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Old Aug 12, 2012 | 03:52 PM
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Grenada is the most successful country per population head in the Olympics ever

They have won 1 medal from a population of 110,000 (give or take a few)
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Old Aug 12, 2012 | 04:43 PM
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Yep, let's give Mo the full respect as it's a truly great achievement and the multiculturalist are rightly celebrating.
But hold it right there and look at the other side of the coin such as the mother and father that callously murdered their daughter because "she was too westernised"
These are the type of immigrants that have no right to be in this country with those twisted beliefs and it is those people who are the true racist and will cruely take the life of their own flesh and blood to prove a point.
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Old Aug 12, 2012 | 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by SJ_Skyline
Incorrect, it's Greneda with 1 gold medal for a total population of 100,000.
Originally Posted by JohnSmith
Grenada is the most successful country per population head in the Olympics ever

They have won 1 medal from a population of 110,000 (give or take a few)
Oh, right! Good on Greneda.
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Old Aug 12, 2012 | 06:19 PM
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PMSL I never even saw SJ_Skyline's post

My bad for not reading it

they reckoned GB was 1.1 million per medal, USA 3 million per medal and China 6 million !
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Old Aug 12, 2012 | 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Turbohot
Hang on a sec. This^ is one weird comment. Sociology involves reading social practices literally and then looking into the meaning of them. Therefore sociology will still be needed to do that, and social animals and their practices will be the subjects to that study.
Point is if social practices could be understood say from the reasons that Actors give for their behaviour, then we wouldn't need critical sociology which tasks itself with lifting the veil on common sense and/or illusion and finding the real reasons and causes of social practice.

You sound like you are naturalising this national project to win medals and the popular celebration resultant from it. That would be common sense but we know that is flawed.
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Old Aug 12, 2012 | 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by tony de wonderful
You sound like you are naturalising this national project to win medals and the popular celebration resultant from it. That would be common sense but we know that is flawed.
What do you mean by 'naturalising'? Are you saying there is something unnatural about it?
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Old Aug 12, 2012 | 08:49 PM
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Could you please expand on this national project being flawed and unnatural or staged, Tony? As Glesgakiss asks, what is unnatural about it, and, does the staging have some gory alterior motives behind it? If so, what do you think they are? What is hiding behind that mysterious veil?
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Old Aug 12, 2012 | 08:57 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnSmith
PMSL I never even saw SJ_Skyline's post

My bad for not reading it

they reckoned GB was 1.1 million per medal, USA 3 million per medal and China 6 million !
Not quibbling over 10k - you were closer

So Greneda has the population of Watford....
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Old Aug 12, 2012 | 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Turbohot
Could you please expand on this national project being flawed and unnatural or staged, Tony? As Glesgakiss asks, what is unnatural about it, and, does the staging have some gory alterior motives behind it? If so, what do you think they are? What is hiding behind that mysterious veil?
I wrote a reply but it was lost by my browsers. What is natura in society anyway? Not even much is invariant across time and space. Breathing is natural, Tesco isn't.

Anyway why did the GDR ruthlessly pursue a medal winning program. Are there necceserly conditions, and what is presupposed?
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Old Aug 12, 2012 | 09:39 PM
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TDW,

Why don't you just shut the fukc up, be quiet, sit down and enjoy the closing ceremony with the rest of us.

Chip
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Old Aug 12, 2012 | 09:40 PM
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maybe your browser is trying to tell you something
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Old Aug 12, 2012 | 09:44 PM
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Yet again you prove you're a cun7 Tony. I'm glad I only suffer your posts that I choose to read.
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Old Aug 12, 2012 | 09:53 PM
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TdW. The point is that you seem to be trying to come at this from the perfect angle from which everything else is up for criticism and all others that don't fit your view are pathetic. In reality there is no saying that any such thing as the perfect angle exists, and that means everything is potentially up for criticism, including sociology itself.

Also, most people with half a brain realise that there are potentially many possible motives for behaviour. They're not nationalist idiots, so they don't need you incessantly pointing out to them that they are.

If everyone was critical of every kind of behaviour all the time, no one would ever do anything apart from think.
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