What's making you smile/laugh today?

[The Deadly]

I love sport.....

[Bonanzoid]

What a brilliant few days for Team GB. A lot of people north of the border are banging on about how many medals Scotland have contributed to 'Team England', which is apparently what Radio 1 have been calling the team. I'm not one for disparity within the nation, but it'd be a bit shit of they had called them that. I wouldn't know, I haven't listened in ages.

[Bonanzoid]

Sorry for double post, but seeming Phelps retire today with a gold was brilliant. What he's done may never be topped.

[Yudster]

I've been following the Olympics via any and every media outlet I can access and I haven't heard a single reference to "Team England". I'm not surprised the Scots have made it up though.

Personally I object to to the whole "Team GB" thing anyway - its a branding exercise, started deliberately in Beijing where it was specifically applied to the Cycling team, and the Olympics should be about national sport, not marketing.

[The Deadly]

I disagree. If it means that some of the lesser known sports get attention and money I'm all for the Team GB brand being milked over and over again. Some of the sports get no funding at all from the government or the national lottery so it's essential to raise funds through sponsorship and private donations. The Team GB name helps with that I imagine.

[slaphead1982]

I'm not saying this as fact (As I don't know) but hasnt it always been team GB in the olympics? It may not have been said that way on most ocassions but always a team of Great British athletes not just individual athletes.

[Nicola_Red]

I've been following the Olympics via any and every media outlet I can access and I haven't heard a single reference to "Team England"..

You haven't heard that cos that's not what they're called. Regardless of what you think of the branding, you won't hear a name that's wrong just cos you think it should be right!

[bmstinton93]

Tina called them England last week.

[Nicola_Red]

By mistake, though. Every time I've heard her say it she's then corrected herself to "Team GB". It's like accidentally calling someone named Joanne Jenny - even if you think they'd better suit Jenny and/or you mix the names up by accident, that doesn't make you right. Even if they were previously called Jenny and changed their name, you'd still be wrong.

[SAV1OUR]

Well, it's been ace, and I found myself listening to her interview, it's not in the vault though.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00pf2y0


I think she said her trainer looked a bit like Chris too.

http://yfrog.com/nzd3crtj

[Yudster]

What a brilliant few days for Team GB. A lot of people north of the border are banging on about how many medals Scotland have contributed to 'Team England', which is apparently what Radio 1 have been calling the team. I'm not one for disparity within the nation, but it'd be a bit shit of they had called them that. I wouldn't know, I haven't listened in ages.

I've been following the Olympics via any and every media outlet I can access and I haven't heard a single reference to "Team England". I'm not surprised the Scots have made it up though.

I've been following the Olympics via any and every media outlet I can access and I haven't heard a single reference to "Team England"..

You haven't heard that cos that's not what they're called. Regardless of what you think of the branding, you won't hear a name that's wrong just cos you think it should be right!

Keep up Nic.

[Nicola_Red]

Yeah, I may have got a bit lost with the thread of conversation there. Serves me right for commenting on anything Olympics related!

[MK Chris]

Well - back from a fantastic honeymoon, just in time to see six gold medals on Saturday and one week today I will have another bit of good news to announce... life is good.

Seriously loving the Olympics, as always - great to see the athletics team contributing to our impressive haul, which they failed to do in Beijing, save for Christine Ohu... Oho... her.

Deadly, I disagree with your outlook - a silver and bronze is STILL a great effort and so long as everyone tries their best, what more can you ask? Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter gave EVERYTHING they had on Saturday and nearly came away with gold, but a silver medal was still a * good effort. Looking at the Chinese and Americans, neither are as successful as us when you look at the medal table in terms of gold, silver and bronze per capita - in fact, looked from that angle, we are top of the table.

[chrysostom]

Don't forget that both countries have a very sketchy human rights record, massive egos on a global stage (when it comes to anything) and a large poverty gap.

Something that their 'survival of the fittest' mentality will more than likely be a by product of.

[dimtimjim]

Looking at the Chinese and Americans, neither are as successful as us when you look at the medal table in terms of gold, silver and bronze per capita - in fact, looked from that angle, we are top of the table.

+1

We rock (per capita).

[SAV1OUR]

Just been reading an old article from when Moyles quit, and it's funny you know, theres some love for him on The Guardian comments of all places. Reading what other people are writing is helping me form my tribute:

