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<blockquote data-quote="Al'Kelhar" data-source="post: 1719894" data-attributes="member: 7884"><p>Yup, Australians are sports mad and our wiley politicians understand the Australian psyche sufficiently to invest a large percentage of our GDP into identifying and training our elite sportsmen and -women while being rather stingy when it comes to scientific and technological endeavours. Which is kinda odd, considering the significant contribution of individual Australians to such endeavours. Frankly, some of us would prefer our taxes were invested in winning Nobel prizes, not Olympic gold medals, but we're sadly in a minority.</p><p></p><p>Now for the typical Aussie cheek...</p><p></p><p>Australians win gold medals in the only <em>real</em>Olympics. Y'think the ancient Greeks would've celebrated the majesty of the naked human form engaged in physical exercise stuck up the precipitous side of a friggin' fjord in the friggin' snow? Medals would've been awarded to the most "shrinkage-resistant" (you guys know what I'm talking about). The Winter Olympics were invented so all you idiots who live in countries where you can't go outside for half the friggin' year could feel good about having two hours of daylight a day in which to practice looking good in thermal underwear. Don't tell me you wouldn't prefer to be watchin' the women's beach volleyball finals.</p><p></p><p>P.S. With all the off-topic discussion about average wealth per capita, I reckon it'd be interesting to compare wealth distribution. I suspect (without having done the research) that while the US may have higher per capita GDP than countries like Australia and Canda, Australia and Canada may well have flatter wealth distribution curves. I bet northern European countries kick ass on both the per capita GDP and equal wealth distribution fronts.</p><p></p><p>Cheers, Al'Kelhar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Al'Kelhar, post: 1719894, member: 7884"] Yup, Australians are sports mad and our wiley politicians understand the Australian psyche sufficiently to invest a large percentage of our GDP into identifying and training our elite sportsmen and -women while being rather stingy when it comes to scientific and technological endeavours. Which is kinda odd, considering the significant contribution of individual Australians to such endeavours. Frankly, some of us would prefer our taxes were invested in winning Nobel prizes, not Olympic gold medals, but we're sadly in a minority. Now for the typical Aussie cheek... Australians win gold medals in the only [i]real[/i]Olympics. Y'think the ancient Greeks would've celebrated the majesty of the naked human form engaged in physical exercise stuck up the precipitous side of a friggin' fjord in the friggin' snow? Medals would've been awarded to the most "shrinkage-resistant" (you guys know what I'm talking about). The Winter Olympics were invented so all you idiots who live in countries where you can't go outside for half the friggin' year could feel good about having two hours of daylight a day in which to practice looking good in thermal underwear. Don't tell me you wouldn't prefer to be watchin' the women's beach volleyball finals. P.S. With all the off-topic discussion about average wealth per capita, I reckon it'd be interesting to compare wealth distribution. I suspect (without having done the research) that while the US may have higher per capita GDP than countries like Australia and Canda, Australia and Canada may well have flatter wealth distribution curves. I bet northern European countries kick ass on both the per capita GDP and equal wealth distribution fronts. Cheers, Al'Kelhar [/QUOTE]
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