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Commonwealth Games and Wrong Bus

The Commonwealth Games have just ended. A more accurate non-official definition for the Commonwealth Games is an attempt by the British to prove to the world that they can be good at sport.

To perhaps increase their chances at winning medals, the whole United Kingdom fragments into England, Scotland, Nothern Ireland and Wales. This is very clever. Fairness does seem an intrusion here. Their opponents don’t seem to have realised this. If they have, they don’t seem to have those spherical steel things to speak out.

Testicular fortitude is just not the forte of those that have been colonised before. We do have some history in these types of games. Who can forget the day one xenophobia-infested European called our country a country inhabited by mainly goats and that meeting a person is incidental. This sufficiently cranked up one of our elite boxers’ fury to the point where he broke his next opponent’s nose.

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