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Knights 32 — Manly 10
Hah! If Andrew Johns is so good, why are Newcastle doing so poorly?
West Coast to rumble the Demons by 20.
Last week was his first game in nine weeks. Anyway, half the first team is out injured, alot of our brave boys are lower grade players drafted in to fiull the gaps and well, they try very hard
I was at the stadium for the Broncos mcth the other week and I would have hated to see a weight comparison between us and them.
So there.
On BB Uplate, Hotdogs and Vesna just exchanged rude words as he left to party with his boypal Deano in the Rewards Room. I think Hotdogs prefers Tim Tams to women, when the crunch comes.
Good rant Naomi.
This week marked the beginning of the end for Kim Beazley. I tried. Despite the claims made by Tommy Raudonikis on Origin II night, Wally Lewis was a far-far better player and leader than Joey Johns is. Big Shane to return for OIII and deliver another historical victory to Queensland against the southern communists.
It ended for me tonight too, CL. Beazley’s response to the Georgiou win was so wrong.
He should have said, “one small step for mankind” or similar.
He actually said, “this won’t change the culture that lead to Rau and Solon”. Wrong issue, Kim. He has no feel for the times. Latham was better. Keating was best.
Vote 1, the lesbian with the bowl cut!
Argh, can’t vent publicly, must vent here.
I applied for this job, right? And did so without knowing who the employer was, cause it was through a recruitment centre.
So they ring me up and I make all the right noises about blah blah I love customer service etc etc. And then they tell me how wonderful I’d be, to which I cry Huzzah, and then they inform me it’s a bank.
Which bank, you ask?
Exactly. Joys. I’m not typing it, Christ only knows who’s googling. Pseudonyms only go so far.
So I go to the in-person interview with the recruitment wonks today, and of course they adore me and call me as soon as I’m out of there to tell me that they want me to interview and test at The Bank come Monday morning. They tell me I’m totally over-qualified and express the concern that I’ll piss off as soon as something more permanent and suited to my qualifications comes up. I lie and say gosh, of course I won’t do that. They tell me about the hourly rate, which is (I don’t like to boast but…) about half to a third of what I can bill as a techo, when I can find the work. I say sure, cool, whatever. Cause I need the fucking cash.
I want to tell them to fuck off. Fuck The Bank. Fuck them in the arse with a rusty gardening fork. Fuck their dodgy staff contracts, and their suspiciously high staff turnover, and their slash-n-burn mass layoffs, and their ridiculous fees just for the privilege of banking with them, and their tick-n-flick sales bullshit they pull on unsuspecting customers just looking to change their address.
But I can’t, cause nobody likes to rent to tenants who don’t have regular, predictable incomes.
Big banks are scum, so do what everyone else does, miss - take the job, moonlight as a techo using your sick days, and keep looking for something better. They don’t owe you, you certainly don’t owe them - you’re not compromising your pricipals, it’s just a relationship based on mutually-assured exploitation. It’s business!
I’m a natural worrier, but I’ve got a bad feeling about this Ashes tour.
Miss P., what Naomi said. I do freelance work and went off and got a f/t job just long enough to be able to qualify for a lease. Then I nicked off.
Miss P: why do I get a ‘File Download’ thingo box when I click on to your site? What’s with that? Leases in the circumstances you describe can be majorly annoying. Naomi and Kim are right, of course.
Two things.
For some reason I was watching BB on Friday (for the first time). Some guy won a reward and took a mate into the reward room. Nothing against looking after your mate but I thought there were rampant hormones rampaging through the house. Unless there was some homoerotic subtext I missed it was perplexing.
And….how good are the Eels at the moment?
All the boys on BB this year (with the exception of the revolting Glenn and probably Lefty Tim) are rampantly homosocial sliding into homoerotic! The Logans are actually gay, I reckon.
You know, considering how hard BB have tried to get some heterosexual shenanigans going in the house, it would be great if it was the guys that got it on first.
Yep, but it ain’t gonna happen! Unless one of the Logans has to come out as the only way of fending off the determined Christie!
As I don’t know their names I have no idea who you are talking about. And I would like to leave it that way.
But shouldn’t BB be getting Christie to have some girl-girl action? They would have the ratings they want and all the press they desire. They are trying so hard and yet seem to avoid the same-sex couplings.
Two of the girls are alleged bisexuals - well, Geneva is, and Ra’y'ch had a threesome with two other “models” but no action in that department. Still, we have to thank BB for small mercies - mucho topless sunbathing, lots of snogging, lots of high school like relationships and jealousies, etc. It is the most interesting it’s been for years.
I haven’t been watching but I have a concern. You have these two alleged bisexuals. You have these wild and crazy kids. And what do you get when you mix ‘em all together in isolation and occasional alcohol? Nuthin’.
Small mercies indeed. Go for the big bang(s)!
