Blogging

I'm over blogging.

Stick Cricket is the new blogging.

Survivor Chicks

The girls on survivor always seem to look a lot worse when they doll up for the reunion or when they appear on the jury. One exception is Jenn in last season's reunion special (phwoar).

Injection

I had a flu injection today and it didn't hurt at all. Usually it hurts a little bit but this time it just didn't hurt. Imagine that.

Russia

Apparently early on in World War 2 the British were sending aid to the Finns to fight against Russia and there was a good chance that that would have led them into war with the Russians.

Sheeds

It seems I was wrong about our tactics for the international rules. I salute you Kevin Sheedy. And I contempt you Jack.

American Bashing

I'm sick of people american bashing.

Bang Makok

As if Bangkok wasn't a funny enough name, apparently the reason Westerners call it Bangkok (it's Thai name is something different) is that it was built on the site of a village called Bang Makok.

Building

This is a building that a chinese tv station are planning to build in Beijing in time for the Olympics.

http://www.chinapage.com/building/cctv-beijing.jpg

Page File

If you're not a nerd you won't find this interesting and if you are a nerd you probably already knew about this but ...
http://www.peterprovost.org/archive/2005/10/16/8673.aspx

Too little, too late

It's a bit fucking late now Gilly and Haydos.

International Rules

I'm not convinced that Kevin Sheedy's plan to get lots of fast players to play in the International Rules game. That way we're surrending our advantage of strength of physicality and trying to compete with the Irish in what they're best at.

Knightrider

There's a Knightrider St and a Knightrider Court in London.

Possibly my best experience in London

I went to the aussie rules exhibition match today. The match itself was reasonable but wasn't that good. And my enjoyment of the match was quite strongly coloured by the fact that the lines for beer were ridiculously wrong (as in lining up for half an hour long). But they did sell meat pies (phwoar). But after the game finished everyone went out onto the ground and played kick-to-kick. Very soon it got to the point that any time anyone got the ball they would be immediately nailed by a few other people (I got nailed straight away when I first got the ball). And once someone tackled someone it would usually turn into a big stacks-on. Liam and I got involved in one and I quite hurt my nose and my ribs after someone jumped on after me. But it was great fun running round the few balls that people were kicking round and trying to get a kick away before someone got to you. My one great regret of the day is that I dropped the big mark I had hoped to take.

We also saw three guys we went to school with, and apparently there were more there that we didn't see.

Possibly my longest blog entry.

ID Cards

Zimbabwean ID cards are made out of metal. They look quite cool.

I hate yous all

I organised tickets for 7 of my friends for the aussie rules exhibition match. Only 2 of those friends are now going with me. Luckily I've managed to get rid of all but one of the tickets. I'm quite embarrassed and remarkably unimpressed.

People are quite stupid

Of 51 people questioned on a London high street, 65% of those who included sea salt in their shopping basket did so for health reasons.

Dickhead

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16804711-2,00.html

Bashir is a dickhead. First he says it's ok for jihadists to attack America because America attacked Islam. But then he says that they will keep attacking until the west is destroyed or accepts Islam. Which statement are you saying is the case? Tool.

Motlop

I'm very disappointed in you Daniel Motlop. You say you want to leave the roos so you can move to a club that is closer to your family in the Northern Territory. Initially apparently Adelaide is close enough (presumably cos of the 20 minutes it will save you in flying time). But now it seems you want to be traded to Melbourne. Perhaps you hadn't realised but North Melbourne is actually closer to the Norther Territory than Melbourne is.

Stay at the roos.

Canadia

A canadian guy at work laughed when he heard that my footy team is called the Kangaroos and said "That's like us calling a hockey team the Beavers." About ten minutes later he revealed that his hockey team is actually called the Montreal Canadians. That's much better than the Kangaroos.

Straining the spuds

Urinals in England are remarkably bad. It's very difficult to avoid splashback. On a few occasions I've found myself standing a metre back from one cos it was so bad. They often put these little plastic matts in them to deflect the spray but it doesn't work. Last night I went to a pub that had put the matts in but in such a way that it was virtually impossible to not splash. Thankfully I'm getting my suit dry-cleaned today.