Plus ça change

[caddyman]

Whatever else is happening in the world, it is comforting that some things never change; they are eternal and dependable.

For a loud, brash and vital country, Australia remains oddly insecure where the UK is concerned and are far more bothered by us than we are by them. Especially in an age where the average British chav couldn't find Australia on a map and would probably spell it wrong if he did. Instead of trumpeting their own success at the Olympics where, Australia is proportionately out performing pretty much evryone (medals gained compared with poulation of country) they are, instead, whinging about the British team's success .

Next time anyone hears an Aussie grumbling about "Whinging Poms" it is incumbent on any and all Britons there present to laugh in their pasty little faces.

Meantime in America, it seems that the latest evidence supporting the existence of Bigfoot aka Saskwatch is another hoax. Didn't see that coming no, Sirree. What makes it even funnier is the fact that someone supposedly paid real money to acquire what turns out to be a rubber gorilla suit frozen in a block of ice.

I love the silly season.

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[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

I heard Aus described a 'The most sporty and yet least sporting of nations' yesterday.

"John Coates, the president of the Australian Olympic Committee, was also embarrassed. “Their new-found cockiness has got some substance to it,” he admitted. “They are certainly serving it up to me.” Mr Coates was the man who sneered after Rebecca Adlington, the swimmer, won Britain’s second gold medal last week that Britain wasn’t doing too badly for a country with “few swimming pools and not very much soap”."

Maybe Lord Moynahan (sp) is going to win that mad bet of his after all, and even if he doesn't he'll still be able to point out the Mr Coates only won it on Bronzes and Silvers hehehe