2018 Commonwealth Games

Bealman · April 09, 2018, 10:45:03 AM

Three Aussies 1, 2, 3 in 200 metres backstroke. People are ecstatic here.

Well, on the Gold Coast probably, I'm just watching it at the club

Bealman · April 09, 2018, 10:56:25 AM

Now the girls have repeated it in the 800m freestyle!

Aussies sure can swim!

Webbo · April 09, 2018, 11:05:09 AM

Not sure I'm as excited by this as you are George even as an Australian. After all money spent = gold medals. Same applies to the Olympics. Depends on where the government puts its spending priorities. I don't agree with ours.

Webbo

Bealman · April 09, 2018, 11:11:12 AM

I see your point, Ian, but I enjoy the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games. They have punctuated my life.

To me, my local council putting a palm tree on a pole and calling it art at my expense is worse.

The games showcase us, though.

Webbo · April 09, 2018, 11:19:19 AM

I love watching the competition in the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics too George, but gold medal tallies are not my thing.

Bealman · April 09, 2018, 11:26:19 AM

I still have ties with my UK upbringing, but it's nice to see the locals win. I have three Australian daughters.

Newportnobby · April 09, 2018, 11:45:47 AM

Quote from: Bealman on April 09, 2018, 10:56:25 AM

Aussies sure can swim!

But you have more nasty sharks than we do

Bealman · April 09, 2018, 12:22:40 PM

Yeah, I was snorkeling off a tourist boat on the reef back in 1990 (I was still able to do that stuff in those days), and came face to face with this shark which was about a metre long.

Anyway, back on the boat, I was informed it was a local and was used to tourists.

Heck with that. I've never swam so fast!

All sharks have teeth.

NinOz · April 09, 2018, 01:25:10 PM

Quote from: Bealman on April 09, 2018, 12:22:40 PM
Anyway, back on the boat, I was informed it was a local and was used to tourists.

Yeah, probably as a quick snack.

Jon898 · April 09, 2018, 01:30:20 PM

Quote from: Bealman on April 09, 2018, 10:56:25 AM
Aussies sure can swim!

Is that because their ancestors told them to train so they could escape?

Jon

Stuart Down Under · April 10, 2018, 03:07:39 AM

I don't get this thing about sharks. The fact is that, if you go into the Australian surf, you are about one hundred times more likely to drown than be attacked by a shark!! Fortunately Aussies tend to be aware of this, and most people who drown are foreign tourists.

Newportnobby · April 10, 2018, 10:01:20 AM

Yeh, but a shark does tend to make you swim faster

Bealman · April 10, 2018, 10:15:28 AM

Hence the medal tally.

The Q · April 10, 2018, 12:50:25 PM

Quote from: Stuart Down Under on April 10, 2018, 03:07:39 AM
I don't get this thing about sharks. The fact is that, if you go into the Australian surf, you are about one hundred times more likely to drown than be attacked by a shark!! Fortunately Aussies tend to be aware of this, and most people who drown are foreign tourists.

Yep, sharks didn't frighten Austrailian Prime minister, Harold Holt....

Bealman · April 10, 2018, 12:53:39 PM

Well we never did quiite see him again, eh.