also British (and actually European too), but your intemperate ill informed rubbish could even destroy the Union. If you want Salmond to succeed, then keep writing such garbage.
A first- I finally comment on your site, for a change.
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