BMXing (just wanted to put BMX but they won't let me)

Not sure where I stand with it being an olympic sport, but it's quite good fun to watch.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video/p00w32b2

Not seen anyone crash yet though...

There was an American lady who ate dirt on the last sequence of jumps earlier. Looked properly painful, she didn't get up for about two minutes.

Arkay v2.0 wrote:There was an American lady who ate dirt on the last sequence of jumps earlier. Looked properly painful, she didn't get up for about two minutes.

s**t, hope they show a replay.,.

It was Brooke Crain, apparently. I'm sure some Billy Whizz will have it up on Youtube soon enough.

Billy Whizz's talent was running very quickly. As far as I remember, there was never any mention of his skills in illegally recording television broadcasts in order to upload it to a popular Internet video viewing portal.

LATVIAN DOWN! LATVIAN DOWN! Meeeeeeedic!

Rewind the vid to 24m and 30s. She looks more embarrased than hurt though if you ask me. Some Latvian has just done the same thing...

Ouch! Poor bugger...

I want someone to smash into this guy at full speed. Don't know why he annoys me so much but he does.

The Dutch seem good at BMX. Who knew?

Colonel Cardiffi wrote:Billy Whizz's talent was running very quickly. As far as I remember, there was never any mention of his skills in illegally recording television broadcasts in order to upload it to a popular Internet video viewing portal.

I always remember that lesser known cartoon character "Percival Pedant" who used to go around picking holes in people's work because he felt utterly compelled to do so. That comic strip was amusing at first but then it became a real buzz kill as it meant other more playful characters' irreverent comments were nitpicked to death.

I believe he became as unpopular as other notorious cartoons such as "Billy Nomates", "Badd Grammer Garry" and "Terence the Terminally Tiresome Troll". Eventually, his constant formalism and pedantry proved so hate-worthy, the writers moved him over to a more grown up market where they successfully killed him off by having him "hung, drawn and quartered" (an act that Percival himself noted was grammatically incorrect as the term is to be "hanged, drawn and quartered") by other more carefree, less irritating characters who celebrated his torturous demise with glee.

I think it came out in the seventies when there was a perceived market for that kind of thing. Don't think it would go down too well with modern audiences though.

Ever read it Colonel?

Arkay v2.0 wrote:

Colonel Cardiffi wrote:Billy Whizz's talent was running very quickly. As far as I remember, there was never any mention of his skills in illegally recording television broadcasts in order to upload it to a popular Internet video viewing portal.

I always remember that lesser known cartoon character "Percival Pedant" who used to go around picking holes in people's work because he felt utterly compelled to do so. That comic strip was amusing at first but then it became a real buzz kill as it meant other more playful characters' irreverent comments were nitpicked to death.

I believe he became as unpopular as other notorious cartoons such as "Billy Nomates", "Badd Grammer Garry" and "Terence the Terminally Tiresome Troll". Eventually, his constant formalism and pedantry proved so hate-worthy, the writers moved him over to a more grown up market where they successfully killed him off by having him "hung, drawn and quartered" (an act that Percival himself noted was grammatically incorrect as the term is to be "hanged, drawn and quartered") by other more carefree, less irritating characters who celebrated his torturous demise with glee.

I think it came out in the seventies when there was a perceived market for that kind of thing. Don't think it would go down too well with modern audiences though.

Ever read it Colonel?

That was Dandy, not the Beano.