;-)
― gr8080, Thursday, 18 October 2007 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said: "Winning the right to host the 2018 Fifa World Cup is a Herculean task, but overcoming tough odds is what Australian football does best."
Australians, can you please provide me with some examples of these tough odds being overcome because I sure as fuck can't think of any.
― Limoncello Carlin (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Friday, 6 February 2009 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
here is one: when i tried out for macquarie university soccer it was january and i'd been in the country for four days. i was jetlagged and it was 36C. after ten minutes i threw up under the shade of a eucalyptus tree, but i still made the team. that is true grit.
― caek, Friday, 6 February 2009 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
admittedly i made the sixth team (of six), but i was their second best player!
― caek, Friday, 6 February 2009 01:34 (fifteen years ago) link
getting an entire state obsessed with one of the most tedious sports in history is pretty tough odds
― carbonara not glue (electricsound), Friday, 6 February 2009 01:39 (fifteen years ago) link
victoria and afl?
― caek, Friday, 6 February 2009 01:40 (fifteen years ago) link
― Limoncello Carlin (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Friday, 6 February 2009 01:29 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Not starting a riot on Lygon street after this http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2006/4991534.stm
Also, is it just a Queensland thing that when Eagle Rock comes on you dack yourself?
― W4LTER, Thursday, 18 October 2007 04:40 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
WFT?
― Bored of Canada (S-), Friday, 6 February 2009 01:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Calling AFL tedious is pretty rich if you come from the US or UK/Europe.
xpost
― Bored of Canada (S-), Friday, 6 February 2009 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link
or anywhere in the world pretty much.
except melbourne
― carbonara not glue (electricsound), Friday, 6 February 2009 01:58 (fifteen years ago) link
who is a greater national hero, mel gibson or nicole kidman
― max, Friday, 6 February 2009 02:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Mel Gibson at least starred in Mad Max (1 & 2)
― Bored of Canada (S-), Friday, 6 February 2009 02:05 (fifteen years ago) link
who is a greater national hero, esteban buttez or naomi watts
― max, Friday, 6 February 2009 02:06 (fifteen years ago) link
esteban by far
― carbonara not glue (electricsound), Friday, 6 February 2009 02:07 (fifteen years ago) link
neither mel or nicole are australian
so wait are australians calling soccer "football" now or does he mean afl or rugby or something?
― JAM, DWANGELA, RELLY! (sunny successor), Friday, 6 February 2009 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link
nor?
― JAM, DWANGELA, RELLY! (sunny successor), Friday, 6 February 2009 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link
kevin's just a ponce
― carbonara not glue (electricsound), Friday, 6 February 2009 02:10 (fifteen years ago) link
overcoming tough odds is what Australian football does best
Which sort of football, as SS just asked. If he means soccer then it makes sense: we never make it into the world cup, is the obvious one, so the one or 2 times we have everyone acts like we won the moon.
― one art, please (Trayce), Friday, 6 February 2009 04:02 (fifteen years ago) link
let's all win soccer on the moon hulahguahlaughhlaghualagh
― carbonara not glue (electricsound), Friday, 6 February 2009 04:09 (fifteen years ago) link
You'd think it was pretty unlikely that a football player could over play again following his partying with a biker days before the biker went on an amphetamine-fuelled rampage that culminated in a murder and two other people being shot wouldn't you?
― badg, Friday, 6 February 2009 05:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Tough odds are:
- All major grounds are oval shaped. You can't see a fucking thing!- "Soccer" is a "pooftah" game.- Qatar's massive bid.- Kosmina got the arse from Sydney FC which reduces A-League comedic incidents by about 350%.- Australian Rules is a superior sport.- It's just another excuses for the Serb and Croat communities to instigate urban warfare on each other.- Townsville said they couldn't loan $10 to the bid after signing up Robbie Fowler for the NORTH QUEENSLAND FURY.- There's still a few people in Sydney who insist that Rugby League is a sport.- IT'S GOING TO BE FOURTY FUCKING DEGREES TOMORROW AT LEAST- At least England will fuck it up somehow and won't win the bid.
― The Loneliness of the Middle Order Batsman (King Boy Pato), Friday, 6 February 2009 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link
we never make it into the world cup
We're leading our qualification pool! If we beat Japan next week, we're all but set for 2010.
― The Loneliness of the Middle Order Batsman (King Boy Pato), Friday, 6 February 2009 11:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Soccer doesn't exist, it's football.
― Donate your display name to Farfisa, I mean Moog (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 February 2009 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link
assball
― velko, Friday, 6 February 2009 16:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Y'all should play it in Chicago again. Great stuff.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 6 February 2009 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
― The Loneliness of the Middle Order Batsman (King Boy Pato), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:22 (1 year ago)
prescient
― internet hardmanning clark (haitch), Monday, 10 January 2011 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Hahaha.
― Ex Loin Tamer (Trayce), Monday, 10 January 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
when did u start saying "look!" b4 every sentence
― zvookster, Monday, 10 January 2011 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
(cld just be sportsmen)
― zvookster, Monday, 10 January 2011 03:54 (thirteen years ago) link
2002
― internet hardmanning clark (haitch), Monday, 10 January 2011 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
thx
― zvookster, Monday, 10 January 2011 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
ppl often say it when they're trying to be truthbomby iirc
― yuoowemeone, Monday, 10 January 2011 04:00 (thirteen years ago) link
who is the cutest australian
besides kbp
― mookieproof, Monday, 10 January 2011 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
QGP
― karajan camping (electricsound), Monday, 10 January 2011 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
that bird from packed to the rafters
― internet hardmanning clark (haitch), Monday, 10 January 2011 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
― yuoowemeone, Sunday, January 9, 2011
i got the impression it was like, "hey i'm gonna level with u here", kind of similar i guess
here we say it in that tone when we're mad exasperated with someone so it's kind of comically o_O to hear clarke say it 10 times to atherton, say
― zvookster, Monday, 10 January 2011 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
haha
― yuoowemeone, Monday, 10 January 2011 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
sports use is down to media training i reckon - gives user time to formulate (bland) answer without sitting there saying nothing
― internet hardmanning clark (haitch), Monday, 10 January 2011 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
thot they meant ilxors
― karajan camping (electricsound), Monday, 10 January 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
well, really
― internet hardmanning clark (haitch), Monday, 10 January 2011 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.atyp.org/images-index/zoe_ventoura_web.jpg
posts as "Princess TamTam" iirc
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Monday, 10 January 2011 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
ME.
(oh come on)
― Ex Loin Tamer (Trayce), Monday, 10 January 2011 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
based on my experience, maybe
haitch is pretty cute tho
― mookieproof, Monday, 10 January 2011 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
*flutters eyelids*
― internet hardmanning clark (haitch), Monday, 10 January 2011 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
*sulks*
― Ex Loin Tamer (Trayce), Monday, 10 January 2011 04:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.posters.ws/images/846802/blondes_have_more_fun.jpg
― mookieproof, Monday, 10 January 2011 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i am pretty easy, has to be said
― internet hardmanning clark (haitch), Monday, 10 January 2011 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link
don't horn in on my racket, jim
― I 'ate you, Win Butler! (King Boy Pato), Monday, 10 January 2011 05:43 (thirteen years ago) link
was just keeping the theme. no cut lunch
― karajan camping (electricsound), Monday, 10 January 2011 05:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Why is this on The Soup blog?? Do I need to come down there?
http://www.thesouptv.com/latest/if-you-re-sexy-and-you-know-it-film-your-dance/295333
― Wands and wings!Little crowny things! (sunny successor), Saturday, 18 February 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link