Humour, Even after defeat...

Maybe they were friends.. thats why he texted him that msg.

 

I don't know Steen Pederson, but he looks like a man with humour. Maybe it is his cheeky grin

 

Haaa....try sending that kind of text msg to LYB.

 

I wouldn't like to tread on dangerous waters! Because of cultural differences, a word can mean different things to different people, especially so if the receiver or his interpretator doesn't understand English that well. That's why in Matt's example, it was perfectly ok to use those words between very good friends and no eruption happened.

I think, in general, people of different cultures still like to encourage the underdogs. I thought I read that the Indonesians were cheering the Danes in the TC final against the Chinese. And remember all the hype about how dangerous it was to play in Jakarta just before the TC final round so much so some countries were hesitating whether to compete. But it all turned out so well and the Danes were well-received and respected by the badminton-loving country.

And I'm sure over the years national players from different countries must have made good friends among themselves and some of them returned after retirement to serve in the IBF and replay their happy memories again.

 

Your sense of humour is not crap, just British

At one of the matches I saw a banner in the hall, the guy holding it was British, and the banner read "I hate banners"

 

Thats a good one, we Brits do have humour all to ourselves sometimes because it is so dry!

Also Gail and Nathan play club badminton in Denmark, so it's a certainty they know each other very well.

Nice text but I'd still like Kwun to send it to LYB, pity is it's a bit late, and it would have been a totally different kind of humour