"ddavidn" (ddavidn) 04/24/2014 at 15:03 • Filed to: None

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Some Aussies just offered me a job in front of my boss, so see all you American suckers later, I'm going to go buy a Maloo!

(Just kidding, I like my job and where I live)

Tom McParland > ddavidn 04/24/2014 at 15:14

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OZ has the most deadly animals per square mile...jus sayin'

Manuél Ferrari > Tom McParland 04/24/2014 at 15:19

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I lived in Sydney for a year. The women were way more dangerous than the spiders. They could out drink most American men.

ttyymmnn > ddavidn 04/24/2014 at 15:36

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You'd have to start watching Aussie Rules Football. It's a crazy game, and I'm pretty sure it has rules, but I think it only has about three.

ddavidn > Tom McParland 04/24/2014 at 15:46

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Yeah, we actually talked about that. I asked if Newcastle had any less poisonous animals than the rest of aussieland and he said no, it's pretty much everything.

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > Tom McParland 04/24/2014 at 15:47

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Oh, it's just a spider. Ahahahaha!

Ahahahaha.

Ahahaha.

Ahahah.

Ahah.

Ah.

..

/sob

ddavidn > ttyymmnn 04/24/2014 at 15:50

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Is it like rugby? I kinda like rugby, but won't watch it on TV because of all the close-up shots of men's arses in shorts.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > ddavidn 04/24/2014 at 15:52

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Rugby on PCP.

ddavidn > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 04/24/2014 at 16:10

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Sweet!

ttyymmnn > ddavidn 04/24/2014 at 16:15

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It's vaguely similar to rugby, but it's played on a cricket ground, so the field is bigger than Stuttgart, and the players wear even smaller shorts and tank tops. When I was young (which would have been late '70s), we played a game called "Smear the Queer." You can't call it that now, but basically, you took a bunch of sweaty boys, threw in a ball, and ran around. If you had the ball, you were the queer, and you were going to get smeared unless you unloaded the ball to avoid getting smeared. That's Aussie Rules Football, but with just a bit more organization. You know, uniforms, and a guy in a lime yellow/green shirt with matching knee socks and a whistle.

ddavidn > ttyymmnn 04/24/2014 at 16:17

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I'm familiar with Smear the Queer, so that makes sense to me. I'm going to go look up this so-called "sport" now. Sounds interesting.

ttyymmnn > ddavidn 04/24/2014 at 16:20

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It's actually not that bad. I enjoy watching it, but I also like Rugby Union and, gasp, soccer. The guys are damn tough and wiry, really fast, and they make some amazingly accurate kicks and marks (catching a kick is called a mark, as in rugby, and you can take a free kick or run from that point).

ddavidn > ttyymmnn 04/24/2014 at 16:29

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I'm a soccer fan at heart, it's the only non-motorsport sport that I will watch intentionally, and will even go to Sounders games. I used to play soccer until highschool when I got fed up with the competitive douchebags that made the sport less fun. Call me a pansy if you will, I just like playing for fun.

ttyymmnn > ddavidn 04/24/2014 at 16:32

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Nothing wrong with that. My boys play in a neighborhood rec league, and we have consciously avoided the higher leagues because the boys have FUN playing, the coaches aren't frustrated douchebags who are playing vicariously through the kids, the parents are supportive but not abusive. It's just a good situation all around.

ddavidn > ttyymmnn 04/24/2014 at 16:38

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Precisely! There was no rec league near me after I got through Jr. High so I just had to stop. Although I did get invited to an indoor league for a season, which was a blast. Plus, cleats are expensive when your feet grow a size per year... At least I stopped at size 13. I should see about the nearby indoor league. Like I have time for that...

ttyymmnn > ddavidn 04/24/2014 at 16:43

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Plus, cleats are expensive when your feet grow a size per year

Try outfitting three boys.

user314 > Tom McParland 04/24/2014 at 16:48

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That's not a spider...

ddavidn > ttyymmnn 04/24/2014 at 16:53

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That will never happen! I'll never forget my mom's reaction to finding out that, at size 12, there are no "youth" cleats to be had.