I am so bored and so tired of articles of this ilk, lambasting Moyles. There seems to have been a deluge of them in the past day, rejoicing in the fact he is leaving and treating Nick Grimshaw like he's the second coming. Most of these articles are written by people who self-admittedly don't listen to Moyles show and some who actively hate him. How you can write any article criticising something you never listen to, and expect rational people to take you seriously is quite frankly baffling. Besides the fact that 95% of the criticism is untrue and absurd, often missing the point that Moyles portrays a type of humour that they don't like and not that he's some kind of terrible person, it's the love towards Grimshaw that I find perplexing. Rather than be a DJ like Moyles, who toiled away for years, honing his craft on a variety of stations, earning his dues in graveyward shifts and gradually working his way up the ladder, Grimshaw is simply an 'IT' boy who met the right people in the right place, at the right time, who never had any great desire to be a DJ because after his uni stint, he never actively sought out employment as a DJ. It was his tv work that he managed to parlay into a Radio 1 spot. Why is the fact that he has a high profile social life and has often been seen associated with the likes of the Geldof girls and Frost, photographed out and about being held up as some sort of great thing? How is this beneficial to a radio career, or this supposed love of music he has? Moyles generally keeps a low profile off the radio. He isn't pictured falling out of nightclubs at silly o'clock. There are no scandals or hype about his private life. Mainly because he's a down to earth, normal guy, that the masses can relate to. I've seen Grimshaw on tv. I've heard Grimshaw on the radio. He's ten a penny. He's relatively inoffensive, possibly even bland. The popularity of the zoo radio format for breakfast is being ditched (which appealed to 7m+ each day) and is being replaced by Grimshaw and Grimshaw alone. This is going to be such bad decision. Mark my words, 6 months in - by March next year - the BBC will replace the major mistake they have made. Of course the average age of the Radio 1 listenership is higher than the desired age - people have grown up listening to Moyles, and have stayed loyal to him. I think many people are seriously underestimating how popular Moyles is, and overestimating Grimshaw's appeal.

Haha, not for me to comment on Grimmy, I don't really care - but can't help think this is gonna be Daybreak. Radio 1 better have some tricks up their sleeve.

[Emmy]

Haha, not for me to comment on Grimmy, I don't really care - but can't help think this is gonna be Daybreak. Radio 1 better have some tricks up their sleeve.

I think the idea is that his show will be more about the music than chat. But having said that, Grimmy's attendance at some Ibiza club was mentioned in the party people type page in the Times Style magazine last Sunday and apparently his two requests for the dj were 'Mambo No. 5' and 'It's Raining Men' (the Geri Halliwell version) so maybe that won't be the case after all.

[SAV1OUR]

The stuck up cow that wrote it was put in her place aptly by someone Chris retweeted last night:

@Eve_Barlow ignorance and bullying actually came from you in this article.Spiteful,childish attack on someone for not being 'cool' enough

@Eve_Barlow oh, and embarrassingly London-centric. Incredibly ignorant of a world outside a tiny media bubble

Thats what seems to be happening now, they're giving the nation it's standardised dose of generic 'Camden Cool'.

Without banging on about the London Media bubble too much - I still think it's a shame that people across the country aren't gonna have that fun every morning on their long trek to work. What Grimmy lad got up to last night is the last thing people think about on their way to work. Moyles fitted the gap in the market perfectly with his chats, whilst radio 1 chase a narrow demographic, they forget that Moyles never really stood for that anyway - he was far more inclusive and was rooted in the reality of the early morning ritual, and how crap it is. It was right and proper he was given such a great platform to do what he did.

No amount of Evans ridiculously chirpy hollaring will change my mindset that time of day.

Yep, end of an era, there can be no replacement. Comedy on the radio rules.

[Nicola_Red]

What Grimmy lad got up to last night is the last thing people think about on their way to work..

I don't understand why what Chris did last night is so much more relevant than what Grimmy did? As everyone here knows, I'm gutted that the show is ending and Grimmy can never replace Chris in my affections, but objectively I don't see the difference. I get bored of Chris' endless gym stories sometimes - they are no more relevant to me that Grimmy's Camden antics.

[chrysostom]

Going to the Gym and losing weight are easier for the wider audience to relate to than going to celeb bashes and cool gigs. Celeb bashes and cool gigs are what the target demographic will want.

[Nicola_Red]

I think I'd rather the latter. Neither are anything like my life, but I find all the weight loss talk oppressive and trigger-y, and I can't be the only one. I accepted a long time ago that it's part of a show I love, but I won't miss it.

[The Deadly]

Grimshaw is just keeping the bed warm for a year or two until Greg James gets the job. Greg is the darling of the BBC trust and Radio 1 management.

[dimtimjim]

I don't understand why what Chris did last night is so much more relevant than what Grimmy did? As everyone here knows, I'm gutted that the show is ending and Grimmy can never replace Chris in my affections, but objectively I don't see the difference. I get bored of Chris' endless gym stories sometimes - they are no more relevant to me that Grimmy's Camden antics.

Gym or otherwise, Chris discussed, mostly, subjecst which the masses could relate to. Nick, less so.

[Bonanzoid]

Britain's world dominance in cycling this year. I'm almost lost for words.

Edit - Sir Chris Hoy just won as well. Hero.

[nade]

Britain's world dominance in cycling this year. I'm almost lost for words.

Edit - Sir Chris Hoy just won as well. Hero.

Yep, gotta say the same thing, it was a brilliant afternoon in the cycling. With Laura then Chris getting golds, shame about Victoria, but Silver still a good result.