OK, Who wants to join me in a naked romp of schadenfraude, and really stick the boot into Dennis Burke and the now defunct CLP?
Ahahahaha. Ooooh hehehee. No, a 19% margin wasnt enough to save old Burko.. no…
It really raises, once again, the small comfort of these times: the only less likely than a federal labor vicory is a coalition state or territory government.
Seriously, why dont they just give the game away at a state level; save their energies for the big match? It has to be said, they’re only embarassing themselves now.
Seriously - should state coalition parties just give up? . Tragedy has officially become farce. Why even bother? Its all schools and hospitals at state level - and what any any LNP government possibly offer in this regard? Citizens are contemptuous of everything they stand for at this level.
I mean, how many massive, stunning victories, with inconceivable ALP majorities can these 2nd-rate no-hopers wear before they just take the obvious step and give it away as a lost cause.
“Knights 32 ‚Äî Manly 10″
You had me double take there for a moment Amanda. Newcastle are no chance against Manly at Brookvale on a Sunday afternoon. Although I did enjoy Souths beating them last week.
Michael Hagan is taking the Newcastle Knights out onto the paddock for training. Frist up he says “Ok fellas assume your normal positions”. They walk behind the try line and stand in a group waiting for the conversion.
And…how good are the Eels at the moment?
Irant, what about the Broncs? 10 wins in a row!
Shaun Berrican scored another double, bringing his total to 17 for the season. Only five behind the legendary Pearl (Steve Renouf for thse who don’t know).Yet I wouldn’t pick him ahead of the NSW centres.
btw, it you didn’t see anything of Paul Bowman in attack in SOO it was because he was stuffed from all the defence he did. He was Jonathon Thurston’s designated minder. Bowman ended with 39 tackles, breaking Laurie Daley’s SOO record for a back. Yet Thurston still had to do 30. OTOH Johns did bugger all in defence as they successfully hid him away from the play. We always knew that was going to happen but Qld were probably busy hiding Lockyer, who still did a respectable 19.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200506/s1395340.htm
Bangas victory shock!
OZ cricket in crisis!
Ponting resigns in Kim Hughes-esque tearfest!
This is huge!
Ok, I made up the Ponting bit, but they’re dancing in the streets of Dhaka.
Hohoooo…. can my day get any better? Eat that, Ponting!
The Mighty Bangas!
http://www.abc.net.au/cricket/galleries/2005/20050618ausvbangers/pages/10.htm
Ponting selflessly reflects on the nation-defining significance for Bangladesh:
http://www.abc.net.au/cricket/galleries/2005/20050618ausvbangers/pages/11.htm
You’re a riot Rex. We’ll see.
Don’t worry re the cricket. Just getting England all cocky so taking ‘em down will be all the sweeter.
Yes Brian, I admit that the Broncos are deserved favourites. 10 in a row, especially in this years comp, is remarkable. However, I gotta love Warriors coach calling young Tim Smith arrogant for the chip kick on his own 20 that led to that remarkable try. You gotta see it.
Note that the Eels and Broncos match up again in round 26. Could the winner of that game be the minor premiers?
Also, now that bangladesh has beaten Aust in cricket, anything can happen.
To paraphrase Ol’ Hank
Sometimes it’s hard, but you gotta understand
When the Lord made me, He made a Knights fan
My friend Hastings speaks for us both.
Maybe so, Irant, but lets pretend this isnt the biggest boilover in the lst 20 years of international cricket. Cos it is!
Though, naturally, as an elitist, I am citzen of the world, per Diogenes, I freely admit that the last refuge of my scoundrel patriotism has been OZ cricket-chaivinism. Mad for it. But these years of full-spectrum dominance have bored me witless, and now I am pure cosmopolitan, unblemished by communitarian sentiment…. The departure of Steve Waugh didnt help….left me with noone to love, frankly.
So, now its general underdog principles only for me. Hail, the rise of third-world cricket! Come on Bangas!
Wish I’d put 10 quid on.
Bah, I don’t know why my page is doing that. How rude.
Woohoo! There’s a Maggie Cheung movie on sbs at 1am! Anyone who’s seen her in a leather catsuit in the excellent French arthouse vampire film pic Irma Vep will rejoice!
I reckon the whole Australian cricket team have hangovers…
In other cricket scandal news, Warney is at it again:
Ha!
And have a read of Warney’s smooth seduction technique:
Gotta be a wind up, entertaining as it is.
“I walked into the bedroom and told him I wasn’t interested in having sex with him.”
But she said Warne left the room and returned with a condom at which point ” … I just gave in”.
Sayers said she had wanted to keep their encounter private.
Maybe she just thought wtf? Ha!
Seriously, I reckon it might be true. Mr Warne has the form.
He has form, it’s true. But this seems like Sunday Mirror easy-believe, to me.
But who knows?
The real scandal was Ponting getting all down on a man who had a late night thirst!