Has Anyone Counted Them Yet?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3753633/Homeward-bound-Team-GB-athletes-smiles-prepare-leave-Rio-greatest-overseas-Olympic-Games.html

I wonder how many of our athletes have sought asylum in Brazil? :0)

[andy-hughes]

TTT - //yes Andy and very magnanimous of you but what worries me now is how many of your other opinions are based on similar misreadings? //

I didn't 'misread' - I misremembered, and that is a fault open to any and all of us, so you will have to live with the risk for me, and yourself, because there is nothing we can do about.

Are you , are you, like most lefties blinded by your hatred of TGL above what even the facts establish? Does this extend to other subjects? //

I can't be blinded by my hatred of TGL - as advised, I don't even know what it is! Please feel free to enlighten me. Thanks.

[Garaman]

andy-hughes, I am not sure why you addressed a post to me, when I was just giving an opinion which was not addressed to you. Just to clarify, I would be very embarrassed and would feel very awkward if I hadn’t been one of the better performers at the games but had been upgraded when gold medallists hadn’t, though you clearly wouldn’t. We don’t know whether the team members would feel like you would, or like I would, so we can only comment based on how we would feel ourselves. From how I would feel, I think they got it right.

[andy-hughes]

Garaman - //andy-hughes, I am not sure why you addressed a post to me, when I was just giving an opinion which was not addressed to you. //

People address AB'ers all the time - no-one waits for an invitation, or for a post to be directed to them personally in order to reply. have you not seen some of the marathon threads I have been on where people have posted to me unasked, and then we have sparred for days? It's the way the site works.

Just to clarify, I would be very embarrassed and would feel very awkward if I hadn’t been one of the better performers at the games but had been upgraded when gold medallists hadn’t, though you clearly wouldn’t. We don’t know whether the team members would feel like you would, or like I would, so we can only comment based on how we would feel ourselves. From how I would feel, I think they got it right. //

Indeed - neither of us know how anyone involved felt or feels.

But to be clear - I did not suggest that those who did not win medals should be upgraded, while those who did win medals were not. What I suggested was, a simple draw, so there is no favouritism of any kind, everyone has an equal chance of a better seat, and no-one feels resentful - if indeed they do, and as you say, we don't know either way.

My premise is based - as I have said - on the notion of 'Team GB'.

I think the notion of 'Team GB is flawed anyway, but if we are going under the banner, let's carry the behaviour through.

[Garaman]

andy-hughes, you copied my post and wrote 'Then I think we must agree to differ on this.' which sort of thing you say if you are already in discussion with someone, not if you are just addressing a post. I wasn't in discussion with you, and I certainly didn't need it confirming that we were in disagreement as that was clear to me.

[andy-hughes]

Garaman - //andy-hughes, you copied my post and wrote 'Then I think we must agree to differ on this.' which sort of thing you say if you are already in discussion with someone, not if you are just addressing a post. I wasn't in discussion with you, and I certainly didn't need it confirming that we were in disagreement as that was clear to me. //

Please excuse me if I have appeared to involve you in the debate in a way in which you prefer not to be involved. I will try not to do it again.

[Garaman]

Well it would be good, andy-hughes, if you let some of us have a point of view different to your own without you haven't to post yours again and again. That isn't what I call debating.

[andy-hughes]

Garaman - //Well it would be good, andy-hughes, if you let some of us have a point of view different to your own without you haven't to post yours again and again. That isn't what I call debating. //

Are unfamiliar with how this site works?

You have access to it to post as often and as long as you like.

So do I.

So if you want to post a view, I couldn't stop you, even if I wanted to - and for the record, I wouldn't want to.

[Zacs-Master]

Maybe they shouldn't have been given medals which represent their superiority to prevent the losers feeling inadequate. Just a 'well done, you're a star' badge, you know, like school sports days?

[Togo]

// Just to clarify, I would be very embarrassed and would feel very awkward if I hadn’t been one of the better performers at the games but had been upgraded when gold medallists hadn’t, though you clearly wouldn’t.//

Garaman some would expect to be rewarded after not performing well. They call it compensayshun now though.

[agchristie]

AOG > I wonder how many of our athletes have sought asylum in Brazil? :0

Apparently,Brazil are ranked 50th in the Quality of Life Index.The UK are 13th.

Not sure about the running costs for athletes o:)

[andy-hughes]

Zacs - //Maybe they shouldn't have been given medals which represent their superiority to prevent the losers feeling inadequate. Just a 'well done, you're a star' badge, you know, like school sports days? //

I think we are getting of the point - certainly the point I raised, at least.

I have not suggested that mediocrity, or failure should be rewarded, or that everyone should be the same, or that winners should not be celebrated.

I have not even hinted at any of those things. I have simply pout forward a view that upgrading medal winners on a team transport could have been avoided - that is my view, others disagree.

Anything else about being rewarded for not doing well is an invented side-show, and nothing to do with this thread.

[Garaman]

Andy-hughes, my point is, and I think you know really, why do you have to make the same point so many times in one thread? We are not dumb and can see your point the first time you make it. If someone says they like Marmite and you say you don't there is no need to repeat your position when the next person says they like it - we would assume that you still don't. I could understand if you were bringing something new to the table, but you are just repeating yourself.

[Mamyalynne]

If any of the athletes were reading this thread I think they'd be tickled pink to see some so eager to discuss where they sat on the plane home.

[agchristie]

Several new events lined up for Tokyo including karate,but what about musical chairs?

[naomi24]

This thread reads like a day at the funny farm. Oops ... it is.

[jno]

[i]Someone should tell football/cricket/Rugby pundits to stop picking a man of the match.[i]

as I understand it, common practice is for the prize money/ fast cars etc won by the MotM to be shared around the whole team.

[agchristie]

The term 'Man of the match' does create friction sometimes...

[-Talbot-]

Are you an avid watcher of the Olympics, andy?