In the 2016 olympics the women’s gold medalist did 121kg and 153kg. 2nd was 119 and 142.
In an event on 2019 Hubbard did 131kg and 154kg.
In the 2016 olympics the women’s gold medalist did 121kg and 153kg. 2nd was 119 and 142.
In an event on 2019 Hubbard did 131kg and 154kg.
I'm a twit
Won a silver medal at the men's World Championship in 2012 apparently.
At least her testosterone is low.
Cant transformers just have their own category?
They should have their own Olympics, really. Just paint the rings in rainbow colours.
'Transformers' is outstanding, well played.
Women should just refuse to compete against them, but Nike would probably have any boycott ringleaders assassinated before they sorted it.
We have run utterly mad as a society on this.
Just watched the Sharron Davies interview at the bottom of that link. She really is a hero of our time and clearly knows her shit, yet there she is having a tweet thrown at her in which she clearly didn't say what the idiot interviewing her suggests she did.
Fine, we'll paint the rings, have no separation between men and women (unless a competitor specifically wants it because they're scared of their own past), everyone gets an acceptance medal for turning up and we rebranding it the LGBTQIA+Lympix.
Fuck knows what we'll do with the changing rooms. We'll also have a Pokemon trading card event. Something tells me there'll be a high uptake on that.
Sign me up.
I'm a twit
I want in.
Okay, all we need you to do is identify as something and we'll send out the welcome pack. Can I interest you in the 100m Fursuit?
Scummo talking shit about the Chinese is working real well for me I can't access my bank account for the 2nd time in 2 weeks.
Have we already discussed this? Jesus Christ.
It's fucking absofuckinglutely insane.
I find it genuinely hard to believe that that has gone through any kind of meetings. The ignorance of reality is absolutely astonishing.
"Make sure there's at least one Iman in the front row of every crowd shot."
Just go the whole hog and make it mandatory for kids to salute a picture of Boris every morning because this has that sort of vibe to it.
"We won many wars and opened our doors."
Yeah, that rhymes but maybe don't put those together.
In its defence (bear with me on this), it's very tedious how everyone is going NAZI GERMANY! Are people aware that there have been historical periods other than Nazi Germany? It's much more North Korea or Great Leap Forward China, if you ask me.
I've just clocked this bit on the front page:
"OBON aims to give a new impetus for the creation of a harmonised society, to make Britain an international model of moral rectitude."
There are simply not enough lols in the world for that.
Well, that is the best thing to do with England I've seen in the last two weeks...
Are people in England aware of this? No. You know they're not. There's at least a third of the country who seem to think that they, personally, were somehow integral to defeating the Bosch and driving the Spirit of the Blitz.
North Korea and RESPECTING THE FLAG in Murica is where my mind went with this though.
Aren't the people who compare EVERYTHING to Nazi Germany basically children?
Godwin's Law is, what, 20 years old? 30?
It's not a new phenomenon and for those lacking in imagination it will probably always be the go-to comparison for this sort of thing.
Spoken like a true Nazi.
Maybe they've just seen Cabaret and think that song in the beer garden is real.
This whole flag wanking nationalist push is both cringeworthy in its transparency and a little alarming in the type of people this is going to motivate.
Apparently One Britain One Nation is a private company so I'm sure the CEO of it will turn out to be some Tory cabinet member's mate.
It's completely un-British, we should be playing everything down. Oddly a lot of this stuff does emanate from the Sikh/Hindu community who fucking love the Queen and the flag. They're backed up by another section of the Tory party who get hard for American-style national iconography they've seen in films.
I'm loving the Testimonials page:
"As the National Governing Body for the sport of Olympic-Style Wrestling in the UK, the British Wrestling Association supports the concept of One Britain One Nation."
Colin Nicholson
Chief Executive, British Wrestling Association
Given this and the Powerboat GP endorsement I feel like they've just spammed an email out to a shitload of people and put in literally any who responded.
It is cringeworthy, but people need to sort their lives out. The stuff about 'shared values' is much more New Labour's attempt at a 'national slogan' than anything (and more sinister than flag-waving).
Nice priorities, mate.
Anyone proud to be British (like me) would be completely embarrassed about bullshit iconography, or even about admitting they were proud to be British.
I'm not sure how this cringeworthy twee cunt Very British Problems idea of patriotism became seen as the norm. British people don't have flags and... There was about a twenty year post-imperial, embarrassed at how shit the country was period where we didn't, but everything before and since has had a flag or British or Royal on it (check your food for Royal Warrants). The sad people are just roaring about it now because they aren't (officially at least) in a position where they can define it all as open borders and fairness.
Big difference between having flags on things, and talking for self-promotional reasons about how we should have flags on things. Trying to performatively install portraits of her maj everywhere is just as much culture war bollocks as wanting to have them taken down is.
The old saying applies about being a lady. If you have to tell someone you are, you aren't.
Presumably flags only end up on things following talking about whether to have flags on those things for self-promotional reasons. There is a long tradition of having a picture of the sovereign in your home or workplace, so, whilst it may have fallen out of fashion (and be a bit sad these days), it's not some alien thing we've imported from the wannabe American loser wing of the Conservative Party. Either way, they could do to approach this sort of thing with a bit more intelligence and less cringe, since [soft] nationalism is probably our best bet to avoid/moderate a lot of the communal violence we have coming down the line. Union Flag burkas for all.
They would do better to look at the psychological factors underpinning the cult worship of the NHS (which is very real) and try and deploy those around other things. Iconography ain't it.
Lewis hyping up a race war?
It's the same as clean up for the queen or whatever that shit was, bellends circle jerking over shit no-one cares about. Being British is about being disaffected in general and only feeling a sense of union when disliking either your immediate neighbours or a larger, existential threat. It is hard to comprehend this level of shit sniffery is real but I suppose turbo flag shagging is just fur suit wearing for snobs.
Imagine having an affair with Matt Hancock.
Sometimes career progression just isn't worth it.
Maybe she was trying to get him sacked?
What, for infidelity? By Boris Johnson?