Olympics 2024 Thread Titles for threads about the 2024 Olympics

[belboid]

You know that the forum is already titled 'Olympics 2024'? There is, therefore, no need to put 'Olympics 2024' (or variant thereof) in the title.

Would you put 'Bangor in Wales' if you were posting about said place in the Wales forum? I think not.

That is all.

 

[JimW]

What happens when the sub forum gets archived? Can't see any for previous Olympics, where did those posts end up?

 

[JimW]

Redundancy for the ages! Much like my career.

 

[Elpenor]

Edit thread title (I just did out of respect for your ire)

 

[strung out]

I only browse using New Posts, so it’s helpful to know it’s Olympic track and field as opposed to the normal track and field thread.

 

[Elpenor]

I only browse using New Posts, so it’s helpful to know it’s Olympic track and field as opposed to the normal track and field thread.

New posts states the forum the thread is in

 

[Silas Loom]

I only browse using New Posts, so it’s helpful to know it’s Olympic track and field as opposed to the normal track and field thread.

Lots of scope for new posts confusion. Breaking: UK battles France. That would have me scuttling for the windup radio and MREs.

 

[planetgeli]

Would you put 'Bangor in Wales' if you were posting about said place in the Wales forum? I think not.

I would hope at least, in that instance, you would make sure you differentiated between Bangor (Gwynedd) and Bangor-on-Dee (also called 'Bangor') near Wrexham.

/pedant

(but seriously, people do make the mistake. And they aren't close together.)

 

[Elpenor]

Lots of scope for new posts confusion. Breaking: UK battles France. That would have me scuttling for the windup radio and MREs.

There is no UK team in the Olympics

 

[strung out]

New posts states the forum the thread is in

I don’t read that bit though, I just read the titles and click on the ones that look interesting.

 

[bcuster]

There is no UK team in the Olympics

There is an Irish one, though

https://www.independent.ie/sport/olympics/paris-2024-olympics-day-by-day-full-schedule-to-all-the-action/a1935048896.html

 

[xsunnysuex]

What's all this walking bollocks. That's jogging ffs.

 

[RoyReed]

What all this walking bollocks. That's jogging ffs.

I thought it was high-speed mincing.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

There is no UK team in the Olympics

I'm not sure why not. Certain commentators insist on calling them 'Great Britain and Northern Ireland' every time, which gets a bit much. Am I missing something, but doesn't 'the UK' mean the same thing as 'Great Britain and Northern Ireland'? Maybe they should be forced to say 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' every time?

 

[belboid]

I'm not sure why not. Certain commentators insist on calling them 'Great Britain and Northern Ireland' every time, which gets a bit much. Am I missing something, but doesn't 'the UK' mean the same thing as 'Great Britain and Northern Ireland'? Maybe they should be forced to say 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' every time?

Uk doesn't include, eg, Manx & Jersey, so Team UK would be as inaccurate as Team GB. Apparently, the IOC gave us the abbreviation GBR in 1896, so we just stuck with it.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Uk doesn't include, eg, Manx & Jersey, so Team UK would be as inaccurate as Team GB. Apparently, the IOC gave us the abbreviation GBR in 1896, so we just stuck with it.

Yes, I did wonder about that. So how about 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Crown Dependencies of the Duchy of Normandy and Gibraltar and the Falklands'? Said every time.

 

[editor]

You know that the forum is already titled 'Olympics 2024'? There is, therefore, no need to put 'Olympics 2024' (or variant thereof) in the title.

Yes there is*, otherwise it's very confusing for the large amount of people who are using the 'new posts' feature.

And it's something that is employed elsewhere, e.g. General Dulwich Hamlet chat which appears in the Dulwich Hamlet forum.

*with obvious self explanatory exceptions for titles like 'Mens 100m final, Sat 3rd Aug 2024" etc