BBC responds to rugby complaints

[tay]

I was wrong...they are an important nation after all:

New Zealand referee William Atack was the world's first to use a whistle to stop a game of sport in 1884.

Excellent now every time you and Snaw hear the final whistle in a poofball match you can think of New Zealand.

[daviejones]

Excellent now every time you and Snaw hear the final whistle in a poofball match you can think of New Zealand.

Yep, a nation of geniuses!!!

[dang65]

I never really understood that stat (I like fishing the few times I've done it). I live in London, no one I know goes fishing regularily. I come from the country and only a handful of people I know go fishing regularily. But football, rugby etc I know hundreds.

How do they calculate it?

Well, most surveys are filled out by women, and one of the questions is:

Where does your husband/partner tell you he's been when he stays out all night on a regular basis?

[Pondlife]

With the various web sites claiming that all things great and good come from <insert your country here>, what are the accepted criteria?

Born there, Father Born there, Mother born there, Both parents.

At what point do you stop being, for example, an aussie and become 'of aussie descent'?

Being Welsh, we are particularly bad at this! In one of his books, Howard Marks makes an argument for Elvis being Welsh FFS


Just askin' like.

[daviejones]

With the various web sites claiming that all things great and good come from <insert your country here>, what are the accepted criteria?

Born there, Father Born there, Mother born there, Both parents.

At what point do you stop being, for example, an aussie and become 'of aussie descent'?

Being Welsh, we are particularly bad at this! In one of his books, Howard Marks makes an argument for Elvis being Welsh FFS


Just askin' like.

Imagine Elvis singing Jailhouse Rock with a Welsh accent...

[snaw]

Imagine Elvis singing Jailhouse Rock with a Welsh accent...

Yep. he's called Tom Jones ...

[Pondlife]

Shakey sings JH Rock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6FdZWB08vg

~I haven't heard it myself so can't comment on the, ahem.. quality

[DodgyAgent]

What's The Dag?

Sorry, even Dag was invented by the Australians, even though there are more dags per head of population in NZ than anywhere else. No wonder the kiwis feel inferior to the aussies

http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/ozwords/O...0/TailDag.html

[Churchill]

Sorry, even Dag was invented by the Australians, even though there are more dags per head of population in NZ than anywhere else. No wonder the kiwis feel inferior to the aussies

http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/ozwords/O...0/TailDag.html

We just call 'em claggy arses where I come from!

[Marina]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7267444.stm

Well anyone who complained can just f*** off in my opinion. I have to endure hour after hour of the TV companies only showing soaps, stupid minor celebrities doing something uninteresting, dumb-f*** American 'comedies' and dramas and camp-idiot-dressing-up-insecure women rubbish so good on them for showing a whole days worth of stuff I'm interested in for once.

I think the BBC should have issued a statement saying that the 124 people who complained can, quite frankly, go f*** themselves.

They probably get about 10000 complaints each time a union jack is shown flying upside down, or a when a steam engine only introduced in 1935 appears in a drama set in 1934. So I wouldn't get your rugby shorts in a twist.

P.S. I wish they'd only show all that sports rubbish on the Sports channels though, wether it's rugby (groan), snooker (sigh), cricket (yawn), or anything else. A few hours of fishing would be OK though.