Unfortunately it happens whenever there is an exceptional sporting success. Ian Thorpe was injected with human growth hormones at the age of 9 apparently, Usain Bolt can't be that good, whole Jamaican team systematically doping etc etc.

Problem is, there is so much doping that a great all round performance will always be another persons suspected drug cheat.

After so many of the GB team have pushed/trained themselves to excellence, it's getting annoying to watch so many of our athletes under-achieving.

Just watched loads of our hurdlers bomb out, followed by self-piteous interviews about how they're not happy with what they've done.

I've no problem with athletes running their personal best (or close to it) and being beaten...that's world sport sometimes.

It's the number who have been well short of their PB, gone out in the heats and just been mildly disappointed. Some seem to be on a public-funded holiday to Rio.

A realisation building in me that Newcastle fans were right.

Weird work / different cultures thing. My team insist on calling me sir, no matter how much I ask/plead with them not to. It's massively weird and uncomfortable.

Wouldn't happen if you worked for the BBS. Get them to read your posts :)

German TV is actually full of praise for what Team GB is achieving. We moan much more about the Germans when we lose to them at footy!!

I might be imagining it but I'm sure you've mentioned this before...would you like us to start calling you Sir too?

The number of advert breaks during each (recorded) episode of "Wayward Pines", each one started by Freddie Mercury screaming "MAGIC!" on a furniture ad. Trying to watch a couple of back to back episodes and they're being ruined.

That does come across like the the answer to the interview question;

'What is your greatest fault?'

A: 'I am too modest'


btw If your team hold you in such in high esteem, why are they ignoring your instructions to them?'

Do you think that maybe, just a tad, they are taking the piss?

Maybe that is why you find it uncomfortable?

Vuelling Airline. Complete and utter joke.

Apparently they excel
at loosing luggage.

it's not a UK based team or I would entirely agree with you as they'd definitely be taking the piss. It's a cultural thing, it happens to other people here as well.

I experienced this with blokes from the southern states. Texans do it a lot.

Ok if I bring you down to earth and call you a ****?

its sounds better if you follow the **** with sir.

Could you buy one of those peerages? They'd have to call you Sir Sir then.

Good point.

Ok.

So maybe similar to being up here and being called 'big man', a common expression that is used, to which I initially hear as a term of respect, then when I get in front of a mirror realise they are having a pop.

Ok not similar at all.

BT Internet

No, Lord Sir.