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I would have given it a watch tonight but the downside of the Olympics is all the big sports are on at once and I am watching track and field.

Yeah I have been waiting for it.

It looks like it takes immense skill and agility.

Fair points. They all take immense talent though. Those two and breaking.

Yeah I am not saying it doesn't take loads of skill and it surely has loads of worth. I could never do it and when I have seen it in films etc it looks brilliant. I just never thought of it as a sport. I guess it's one of them sports where it's demonstrative ie it's down to subjectivity of the...

Horatio doesn't respect gymnastics :(

Is its name actually 'breaking'? Or do they think it sounds like less of a sport if they call it breakdancing? I didn't even know it was in the Olympics til a month or so ago.

Yeah, it's just that sports favour men almost every time. Some other realms of society favour women. I still believe women should be very supported in sport, though. The elite women in track for example are still better than 99 per cent of men as most men aren't elite either.

Yeah. I still think women are closer (relatively speaking) to men in sports like track and field and swimming, than football. Not close, as I believe the top 500/1000 men could beat the number 1 woman in track. But I feel they'd have better chance than a woman's team playing against a men's...

If it was up to me I'd go back in time and make the metric system the only system that ever existed. Like I said above, imperial is stupid because different units and names make up new units and names. With metric if you know how long a metre is you know how long 100000000 metres is in...

Bit harsh wasn't it.

You guys probably know they call the 1500m the 'metric mile'. That's because there are 1609 metres in an imperial units mile.

What can I say? We are a very strange and insular little country. Rods and chains - sounds like a BDSM party.

Exactly, we agree. You need to win the bulk of those games to do well in the league. It is the nature of a 20 team league. II was just saying it's very possible they slip up in their easier start, much more so than if Arsenal, Liverpool, or Man City were playing those teams in that order. I am...

No idea, I wasn't around to create the system. Though some days like today I feel like I was.

This is a furlong

Yes I know. But my point is they make more mistakes than other big teams in the much more frequent games against 'easier teams', and that's large part why other teams get more points come the end of the season. There's also the fact that United are better against high lines and the lesser teams...

The trend will be that yes, but they'll likely slip up in enough of them for it to affect their league position. Man City are so good at beating the lesser teams and that's why they accumulate so many points in general. Let's hold fire and wait and see with United. I already said I am biased...

You know what football is like though - the easiest games 'on paper' sometimes turn out to be massive banana skins. United especially have fallen victim to that with all their hammering against 'small clubs' over the years.