It wern't stupid mate, you asked a question, you got your answer. We just can't help ourselves having a bit of fun with it. It makes us think we're clever. Just indulge us, we go away eventually.
I've always found it a great source of national pride that our elite athletes, who have millions of bucks spent on their training and development, can wallop third-world countries that barely even have running water and can barely even afford to prop up their failing, corrupt governments, let alone actually host games...
He's right *elbows neighbour* He's right you know.
Actually, Wales and Scotland both getting medals in swimming before the Antipodeans this time around. Englands nowhere to be seen as ever (Actually we just got a forth in the ladies freestyle meddly. Who got 1st 2nd and 3rd? you guessed it. Oz), but at least the colonies are doing well.
There's no Welsh part because the Welsh didn't want to get the blame for anything England got up to. And a good thing too - being descended from Welshmen myself, my conscience is clear
Wales has always been a principality. Scotland and Ireland where just occupied. You know it's legal in some welsh border towns to be able to club a Welshman to death with his own root vegiatables on market day.
And somewhere you can shoot a welshman with a longbow on a sunday so long as you do it from the cathedral. Can't remember where it was though . .
I've tried to revive some of those old-country traditions down here, but many of my fellow Oz citizens, being descended from English criminals, take offense to being hit with Welsh arrows (plus they don't think my house counts as a cathedral)...they often retaliate with a barrage of my own turnips.
@Batterypark - who's talking about a space bar? That's old news mate..