Originally posted by rwingettHa! Again you show your complete lack of geographical knowledge.
Quit your pathetic sniveling and whining. England and Finland have far more in common than they do with India or Japan. Stop using your poor quality of snow as an excuse for your complete inadequacy.
FYI, The Republic of Ireland is not a part of Britain.
Please keep talking, your ignorance is entertaining.
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Originally posted by StarrmanAh well, then you come close. My encyclopaedia only had stats for London and Edinburgh, which both don't even come close to 1000.
Actually looking at the Met Office stats, the West Scotland area gets an average in the 1900s.
Edit: By the way, Bodø has "only" a bit over 1000 mm per year.
Originally posted by rwingett*Points and laughs*
I'm going to have to take exception to this line of attack. There are many worthy Scandanavian folk/rock bands out there, for example. They're just not well publicized in the west. I've bought CDs by Swedish and Finnish bands like Hedningarna, Loituma, Wimme, Gjallarhorn, and Garmarna, just to name a few. There's a whole website dedicated to the Scandanavian music scene:
http://www.noside.com/
You should stick to what you're good at- groups made up of one beardo weirdo and one coiffeured weirdo writing great popsongs with girls (blonde and brunette) with nice bums singing them, in English too. Scandy folk? Now that'sjust depressing. But also rather amusing. Hee hee.
Originally posted by welsharnieWhat on earth has the amount of snow etc. a country gets to do with their potential medal winning chances in the winter olympics? if you had any point at all that would make Rwingett look like a complete fool! Oh I see your point. I wonder if that's why he is the leader of the free thinkers clan (must imply free of thinking I assume).
The amount of snow we get which can be used for winter sports traning of the highest caliber is not that great.
How many people holiday to the UK for the skiing or snow in general?!
Originally posted by rwingettThis is why I'm not sure it's a good idea to have it in London! When it's abroad our atheletes disappear and perform, and then if they win we celebrate, and if they don't we just don't make a big deal out of it.
So far in the Olympics:
Germany: 18 medals, population 82.2 million, 1 medal per 4.5 million people
Norway: 16 medals, population 4.5 million, 1 medal per 281,000 people
Austria: 10 medals, population 8.2 million, 1 medal per 820,000 people
Switzerland: 8 medals, population 7.4 million, 1 medal per 925,000 people
Italy: 7 medals, population 57.3 mill ...[text shortened]... or something. Are we to conclude that the British suck? That conclusion seems inescapable.
....however, with the Olympics in our own Country the pressure to win and the expectation will be high. The media will cover it in greater detail... If we do indeed suck, it's going to be VERY obvious, and everyone will know!!
By the by, I just came back from Estonia, and with just over a million people, and three golds, they'd be up the top of the table. No mountains in Estonia, either, hardly a hill, even, but lots of snow. That's why they win the cross country skiing.
However, have you ever sat down to watch cross country skiing? People waggling their bums going up hill at 2 kmph, and sticking their bums out and tucking their arms in like so many chickens going down hill at 4 kmph.
It was suggested to me that this was boring and looked silly to me the same way an Estonian looking at rugby might be bored and think it odd. Fair enough. Taste and all that. However, give me a decent spectator sport any day over all that.
There isn't one event that I'd personally find interesting to watch. And curling (maybe fun to play)? Fat middle-aged women are now Olympic athletes, are they? Purleese.
They can come around to my place and sweep and polish the kitched floor, if they like, but I won't give them a medal for it.
Just because you Northern characters clean up, it doesn't mean anyone actually gives a crud apart from yourselves.
Now when you learn to play rugby, for example, then we can talk.
(And like Rag, I'm not British, so don't start).
But by the by, Estonia: population 1 million. Gold medals: 3.
That's one more than Norway. One more than Sweden. Three more than Finland. three more than Denmark.
What was the population of those Scandinavian countries again? Hmm.
So I think the question might well be, why are the Scandies so bl00dy mediocre or even disgracefully bad at the disciplines which they themselves revere, and consider the most important in the world? That's pretty sad, if you think about it.
Originally posted by stevetoddNah, I think it implies they'll think for you, at no cost.
What on earth has the amount of snow etc. a country gets to do with their potential medal winning chances in the winter olympics? if you had any point at all that would make Rwingett look like a complete fool! Oh I see your point. I wonder if that's why he is the leader of the free thinkers clan (must imply free of thinking I assume).
It's quite simple; supply and demand- large supply, no demand, therefore the thinking is free.
Originally posted by rwingettAnd to think that I thought you were going to mention the bands A-Ha and Europe.😉
I'm going to have to take exception to this line of attack. There are many worthy Scandanavian folk/rock bands out there, for example. They're just not well publicized in the west. I've bought CDs by Swedish and Finnish bands like Hedningarna, Loituma, Wimme, Gjallarhorn, and Garmarna, just to name a few. There's a whole website dedicated to the Scandanavian music scene:
http://www.noside.com/