Why is it that Americans are so obsessed with the "Royal Family"? I thought they threw a tea party in Boston just to get rid of it all.
Agreed. I wouldn't know the guy if he was sitting next to me on the subway. And I wouldn't give a damn.
Damn malmo, you’re pretty badass.
I ran into the British P.M. Rishi Sunak down at my local high school track. He was doing “quarter mile” repeats as he called them, in order to contextualize whether he should be impressed by Kipchoge’s marathon pace. I asked him the same question re: the Paris 1500m, and he just said “*ole *ocker baby!” and hit his watch for his next 400 rep, which was another sub-60.
If only I'd run with my phone, I could prove it. When I asked who was a better 1500 prospect for gold in 2024 - Kerr or Wightman, he said, "Ingebrigtsen baby."
I was momentarily taken back and said, "Aren't you supposed to root for your own subjects in the Olympics?" He said, "Do you know how stifling it is to have the randomness of your birth control everything about you - where you live, what your job is, etc. It's so refreshing to just pick my own sports fandom. I'm a HUGE fan. Plus I'm allowed to root for Norwegians as we are family. Their king is my cousin. King Herald's great grand parents Edward and Alexandra are my great-great-great grandparents."