I`m a rugby league fan in england. ive had to listen to those jibes all my life. never spat my dummy out though. people like what they like.

Before this turns into me looking like an anti-olympics moron

i watch pretty much as much as i could the first week (off work) and really got into it, cheered every medal with as much gusto as when hull win. i even watced the equestrian with the cross country a favorite.

The cycling for we was the highlight. unfortunately everything since has been a bit tedious and i have stopped watching. i apologise and will as ukba if i can be deported with mr chase

looking forward to that too , lets hope they do as well with medals, think we have some great athletes there too so it seems

Not much prior to 2012 has done this for me recently but this year along with the Jubilee has made me realise what a great country we are and in reality how lucky we are to have been born here!
agreed, the olympics has made me also proud to be a Brit again

Agree with you on that the Jubliee that just got us all warmed up especially the singers on the barge in the p!55ing rain.

Shame we dont celebrate our nation as often as we should.

but who is to blame for that, St Patricks only really gets celebrated because Guinness plough so much money into it, St Andrews goes largely unnoticed as does St David Day, we're all too busy navel gazing and looking for someone to blame to pick our heads up and realise we live in a bloody great country with some bloody great people in it.

We are a country that only celebrates history and rarely looks to the future and our potenital, we moan about the "youth" and our politicians are too busy telling us how "broken" the country is, the media have convinced us all we're in a "double dip" recession when, in reality, most people haven't really see THAT much change in their day to day lives. (I admit there are some notable expections to that last point on this very board)

Pun intended?