Isn't rugby all rigged by Rupert Murdoch, Billionare Tyrant?

The stereotype I've heard is that the Aussies are the friendliest people in the world. Don't know how valid that is though.

More of a sub-species than a race, if you ask me.

I'd like to go down there and decide for myself. It should take at least two weeks of diving the great barrier reef to make up my mind.

We have fantastic weather, heaps of space, cheap living costs, and we mostly avoid pissing other people off.

Kicking englands ass in almost every sport they play us at is just a sweet, sweet bonus :)

Interesting.

I guess the moral is that whether it's Australia, the USA, Canada, etc, for the UK to be cool, it has to be people who left the UK to show the way.

This is a bloody fantastic (and very true) quote:

Or, to give an Englishman, Stephen Fry, the last word, it only takes being in a roomful of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

Many young English cannot remember what it is like to beat Australia.

Erm...yes...they'd have to be almost exactly 5 months old, so I thing the term 'many' is misplaced in that sentence.

As an aussie i'd just like to ask... wtf has that guy been smoking? inferiority complex? pfft.

Even since the 30's we've wooped the poms arses in sport, granted we've slipped up now and then, but for the most part.

You have to hand it to the writer-- he comes close, if only for a moment, to making the Rugby World Cup seem like something worth giving two f*cks in a cat's ass about.

Watching Japan play was pretty funny cause they're dwarfs compared to every other country.

Ivan_and_Norma_Sweeney: Well, unlike the yanks we actually invite other countries when we have a world cup (eg, world series...), so it's kinda more interesting than your ideas of sport.

Ivan_and_Norma_Sweeney

You have to hand it to the writer-- he comes close, if only for a moment, to making the Rugby World Cup seem like something worth giving two f*cks in a cat's ass about.

Oddly, to many non-septic tanks, it is...

i thought they were like smurfs or something?!.
"Here's a fearless sportswriter's prediction: somebody will win and somebody will lose."
nooo... really?! rugby is cool.........if you like that kinda shiat..

Took the words out of my mouth, Hermanator. The last thing Australians have is an inferiority complex towards England.

Or would that be denial?

Us Australians must all need shrinks.

i thought they were like smurfs or something?!.
"Here's a fearless sportswriter's prediction: somebody will win and somebody will lose."
nooo... really?! rugby is cool.........if you like that kinda shiat..

I can honestly state that I am not a septic tank. Still though, I don't feel that the Rugby World Cup is something worth giving two f*ucks in a cat's ass about.

I guess the moral is that whether it's Australia, the USA, Canada, etc, for the UK to be cool, it has to be people who left the UK to show the way.


To look cool in America's eyes, I guess. The majority of Australians (Prime Minister and governing liberal party aside) don't give two stuffs what Americans think.

I should add though, however, that I do not feel that the superbowl, world series, stanly cup, or anything else like that is worth giving two f*cks in a cat's ass about either. :)

binnster

Nice to see others keeping the old aussie rhyming slang alive! :)

Kekko_Kamen - There are other countries in the world besides the US. But really I see your point - I couldn't give a stuff if Bulgaria and Ireland are in the World Soccer Final (hypothetical)...it's got nothing to do with me. I recognize however that that kind of thing is VERY VERY IMPORTANT to many people.

That said, I couldn't giev two f*cks in a cat's arse about the Rugby World Cup either.

2003-11-21 05:59:03 AM Kekko_Kamen
I can honestly state that I am not a septic tank.

Login: Kekko_Kamen
Location: ohio

So Ohio has somehow managed to uproot itself and relocate in some other country?

Bah, sports.

I said I am not a septic tank, I didn't say I didn't live in one. :p

Why would anyone want to f*ck a cat in the arse twice anyway? Isn't once enough??!! Will somebody please think of the kittens.

Someone has to do it...

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!

I wish I could play a didjeridoo.
And I love to kill a kangaroo with a boomerang.
And, yes, I'd maltreat the Abo's if no one was watching....

Kekko_Kamen : Sorry mate, but you *are* a seppo.

synik

You only become a seppo when you lose your accent and/or start spelling/pronouncing words like one.

England's Wilkinson attracts public attention not because he is a great player - he is not - but....

Quite right, he's not great... he's farking awesome.

Jeezy Chreezy, I thought we poms were supposed to be the whinging ones.
That bloke is looking a bit too much into things. We like to beat eachother so we can take the piss out of eachother. Nothing more, nothing less.
Here's hoping for a cracking game tomorrow and an England win !

What a shame this thread comes up right on home time.

"Being good at sport is about the only thing which alleviates Australia's enormous inferiority complex; take that away and there's nothing left."

Nothing except a country roughly what .... thirty times the size of yours, with a third the people, massive amounts of resources, a better standard of living, better overall education, health, better democracy, great weather and beaches with actual sand.

