Welcome to TWC

[bomberboy]

BpT, Manchester rocks! My mum's from there! (Does that make me half Mancunian?)
And my cousins live in Trafford. Nyah

Hey I used to live in trafford.

[RZZZA]

Eh, Lewis is British, was there ever any debate about that?

yes, because he was born in jamaica and wore the canadian maple leaf on his back when he was fighting for the olympics.

as a result many British boxing fans dont embrace him

[African Zulu Warrior]

Ah, I dont really follow boxing but I know a few names. Why did he wear the Canadian maple?

[RZZZA]

Ah, I dont really follow boxing know a few names. Why did he wear the Canadian maple?

because he's actually a canadian, he was raised there and fought there as an amateur, including representing Canada in the olympics.

Thats why British boxing fans tend to boo Lennox when he wears the union jack, they consider him a faker and not a true brit.

to my american ears he sure sounds british though, at least...

[African Zulu Warrior]

Ahhhh I see, he was born in the UK though.

[RZZZA]

yeah but not to British parents though...earlier I said that he was born IN jamaica, thats not true, he was born in the UK to jamaican parents.

I dont know what criteria needs to be met to consider someone a "true brit", I just know that a sizeable percentage of Brits tend to boo lennox when he reps Britain.

I just think he's multinational, in this modern globalized world there are bound to be a number of people like Lewis, who retain citizenship in many countries and consider them all home.

[African Zulu Warrior]

Aye, sort of like Tiger Woods with his multi - racial roots.

[RZZZA]

Yeah I guess, it gets tough for simple folk when they find that they can no longer identify with their hero's based on broad and impersonal similarities such as race or nationality. It turns from something possesive like "Tiger woods is a great black golfer, a great black man, just like ME!" to just " Tiger Woods is a great golfer, a great man, just like...uh...me?"

Something not quite the same about that, people need to feel special by identifying with what they are so that they know what they are not.

[MasterInquisitor]

Didn't Tiger Woods manage to hit someone in the head with a golf ball whilst playing the open?

I think I read it in News of the World (not through choice).

[RZZZA]

I wouldnt know, mistress of the macabre, I dont follow golf. Its an elitist game made specifically for the purpose of gathering together a lot of rich old white men so that they can sneer at and belittle the proletariat that made them so rich in the first place.

Ever seen the movie Falling Down with michael douglas?

[African Zulu Warrior]

No, but I have seen Happy Gilmore. Adam Sandler = god.

[Real]

Oh you gotta love horses.

Until one stands on your foot and won't budge.

That has happened to me. My love hasn't faded and it never will.

[Niles Crane]

That has happened to me. My love hasn't faded and it never will.

I didn't know you liked long-faced women.

[Dayman]

Hello everyone, longtime lurker, first time poster.

Who'll take an authentic Philly cheesesteak? (see sig)

[African Zulu Warrior]

Hey Boeing, think I'll give the cheesesteal a miss, though.

[Dayman]

Hey Boeing, think I'll give the cheesesteal a miss, though.

Only this famed image can express my anguish.

[African Zulu Warrior]

Nooo! Din't bring the power of the darkside down upon me!!! But I mean, what makes a "cheese"steak....WHERES THE CHEESE....unless that yellow stuff is....looks more like mustard to me.

[MasterInquisitor]

I didn't know you liked long-faced women.

Are you saying I'm long-faced?

And I don't follow golf. As Winston Churchill once said: "Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose."

I like Rugby: proper man's sport.

[African Zulu Warrior]

But your not a man!!!

[MasterInquisitor]

*Looks at self*
Aaagh! where did these two things come from?!

Are you saying tis wrong for me to like rugby because I am not a man? It's better than football.