Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Aug 11, 2012 8:46 am  

Come on, give the Yorkshire folk some slack - Considering their performances in mainstream sport normally borders on dismal (hello Premier League football... ), then they surely deserve to try and get some credit from all these barmy minority sports.

Let's just hope they don't let sheep worrying into the Olympics anytime soon because we'll never shut them up....

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:32 am  

Kosh wrote:

Nope. The map uses place of birth as long as it was within the region covered by the map, otherwise it uses current residence. No loss of 'credibility' there - not least because the whole thing is a technology demonstrator. It's certainly more credible than the alternative used by WtY.

And you could only carry out the excercise you propose for athletes who weren't born on mainland Britain, and who also actually lived local to one of those two colleges.

As for the 'we were never serious about it anyway' - classic messageboard response of folk who've been caught out.

LOL 'till I barf.

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:34 am  

Dita's Slot Meter wrote:

Considering their performances in mainstream sport normally borders on dismal (hello Premier League football... )

Sorry I thought we were talking about sport, are you now stretching the discussion to include amateur dramatics ?

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:49 am  

JerryChicken wrote:

Sorry I thought we were talking about sport, are you now stretching the discussion to include amateur dramatics ?

.....Give it 6 months mate, then all this Olympics stuff will be a distant memory, and then we can come back and discuss Yorkshire's sporting prowess....

[Kosh]

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Aug 11, 2012 10:42 am  

JerryChicken wrote:

LOL 'till I barf.

Kosh wrote:

classic messageboard response of folk who've been caught out.

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Aug 11, 2012 3:46 pm  

Dita's Slot Meter wrote:

:lol: .....Give it 6 months mate, then all this Olympics stuff will be a distant memory, and then we can come back and discuss Yorkshire's sporting prowess....

These days we generally just have to wait until the first saturday in October...

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Aug 11, 2012 7:42 pm  

Mo Farah - Double Olympic Gold Medalist - you are THE MAN!

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Aug 11, 2012 8:13 pm  

GOLD for Luke and Hull.

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sun Aug 12, 2012 6:55 am  

The stamp:



I'd buy one but I spent all my money on buying these:



So I can send letters to Nick Griffin, Aidan Burley and the EDL

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sun Aug 12, 2012 7:16 am  

cod'ead wrote:

So I can send letters to Nick Griffin, Aidan Burley and the EDL

And the Daily Mail, they must choke every time the post arrives from now on.