What we LIKE about the UK is Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

That better get the flamewar off to a great start! Remember, all's fair in love and sports.

Ta ta ;)

Uh, being in Ohio is enough to qualify him as one...

AM Kekko_Kamen - Septic Tank = rhyming slang for Yank, now face it you ARE a septic tank damnit!!

One thing that scares me about the Australian team:

+

Like oh sweet jesus on the crucifix, its an amalgamation of my worst nightmares, gayer than a pink unicorn its Elton Flatley!

Tad3tte

"Being good at sport is about the only thing which alleviates Australia's enormous inferiority complex; take that away and there's nothing left."

Nothing except a country roughly what .... thirty times the size of yours, with a third the people, massive amounts of resources, a better standard of living, better overall education, health, better democracy, great weather and beaches with actual sand.

Isn't the guy that wrote the article Australian?

haha, Cormee I never thought of it that way... until now!

Now when I watch the game come tomorrow Im going to be picturing evil images of elton john doing riverdance.

you bastard! :P

How did I figure that somehow that article would in someway give a jab at us Americans who don't even give a damn about rugby(admittedly I know we suck at it) anymore than you give a damn about our sports.

Ah....I don't care.

Been to Australia and loved it, would still rather live in Southern California though. But take everyone from the US on a case by case basis as I do vice versa.

Bye.

I couldn't give a stuff if Bulgaria and Ireland are in the World Cup Final

Feck me, now THAT I gotta see!

Cormee
I thought Flatley was a septic 'n all?

binnster

Nah, from the article they are the words of the words of "English journalist Rod Liddle in The Spectator last week".

Journos love to stir the pot before big sporting matches with lines like this, makes the rivalry all the more fierce. Who am I to buck the trend :)

Watch me wallabies feed, mate
Watch me wallabies feed,
They're a dangerous breed, mate
So watch me wallabies feed
Altogether now!

CHORUS:
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down

Keep me cockatoo cool, Curl,
Keep me cockatoo cool
Ah, don't go acting the fool, Curl
Just keep me cockatoo cool
Altogether now!

(CHORUS)

'n' take me koala back, Jack
Take me koala back
He lives somewhere out on the track, Mac
So take me koala back
Altogether now!

(CHORUS)

Let me abos go loose, Lew
Let me abos go loose
They're of no further use, Lew
So let me abos go loose
Altogether now!

(CHORUS)

And mind me platypus duck, Bill
Mind me platypus duck
Ah, don't let 'im go running amok, Bill
Just mind me platypus duck
Altogether now!

(CHORUS)

Play your didgeridoo, Blue
Play your didgeridoo
Ah, like, keep playin' 'til I shoot thru, Blue
Play your didgeridoo
Altogether now!

(CHORUS)

Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred
Tan me hide when I'm dead
So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde
And that's it hangin' on the shed!!
Altogether now!

(CHORUS)

Tad3tte

Well spotted, best of luck for tomorrow, you'll need it (stir stir!;)

Since there is something in this article to offend just about everyone, I predict we'll see lots of people yelling 'my country is best' at each other to prolly pi level, lots if many of the americans make it down to the last paragraph, and inifinity if the 'gridiron is the best sport on earth anyway' ball gets thrown in and run with.

Excellent pick, admins, excellent pick :)

Steve Bloody Irwin isn't doing us any bloody favours but strewth, those Yanks have no idea of life beyond Hawaii. It stuns me to think they're missing out of the coolest place under the sun. And I don't much care either.... more for me!

Yeah, but England's gonna win.

Tad3tte
Ok I'll rise to the challenge:


My country is the BEST in the world at Hurling.
There is NO WAY you can deny that! Every other sport in the universe is for PUSSIES in comparison.

Ok, phew...

Their government is one step away from being 'facist', they have bad crime, and massive gun control. Civil liberties are more of a 'gentleman's agreement' than a right.

LaughingGremlin

Errr... *panics*

I've seen some world class hurls from true blue aussie lads and lasses. Just last week there was a technicolour yawn down the outside of the nightride bus that would have put Pro Hart to shame. End to end it was five metres long and was periodically added to by members of the drinking team for the entire forty minutes we took to reach home.

Top that!

(if all else fails, wilfully misunderstand. Thanks for the new debating tactic Fark conservatives ;)

nethole

And Nethole jumps in with a stirling entry!

It prolly won't go anywhere since he's talking out his ... nethole ;)

We are great at hurling - espeially after the twentieth tinnie.

That Wilkinson has got to go. I fear he'll field goal them into the championship. Someone had the gag last night about Matt Dunning, the ex-Canadian prop, "accidentally" falling on him.

*hoping I get it as wrong as I did the Cricket World Cup*