Category Archives: rant
NRL TV — good for foreigners, not Aussie league fans
I’m both heartened and annoyed to find this site exists: NRL TV — Watch live NRL games and replays online It’s exactly what I’ve wished existed for years… for $15 a month you can watch all NRL games live or … Continue reading
Brothers talk League episode 1
This is a new one for the site, a bit of an experiment really. My first foray into podcasts, as my brother Wayne and I jump into the world of Rugby League and the NRL. Wayne is a great talker … Continue reading
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This is called Summer?
Apparently it’s the first day of Summer. But you wouldn’t know it with this weather… rain for a week, flooding, darkness in the day and more. It’s rained more this year than for years previously, and don’t we know it. … Continue reading
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Asylum seekers: Why should I be afraid exactly?
It’s “fear the asylum seekers” time, as the screwy situations in the world lead to an influx of displaced people, and half of Australia rears its ugly and paranoid head again in fear of the other. The government is behaving … Continue reading
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Here’s what we should do Rupert
In response to this recent news: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/09/2710281.htm Murdoch warns Google: it’s time to pay What we all really need to do is stop linking to News Ltd sites. Stop blogging about them, stop submitting to Digg, Stumbleupon, linking on Facebook, … Continue reading
The defense is way worse than the act now
More on this Hey Hey It’s Saturday sketch… I’m over the sketch, it’s so clear that no one meant to be racist, even if it clearly was, and I believe the people who did it (even channel nine), were ignorant … Continue reading
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Sorry world, we’re not all as lame as Hey Hey It’s Saturday
What else can you say really. It’s all over the news today, even though I had no intention of watching it myself, so everyone is now talking about whether a sketch with men in blackface pretending to be the Jackson … Continue reading
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Train in vain
The train trips seem longer than normal at the moment, with the weather really weird and variable. Last week it was over 30 degrees on one day, and now it’s back to winter, at barely 10 degrees in the morning, … Continue reading
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The Matthew Johns saga…
Have resisted writing about this so far, but it’s been a topic hard not to think about in the last week. In some ways, it’s both a difficult and an incredibly easy situation to discuss and think about. Easy in … Continue reading
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A suggestion for movie studios
If the movie studios of this world made DVDs of movies available to buy at the same time as the movie is released, I’d buy every single thing I take Will to see immediately, as I’m sure millions of parents … Continue reading
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