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Had to laugh whilst driving home from work yesterday and listening to Jenny Pinches competing for GB in the Olympics.
The Sheps beer garden looked full and the usual suspects were hanging around outside the White Hart and the Railway smoking area.
Meanwhile the eyes of the world were focussed on a young girl from Whaley Bridge. It's just a pity those eyes didn't include people from her own village.
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Believe it or not there IS life outside of the Olympics, and yes she may well live here but not whomn I would call a resident of the town. Seeing she's spent most of her life studying in Macclesfield or being at the GB Training facility in Liverpool. Wether she wins Gold, Silver, Bronze, or nothing, it makes little difference to my life or anyone else's.
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Green_Gentleman wrote:Believe it or not there IS life outside of the Olympics, and yes she may well live here but not whomn I would call a resident of the town. Seeing she's spent most of her life studying in Macclesfield or being at the GB Training facility in Liverpool. Wether she wins Gold, Silver, Bronze, or nothing, it makes little difference to my life or anyone else's. Ah. That made me laugh. Trust me. She lives here alright. Just because she doesn't down pints in the Sheps doesn't make her a non-resident. Check the electoral roll.
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If she's not a resident of Whaley Bridge then why does it saw so on the web site? She "trains" in Liverpool as this is where the vast majority of the GB gymnasts train. As for her schooling - a huge number of the local children do not go to the local schools through parental choice. (that is not meant to imply that the local schools are in any way substandard just to clarify)
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Well it's not to take anything away from what she does, but i've been watching the Olympic Sports from Kayaking, Equestrian, Volleyball, even the Football and I remain impartial no matter who the country or athlete might be and I'd be the same regardless of wether Pinches comes from the house next door, Buxton, or anywhere else.
Again not to take away her credibility, but wether she wins anything with the Team GB squad will have no consequence on my life so i'm not caught up in the whole 'she's from Whaley' hype which a few seem to have been without any rationality thought towards why.
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Porridge a bit lumpy this morning was it, Green Gentleman?
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Yeah it was a bit, but what can you do about it...
A better comparison of this is saying that although Black Sabbath comes from Birmingham it doesn't mean that every single person in that city follows every concert, in every country, and has every CD of them. Lets get some perspective, people like different things and are adult enough to form their own opinions.
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High Peak Harry wrote:Porridge a bit lumpy this morning was it, Green Gentleman?
I wish her well, usually people do support local people such as football teams etc. It makes people happy, is that such a bad thing?
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Well, let's use perspective then shall we. Birmingham is a huge metropolis and the chances of having any connection with anyone famous for music, sport or whatever is pretty remote. However, when you look at the size of Whaley and the fact that an Olympian comes from a tiny village in North Derbyshire it puts a perspective (there's that word again!) on things doesn't it. If I remember back to art at school, perspective changed the further away you got from it. Oh, didn't I just give that same analogy? I must be a Genie's ar$e mustn't I?
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Quite staggering that a local girl's efforts should be dismissed because she isn't 100% born and bred Whaley Bridge: and this from somebody who frequently explodes into a massive sulk because the locals don't take him seriously.
Carlsberg don't do hypocritical nonsense, but if they did....
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Yes it is quite staggering that there's some people out there who don't power w@nk over other people just because they happen to come from the same town as them. If she discovered a planetary asteroid that was hurtling towards Earth and she stopped it with her mind then it might be a bit more of a achievement.
Ironically enough the team came seventh tonight, and i'm sure the people busy working in Whaley town tonight, or busy doing other things aren't going to have their lives effected by this. Get over it.
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Well, I know that she will get the homecoming that she deserves - another young person in Whaley who is a credit! Edited by user 31 July 2012 23:11:04(UTC)
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sometimes over the hill - but never far away. |
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Green Gentleman, I'm not quite sure how you derived your name. Was it green because you are jealous or green because you are a mouldy old fart? You and Jack seem to be the same sort of person, never happy unless you are unhappy. Why don't you both go and live in a tent on Kinder and you can moan about the weather and the world in general.
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Because of the second world war we live in a democratic country. If we want to watch the Olympics we can, but we don't have to. Because we live "in the country" we don't have to watch Countryfile and listen to Gardeners Question Time. Try and smile like Neil does when he passes The Sheps and be thankful that we can please ourselves what we do.
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Bit of a turnaround for someone on this forum to be complaining about peoples frequenting the local hostelries rather than sitting at home with a bottle in front of the television :-)
But it is not inconsistent to admire the girls achievements and wish her well in her quest for Gold, whilst been left cold by the actual non-sport at which she excels. As G_G says we all have different tastes. If, for example, Whaley produced a Nobel winning chemist - a much greater achievement than an Olympic gold medal - I doubt if the train to London would be packed with locals going to a lecture on "palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis" at the RS. |
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Dave, That sounds very interesting, what train do I catch?
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Careful now Green Gentlman,You will be giving yourself a heart attack,you seemed to lose the plot with your foul language.I really don't understand you sometimes you say one thing then next you change your mind,you sound like a politician.I for one watched Jenny and thought it was fantastic.I heard that in the next olympics there having a Moany old gits competition,I think you should enter,i'm sure that the whole of Whaley will watch you.
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G. Jackson wrote:Dave, That sounds very interesting, what train do I catch?
The last train - 1958 - from Buxworth station :-) But the point I was making is why do we venerate sporting achievement so far above scientific, cultural and intellectual achievements? |
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Perhaps the Nobel Foundation should employ Danny Boyle to produce their prize ceremony..... |
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