The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:
Under what fictitious name is Taiwan listed in the Olympics medals table?
Chinese Taipei - 63%
Taipei - 16%
Republic of China - 11%
Taipei Province - 10%
Well done to the eagle-eyed 63%.
Taipei is the name of the capital city of Taiwan, whose official name (i.e. the name that the government uses on its forms) is Republic of China (as distinct from The People's Republic of China) so those two names aren't fictitious. I made up "Taipei Province", that one is just as fictitious as "Chinese Taipei".
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I'm very impressed with the way that successful athletes in Team GB made the most of their fifteen minutes of fame to promote their hobby horses and the way that politicians and newspapers jumped on the bandwagon (if they hadn't started the meme in the first place, you never know with these things).
So which is/was your favourite Olympic bandwagon?
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My favourite is of course Michael Gove's: Liberate school children from the tyranny of under-employed geography teachers. If they use those playing fields to build housing, then local kids will have a shorter walk to school and hence more time to lie in bed, do their homework, play on the internet etc. It's all good.
When science is irrelevant
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Playing fields are such a sacred cow.
My school got rid of a playing field a few years ago, the top field. Put a new science block over it, definitely needed.
But, the school still had the equivalent of 3 rugby pitches left over.
And we're talking about 20 out of what, 20,000+ schools?
I'd like to think people were worrying about how kids are treated in council-run care homes first.
TS, yes it's only 20 out of 20,000, but every journey must start with a single step... Agreed on are homes. Interestingly, Gove himself was adopted, so he's got more right to opine on this than anybody else.
My primary school had a "school field", but I don't recall anyone playing any sport on it. Football was played in the playground. Mind you, that was over 40 years ago. If the government wants schoolkids to be fitter, they could try and encourage parents to let them walk to school, but I suppose that would clash with their general mollycoddling of children and paedophile-as-hate-figure propaganda.
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